Senator Bunning Stops Unemployment Extension: Roseanne Frangione

It's often been said that Americans are lazy. Is the reason so many people are collecting unemployment checks because there are truly not jobs to be found or is it because they are simply waiting for the government to “save them? A quick click on the St. Petersburg Times website found over two hundred jobs available, and that was just for the first category listed. History tells us that employment was higher in the early 1980's and unemployment benefits were extended to a maximum of fifty-five weeks. Unemployed people now can get up to ninety-nine weeks of extended benefits!

I applaud the Senator from Kentucky who stood up to the free pass that Senate was about to hand out and bravely asked how it would be paid for enormous bill it would incur. I firmly believe that if unemployment checks were cut off after fifty five weeks, a lot more people would be job hunting instead of sitting home watching “Oprah.”

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