[RWB Patriot]

“Yet the social safety net is already showing severe strains. Roughly 2.7 million jobless people will lose their unemployment check before the end of April unless Congress approves the Obama administration’s proposal to extend the payments, according to the Labor Department.”

http://blog.robertringer.com/2010/02/13/making-unemployment-obsolete/

[Red in Blue PA]

The fact is that when many people say they can’t find a job, what they really mean is they can’t find the job they want, at the wage they want, under the working conditions they want. Which means that high unemployment is, to a great extent, a result of workers simply refusing to accept low-paying jobs, preferring instead to live off government largesse.

This argument makes sense if one thinks it is efficient for tens of thousands of dollars to be spent towards Bachelors and Masters degrees only to have people working at McDonald's. I have alot of skills to offer, the least of which is flipping burgers.