Ill Take the Job
Reportedly the U.S. Federal budget deal worked out this week does not include an extension of the federal long-term unemployment benefit.
If that provision is not adopted there could be 1.3 million workers, former workers and benefit recipients with an additional reason to look for and accept work when their 40 to 73 weeks of unemployment checks come to an end at the start of the new year.
The Administration’s repeated calls for an extension of these benefits did not sit well with Sen. Paul (R-KY) who told Fox News that allowing the unemployed to continue getting benefits in the long-term is “a disservice.”
“When you allow people to be on unemployment insurance for 99 weeks, you’re causing them to become part of this perpetual unemployed group in our economy,” he said. Paul then went further suggesting if the unemployed stopped receiving benefits sooner, they would be back to work sooner.
The above comments won the Senator the following from a column in the Washington Post. “The year’s not over, but it’s not too early to declare the hands-down winner of this year’s Scrooge award: Sen. Rand Paul.”