“Unemployment” is unemployment INSURANCE, as I understand it, and since we get the premiums taken involuntarily out of our paycheck, I think the paid-for benefits should be paid.
I don’t know exactly if Bunning is holding out against unpaid extensions or first time benefits or what. I’ll have to read up on it more closely.
He's objecting to the most recent in a long series of extensions.
It’s called “insurance” in the same way that Social Security and Medicare are.
The payments in have no connection to the payments out. The majority of those who (chronically) use it pay in an irrelevant pittance and are getting paid out large welfare checks. Those who never use it pay in very disproportionate amounts.
Congress has tacked on 26 week extensions half a dozen times over the past year, to the point where “unemployment” now runs 99 weeks!
That’s TWO YEARS of welfare if you can’t find your dream job, or don’t want to, or would be better off just taking a cash job AND the checks, like illegals/drug dealers.