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Posted on 12/02/2010 10:24:06 AM PST by Phlap
By this train of thought, the only way to keep an economy going is to put everyone on unem!
That is exactly what I said during the election. The GOP better get the message right, straight, strong, and clear...
or
All of this is coming down on our heads!
And 0bama won’t even need to try in 2012...
Talk about stupid math.
moving money from one person to another person does not increase the total.
same here.
That along with the WH statement that we need unemployment benefits so that the recipients can spend money on Christmas shopping. EXCUSE ME! They had BETTER we spending that money on food and paying their bills.
It’s because it’s a Obama idea none of his ideas have worked yet why should this one.
it’s insulting that the liars think they can get away with these lies.......
need to get the liar-in-chief out of office and maybe then, lies won’t be the expected norm.
we need a return to Truth which doesn’t change...
“So now they are treating people on unemployment as having “jobs”?”
Well,,, yeah! After all, they’re getting a paycheck! Right? So it’s a job.
I like it!!!
Government spends the money on unemployment benefits; recipients spend the money again; the workers and businesses, who sell the goods and services to the unemployed, spend it again; and so on. By the magic of the multiplier, every dollar the government spends, produces 1.6 dollars more GDP.
It sounds wonderful; and, in theory, it is. The only problem is, it won't work in practice.
It won't work, because the root of the problem is government debt and deficits. Debts and deficits are making consumers and investors nervous. Nervous consumers don't consume; and nervous investors don't invest. Any additional government spending (e.g. for unemployment benefits); means more debt and deficit. And thus, you have the makings of a death spiral.
It’s simple. According to our brilliant liberal overseers, government programs like food stamps and unemployment “create or save” jobs because when lower-income people get gov’t money, they go out and spend it.
If they didn’t have money to spend, all the clerks at Walmart, the 7-11, and the liquor stores would lose their jobs.
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Stop $300 a week payment to 2,000,000 people and you remove $600,000,000 from the economy. I guess that’s how they’re coming up with the number.
It's real simple.
They're lying. It's what they do.
No problem. According to the media, all obama has to do is fart and he creates a billion jobs.
LMAO!!!!
perfect to pay for unemployment, dirty Harry, you can drop your 20 Billion Dollar Dream Act, cut funding for PBS, and other BS programs, let Dems say which is more important.
Remember many decades ago when the govt said things that actually MADE SENSE? Those were the days.
“........... one can stand in a bucket, grab the handles, and lift the bucket.”
You caused me to damn near choke to death on an orange wedge!! LMAO
I guess it’s time for Obama to bring out those “shovel ready jobs” he repeatedly promised for nearly 2 years.
Nailed it! That is exactly what they're doing.
True. Unemployment is ultimately paid by employeers in increased taxes. Increasing costs to employers costs jobs, pure and simple. Tax dollars do not stimulate anything other than politicians and bureaucrats. Unemployment has the additional effect of reducing the motivation of its recipients to find a job.
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