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No. 2 Senate Republican: Unemployment Benefits Make People Not Want To Get A Job

03/01/2010 8:01 pm 3 comments

A debate on the Senate floor Monday over unemployment compensation crystallized, at least for a moment, the divide between the two parties in Washington.

Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Republican whip, argued that unemployment benefits dissuade people from job-hunting “because people are being paid even though they’re not working.”

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 said during debate over whether unemployment insurance and other benefits that expired amid GOP objections Sunday should be extended.

“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. If anything, as I said, it’s a disincentive. And the same thing with the COBRA extension and the other extensions here,” said Kyl.

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  • KirbyS

    Hmmm… Only thing missing from Sen Jeff Sessions attire is a Klan hood.

  • pissed off guy

    I hate these idiots. Unemployment benefits are the only thing that is saving alot of people's lives and this rep. idiot blocks it. F*** him.

  • theresajohnson

    That is truly outrageous. Going from 1000.00 biweekly plus bonuses once a month to 275.00 plus a 25.00 stimulus. Get a grip people. Many of us are looking for work just it is kind of hard to get one when there are none available. I make so little on unemployment compared to what i made at my last job. You guys really need to take a good look at the people that are on unemployment before stereotyping us as not trying to get work. many of those that are unemployed have had our check cut down drastically compared to what we were making when we worked that we want back in the workforce. There are many of us that are also now juggling school and jobsearch to try to get a career that can financially support us during an economic crisis of this proportion. Yet our government on capital hill can go to conventions where they are spending 10s of 1000s of dollars on travel expenses and presedential suite hotel stays and are complaining that us people on unemployment are hurting the deficit. If people that are on unemployment were to lose it, many would either be in line for other forms of government aid or even homeless.

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