{"id":487865,"date":"2021-05-09T08:40:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=487865"},"modified":"2021-05-09T08:40:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:40:32","slug":"you-gotta-take-the-money-away-lawrence-jones-says-people-wont-go-back-to-work-if-they-can-get-drunk-on-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-gotta-take-the-money-away-lawrence-jones-says-people-wont-go-back-to-work-if-they-can-get-drunk-on-government\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Gotta Take The Money Away\u2019: Lawrence Jones Says People Won\u2019t Go Back To Work If They Can \u2018Get Drunk On Government\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyou-gotta-take-the-money-away-lawrence-jones-says-people-wont-go-back-to-work-if-they-can-get-drunk-on-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=487865&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-07-at-6.19.50-PM-e1620430532451.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"42.820950060901\">\n<p>Lawrence Jones said Friday that people were not going to want to go back to work until the government stopped providing incentives for them to stay at home.<\/p>\n<p>Jones joined Fox News\u2019 \u201cThe Five\u201d to discuss the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/07\/april-jobs-report-united-states-economy-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jobs report<\/a> and the fact that, even as more and more of the coronavirus restrictions were being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/states-reopen-map-coronavirus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lifted<\/a>, people across the country appeared to be sluggish in getting back into the workforce. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/08\/10\/white-supremacy-not-just-white-candidates-donna-brazile-spars-lawrence-jones\/\">(RELATED: \u2018It\u2019s White Supremacy We\u2019re Fighting, Not Just White Candidates\u2019: Donna Brazile Spars With Lawrence Jones)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cohost Jesse Watters turned the question to Jones, noting that the government\u2019s additional unemployment benefits made it possible for people to make $900 per week to not work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to taper that off or people aren\u2019t going to be able to hit the pavement,\u201d Watters said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a strategy there \u2014 get drunk on government, depend on us, we\u2019re mommy and daddy,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/10\/lawrence-jones-police-defund-mike-omeara\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jones<\/a> replied. \u201cI think Ron DeSantis has the best idea, you gotta take the money away, it\u2019s not rocket science. You have to take the money away so people can go back to work, businesses are suffering as a result because the government has become mommy and daddy and you know how that experiment has went once before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones went on to say he believed deep down that President Joe Biden and others in his administration knew that continuing to pay the added unemployment benefits would be a problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if you look at it on paper, the Biden administration knows there\u2019s a problem, but they can\u2019t admit it because, again, they promised all these progressives all this money,\u201d Jones concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Jones said Friday that people were not going to want to go back to work until the government stopped providing incentives for them to stay at home. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277587,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-07-at-6.19.50-PM-e1620430532451.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018You Gotta Take The Money Away\u2019: Lawrence Jones Says People Won\u2019t Go Back To Work If They Can \u2018Get Drunk On Government\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-07-at-6.19.50-PM-e1620430532451.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018You Gotta Take The Money Away\u2019: Lawrence Jones Says People Won\u2019t Go Back To Work If They Can \u2018Get Drunk On Government\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}