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I heard this segment driving home the other day. I think the NYDN piece has played around a bit with the context. Glenn was focusing on the professional victims protesting on Wall STreet, one in particular who I believe was a member of some socialist organization like the one in Cranked’s photo above.

There was another on that segment that was so fat that no company that had to provide health insurance would ever hire her. Short term unemployment insurance is a good thing. It allows for a flexible work force. Unemployment measured in years is a recipe for disaster. The higher taxes needed to pay for the benefits cripple small business. Which guts the job market. Making even longer benefits necessary and starting an economic death spiral.

The illegal immigration argument was always that they were doing jobs Americans wouldn't do. Well when your unemployment runs out there aren't many jobs that you won't do. Pushing a lawnmower around isn't an easy job, I did it to work my way through college. I also counted garbage trucks at a landfill. Neither was a great job or paid well. But it will put a meal on the table, and pay the rent on a reasonable apartment. And since you don't have money for Nintendo or extended cable you have time in the evenings you to look for a better job.