by Jimmy

Created on: July 08, 2010   Last Updated: July 09, 2010

Should the Senate extend unemployment benefits? That’s the question.

The answer is a lot more complicated! Our unemployment issue is a byproduct of accumulated modern business practices that began to amass, when industrialized man left his roots at the farm over a hundred years ago for the good life in the cities. It’s both a gamble and a sacrifice to live this way, to rely upon business for all our sustenance and livelihood. The stakes are high for the worker, and coupled with the winner take all atmosphere that big business has created for all of us over the years, all this modern living can wreak havoc in the financial/personal lives of these hard working people, especially when this artificial lifeline becomes interrupted.

Imagine you’re a worker, cut out of your job because the business world is in a cutting cycle, and you walk up to the well for sustenance with nothing to pay, and they turned you away and your family too, and then slowly your house is taken away, and your car because no one was doing business here anymore, and that there just weren’t enough jobs existing for you, to keep you employed, even though you’re willing and talented enough to work almost anywhere. How much more could you ask, of a hard worker who relies exclusively on the industrial machine to survive, how much more should they sacrifice?

When times are good, business can’t find enough able bodies to meet needs, that’s when they’ll pay overtime, and double shift until the engine can give no more, and the American worker will rise to the occasion and produce. But when times are slow, businessmen will stash away their profits, they will turn their backs on those workers, the very same workers they used, when times were good, they will ignore them, as if they never really knew them at all. I’m sure I’m not telling you anything new but, it’s a cold world out there, particularly when it comes to business and money. The average citizen needs protection from these business and the money professionals.

I know, in some cases businesses may have paid handsome severance packages to some, but averaged out, what the workers often get at the end of a regular shift, is usually the shaft. That’s one of the chief reason why we have elected officials in our country, to identify and correct any hardship conditions that, business practices can place upon the free and legal citizens of the USA, whether these were the intended consequences of business, or not.

Extending benefits eases the pain on workers who have worked hard devoted to businessmen’s dreams. And if the dream has run it’s course, in order to keep these hard working, dedicated, well seasoned and well educated citizenry employable, the least our government should do “for the people”, is to provide benefits that pay for these disengaged workers, so they don’t become disenfranchised, so they can maintain a basic household of food and shelter, for themselves, and their families, as they were able to do when they were employed, so that they may be able to hold on the their dignity, and work again, even if it takes the business community an extended period of time, to figure out what to do with all of the workers they have at their disposal.

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