That message came through loud and clear to Arkansas massage therapist Tracy McFetridge, HuffPost reports, when her state’s secretary of commerce said that anyone who could return to work but kept collecting unemployment was “a fraudulent claim for us, and we will be tracking that.” So McFetridge went back to a job that requires her to be in a small, closed room touching other people.
“Going back to work and coming back in contact with everybody else’s bubble kind of makes me nervous,” she told HuffPost, but having heard the “fraudulent claim” language, “I knew they wanted people off unemployment.”
Even if work means risking your life, Republicans are all for it—at least if you’re someone who lives paycheck to paycheck and can’t get by without unemployment. The rich, of course, can ride this thing out safe and secure.
Source: http://feeds.dailykosmedia.com/~r/dailykosofficial/~3/SmxZK25dQRA/-Republicans-threaten-low-wage-workers-with-fraud-charges-if-they-re-too-scared-to-go-back-to-work