[rlmorel]

Graphs from Arthur Laffer on why increasing unemployment benefits has a negative effect:

And lest we forget who the real progenitors of this economic downturn are:

[Tolsti2]

Look at that chart. Who was running things in both congress and president after 9/11? Hmmmm.. They did until 06, and then there’s a drop. They have a lot of nerve to complain about extending this now and all it does is make them look bad. Poor, poor politics.