[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

This really ticks me off. I think Carney should go take a job making $20 an hour and then get fired/laid off. File and wait for the unemployment insurance (few have 6 months of savings) Worry for a few weeks waiting HOW YOU ARE GOING TO EAT much less pay bills. Then when you get the unemployment insurance money and worry how you are going to live off of it. Collect for about three months (still not able to gain employment) and just when you think you are caught up and going to be okay your former boss lies and files a gross misconduct. You loose the insurance AND have to pay it back. (States are broke so the judge sides with the employer's claims-new laws allow the employer TEN years to file gross misconduct)

From what I see, hear and live the above is commonplace more often than not.

So how does this create a million jobs? Carney/Obama's theory seems to think people are rich when they get unemployment insurance and they will go spend and shop creating jobs? On UI you go to the grocery store and pay basic bills, barely. You don't go out and buy extravagant things or eat out. They are all on crack

[tsowellfan]

So how does this create a million jobs?

EASY! The more unemployed in the country the more the Department Of Labor needs to hire to process the unemployment checks.

[Bruinator]

Sorry, but say I bring home 4500$ per month. In the state of TX, that is 340$ a week max UE. That money is not going to the stimulate the economy. These people are idiots.

[JrsyJack]

So is the White House admitting that letting people keep and spend their own money creates jobs, or do the basic laws of Economics only apply when the Gov’t gives you someone else’s money?

[Tolsti2]

This is so stupid. I am for unemployment benefits, but you have to be a real nut to think it’s going to add jobs in any real way.

If it did, why doesn’t the government give everyone a free $50k check a year, working or not. That way, we’d all be spending more.

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[org.whodat]

Carney's ignorance is a terrible thing, the government removes millions from people that earn it, who would have spent are invested it, give it to someone else to buy beer and cigarettes and it produces more than the owner. Damn!

[brownsfan]

“They are all on crack”

No, but Holder’s people are, and that’s one of the “industries” they’ll support with their UI. That, and tobacco, alcohol, and electronics, (cell phones and TVs).

[yantis]

If I had the chance to ask these yahoo’s just one question it would be... “How does taking water from one side of the pool and pouring it into the other side of the pool add any water?”

[steveyp]

If it’s so wonderful for the economy why not give everyone $1MM? Because jobs arise from wealth creation and wealth is created when risk is taken with the prospect of reward.

A job is not a vehicle for an individual to be a consumer.

A job is a vehicle to further the aims of business entity in it’s pursuit of a return on invested capital.

[sayuncledave]

If I understand the White House weasel correctly, either people spending unemployment will somehow create jobs, or (more likely, I think), all the generation of and processing of unemployment checks will generate more government jobs. So, as the administration must be figuring, we'll end up with one poor schlub working to pay taxes to cover all the rest of us, either working for the government, or on unemployment. Hmmm, something wrong there...

[Armando Guerra]

I would have loved it if the reporter followed up by asking Carney if it was the administration’s goal to have everyone on unemployment so that the economy could really take off.

[andy58-in-nh]

One must be economically ignorant, intellectually dishonest, or both to believe that jobs are created by higher taxes, increased government spending, and (especially by) expanded unemployment insurance. That most Democrats seem to believe these things unreservedly is an index of how much trouble we are in.

[liberalh8ter]

Did Carney admit they came up with this idea while watching Obama’s dog chase its tail?

[FortWorthPatriot]

"On UI you go to the grocery store and pay basic bills, barely."

I have personal experience in this - 16 months of unemployment and UI barely covered the necessities (mortgage, insurance, groceries, utilities, etc.). Spending my UI did not create any new jobs, it only kept the jobs that were already existing in place.

I agree, these people are on some kind of drug. Or just idiots.

[sickoflibs]

The Peter Schiff/Austrian Economics ping. (Washington Bankrupting our Nation by Spending your past, present and future money!)

REF POST :"There are few other ways that can directly put money into the economy than applying unemployment insurance," Carney said. Carney answers the question: " It is one of the most direct ways to infuse money directly into the economy because people who are unemployed and obviously aren't running a paycheck are going to spend the money that they get. They're not going to save it, they're going to spend it. And with unemployment insurance, that way, the money goes directly back into the economy, dollar for dollar virtually." "Every place that, that money is spent has added business and that creates growth and income for businesses that leads them to decisions about jobs, more hiring. So, there are few other ways that can directly put money into the economy than applying unemployment insurance, Carney said"

Dead liberal stimulus economic theory. Paying people to NOT work increases employment like paying for abortions increases the birth rate. Unemployed People DO NOT HIRE EMPLOYEES YOU MORON!

[Personal Responsibility]

The idiocy of Carney in this statement simply cannot be overstated. Taken to it’s logical conclusion, the economy would be booming if everyone were on unemployment.

If that were the case, there would be no workers producing goods, no goods to be had, no services being rendered and that would be a booming economy?

I’m at a loss....

[IamConservative]

"Oh, uh, it is by, uh, I would expect a reporter from the Wall Street Journal would know this as part of the entrance exam."

More of the "you're too dumb to understand" bullsqueeze.

Of course the real answer to the question is: "If Obama doesn't pay people without a job there is no way in hell they will vote for his dumbazz again."

[blueunicorn6]

Jay Carney - they ought to call the Democrats “A CHORUS LINE”.
Tappity tap tap “I call this ‘The Unemployment Line Lunge’. See how my feet move.” Tappity tap tap tap “Now this one is known as ‘The Democrat Do-Si-Do’. We’ve fooled a lot of people with this one.” Tappity tappity tappity “This is the President’s favorite.....”The Socialist Shuffle’. He’s gotten a lot of mileage out of that”. Tappity tappity tap tap.

[OB1kNOb]

Unemployment Benefits Could Create Up To 1 Million Jobs

We must spend our way out of debt and into prosperity.

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.

(George Orwell lives.)

[SMARTY]

‘Unemployment Benefits Could Create Up To 1 Million Jobs

Stupefying, death defying idiocy!!!