Everyone around here is excited about our 2.8% unemployment rate. It might be the lowest in the country. It’s not all good news. Part of that great number has to do with people staying out of the workforce. If no one wanted to work, unemployment would be zero.
We’d be doing more of what they are trying to do now. Focusing on how to get that number to go up. Get people working instead of milking the deficit cow. All that “free money” and paying people to sit on their asses come with a huge price. Devalued currency, massive debt, and it is not a renewable resource.
People need to work and earn and create wealth before the government can steal it and spend it. But the policy for most of this century has been to steal it from people who’ve not been born to earn it yet.
To their credit, New Hampshire’s Republican majorities have avoided that sort of thinking. We do have to balance our budget. But with all their flaws (mostly on the Senate side), they’ve tried to do things that create wealth, not take it, and increased tax revenue in the process.
It has also encouraged business growth, job creation, and commerce. The things we have to have if we want (agree or not) the government to do anything.
That 2.8% unemployment looks good, but labor participation needs to go up. We have jobs. Lots of them. The need is so great your typical hourly employers are offering incentives and starting pay well past the Left’s arbitrary proposed mandates. The market always sets the best price for labor, and even Democrats know that. Their motivation is for higher base pay to enrich union bosses, who then funnel more money to their campaigns.
So, this hurts.
Right to work has been marching through the legislature unhindered by the choruses of whining leftists. It’s back in the House and expected to get a floor vote soon. Gov. Sununu, for all his emergency power abuse flaws, will probably sign it.
That’s great news for job creators but more so for employees who do not want to be forced to tithe to ideological tyrants as a condition of employment.
Piss and moan all you want about unions but if Exxon-Mobil required employees to give them 20.00 each month to manage their “arrangements” then spent it on (Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis) they’d lose the GD minds.
But even in a right-to-work state, you can still have a union and people who will or want to work that way.
No one thinks that’s a good idea except Democrats because those dues end up in their campaigns or get used to advocate their ideas. It’s not about your wage. It’s about their political profit.
So, Right to Work will be here soon, and the only downside relates to that low unemployment number. The government needs to stop paying people to do nothing with wealth that hasn’t been created yet.
That goes for paying them to work by the same means. Offering a bonus for taking a job.
If working and earning isn’t its own reward, offering them a few taxpayer-backed benjamins “to try it” does not solve that problem.
Cut the cord—no more free ride. We’ve got jobs, and the pay is good. Get off your ass because I don’t get off mine every day you sit on yours.
