Sen. Rand Paul: Extending Unemployment Benefits Would Be Disservice to Jobless

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Sen. Rand Paul: Extending Unemployment Benefits Would Be Disservice to Jobless

By Daniel Politi at Slate

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/12/08/rand_paul_extending_unemployment_benefits_is_bad_for_workers.html

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President Obama’s push to extend unemployment benefits set to expire for 1.3 million workers on Dec. 28 is a bad idea because it would end up hurting those it purports to help, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky told Fox News Sunday. Although Paul took pains to emphasize that “I support unemployment benefits for the 28 weeks they’re paid for” he added that he wouldn’t agree to extend them any further.

"While it seems good, it actually does a disservice to the people you're trying to help," Paul said, adding that employers prefer to hire workers who have been on unemployment for a shorter period of time. "You're causing them to become part of this perpetual unemployed group in our economy."

Whether to extend benefits has become a key part of discussions on the 2014 budget bill that lawmakers have to pass by Jan. 15. Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin suggested Sunday that the issue would likely not be a deal-breaker. "I don't think we've reached that point where we say this is it, take it or leave it," Durbin told ABC News, emphasizing that he hoped the extension would be a part of negotiations, according to the

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1. The most effective way to destroy people is to obliterate their own understanding of their history.

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

― George Orwell

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2. Fraud doctor

Fraud human being.

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3. Just as giving food to the starving is a disservice to the starving people

and giving the homeless a place to stay is a disservice to the homeless. Yeah, right! I got it now. Does that also mean giving more money to the rich is a disservice to the rich?

I hate these rethugs.

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5. Keeping Paul on the government payroll is a disservice to this country.

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6. "We owe it to them to let them die"

God, what a fucking knob!