I gotta say, cutting off unemployment benefits, in the depth of winter, is hard. For a guy out of work, loosing benefits is a disaster. I have to feel for them.
On the other hand, some of the justifications for extending benefits are malarkey. Paying unemployment benefits does little or nothing to grow the economy. If you are unemployed, you don't buy stuff. You use your unemployment benefits to pay a little on the rent, pay a little on the utility bills, pay for heating oil, pay for gasoline. You get on food stamps to buy groceries. You don't buy anything (clothes, appliances, houses, cars, cable TV, Netflix, etc) that you don't absolutely have to have to stay alive.
So the Republicans ought to come around and extend unemployment benefits. But, it's perfectly reasonable to take money to pay for them out of the mountain of pork in the federal budget.
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