Let them Eat HoHos

Let them Eat HoHos

by digby

It looks like the Republicans really are helping that lunatic Bunning. And they are letting their aristocratic slips show:

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.

Of course. It’s fair to assume that most people are rolling in all the dough that’s left over from that 400 bucks a week after they’ve paid their COBRA extension. Why should they give up the high life?

I will grant him this much. If you take away unemployment insurance and health care coverage in a time when more than a tenths of the population are looking for work, it will incentivize quite a few of people — to commit crimes. People have to eat.

Maybe someone needs to send Kyl a copy of Les Miserables.

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