We don’t have a crisis of labor shortage. We have a crisis of not having enough people willing to actually work. This “shortage” has been caused by politicians at just about every level across the country, but mostly at the federal and state levels. The June 2 Courier article, “Labor shorage at crisis stage,” correctly points out that too many

people are willing to sit back and not go back to work because “unemployment” and other handouts pay more than they can get working. Those people who were working when the pandemic hit and businesses were closed, schools shut down, etc., are still living here. They did not go away.

We need to demand that the president, governor, senators and congressmen stop this insanity and stop all the “freebies”! And it needs to be done immediately. When the government teat runs dry and people face the attendant unpleasant consequences, they will be glad to return to work.

Jimmy Sims, Florissant