A record 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs in August as retail, bar, and restaurant industries saw the largest surge in employees who left their positions since the 1970s, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics report released Tuesday.
Almost three percent of the workforce left their jobs in August, a jump of 242,000 from July’s figure, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Experts believe the jump from July’s record-setting number is at least partly due to workers seeking a better deal. Given the 10.4 million jobs open in the U.S., workers see an opportunity to get more convenient hours, better pay, or working conditions.
“This really elevated rate of people quitting their job is a sign that workers have lots of confidence and they have relatively stronger bargaining positions than they’ve had in the past,” Nick Bunker, an economist at Indeed.com said Monday. “There’s a lot of demand, and people are seizing that opportunity and quitting their jobs.”
Chris Markowski, the host of the podcast The Watchdog On Wallstreet, told America’s Conservative Voice (ACV) Wednesday that the record number of “quits” ― a business euphemism for people who leave their jobs ― is attributed to the number of benefits being paid to workers, keeping them out of the workforce.
“Nobody wants to work, it’s everywhere,” Markowski told ACV. “No one has any workers. The government basically started universal basic income when they send child care tax to individuals.”
The number of job openings declined to 10.4 million for August from 11.1 million in July, the BLS reported. Experts told ACV that President Joe Biden’s new vaccination mandate is hurting an already thin labor market.
“We are already in an unprecedented labor market right now,” Rachel Greszler, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation said Wednesday, “and this mandate on private employers adds insult to injury because companies are already facing severe labor shortages.
Greszler pointed to the healthcare and public safety industries who have already been hit hard by labor shortages and vaccination mandates. Target has begun offering workers better pay and more bonuses in an effort to retain employees.
“If you look at history, there has never been a disparity between job openings and people looking for work, like we are seeing now. It has never been that high,” Markowski said.
The reality is, this is not new. It hasn’t been since long before the beginning of the pandemic. There were 94.2 million people not in the labor force as of September, according to the latest government jobs report. That’s 13.5 million more than there were in June 2009. They didn’t all leave to become self-employed entrepreneurs. Where did they go? The answer is troubling.
While Barack Obama boasted that jobs increased for six consecutive years, there’s another — less savory – reality concerning that time frame. From the time Obama’s alleged recovery started in June 2009, the number of people working increased over those six years by less than 12 million, which means job creation didn’t keep pace with labor force dropouts. As a result, the labor force participation rate averaged just 62.9 percent at the end of his second term. When the economy finally started to make an upturn when he had been in office for five months, it was 65.7 percent.
That change is often treated by Leftist economists and the media as a mystery. Some point to the retiring Baby Boom generation, which can explain some of the decline in labor force participation. However, not nearly all of it is due to Boomer retirement. Of the people who left the workforce during the Obama administration, only 32 percent were part of the 79 million who were born from 1946 to the end of 1964.
The untold story is that millions of those absentee workers have disappeared into the Social Security Disability Insurance program. Most of them are under 60, and nearly half are part of the so-called GenXer, or “Baby Busters,” generation, born from 1964 to 1986. In other words, they are aged 35 to 57.
Although the disability insurance program was designed as a safety net for people who physically cannot perform a job, it has turned into a hidden welfare program. Like most such programs, it attracts the people who don’t want to work, who are lazy, shiftless, and looking for an escape from the drudgery of holding down a job, even if the vast majority of those receiving SSDI do not fit in that category. They have legitimate physical or mental health issues that prevent them from being productive.
But then there is GenX, which disproportionately to other age groups has become a generation mostly identified as apathetic, cynical, skeptical, loners and idlers, pessimistic, alienated, and do not trust the traditional values and institutions.
From June 2009 to July 2016, 6.6 million people enrolled in SSDI — that’s roughly half the number who dropped out of the labor force. The growth in SSDI in recent years is inversely related to the decline in labor force participation, and a great number of them are GenXers.
How many of those collecting disability checks are truly disabled is anyone’s guess, but it’s safe to bet that many, if not most, could work and choose not to do so. The little-known fact is that the number of people on disability has been climbing faster than the number deemed disabled by the Census Bureau.
These are the people, ranging from uneducated to highly intelligent, who gamed SSDI and left the workforce, choosing to be “physically or mentally unemployable.” They use such excuses as depression, back injuries, or other difficult-to-disprove health problems to qualify for the program.
Now they sit at home drawing your tax dollars for their apparent means of support while pocketing cash under-the-table from entrepreneurial ventures and spending most of their time playing video games.
In addition, monthly SSDI enrollment tends to rise and fall with the job market. Enrollment peaked in August 2016, dropped 34 percent during the Trump years, and has dramatically risen since Biden’s cabal took over in January. This makes no sense if enrollment is strictly limited to those truly disabled. More likely, it’s because disability has become a way for people who can’t or won’t find work to get a paycheck. It’s a welfare program.
