[Lady GOP]

From Ben Stein

For the amount spent we could have given every unemployed person in the United States roughly $75,000.

We could give every person who had lost a job and is now passing through long-term unemployment of six months or longer roughly $300,000.

[Lady GOP]

This is more than the pork barrel. This is a coup for the constituencies of the party in power and against the idea of a responsible government itself.

A bleak day.

Unfortunately, it is only the latest in a long series of such days stretching across decades of rule by both parties, to the point where truly responsible government is only a distant echo of our forgotten ancestors.

Ben Stein is a writer, lawyer and actor. He lives in Los Angeles and wrote this for The American Spectator’s online service

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Why give to just the unemployed?