[Redalways]

Correction: Unemployment benefits (not unemployment per se) helps stimulate the economy, is what he said.

[Lazamataz]

Correction: Unemployment benefits (not unemployment per se) helps stimulate the economy, is what he said.

Correction: It is a SHE, not a he, namely Valerie Jarrett.

Secondly, while bandaids help your health very slightly,
it helps your health MUCH MORE to not get cut to begin with.
- JUST AS -
While unemployment benefits help the economy very slightly,
it helps the economy MUCH MORE not to make people unemployed.

If Republicans use my bandaid analogy, it will be much easier to explain to John Q. Public.

[Lazamataz]

I am investigating but it appears from first glance, we have a leftist on the forum. So far, I have him or her:

1. Implicitly defending Valerie Jarrett, here.

2. Strenuously defending the Volt.

3. Criticism of Bush, citing that 'real unemployment' was on the rise in 2008 -- and not citing that under Obama it exploded.

4. Posting in apparent agreement with McCain, and the use of quotation marks to mock those who call Obama's actions treasonous.

5. Antiwar sentiments expressed when possible.

Yeah, this guy's a leftie.

NOTE TO FUTURE SUBTLETY-TROLLS: AVOID ME. I HAVE A NOSE FOR FERRETING YOU OUT.

[Lazamataz]

Please bring in the Kitty Crew. I found one. Check Redalways history.

[freemarketsfreeminds]

Using her own logic the question becomes “If people spending unemployment benefits helps the economy wouldn’t the economy be helped even more if we left the money in the hands of the people who earned it, and $1 was spent for every $1 earned instead of the government taking $1 and giving people $0.50 to spend?”

[CSM]

“Unemployment benefits (not unemployment per se) helps stimulate the economy, is what he said.”

The only way to receive unemployment benefits, per se, is to lose ones job, per se. So, my fellow FReepers’ comments on this thread holds true and you are right, you will always be red (as in communist, per se.)