In some ways, it’s worse than welfare. Not only are SSDI recipients takers from the Treasury rather than contributors, but enrollees are also technically forbidden to work at the risk of losing their benefits. Not surprisingly, only a small fraction of people who go on disability ever rejoin the workforce officially, but many make a lucrative living in the shadow economy, doing consulting work, getting paid through S-1 corporations that hide their identity, or through cash-only jobs.
Part of the blame goes back to the 1980s, when Democrats in Congress pushed to loosen eligibility rules. Before that change took effect, enrollment in SSDI had actually declined as the Reagan recovery took off. But Clinton’s and Obama’s failed economic policies ― now exacerbated by Biden’s puppet master, who is, coincidentally, Obama ― continue to fuel the recent spike in enrollment.
Jobs are plentiful. If only people wanted to work. The psychological reality for the GenXers and Millennials who had the trait passed on to them by their GenX parents ― and now the GenZers, known as the Post-0/11 generation ― makes it unlikely the current dearth of work-willing Americans will resolve itself anytime in the near future. In fact, this environment can only make that situation worse.
This is not only a problem for the labor market. Record enrollment is bankrupting the disability insurance program itself. SSDI is funded by a portion of workers’ payroll taxes, and its trust fund will run out of money at the end of this year. That means Congress must find money elsewhere to pay benefits. The problem is, legislators have largely ignored the problem. They can’t afford to any longer.
Since 2013, federal benefits judges have awarded 80 percent of SSDI applicants the benefits they request. In the 30 years prior, 57 percent of requests were granted. Why the difference?
The answer is fraud. There are more doctors and even Social Security investigators, who are willing to profit from falsely certifying applicants to receive SSDI payments ― both back pay and future benefits ― they do not deserve
In FY2018, 67.9 million people in the U.S. ― including illegal immigrants ― received SSDI checks. In 2019, another 5.6 million people were added to the SSDI eligibility rolls. Numbers for 2020 are not yet available, but it will almost certainly be a huge increase as workers decided during the China virus pandemic that the daily grind was not worth the effort anymore.
Average monthly payouts are $1,277.00, though previously high-income earners can pocket as much as $3,148.00 on the federal dole. The average is not enough to live on, but legitimate SSDI recipients can legally earn 50 percent of their benefit in additional income without penalty.
It is those who choose to operate outside the legal boundaries who truly scam both the taxpayers and employers for whom they do work under the table. Many who claim to be disabled choose to earn much more than the 50-percent-of benefits limit without reporting it, some doubling or tripling their SSDI income through cash-only or black market economy jobs.
No wonder there are no workers. They’re pretending not to work while actually working, with more and more leaving the legitimate workforce every day. The 4.3 Million who left good-paying jobs in September attest to that. Biden and his puppet masters will not tell you the truth. Much of what is going on is deliberate, enabling them to further undercut the economy, consumer confidence, and our freedoms and liberties. That is no overstatement.
Leftist media and politicians want us to believe it is the CCP virus that is disrupting supply lines. They claim the Delta variant and unvaccinated workers are to blame for the shortages on the front lines ― dock workers, forklift operations, truck drivers, and warehousemen and women. The fact they won’t get vaccinated and then get sick, these Fascists say, is why there aren’t enough people loading, unloading, and delivering goods to the American people.
Those are all lies.
The reason is a generational attitude as seen in the GenXers and the Millennials. It is the fraud committed by selfish adults regardless of their ages. It is truth Fascist Democrats cannot and will not admit to themselves ― nor to us, the American people: They are the cause of the problems in this nation, them and their greedy dead-beat followers. Nothing will change until they are all gone.
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Some of us are “tools down” and that is a fact.
author sounds like some boomer without the guts to self identify, but is very good at projecting.
OK BOOMER!
All of this makes perfect sense. Why go work for some faceless corporation that will require you to wear a face diaper all day long, demand you inject yourself with AIDS, pay you starvation wages and fire you the very moment you use the wrong pronoun? Why do that?
I call that progress Nickel.
Who is John Galt?
Damn straight.
Drop out of the real economy and join the alternate economy. Many are using the SSDI and/or child tax credit as their monthly base and get their extra money from the gig economy or from side jobs that pay cash.
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em (in fraud). There are more lucrative frauds, cons and thefts.
Start today!
So….resisting tyranny by opting out of the government’s scheme is good. But participating in the alternative (i.e. underground economy is bad) because it is “fraud”, “criminal”, “immoral”, “tax evasion”. I think this author is operating as a government shill. This will all get a lot easier to understand if the shooting ever starts.
