In response to: “Our View: Pre-pandemic SNAP benefits won’t be enough” (Feb. 21). That is correct and that’s exactly why there will be a lot more job applicants searching for jobs once SNAP benefits return to pre-pandemic levels. People will be filling out job applications from the time businesses open to the time they close seven days per week. They will be handing out resumes to people eating lunch in their work trucks, if there is a business logo on the vehicle. there will probably be people waiting outside Maine career centers before the doors open up, like people used to wait to buy food in the old Soviet Union. In fact there will be so many people applying for jobs, that those with more holes in their resumes than swiss cheese, will have to travel many miles just to increase their chances of getting a job.

It’s the economic version of “musical chairs,” where everyone is going to scramble to either obtain a primary or secondary job. This piece did state: “Maine is in a position to use state funds to offset some of the loss and should.” That’s probably not going to happen, until Maine stops having a labor shortage. Since Maines’ minimum wage is in the double digits, people are not going to wait and see if taxpayer dollars are going to increase SNAP benefits. Chances are, they are going to get whatever job they can and then look for the type of job they want to replace it with.

The bottom line is, sooner or later we were going to start separating the socialism from the capitalism, once the Baby Boom generation started going into retirement. Now is that time and there’s no way state or federal governments will stop the separation.

 

Douglas Papa

Augusta

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