best gop myth - 2014 edition

"Unemployment benefits should be extended only after the government can cut other programs to "afford" it!"

bc they don't actually think this

yeah for sure. interesting why a routine vote to extend unemployment insurance is being filibustered and even needs 60 votes in the first place

One of the first two. Getting off your couch to find any job becomes harder when you've taken a significant amount of eoney out of the economy and is also spiteful moralistic nonsensm. The second is just horsefeathers.

five more gems here -- should've waited a while to start this poll

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/07/five-conservative-reforms-millennials-should-be-fighting-for/

The poor and unemployed mainly need a good kick in the ass.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/01/republicans-have-to-hurt-poor-before-loving-them.html

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

So hard to choose.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Cutting unemployment benefits forces the unemployed to get off their couches and bootstrap themselves into good jobs!

If only this same logic was applied to corporate subsidies.

because fuck the poor, that's why

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/06/senate-fails-to-advance-unemployment-bill/comment-page-1/