So the question is, by blocking the extension of unemployment benefits, which will almost certainly hurt the economic recovery when 1.2 million unemployed lose their benefits, will Republicans gain votes because a bad economy will reflect poorly on the Democrats? Or will voters get angry at the Republicans for killing benefits and vote against them?
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Unemployment benefits are socialism. Do you want to reward all of those unemployed people for being lazy? It’s their fault they can’t find work, they’re just not trying hard enough.
I see Morrius understands the meaning of irony as well.
1. Most people are not exposed to this kind of detailed information. Most will only know that “the government” took away their benefits.
2. Republican representatives will almost certainly shift the responsibility to Democrats through rhetoric. They will make sure that anything perceived as bad that happens when Democrats have the majority is the fault of the Democrats, even if it is clearly their own doing. Especially if it is clearly their own doing.
3. The public likes to blame whoever is in 1st place (generally whoever the President is and whatever party he’s with) when bad things happen, even if those things are the result of decisions made before whoever is in charge took charge.
Obama and the Democratic Party will suffer for it. Americans like things short and sweet and Republicans are great at giving it to us that way. After all, we’re all much too busy bitching about the final episode of Lost to bother with political details.
“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
— Henry Mencken
Morrius wrote:
“Unemployment benefits are socialism. Do you want to reward all of those unemployed people for being lazy? It’s their fault they can’t find work, they’re just not trying hard enough.”
Amazingly ignorant statement seeing how people pay into this insurance all of their working lives. Morrius would become a “socialist” in about 2 seconds once it happened to him/her. One person’s socialism is another person’s lifeline in the right circumstances. Count on it!
Hell yes I would. I’ve been on unemployment before, and without it I would have been lost. My statement was sarcasm.
My favorite jokes are ones that people don’t get. Well done, Morrius!
I have three able-bodied men that live in my apartment complex that drink all day and live off of unemployment benefits. They have no incentive to find work. I am sure there are those out there who truly do need a little extra help between jobs. But paying people not to work for years and years? How is that going to help the economy?