Good Idea?

I just heard that the government is recommending the 14 million unemployed to take a part time job, especially if they can find one in their field of experience or education.

I have a friend who is in management at a manufacturing plant in the Carolinas.  They have offered jobs to people who have said they would not take the job until their unemployment ran out.  They would want to start in a couple of months.  Why work if one doesn't have to?

So, let's extend the unemployment benefits another year or so, recommend they work part time which will cause loss of those precious unemployment checks, and then we are upset that the rich corporations are not hiring. Maybe we need to revisit this whole thing.

If I was on unemployment and getting those regular checks until a known date (which may be extended), I would be a fool to take a part time job.  Really, Big Brother?

Someone up there on the Hill should come down into the trenches.  Talk to my friend.

'til later