Government ROI is it possible?

An email made the rounds this week. It pertained to saving gasoline or so it said. If we sent home 15 million illegal aliens that would be 15 million less people driving to work, to get a beer, to the post office to send money home. Now that’s a lot of gas to say nothing of the savings from less accidents after they got the beer… where none of them has insurance. But back to the question, can our government really get a Return On Investment where they spend our tax dollars? Usually they can’t unless they are paying a private service to supply telephone operators for a military installation. Protecting us is one of their few legitimate jobs… so this is a proper use of our tax dollars. Not sure, however, if there is a ROI involved, but let us look at one they could do. Insist that all unemployment compensation recipients and all able to work welfare recipients apply for work through private sector employment services, with the government paying when they found suitable employment for them. Employers would love it, since they would not have to pay a fee for hiring such persons and in time it would reduce the amount of UC taxes they would have to pay. The employment services would also love it since they would not have to charge the employer. And the job seekers would love the free help they would get in finding suitable employment. The  return on the investment could run into the hundreds of percents since the employment services would guarantee that the job would last or they would return 1% of their fee for any days worked under 100 i.e. work ten days, government gets back 90% of fee paid. An added benefit might be that some people who already had a job (no! you mean people really do that?) or didn’t want to work  would refuse the job and be taken off the rolls. Now why would any sane person not think that was a good investment of our tax dollars? I’ll bet you are trying to think of some “what if’s” right now… but there aren’t any since it has been done in the past with great success.

WHERE DOES OUR TAX $ GO?

Fox News reported that a Judge in NY threw out a firefighters test because most of the questions had nothing to do with their skills needed for the job. Upshot being, he felt minorities were being discriminated against again. While as an employer of thousands and a representative of employers of millions I could question the validity of his ruling, my use of this example is to, in this period of high unemployment, ask could not our use of government money (read our money) be better spent. Some attorney, most likely using public funds (surely not his own money) had to find a judge who would listen to his prattle and regardless of the inanity of it rule against the test. When a year ago another simple minded Judge, upheld allowing those same minority firefighters who had failed tests on their knowledge of firefighting to be promoted over those who had passed the test with flying colors... all based on color, of course. Our courts are jammed with frivolous law suits, causing the judges to clamor for more judges to help with cases like this that should be thrown out at first blush. A good example of misuse of the courts is what they did in Alaska to the Governor causing the state to spend unconscionable amounts of staff time and money in attempting to deal with them. While at the same time Congress exempts itself from lawsuits (Thinking of Weiner's Weiner) saying it can police itself. You can laugh now. The only people who benefit from such foolishness are the attorneys, judges, their staffs and the incompetents who desire a job for life without preparing for it. They are the ones who should be replacing the illegal aliens who are working at jobs, making a living and sending money home.

Increased Jobs Decreased Workers

INCREASED JOBS DECREASED WORKERS?

The Obama administration keeps bragging that they have created hundreds of thousands of jobs with the intimation that the number is even higher. How can this be or shall we say how can any press worth it’s salt accept such a blatant falsehood. Sending money to states to keep policemen, firemen and teachers employed, when the state can’t afford to do so is not “creating jobs”. It is robbing Peter to pay Paul. Oh, and hiring tens of thousands of more high paid government employees is not creating jobs… it is creating havoc with our finances. Real jobs are those in the private sector that give a return on the investment in them i.e. Jobs that produce things that are bought by companies or individuals. USA Today, April 14, 2011 had a headline that read, Percent Working lowest since ’83. So how can the government be creating more jobs when we now have less people working. Isn’t anyone at ABC, CNN, CBS, PBS, etc. awake? Are they so in love with keeping Obama as President that they will parrot without question anything that he or his minions will say. Let us pray that the so called swing vote independents will have enough intelligence to see through the constant smoke screen being laid down by this Obamanation of an administration.

Entitlement Mentality Killing America

I’m entitled to sit home for 92 weeks because this country owes me a job like the last one I had. It’s the country’s fault I’m out of work so let them pay me. When the pay runs out, they owe it to me to find me a job… a good job… preferably a union job or a government and union job combination… where nobody can tell me what to do.  I’m a Job Coach and when I talk to unemployed groups, many of them in churches, I ask them have you been to an employment service?  And they ask me, “don’t they charge you to get you a job?”  I say, so what if they did? How long have you been unemployed? If you could have gone to work six months ago wouldn’t it have been worth it to pay them to help you?  Do you see a Dr. when you are sick, use a realtor when selling your home, pay someone to fix your car or help you with your exercise program? So, why not pay someone, to help you find a job, especially when its pay after you get the job and then it’s guaranteed for 100 days at 1% a day? Of course those days are over, job seekers sold their soul to the company store, insisting that companies pay the tab… so who do the Employment Services represent… not you for sure, they represent the person who is paying the bill… the company.  Government placement services gave up a long time ago trying to help those on unemployment compensation get a job, they knew as soon as the UC payments stopped they would be back to work. The same goes for able to work welfare cheats.  Three to four million people get a job every month and at the end of the month there are still 20 million jobs going begging on all levels.  The thought that someone owes you a living is just about as bad as thinking someone owes you a college education.

Robert O. Snelling, Sr.   Coach Bob

bsnelling@rosshr.com   www.rosshr.com

Able to work Welfare recipient have ya tried the “Free” Private Employment Service?

Americans Won’t Do Those Jobs

What a bunch of hooey.  If you’ve been brainwashed into the malarkey that this is why we have to allow millions of illegal aliens to steal across our borders you need to think again. Less than 2% of the illegal’s are harvesting tomatoes or peaches, the rest have good jobs that are also held by millions of Americans. Stop and think… is everyone you see doing a dirty job an illegal?  Is everyone you see working in a factory cutting up chickens an illegal?  I could go on and on… but the answer will always be NO. Is every illegal working for less than the minimum wage? NO, NO, NO… many make much more, as brick masons and carpenters and managers of businesses. The reason Americans are not taking those jobs is simple, we are paying them not to work… 92 weeks of unemployment compensation or a lifetime of welfare…wake up!                        Robert O. Snelling, Sr.,   Coach Bob

Are you unemployed?   Why?

bsnelling@rosshr.com  www.rosshr.com  

PUTTING AMERICAN TO WORK

Those of you who have really done an all out job search know that there are plenty of good jobs out there. When you contact your network, research several job web sites, visit many employment services, list with many recruiters and utilize many other avenues… you are getting calls.  The indication is that there are over 4 million jobs advertised at any given time, which means there are between 15 & 20 million openings since companies only advertise 20% .  In the next 30 days 3 ½ to 4 million people will get a job. If you are not among them, then in face of these stats, one would have to conclude that you are turning down jobs or not really looking until your unemployment compensation runs out.  Robert O. Snelling, Sr. Job Coach  b.snelling@rosshr.com  www.rosshr.com

If you are employed or found employment in the last year or two, how do you feel about this?  If unemployed – what’s your problem?