if you dont want to earn your keep, go ahead and starve. theres no reason to house and feed lazy assholes who cant do menial jobs for a living wage.
the gov needs to cut unemployment wholesale and open up the schools so people can have their babysitters back.
walmart and mcdonalds pay more than minimum wage. the complainers are people who're born tired and live to rest.
That's an extremely stupid mindset, though. Not all fields were deemed "essential work" and I don't care how mad you are about not getting a ticket on the gibs train, there is no reason why people with decent paying high skill jobs should have to go to work at mcdonald's to make ends meet and get stuck in that cycle. Because that's what it is once you downgrade your employment in that way, it becomes a vicious cycle. Say you were making 25-30 an hour working in an administrative office role, you have a degree etc, but due to wuflu you suddenly find yourself laid off because your company isn't profitable in pandemic america. In your apparent vision of america that means you'd have to go to McDonald's/walmart/etc most likely, as the nonessential jobs that were kept around weren't likely to be vacant anyway. Okay cool, you did this in college like many other people, so what?
Oh, wait, you mean that to make enough to cover your insurance, taxes, food expenses, etc you have to work 80 hours a week at your mcjob, because it's half the salary of your old job?
Well, no biggie right, you can just apply to some higher paying job and go there .
Oh, what's that? You barely have time to go to interviews because you're working 80 hours a week on whatever schedule your mcjob threw at you?
Well, shit, maybe try making time for it.
Oh, wait, you mean you had other responsibilities, because you're a grown adult and not a carefree fucking college student?
Guess your kids trip to the dentist can wait, you have an interview in a highly competitive time period with a company while running on 6 hours of sleep a night, which you may or may not get! But don't be late for your mcjob or you might lose it to a high schooler with an open schedule!
See how it works?
No, the unemployment system is far from perfect, but it still serves a purpose by giving actual working americans with skills a cushion to fall back on when things go in the shitter. The cost of some plebs like you or I going without extra gibs and tyrone getting a new ps5 fund shouldn't scratch your ass too badly considering how many other, much dumber things our government is already spending our tax money on. Unemployment is one of the more benign.
Back on topic I'm not surprised they're already turning on uncle Joe except for how quickly they seem to have picked up perception. He's always been a thinly veiled racist anyway by their standards, or have they seriously already written off his record of voting on crime bills with stiff penalties aimed at "inner city youth"?