Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How long should we pay people to not work? Your opinion matters.

Various conversations about schools and teachers got me thinking about how long we should pay people not to work.

The IRS appears to be shut down based on how long it is taking them to process my tax return.

National parks, state parks hunter safety training classes a tremendous amount of other state and federal government agencies are shut down.

Probate court hearing Virginia is taking at least 6 months.

Bottomline, there are a ton of people (Government) being paid to not work.

I am simply looking for a general opinion here of how long we should pay them to not work. Thank you for your consideration.

1) Absolutely no more than 5 years

2) Absolutely no more than 10 years

3) Absolutely no more than 20 years

4) Rest of their life with annual promotions.

Thank you in advance for taking the time.

Might be... The New Green Deal was a hell of a bargain afterall.

If they ain’t working and the world is still turning, why do we need to pay them. Who needs them.

Are those choices serious, or is that sarcasm that I just didn't get? 5, 10, 20 yrs or the rest of their life? Try 1, 2, 3, or 4 months.

We've been paying people not to work for decades. But we're also told that today's democrat party ain't the same ole democrat party of our grandpappy's. Right.

The democrat party has been a criminal organization since at least Woodrow Wilson. Only difference between then and now is today they don't see the need for disguise.

If a 1200 dollar check is what you are living off of, you've got BIG problems.

And you are in no mental shape to cast a vote.

I don't think we should pay them at all. If they're in desperate straits, hand 'em a broom and let them spend 8 hours a day sweeping the streets for a small stipend. Limit food stamps (or whatever they call those now) to staples like rice, beans, and fresh vegetables.

In my experience, most unemployed people don't even bother looking for a job until the freebies run out.

Amazingly, NONE of our close relatives have been laid off. Some have worked from home but all have worked full time. My son, who's a reg. nurse, has done a lot of triage over the phone from home. I don't know how he does that but it's been going on for a couple months.

Ok I feel unemployment for those who lost jobs because of corona is warranted as long as needed, and a little extra stimulus yes because new jobs in their field may be difficult to find til this is over, but $600 extra a week is a little much. The unemployment thing is a scam in my onpinion as well. My wife’s no load nephew hasn’t worked for 2 yrs got fired, 40 yrs old and has been fired from most of his jobs. His unemployment benefits ran out 6 mp this before the virus and what do you know,,he gets the $600 a week AND GOT a $8000 back unemployment check unfricking believable
I am an essential and am not complain8ng. My wife job was shut down because it wasn’t essential(she owns a dog grooming business) . Well let me explain we live together and have for 10 yrs so we call each other husband wife she even uses my name. She got her $1200 st8mulus which helped her, But I made $5000 too much to receive one. Would it have been nice yes, but we made it due to savings and some side jobs. But what pisses me off and I have complained for years about it is how corrupt the unemployment system is.

That covers it.

It’s why there is so much rioting, idol hands

I don’t think those rioters would be working if the coronavirus had not appeared!

Enough with the jokes.

This virus is so deadly that police and firemen have no changes to their day-to-day activities. They purposefully encounter total strangers on a regular basis and will even enter their homes, do a little wrestling, and drive them to another location.

Teachers however, cannot be around little kids because they might get sick. You might think that comes with the job but you are wrong. An iPad is just as good if not better.

Also the park rangers must shelter in place whilst the 16 year old at McDonald's can stare into the eyes of death so they can hand you a bag of food that is of no risk due to your eating it somewhere that isn't McDonald's.

It all makes total sense. We're all in this together.

Lots of government folks make $10,000+ a month.

Like you said... Chump change to most of us... but still not insignificant times millions of people.

Thank you... I had begun to doubt.

We should keep paying people until there is a vaccine, or until everyone feels safe. Or so I've heard.

The 30,000 people of the US Forest Service have been well paid for doing nothing for the last 40 years. Doesn't seem to bother anybody. The entry level kids in firefighting, who do earn their money, are so poorly supervised that they are willing but ineffective.

...or until the Murder Hornets are eradicated.

yup.....nuff sed

The model for the pandemic that initiated the shutdown was between 100k deaths [minimum flu season] and 2000k deaths [1918 flu pandemic].

Precautions were taken to keep hospitals from overflowing..... it never happened and we have a 130k deaths.

There should not have been a shutdown in 2020, unless you think there should be a shutdown every year to minimize cold and flu deaths..