Originally Posted by pauld315

As long as the gov't keeps extending unemployment benefits, why are people going to go back to work or start a new company if they can make more or almost as much sitting home and collecting unemployment ? People who got laid off making X amount of dollars a year are hoping those types of jobs will be returning so they will just keep collecting unemployment as long as they can, waiting for a job to return that pays what they earned before. In the meantime, because of gov't regulations here in the US, high taxes for corporations, not knowing what will happen in the future with this administration, cost of Obamacare etc etc corporations are either holding onto the cash they have or moving these jobs overseas. I am afraid many of these jobs the people on unemployment are waiting for are not coming back. Sooner or later they will need to start over at much less pay than they were accustomed, maybe even less than they are getting on unemployment. Very scary economic scenario that is being perpetrated by this administration.