It’s 2019 and there’s a program that gives out monthly payments to the unemployed, provided they are actively looking for a job. I work in an employment centre, and it is my job to interview applicants after their application has been preliminary selected.
We have to fill out a form, and we can instantly award the payment if the applicant has some form of handicap preventing him from taking up a job OR is a convicted felon currently serving his sentence.
In walks an applicant. We start the interview, fill out the form. He has just one lung and goes about with an oxygen tank in his backpack but doesn’t want to take the money and go home like he could, he wants to work for it.
We keep interviewing him for an hour and a half and then, being done, we tell him he can go home, and we will call him to schedule an appointment for the next step of the process.
Customer: “Okay, but I don’t know if I’ll be available; I’m to be sentenced this week and I’ll be locked up for a while…”
An hour and a half wasted when he could have simply checked the “Convicted” box, sign and be out in thirty seconds…
Here in my town, in Michigan, Lifeline Ministries was building small shelters for the homeless, even got some land to put them on from a local trucking company. Everything was donated, the homeless were happy to get out of the govt land near the highway living in tents, and lots of good publicity…then the govt came along and shut it all down. Wasn’t permitted. This is how our govt works here.
Yakety Sax 26 days ago
Please Employ Some Common Sense
It’s 2019 and there’s a program that gives out monthly payments to the unemployed, provided they are actively looking for a job. I work in an employment centre, and it is my job to interview applicants after their application has been preliminary selected.
We have to fill out a form, and we can instantly award the payment if the applicant has some form of handicap preventing him from taking up a job OR is a convicted felon currently serving his sentence.
In walks an applicant. We start the interview, fill out the form. He has just one lung and goes about with an oxygen tank in his backpack but doesn’t want to take the money and go home like he could, he wants to work for it.
We keep interviewing him for an hour and a half and then, being done, we tell him he can go home, and we will call him to schedule an appointment for the next step of the process.
Customer: “Okay, but I don’t know if I’ll be available; I’m to be sentenced this week and I’ll be locked up for a while…”
An hour and a half wasted when he could have simply checked the “Convicted” box, sign and be out in thirty seconds…
uniquename 26 days ago
There’re a lot of giving people in the world, and more than a few selfish people.
ncorgbl 26 days ago
The backlash is strong in the MAGA cult.
braindead Premium Member 26 days ago
Another excellent B&C cartoon.
Somewhat of an echo of today’s Tom the Dancing Bug.
Robert Miller Premium Member 26 days ago
Here in my town, in Michigan, Lifeline Ministries was building small shelters for the homeless, even got some land to put them on from a local trucking company. Everything was donated, the homeless were happy to get out of the govt land near the highway living in tents, and lots of good publicity…then the govt came along and shut it all down. Wasn’t permitted. This is how our govt works here.
Cactus-Pete 26 days ago
It’s not the tax payers that are the problem, it’s the folks in the GOP – whether they pay taxes or not.