GOP senator: Unemployment benefits make people not want to work

[meegbear]

The second ranking Republican in the Senate told fellow senators on the floor of the Senate Monday that unemployment benefits are bad for America.

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) declared that unemployment benefits are bad for the economy because they encourage people to stay jobless.

"People are being paid even though they're not working," Kyl said.

Unemployment insurance "doesn't create new jobs. In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work," Kyl posited. The Republican Senate Whip was effectively coming to the political defense of fellow Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), who has blocked the extension of unemployment benefits and caused the furlough of more than 2,000 federal workers for two consecutive days.

"I'm sure most of them would like work and probably have tried to seek it, but you can't argue that it's a job enhancer," he said. "If anything, as I said, it's a disincentive. And the same thing with the COBRA extension and the other extensions here."

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http://rawstory.com/2010/03/gop-senator-unemployment-benefits-people-work/

[janedum]

1. "People are being paid even though they're not working," Kyl said.

Yes, Senator. Just like YOU get paid to do NOTHING in the Senate.
At the taxpayer's expense, I might add.

[ck4829]

2. So, Kyl, you planning on hiring all of these people on your staff?

Or are you just blowing out hot air against the "commie socialist programs!!1111!"

[DrDan]

3. guess who was one of the 28 voting against the modest job bill

partisan-hack

[truebrit71]

4. Solution? Make this fucker unemployed himself..with NO benefits...

..see how quickly he changes his tune...

[BarbaRosa]

5. Lack of jobs makes people not work

you dumb.......!

[unblock]

6. life insurance makes people not want to live.

[HughMoran]

7. Just keep on talking bro... nobody is going to stop you

Sorry, there are times when I see some evil person putting a noose around their own neck that I don't feel any inclination to interfere :evilgrin:

[Brickbat]

8. Huh -- IMO, getting a job in the Senate can make people not want to work. You see it all the time.