Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona Unemployment is Paying People For Not Working
I feel bad for Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona. He’s a small government free market guy who keeps showing up for work having to deal with people problems. People need more government handouts. This is the last thing in the world Jon Kyl wants to talk about.
He’s there to do the people’s business not play Santa Claus. Senator Kyl hates Santa Claus and everything he stands for. There is no free lunch in a free market society. Self reliance and individualism is what we stand for not loafing around eating Cheetos on Uncle Sam’s handouts.
Alas, the people’s business these days is the extension of unemployment benefits. Unemployment is stuck around 10% and that equates to too many people to sweep under the rug. So Senator Kyl will have to vote yea and extend these benefits. But he won’t do so without scolding those who need a few bucks to keep themselves alive until the hiring begins again.
Sen. Jon Kyl believes unemployment benefits discourage people from working “because people are being paid even though they’re not working.”
I don’t agree with the senator that an unemployment check is the same as getting paid. Most of that unemployment check goes to pay COBRA premiums. But still Kyl exposes his contempt for the jobless by categorizing them as freeloaders rather than the victims of a Wall Street concocted economic crash that affected the whole world. Why the distain for common folk?
“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,”
Actually, Peter Orszag, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, will tell you that unemployment payments are one of the most effective and immediate forms of fiscal stimulus and they do create or at least sustain jobs.
“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,”
What really pissed me off about what Kyl said is when he referred to the unemployed as “THEM”. This is that condescending contempt for those annoying working class bums who can’t take care of themselves. He dehumanizes real people in distress by using the pronoun THEM. Sort of the way you would refer to the occupants of a leper colony.
I myself am a currently unemployed working peasant. One of the “Them” Senator Kyl talks about. I have the same contemptuous feeling about you Senator Kyl because I believe you had a lot to do with the economic crash we are currently living through.
Why are you a Senator at all Mr. Kyl? I think you’re there to make sure that the free market is free from the pesky recurring distractions of the needs of employees. After all employees are a pain in the ass and their bleating about pay raises and basic benefits is a distraction from the work of maximizing profits.
Well Senator Kyl, I don’t like you either. If my unemployment check is the same as getting paid for doing nothing then what are we to say about your paycheck? Seems like you got me beat in the pay for nothing game. Beat by a mile.
