Would this cut unemployment, especially in really depressed places such as MIchigan?

Question

First of all, you only let people collect unemployment for 12 weeks, not 26. Second, to collect it, they have to document how they spent 40 hours each week looking for work. Third, they have to take a drug test every week. The same for anyone collecting any free government aid, WIC, food stamps, welfare. They all have to pass a drug test. If they fail, they have to get treatment, otherwise they get arrested and locked up for 2 weeks. The second time they fail a drug test, they get locked up for 2 months. The third time they get locked up for life, with parole if they do well in prison. The idea here is to get drug users to leave the state and go to a more "drug friendly" state.

Would it work? What do you think?

Answer 1

The real way to cut unemployment is to cut taxes.
This country could use another round of cutting taxes
The so called rich are taxed to the limit
If you give these people some of their money back they might spend it or invest it
Either way produces jobs

Answer 2

OK Kimmy Kimmy Kimmy....

First of all, any policies must be allowed by the Constitution, even in Michigan, so let's keep that in mind :)

Next, unemplyment is an insurance policy, not a grant.

Anyone getting unemployment previously paid a premium while they were working for that insurance.

Just like someone pays car insurance while the car is working so they can get it repaired if they wreck.

Then, what's up with the drug test? The Fourth Amendment, against unreasonable search and seizure, would prohibit that, so put it out of your mind unless you are prepared to campaign to repeal that Amendment. Good luck with that!

I suggest education as the answer. I am not from Michigan, but I have been there several times. I know there are some hard times in some places because formerly dominant industries, that provided good paying jobs over a lifetime to even poorly educated workers, are now in a more competitive environment.

This is not realy unique to Michigan, it is the case everwhere, most similarly in the largely industrial cities of the east and midwest, but true even in the high tech areas of Silicon Valley where I am from.

On the other hand, jobs for which education leads to high pay, such as around Ann Arbor, and in the tech area in general, are the way of the present and the future.

So now, instead of mereley knowing an older guy in your neighborhood who has a job at Ford, as a way to have a good job for life, solid education is the only way.

If you want to force people you don't like to move to another state, so you can have a better life, may I suggest this plan of action?

I suggest you you buy some ropes, rent a few buses or trucks on a weekend, and then go round them up like a cattle drive and take them somewhere else, and drop them off. You and your friends can raise the few hundred dollars for the trucks and gas, and a better life is surely worth that small price!

I am sure your life and all remaining Michiganders will be much much better after that!

Answer 3

1) Would it work? .......NO

2) you only let people collect unemployment for 12 weeks, not 26........
......Let me guess??? ummmm...you've never be laid off have you?..Good for you princess!!! ..I hope you never do.. Unemployment is something you pay into while you are working and can use when you are not.....they have a right to their money.


3) to collect it, they have to document how they spent 40 hours each week looking for work.

..... they already have to show "proof" they are actively seeking work when they are asked to do so.....as for 40 hrs...unemployment doen't pay these people a 40 hr wage..it's a percentage of their wages from their last employer.

4) they have to take a drug test every week.....
....that is unconstituional...they have rights just like you,dear.


5) for anyone collecting any free government aid, WIC, food stamps, welfare. They all have to pass a drug test. If they fail, they have to get treatment,...........

...Now here, I agree, to a point...they are getting goverment aid...they should be required to get treatment for their addiction..to continue to collect it.....arresting them??..there is not enough room to keep these people in jail for extended periods of time. Again...they also have rights.


6)The idea here is to get drug users to leave the state and go to a more "drug friendly" state.
....which state would want all of our drug users???? I don't care for drug addicts either, but shoving them off to another state is hardly going to solve the problem . It is nationwide.

6)What do you think?

I think if you are so unhappy with the way things are done in Michigan ...You should move to another state that is more to Your liking . Good luck with that

Answer 4

I agree with the drug test. If the government is mandating tax collection on your behalf, then you must take drug tests weekly (this is the only way to catch such drugs as cocaine).

I agree on the 12 instead of 26.

I agree on a temporary lockup. However, I would not go beyond 2 weeks, and even that would be the last resort.

THe biggest incentive would be to cut the benefits with each failing of the drug test. 1st failure = %50 cut in benefits and a 2 week reduction in unemployment. 2nd failure is an additional 25% and 3rd failure is total cut and a 2 week lockup.

Any longer sentences would cost too much. I also think that instead of normal lockup, they should be put to work to generate revenue be it cleaning up the city or workingin a field.

*Cutting taxes will not cut unemployment to the point of changing ones mindset that wants to work a minimum and then get unemployment. Leeches leech and workers work.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

This is such a BAD idea that you must be a Republican.

First of all, many people who are unemployed are NOT drug addicts. The unemployed get treated so poorly as it is, with people assuming that it is their fault. Many times, it's not. Many times "it's the economy, stupid."

Your proposal assumes these things and takes it out on the unemployed because of what you have probably read in the media. It's true that each of your assumptions has validity for some (these are well-publicized), but most unemployed people would do anything to not have to go to the government for help.

Answer 7

Kimmy.........you have some great ideas here, but the libs are going have a conniption before any of this comes to pass.
I Cr 13;8a

Answer 8

the third time they get locked up for LIFE?!?!

i guess michigan better start building more prisons...
wait they don't have the money to...

Answer 9

I like the first two proposals. But locked up for life? Little drastic......
How 'bout we just cut them off everything so they want to leave?

Answer 10

You ought be president LOL MAYBE we can lock up some of our elected officials!!!!