The “Recovery” Rolls On
More than 1.3 million Americans will lose extended unemployment benefits this week – more thanYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Out of one mouth, they scream they’ve done a great job and our economy is recovered. Out of the other, they scream that we’re in dire straits and must extend unemployment insurance benefits for unending lengths of time.
A very astute observation, Sir.
Ever moving forward. One Five Year Plan away from Paradise, eh comrades?
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Who is they?
Indeed.
Ending unemployment benefits is an austerity measure that harms South Carolinians and will thwart the recovery effort.
The fiscal doom predicted by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson 3 years ago never materialized. We need more spending, not less.
The UE benefits would have trickled into the economy, to the local hardware store or BiLO, immediately. Cutting money off from people hurts the economy.
Yeah, I say take a play from OWS and OAD. XP
Ending unemployment benefits is an austerity measure that harms South Carolinians and will thwart the recovery effort.
There’s a lot of things wrong with this statement.
1) No one is ending unemployment benefits.
2) The unemployment extension expiring is not a cut or an austerity measure, it is simply a response to the recession that was set to, and allowed to, expire. Any temporary measure brought on by the recession is meant to be temporary.
3) 99 weeks is ridiculous no matter what anyone says. Even during the core of the recession it was a bit excessive. If an expansion should have been kept, it should have been a lot more reasonable.
4) South Carolina does not suffer so much from temporary unemployment as it does long term unemployment, especially in rural areas. In many parts of the state, the economy is either stalled or fairly dead. Indefinite unemployment is a waste if SC can’t fix its own economy, which is pretty bad off since the recession, but has always been pretty crappy.
5) Democrats as a whole did not seriously seek the extension being kept. Those Dems who did didn’t see fit to shorten the length of it to something they could theoretically win.
I agree that people on hard times should receive some help (that’s what safety net programs are specifically designed for, after all), but there’s no reason to continue the expanded unemployment protection, at the very least not for the length it was set at.
Well put.
Just think when they get all of the illegals on unemployment comp and the great health care plan aka Medicaid. We will run out of tax payers very rapidly then how will the libturds finance there socialist Eurocentric plan?
Joe Wilson was right.
Quite the change from Riverside, Hmmm?? I grew up in CommieFornication