[Tolsti2]

You gotta get laid off. And if this # was a result of those being added again, you’d see the # be whatever it would normally be plus all those that the extension helped. It would be almost 500k, it would be 4m+.

He’s very wrong on the basic premise in multiple ways and should pull this article off Foxnews or hope nobody sees it.

[sickoflibs]

I can see where unemployment benefits can prolong a recession. It prolongs some tough decisions for those that try to wait it out on employers and taxpayers expense, like a lower paying job or moving. Those things would be good for the country but very difficult for the unemployed.

I think the demonization of the unemployed in this bad economy is misguided, few would give up their jobs in this climate.