No wonder the government wants a programmable electronic currency.
When you create pressure for the most industrious race to move from the establishment, they are going to survive on the fringe. I think white people are applying a lot of energy to get off “the grid”. They are finding means to support themselves without having to support the system stacked against them. I believe they are doing it in enough numbers for the establishment to be filling the pinch.
The evidence is all around us in the ubiquitous incompetence that comes with turning over our country to “diversity”. Those people didn’t build this society and they are not going to be able to maintain it.
This was the country our ancestors built brick by brick and road by road. It belongs to nobody else but their posterity.
They want the system crashed ? I say lets help them get their wish. I can go for YEARS without power, food or fuel resupply. Don’t think my foes can make it a week. With some help from the vaccines and the like minded, we, us, now, today. this minute have a chance (however slim ) to get our country back and be rid of the grifters once and for all. Time to stand up or get it the cattle car. Choose
That’s the spirit, glow nigger!
Recently I looked into SSDI as my chronic back condition is getting worse. 57 and just a few more years is all I need. I have gone from a very demanding job as an auto technician then into teaching and now a desk job at a place where we modify and restore classic vehicles.
So anyways after working since 1981 and having an average yearly income of 56k for the last 5 years and almost 35k average for the whole life I would get $908 a month.
What the fuck would I do with $908 a month? If these fuckers wanna live on dog food and water till they die go right ahead.
You read the post and you think these dropouts got vacation homes and private jets. Bullshit they got nothing and will die with nothing.
Use the money as bill pay money and work under the table. There are scores of people out there dumpster diving, grabbing stuff off the side of the road and selling in flea markets. What skills do you have? Can you parlay them into money? Think outside the box and….go to a flea market and see what all happens there.
You may have no choice, especially if you refuse the clotshot. TSome of those folk got more than you think they have but they don’t let on what all they have. There are elderly out there in bad straits, castaways and forgotten, those folk I feel badly for.
If you have brown hair and eyes then become Mexican, here illegally, forget the english and hoover up the goodies…Be a deaf and illiterate mexican….Comprende?
I don’t want to go into my particulars, except to say that I am a no shit disabled vet and can’t work, and I have finally given up trying. My aim is to homestead and see if I can make money working from home that way. There are no rules against that, that I am aware of.
VA disability is compensation for lost earning potential.
SSDI is a stipend for not being able to work.
Good idea. Yo no talky conservativo.
Why encourage the lazy and scammers? Guess who pays them? That’s right! You and me.
Why no outrage over the non-whites playing the same scam, for decades?
Burn the whole fucker to the ground.
Now you know why I left the US and now live in Ecuador. The two of us live on $1400 monthly as well or better than we lived in the US when both of us worked.
I used to do social security disability exams. 80-90% of the people that applied were perfectly capable of working.
And of the people that actually got on disability, about 70% were perfectly capable of working. The majority of the system is fraudulent now. I doubt that it will end until the dollar system collapses.
I used to do computer work for a workers comp insurance company. They had this room they called ‘The Library’. There were no books in the library. It was stuffed with video cassettes of undercover investigations of ‘disabled’ people doing normal, sometimes strenuous activities. Stuff like people with shoulder injuries lifing a couple hundred pounds.
Then I would say every dive bar around here has its cops and firefighters out on permanent disability, drinking all day every day, ending out their lives. Talking to some, they think they hit the jackpot.
The gym I go to has a few disabled fully disabled cops who love to lift weights. Heavy lifts. Every day.
Some retired lifers in the same service I was in were all telling me they were some percentage disabled, and got money for it. They said it was unusual to go 20 years and retire without some level of disability. They looked healthy to me.
Seems like a very popular game, disability.
Until you actually can’t work. Then you’re screwed.
Yeah, I remember when they first started to have handicapped parking spaces at stores. There were like 2 of them in a parking lot, and they were for people in wheelchairs — you know, like the little person-in-the wheelchair icon on the handicapped license plates. Now every small store has at least 4-6 HC spaces, and fucking Walmart has what 30-40 for all the obese scooter shoppers. SMH
The thing that gets me is the disabled placards on motorcycles.
WTF?
“Although the disability insurance program was designed as a safety net for people who physically cannot perform a job, it has turned into a hidden welfare program. Like most such programs, it attracts the people who don’t want to work.”
This is part of the “Ending Welfare as we know it” program from the 90’s with Dole and Newt in league with the Clinton machine. Same with section 8 housing.
The “job openings” data are bullshit.
Something happened back in Feb 2021 where sites like Indeed, Glassdoor etc began listing the same job openings multiple times in the same search query results. For example, if one were to pick a geographic region like “Rust Bucket, Pennsylvania” and search for a job like “Convenience Store Clerk”, each company searching for a new hire would have their job opening listed multiple times. And for professional jobs that pay well, many contingent search firms list these jobs as well as the hiring company, and these as well as the hiring company job listings are again listed multiple times.
