on Mar 9th, 2010GOP Hates The Unemployed
In what’s sure to be a winning strategy in an election year* Republicans express disdain for the unemployed:
“You know,” DeLay said, “there is an argument to be made that these extensions of these unemployment benefits keeps people from going and finding jobs.” When CNN’s Candy Crowley described his argument as “a hard sell” to the public, DeLay replied, “It’s the truth.”
Economically speaking Delay and the rest are wrong wrong wrong. No one is really putting off getting a job because they’d rather have an unemployment check. And extending unemployment benefits helps the unemployed and actually creates jobs by injecting cash into the market.
* I know that the GOP is going to win a lot of seats in November. But it’s not because of arguments like this. It’s because the Democrats are retarded.