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??? How do they stay attached to the government once their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits run out?
They transfer to disability roles. The federal government spends more money each year on cash payments for disabled former workers than it spends on food stamps and welfare combined.
trillions? on jobs and stimulus programs? There was only one stimulus program and it was 787billion and 1/3 of that spending was tax cuts.
The stimulus helped to end the recession and put us on a path of slow growth. A larger stimulus might have given use escape velocity to really ramp up the economy.
Also remember conservatives had their own competing stimulus plans when the President and the Democratic party were proposing their plans.
This link comes from the Daily Caller, but if you don't like that source the articles provides other sources:
82 percent of those receiving benefits said if their unemployment compensation were to run out prior to their finding a job, they would “search harder and wider for a job.”
I'm sure people will latch onto that one, who think unemployment compensasion allows people to slack off. There are points to be made there, I personally know people who told me that they were just going to goof off for a few months, and take advantage of their UE checks, and then start looking for a job.
When you look at the sorry state of our economy, we certainly did not buy much economic and jobs growth with $2.8 trillion, but I'm sure we made a lot of friends of government politicians wealthier.
I'm sure people will latch onto that one, who think unemployment compensasion allows people to slack off. There are points to be made there, I personally know people who told me that they were just going to goof off for a few months, and take advantage of their UE checks, and then start looking for a job.
I've heard of a lot of people doing this. Especially competent, employable people. They just use it as a vacation for a month or so before getting a job. The key for them, however, is that they are able to get jobs.
Other bills, like the bills extending unemployment insurance, were not explicitly intended to be stimulus measures, but Firey argues that they were in effect stimulus measures because they borrowed and spent money now, rather than redirecting money the government already has.
“Some of this legislation can have multiple intentions,”
Well, yes if you include spending that wasn't apart of the stimulus bill and add it to the stimulus bill I am sure you could say we spent 10trillion on stimulus.
Smh pathetic.
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