I CAN'T I'M BUSY

My co-worker and I contacted several applicants over the past few days. Why you ask? Because we need people to work. I am sure you can understand our frustration given the current sate of our economy. We heard every excuse in the book, or we were just told oh yes thanks I would be happy to take a job...Only to have them not call back like they were supposed to. So just in case there was a failure to communicate we call them back only to have our calls avoided. How nice it must be to not have a job, be offered a job, and not take the job. How does one live without a job? This is our frustration of the day... Are we just making it easy for people to not work. Has the incentive to work been thrown out the window with entitlement programs. Is it up to the ones that do work to support the ones that don't work? Why is it in a government full of SMART PEOPLE, we can't find a way to cut out FRAUD, To find a way to put in programs that help only those who help themselves, and by that I don't mean help themselves to other peoples hard earned money. How come our system only seems to help you if you have completely screwed it all up and don't even bother to try and fix it on your own...It seems like the only people getting help are the ones that are full of excuses and won't take any responsibility for why their lives are where they are in the first place. Don't get me wrong... Lots of people need help but are we helping the right people... Are we helping the people who need a hand up and will learn to stand on their own that want to stand on their own and will eventually be self sufficient or are we helping people who have no intention of ever standing on their own... only learning how to work and manipulate the system never amounting to anything more. People who have no conscious about doing so... Do you think these people actually stop to think that there is someone out there punching a time clock, working sometimes more than one job to make ends meet that is paying for them to watch daytime TV on cable paid for with someone else's money... It used to be that people were happy just to get a little help with food through food stamps or from the charity of others..Or maybe some extra training paid for by the government so that they could get a better job... Now it seems like the expectations are to live a life where everything is taken care of!!! Where does this mentality come from and why aren't we trying to fix that? Isn't it the foundation that needs fixed. The place where this mentality is being bred and passed on from person to person... Make people step up the plate and they will... give them the option and it is clear that many will opt out from the hard work or any work at all.