[updatedscreenname]

I don’t understand why they don’t give the money to businesses
to hire people? Could also be done indirectly via employment
agencies, for folks hired as temps. The unemployment dollars could be used to subsidize the cost of hiring.

[Spok]

“I don’t understand why they don’t give the money to businesses to hire people?”

Because dependence on government translates into political power for the Democrats. They have lost sight of everything else.

[kabar]

Businesses don’t hire people unless they need them. Partial government subsidies don’t make them more attractive. It reminds me of one of Obama’s other hare-brained schemes of giving employers tax breaks for each new employee they hired.

[upchuck]

I don’t understand why they don’t give the money to businesses to hire people?

Because doing that would run 100% counter to nobama's agenda: bankrupt the US ASAP and make everyone dependent on the government.

[RLM]

Speaking as a businessman, business would not hire, nor want to hire just to provide jobs. Business hire to increase production based on demand. Currently demand is very weak, consequently more employees would be more of a burden than a benefit.