I heart the WSJ James Taranto. Here via Orange Punch we look at the failure to extend unemployment benefits, and wonder if it is really a setback to jobs.
As I mentioned earlier, it sounds heartless to deny benefits to the unemployed. Yet, I do agree with Taranto and the folks at Orange Punch.Amplify’d from orangepunch.ocregister.com
The Associated Press reported today that the Democrats suffered a set-back on their “jobs agenda.”
Says AP: “The demise of Democrats’ job-agenda legislation means that unemployment benefits will phase out for more than 200,000 people a week.”
Yep. As the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto put it: “Paying people not to work is a ‘jobs agenda’ in the same sense as, per Orwell, ignorance is strength or war is peace.”
And if that’s not Orwellian enough for you, Taranto adds “The failed bill also would have pumped federal money into state governments…”
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