Jack's Greatest Idea: The Lazy Bum Index

Joe says this might be Jack's greatest idea yet. The media should be putting out the number of able bodied people who aren't working and living off the government. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I got a question for you. Why did they have
the hole? The numbers come out tomorrow. The expectation is
that jobs will be every quarter or every month. When
they're gonna put this out the night before, they got
to tell you the expectation. You're gonna tell me the
actual number tomorrow. I'll just wait till tomorrow. That's fine.
It's like if Santa Claus comes on Christmas even says

(00:20):
our expectation is a new bike for Johnny and a
dull for Jill, and then the next morning it's like
a rabbit for Johnny.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Why why did you bother well gendered gifts. I'll let
that alone.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Damn right, Johnny wants a hammer, Jill wants a dot.
Sex is a thing.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
But I heard that. I thought three hundred and thirty
nine thousand jobs. Still everywhere I go has got to
help wanted sign on the door. So every place is
trying to hire currently. And you added three hundred and
thirty nine thousand more jobs that nobody's gonna take or
people will move to I don't know, less paying jobs
to better paying jobs. Maybe I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
And the Democrats squealed like stuck pigs. The idea of
any sort of work requirement to get food stamps.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, you can't.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
They're practically kidnapping people off the street and dragging them
into jobs. Businesses are so desperate for workers.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
You know, no mainstream outlet is going to do this.
I wish included in the numbers, so they got the
job number, the unemployment, all kinds of different numbers that
they put out every month. Put out the how many
people of working age aren't working and are living off
the government. That number should be put out every month.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
I love that. The Lazy bomb Index, Well, you don't
have to be lazy bombers.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
You don't have to make it that majority of it.
I'm gonna have a harder time selling it to the
Washington Post to put it, you know, with the job
numbers if I call it that, but the LBI, I
think the juxtaposition of those two numbers. There are this
many empty jobs and this many people of working age
who aren't working but somehow living off a government check.

(01:54):
And just just saying, you all discuss amongst yourselves.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
This is your best idea ever. I of this idea,
there are one point seven million open jobs and two
point three million people inexplicably not working.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Now it's more like seven million men alone of working
age between twenty five and fifty five or something like
that that are not working, which is I think the
highest number ever, more than during the Great Depression. It's
just stunning. That's why I've really tried doing everybody should
try to do this. I was at a restaurant the
other night's service was freaking awful. I mean, it was
ridiculous how long we were there. I almost left, but

(02:31):
I would have gotten into that weird conundrum of where
actually going somewhere else and starting over would have taken longer,
So just sat there forever. But they were so understaffed.
This one woman was running around like crazy trying to
see everybody. It's not her fault, and I tipped her
really well because she's not at home. She could be
at home living off my tax money. That's clearly an

(02:53):
option for millions and millions of people. So I gave
her a big tip just for the fact that she'd
decided to go to work.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, boy, that idea.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
We got to reward people who show up and work,
because not working seems to be a really viable option,
and more and more people are figuring that out.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
It's the Francification of the United States. We've been predicting
it for years. We're moving slowly but surely toward Francitude.