The inmates are running the asylum.
Didn’t they say that when they extended benefits to 99 weeks ...
Where are THOSE 1 million jobs ???
The only thing it does is put food on the table [barely], keep a roof over their heads, and keep people subsisting in life ...
Are you serious? Nancy pelosi
When we need the Dems to do something all we get is their sarcasm
Let’s just extend unemployment benefits for 20-30 years.
Heck, I’ll jump on that gravy train. Yeah, I’ll get bored but I’ll just work under the table so I can double dip.
As far as who pays, well, that is SEP*
*SEP=Someone Else’s Problem
The only jobs the Odummy Administration has created are caddies.
It does more than discourage people from finding work. It increases the premiums companies pay...especially if they log even one layoff...so nobody’s hiring...its a self-fulfilling death spiral. If Mr. Carney can’t think of any other way to get money into the economy, might I suggest lower taxes.
Thank goodness I'm a patient man. LOL
Just think how many jobs would be created if everyone was on unemployment. The thought sure stimulates me... and astounds me too..
This is what passes for leadership in the WH and the DemocRat Party?
The same economic illiterates who disparage the multiplier effect when the growth is in the private sector, want you to believe in trickle down economics when government welfare is the source.
All of the pinheads in this regime act and talk like they are on drugs.
What a total maroon.
If there were soup lines, the farmers that produce the ingredients would make more money, allowing them to hire more people to produce more ingredients.
Easy... just put more people on the soup lines.
“only encourages people to take their time looking for that new job. “
I know a liberal guy who took a year off, living off his girl friends salary and unemployment. He purposefully blew job interviews. Figured it was his right since he had paid into the system for so long.
Same with a former next door neighbor, union type guy. Took a whole year of unemployment, just doing enough to make it look like he was in a job search.
White House spokesman Jay Carney was preaching the religion of Keynesian economics. It is a method by which government inflates demand by putting money into peoples’ pockets to spend on products, thus, stimulating productive segments of the economy that would have otherwise remained idle, to produce wealth. They would argue that the poor are more likely to spend that money rather than keeping it from circulation by saving it. This behavior, Keynesians argue, guarantees even more generation of wealth. Eric Cantor comments that the theory is: “government can be counted on to spend more wisely than the people.”
The problem is demand does not generate wealth, capital, both human and material, does. Wealth is generated by the accumulation of income producing assets or what economists call capital formation. Keynesian economics fails becuase government misallocates resourses, and because government can’t create wealth. It can only move it around.
Paying someone not to work does not grow the economy. When someone spends all of their money instead of saving or investing it, they will never be wealthy. They become dependent on the system.
Keynesian economics fails because of an effect called “Crowding Out.” Simply put, for every dollar of government spending, private investment must be reduced by the same amount. Since the government does not have a surplus of money to spend, it must sell treasury bills to finance this spending. Thus, personal and corporate savings are used to buy these T-bills, and these funds are no longer available for private spending and private investment. Thus any increase in government spending is exactly offset by a reduction in private investment and private spending.
When Keynesian policy fails to stimulate, the chorus from the left will be that the government didn’t do enough. Didn’t spend enough. The government will rush out an even larger stimulus package, but this time our Asian benefactors might not be so quick to finance it. In fact, they may decide it’s time to cash in their chips. If that happens, hyperinflation will ensue decimating what is left of the consumer’s purchasing power.
File this under we're paying them anyway, might as well get some work out of them.
Unemployment bennies are a life ring to keep people afloat.
But someone has to manufacture and pay for the life rings.
If everyone is hanging on to the life ring and no one is left to pay for the new ones, then what there carney?
Amazing to see so many economic idiots all concentrated in one place.
This is where these idiots are really spinning off into another world. The world where increases are cuts, and imaginary savings are counted as real.
True, giving people money to spend will allow them to buy food. Food that might not have been bought. So the people at the grocery store will keep their job. The farmer will be able to keep their jobs. That part I get, and I can understand how they “get there.”
But adding jobs? Are all of these people all of a sudden going out any buying stuff that would cause a company to add production people? Are they actually using unemployment checks to generate more traffic? I doubt anyone could make that case—except perhaps a liquor store.
It would just be better for the administration to say, “We have to give them extended benefits because there are no jobs to get, and if we don’t feed them, there will be riots.”
I might not agree with that statement (and I don’t) but I would understand their logic.
This is what happens when you spend all day trying to think how you are going to say something to sound smart, but not really think about how it sounds.