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To: Scanian
Some also believe the lengthy period of benefits can discourage people from job hunting.

Although this is quite true in normal times of 5% unemployment, it's also irrelevent when tens of millions of jobs have been lost, real unemployment is aournd 20% and there are 5 or more applicants for every job. Plus, it's political suicide. Telling the millions of people who have lost their jobs and can't find anything even at much lower wages that it's there fault is a great way for Pubs to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory next November. Leave it to the stupid party to find a way to screw it up.

4 posted on 07/20/2010 3:14:37 AM PDT by Hugin (Remember the first rule of gunfighting...have a gun..-- Col. Jeff Cooper)
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To: Hugin
Leave it to the stupid party to find a way to screw it up.

Oh, so we forget principals when an election is coming?

6 posted on 07/20/2010 3:22:06 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: Hugin

>>Telling the millions of people who have lost their jobs and can’t find anything even at much lower wages that it’s there fault is a great way for Pubs to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory next November. <<

How long should we be taking care of them? What is your limit? Two years? Three years? Five?


14 posted on 07/20/2010 3:51:16 AM PDT by netmilsmom (I am inyenzi on the Religion Forum)
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To: Hugin

This ain’t about elections, its about doing what’s right for the taxpayer. Unemployment was never intended to be welfare. We need to go back to capitalism not away from it.

Pray for America


40 posted on 07/20/2010 4:41:31 AM PDT by bray (Did Rush say Absolute Failure?)
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To: Hugin

Cool. Let’s just spend billions more money. What harm can it do?


76 posted on 07/20/2010 5:18:49 AM PDT by ilgipper
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