Johnson and Burr - This Week's Anti-Nojobsurvivors

Friday, 23 July 2010 09:13 Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 October 2010 09:28
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This week we have a Senate wannabe and a sitting Senator who think the unemployed are lazy and unemployment benefits cause further joblessness.

Ron Johnson is opposing Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold. As he explained to Wisconsin Public Television:

Quite honestly, one of the economic advisors to President Obama actually wrote a paper or made statements a few years ago talking about the extension of unemployment benefits actually prolongs unemployment. When you continue to extend unemployment benefits, people really don't have the incentive to go take other jobs. They'll just wait the system out until their benefits run out, then they'll go out and take, probably not as high paying jobs as they'd like to take, but that's really how you have to get back to work. You have to take the work that's available at the wage rates that's available.

Oh and Johnson didn't bother to provide the name of the Obama staffer, or explain where he supposedly read or heard about it.

And then there is Republican Senator Richard Burr, of North Carolina. Caught on C-Span (viewable here), and quotes:

The wrong thing to do is to automatically today extend unemployment for 12 months. I think that's a discouragement to individuals that are out there to actually go out and go through the interviews.

According to the honorable Senator from North Carolina and the wannabe honorable Senator for Wisconsin, your  unemployment is probably your fault and you should stop living high on the hog on unemployment benefits. The jobs are there, if you'd only go look for them. It's not the economy, it's you.

Thanks Greg Sargent for finding and highlighting these empathic politicians.

Wisconsonians and North Carolinians, what are you going to do about them?


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