{"id":200338,"date":"2021-05-06T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/06\/sadism-as-official-policy\/"},"modified":"2021-05-06T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T02:47:00","slug":"sadism-as-official-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/06\/sadism-as-official-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadism as Official Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wZV5Rk3pnH4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Context on the Dental Floss<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Montana Governor Greg Gianforte is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/may\/06\/montana-greg-gianforte-benefits-covid-\">ending his state&#8217;s participation in the federal program increasing   unemployment payments<\/a>, because he thinks that it makes people too lazy. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, he&#8217;s offering a one time limited offer of an &#8220;Employment Bonus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  This is unbelievably and deeply stupid policy, as well as being stupid   politically, particularly in a state so lily white (88.54%) that there are   virtually no Black people (0.50%) to blame everything on. <\/p>\n<p>  I think that his brain has been poisoned by agricultural chemicals used on   those famous Montana dental floss farms: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">The coronavirus pandemic \u2013 heard of it? It\u2019s famously still going on!     Though national case numbers are finally starting to drop and recent     regional outbreaks in the midwest have begun to subside, there were still     about     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/covid-cases.html\">50,000 new Covid-19 infections <\/a>recorded in the US on Tuesday and just over 700 new virus-related     deaths.<\/p>\n<p>But Greg Gianforte, Montana\u2019s governor, has other     priorities: he\u2019s been talking about a \u201clabor shortage\u201d in a cynical attempt     to cut public assistance. The Republican governor released     <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mt.gov\/montana-to-launch-return-to-work-bonuses-return-to-pre-pandemic-unemployment-program-to-address-workforce-shortage\">a statement<\/a>    on Tuesday announcing his state will stop participating in the federal     program that has given     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/montana-governor-ends-extra-unemployment-payments-citing-worker-shortage-n1266346\">unemployed workers additional unemployment payments<\/a>    since the start of the pandemic \u2013 in an apparent attempt to get Montanans     back to work, and he plans to give those who choose to do so something he     calls a \u201creturn-to-work bonus\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>  Although Montana\u2019s unemployment rate fell to 3.8% in April, which is about at   pre-pandemic levels, the state\u2019s labor commissioner, Laurie Esau, says its   labor force is approximately 10,000 workers smaller than it was pre-lockdown,   a drop that Gianforte assumes is to do with lazy people who, given their new   found pandemic benefits, don\u2019t want to work any more. And according to Montana   department of labor estimates, nearly 25,000 people are currently filing   unemployment claims, a good chunk of whom the governor is eager to push into   the state\u2019s 14,000 or so job openings.<\/p>\n<p>But this means there aren\u2019t   enough job openings for the number of people unemployed; even if the   governor\u2019s plan succeeds in filling those vacant positions as intended, there   will still be over 10,000 people without jobs to apply for, forced to subsist   on less. It is also wildly reductive to assume that because there are fewer   people working, it must be the result of a lack of will. People had jobs, and   those jobs were taken away, either through mass layoffs or government   shutdowns of businesses. That kind of disruption takes time to recover from.   People could now be working out childcare arrangements again; finding out   where they fit in a new jobs market; or worried about returning to work until   the coast is clear. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The headline of this story should be, &#8220;Montana Governor has tragically small penis, inflicts pain on whole state to compensate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, boycott Montana grown dental floss until this policy is reversed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context on the Dental Floss Montana Governor Greg Gianforte is ending his state&#8217;s participation in the federal program increasing unemployment payments, because he thinks that it makes people too lazy. Instead, he&#8217;s offering a one time limited offer of an &#8220;Employment Bonus.&#8221; This is unbelievably and deeply stupid policy, as well as being stupid politically, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,969,1051,978,1086,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-politics","category-social-safety-net","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}