Davis County Clipper | 1979-11-28 | Page 59 | Unemployment Myth Helps Bureaucrats Spend Money

Unemployment j Myth Helps I Bureaucrats I Spend Money ' The unemployment myth I continues as an excuse for spending bureaucrats' I money. Headlines earlier this month reported I unemployment slightly up at I six percent. This will mean , more unemployment checks, I plus much gnashing of teeth by those who think the ' government must provide I jobs for everyone. THE TRUE picture con-I con-I cerning unemployment is sel-I sel-I dom explained candidly by the bureaucrats (who justify ' their jobs and importance by I expanding the system) or politicians, who capture votes by supporting give-away . programs. A six point percentage I really means little. Many ' families today contain two, three, or more workers; thus I little hardship is felt if one is I laid off temporarily. Today, I many youngsters living at i home work. If they're sometimes some-times unemployed, there's no true hardship. WHAT IS needed is a meaningful figure, discounting discount-ing non-essential jobs and hard-core loafers who never work, but prefer to draw government checks, food stamps and whatever else they can get. A six percent unemployment unem-ployment figure, give or take about one percent, is probably about normal, inevitable, and perhaps desirable.