This has the effect of exaggerating the actual number of jobs that are open and makes it appear that there are “millions” of open jobs available. The “surveys” like JOLTS etc don’t take into account these multiple listings and so their data are inflated, which serves a political end to make the “economy” – or final stages of US wealth extraction – seem more vibrant that it really is (it isn’t as there is virtually no capital spending). It also provides an easy target of blame where lazy Americans won’t take these millions of jobs available so the government has no choice but allow millions of illegal aliens into the country to fill “essential” roles.
It’s all bullshit. Everything you hear from a MSM or government source is a lie.
Top on bill gates reading list is How to Lie with Statistics
OTOH, a trip across several southern states reveals lots of fast food places advertising:
“Work today, get paid today!” or “Drop in for immediate interview!”
But I suspect they still just want to pay slave wages, and people aren’t going for that anymore…
OK, BOOMER.
Yeah, OK, the author claims to be “Gen Z Conservative,” but this reads like crap written by a boomer. It’s all bad-attitude X’s and their progeny (how many X’s have Gen-X progeny? Not fucking many!) with their lazy bad habits.
Here’s another question: how many of the supposed workers are actually dead, or genuinely disabled, from the clot shots?
Yes, and moms/dads that can finally stay home because they had to and the family worked it out.
I think boomer call out posters are leftists in disguise.
Not that parts aren’t true but it’s pathetic too. Who wants to openly be pathetic? Leftists.
Let’s just call this the Dobie Gillis Generation.
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“Dobie Gillis” was an early 1960s sitcom where actor Bob Denver played “Maynard G. Krebs”, a beatnik who HATED work.
Stucky- I still blame Maynard G. Krebs for the downfall of western society. 🙂
PS- I have a lot of doors left to paint so will be out for a bit. I too (along with Llpoh)left you a message that I was calling foul to bringing in Mama in the shit throwing contest. That was low and uncalled for.
“This really elevated rate of people quitting their job is a sign that workers have”… become FED UP with vaccine mandates, fake face masking, 24 hour a day availability, shit pay, corporate CRT garbage and the entire rest of the shitshow that is working in America today.
You forgot the devaluation of the dollar, and the impossibility of saving, which preclude any real retirement.
Maybe they all took 2 weeks off for self-examination, pondering in their hearts whether or not they need this shit?
I was briefing a US Marine Corps Genreal one day about transportation costs and percentages of supported missions….mundane stuff. The General raised his hand in the middle of my brief and asked where and how I came up with the numbers I was briefing. I explained to him the numerous databases and other areas where the numbers and statistics came from. He again raised his hand and said something I will never forget:
“Numbers are like POW’s…torture them enough and they will tell you any story you want to hear. ”
Whenever I read about unemployment numbers and job growth numbers and that sort of crap…..I remember those words.
I do not care what the government says, I know what I see everyday. Help Wanted signs n literally every business. The major employers in my area, ship repair companies, are offering huge signing bonuses for skilled tradesmen. You can quite a job one day and have another the next day.
Don’t forget to consider the reduction in workforce because of those who took the kill shot. A Harvard study found that only 1% of deaths and injuries are reported. The VAERS death toll now stands at 16,310, which means that up to 1.6 million people are no longer with us. The number of serious injuries is much higher.
I think we probably would have noticed 1.6 million extra dead people since the vaccines rolled out. It’s not like we just throw ’em in the river like they do in India. Down in Australia they just leave ’em out for the dingoes.
I disagree. How would we know, and there’s been a lot of reports of people dying and a lot of them in the hospital. Everything seem ‘antidotal’ until it’s not.
He only misused ‘fascist’ twice in this article. The subversive little faggot is slipping.
My theory is that a lot of 2nd wage earners in households have chosen not to return to work. The lockdowns and cyber schooling had the quite unintended effect of allowing families a taste of traditional family roles. Mothers, often employed in retail, have gotten a taste of being a fulltime mom and the family realized having a new SUV vs a 4 year old one isnt worth getting back on the hamster wheel.
At the same time, lockdowns enabled many to pay down debts since vacations, eating out, and many other activities weren’t happening for 1-1/2 years. Families learned to be families again and at least temporarily consumerism has taken a back seat.
So far, the only official statistic I have to back up my theory is that the personal savings rate is running nearly double what it was for the decade pre-pandemic in official government statistics. This is something that I am watching though and am hopeful that a return to traditional roles is occuring.
Between that, seeing the sick filth the kids were being taught in school, and discovering that her wages didn’t actually cover daycare expenses.