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  • WH Spokesman Jay Carney: Unemployment Benefits Could Create Up To One Million Jobs or Something

    08/10/2011 9:35:28 PM PDT · by Nachum · 27 replies
    Blue Grass Pundit ^ | 8/10/11 | Bluegrass Pundit
    Short term unemployment benefits provide people financial resources while the look for a new job. Extending unemployment benefits to 18 months or longer only encourages people to take their time looking for that new job. They do not create jobs. This is the liberal concept that spending money can be equated with job creation. If that theory worked, the Stimulus would have kept unemployment under 8% as promised. We all know how that worked out. (RCP) — “I understand why extending unemployment insurance provides relief to people who need it, but how does that create jobs,” Wall Street Journal’s Laura...