"Scholar: Rand Paul misstated my research on unemployment"

[applegrove]

Scholar: Rand Paul misstated my research on unemployment

By Michael Hiltzik at the LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-rand-paul-20140107,0,6889404.story#axzz2qL0LIZSZ

"SNIP........................................


But Ghayad says Paul's wrong to attribute to his work the further conclusion that the provision of unemployment benefits for longer periods explains the persistence of unemployment, especially long-term unemployment. "Just because companies discriminate against the long-term unemployed doesn't mean long-term benefits are to blame," Ghayad wrote in the Atlantic. "Paul might know that if he read beyond the first line of my paper's abstract."

The first line of the abstract reads, "Many analyses (point) to extended unemployment benefits as a reason" for persistent unemployment." The second line reads: "However, other explanations have also been proposed for this shift, including worsening structural unemployment."

The dispute is important because the idea that unemployment benefits foster unemployment is a key argument raised by conservatives against the extension of the benefits. The Senate approved a three-month extension Tuesday for 1.3 million Americans whose benefits ran out on New Year's Eve. But the extension faces stiff opposition in the GOP-controlled House.

In his essay, Paul doesn't cite any evidence for the notion that unemployment benefits encourage joblessness. In fact, he's expressed that viewpoint so often that he doesn't even mention it explicitly in the piece, beyond a generalized swipe at "well-intentioned, big-hearted, but small-brained responses to real problems." It's treated as a given.



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[Scuba]

1. Plagarism is lazy. Paul plagarizes in a lazy manner. Why is this lazy guy getting gov't money???

[Blue Owl]

2. He's so much more than a plagiarizer

Isn't he now.

[applegrove]

3. He's a liar.

[El_Johns]

6. +1

[COLGATE4]

4. No surprise there. Rand Paul

misrepresents his medical credentials by holding himself out to be a Board Certified Opthalmologist. (His 'certification' is from a 'Board' he himself created).

[Recursion]

5. There was a movie critic once, who reviewed some awful movie

Like, Dumb and Dumberer, or something like that, and absolutely panned it. Said it was a waste of the actors' talents, the script was awful, the direction non-existent, etc. He did concede, "a couple of moments were genuinely funny, but...".

When the movie's trailer hit the theaters, it included the blurb "Genuinely funny", citing him.

[Cha]

7. But, Lying And Plagiarism Works for Rand Paul according to Rand Paul..

More Evidence Emerges of Plagiarism in Rand Paul's Work

[applegrove]

8. Good finds Cha.

[Cha]

9. And, thank you for your OP, applegrove!

[davidpdx]

10. When you simply read the abstract of a study it won't give you enough information to understand

a study. How the guy became a doctor I'll never know.

[Gothmog]

11. Rand Paul is an idiot

Rand Paul really thinks that he is smart which is really sad