Professor points out the insanity of America's unemployment system

[egbertowillies]

While Congress vacillates battling COVID-19 American unemployment compensation, some European countries' approach is humane and straightforward.

[diverdownjt]

1. We need to treat it like a work comp situation.

I was out on WC for 9 months. I received 2/3 of my wages tax free. No need to tax it.

The way the US is doing it is...lay everyone off...give the money to the employer.
END OF STORY!!!!

Anyone surprised by this? The wealthy keep all the money...everyone else suck eggs.

This will be the biggest corporate wellfare ripoff in the history of.........history.

Organized by the greatest con man the world has ever known.

[OldBaldy1701E]

2. Surprised? No...

What is continually surprising me is that the American public has still done nothing. We seem complacent to let this cabal of rich assholes continue to be in Washington. All we do is complain on social media and sit at home. Nothing is going to change until we the middling people stop sitting on our hands. And, based on what I am seeing, nothing is going to chance...

[Dustlawyer]

4. And when you lay them off they lose their health insurance in the middle of a

Pandemic! Unless they have the money to pay expensive COBRA payments to keep their insurance they are well and truly F’ed!

[Layzeebeaver]

3. Starting at 5:00

Inhumane.

That's what we have created. An inhumane system - with inhumane leaders and managers. All driven by inhumane centres of learning and inhumane governance from the very top of our American society.

It will take several generations to undo this...

1) we need honest liberal funding of think tanks and centres of learning (including the existing ones). We need to coop every right wing think tank in addition as a priority.

2) our liberal philanthropists have so much fun fixing their pet problem areas in order to boost their profiles - and none of them seem to get the big picture - without a working humane American system, they will eventually cease to exist. They need to start investing in that.

3) People need to start protesting and demonstrating in "each others" workplaces to drive the adoption of democratic capitalism wherever possible. This includes the consumers of the products manufactured by these companies. Workers should not be left on their own to fend for themselves. As consumers we also hold both the blame and the responsibility for change.