If you go to the Fox news website you will find an article entitled "addicted to unemployment". It is a part of their opinion series. The point they are making is that we cannot help people feed their families until the job market picks up because they will become lazy and won't ever want to work.
I actually understand this line of thought, flawed as it is. The idea that giving to someone will not help them grow is true, people need to be motivated. The flaw in this logic is that it doesn't take into account that the people collecting unemployment were full time (40hr per week) employees. These are motivated people, not a bunch of slackers, slackers don't qualify. The Republican party should have supported the extension of benefits, because they argue that extending the Bush tax cuts will result in more jobs. If they are correct (very doubtful) these unemployed people will be working soon right? So giving them an extra few months worth of benefits won't matter all that much. Look, both Bush and Obama have asked the citizens of this country to bail out rich SOB's who downsized their companies anyway; so don't they deserve the same help in their time of need?
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