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President Obama wants to extend unemployment benefits for at least a million Americans, in spite of the fact that four million jobs are actually available at this time. But who can blame our president--he just wants to give a helping hand to those Americans who are too incapacitated to work.
Wait. . . this just in: these unemployed people are actually able-bodied men and women who have grown accustomed to staying home studying law via Judge Judy, and social science, via As the World Turns. Some of these unemployed are going so far as to study medicine via General Hospital. And like the soap operas and Judge Judy shows, the benefits seem to go on and on, having no end in sight.
When you pay people to stay home, they tend to stay home. When unemployment poses no emergency, they have no incentive to get off their duff and look for work, or even when they do, the jobs they interview for aren't exactly what they're looking for, so they keep looking. They become very selective.
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When you pay people to stay home, they tend to stay home. When unemployment poses no emergency, they have no incentive to get off their duff and look for work, or even when they do, the jobs they interview for aren't exactly what they're looking for, so they keep looking. They become very selective.
