YES! No one would work if they can get paid not to.
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NO! That's just a Republican talking point used to justify benefit cuts.
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
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Mueller's favorite place to pray (written about in "Prophet's Way"), and the roof of the room where the Last Supper is reputed to have happened.
From Cracking the Code:
"No one communicates more thoughtfully or effectively on the radio airwaves than Thom Hartmann. He gets inside the arguments and helps people to think them through—to understand how to respond when they’re talking about public issues with coworkers, neighbors, and friends. This book explores some of the key perspectives behind his approach, teaching us not just how to find the facts, but to talk about what they mean in a way that people will hear."
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"If you wonder why and when giant corporations got the power to reign supreme over us, here’s the story."
From Screwed:
"Thom Hartmann’s book explains in simple language and with concrete research the details of the Neo-con’s war against the American middle class. It proves what many have intuited and serves to remind us that without a healthy, employed, and vital middle class, America is no more than the richest Third World country on the planet."
It’s cheaper for society on the whole to pay the Unemployment benefits, rather than paying the myriad of costs that society would incur as a consequence of People being completely up-ended as a result of their job loss.
Believe it or not, it pays to occasionally tend to your country’s greatest assets – its People. But it is more profitable for corporations if their work force is made desperate to do anything at any wage because the alternative is sleeping out in the ditch and stealing to feed your kids. And that speaks in a manner to the problem of under employment – under employment means your economy is not maximally productive. Just like when your Government invests most of its resources in Corporations that don’t really return to American Society what the People who work in live in America return to American Society.
Also, this is a America! EVERYTHING has to do with who can consume in the most enviable fashion! When was the last time you met somebody new and you weren't asked to the effect "So, where do you work?" or "So, what do you do for a living?" Unemployment in America connotes an air of being somehow personally defective. Nobody wants that. But then again, Republicans, and increasingly Democrats, are so stupid they'd fuck up a wet dream (can I say that out here?)
When I found myself unexpectly without an income I was comforted to know that my unemployment benefits would get me by till I could find another job, its not a handout its a handup, unlike the subsidies that many profitable corporations receive from the government, all at the tax payers expense. FOX/GOP and its echo chamber are loud and repetitive and that has brainwashed the low informed. We have to fight not only money which gives them power we have to fight propaganda which makes them that much more stronger. How did America get so uneductated?
Unemployment benefits are insurance paid for by the workers themselves, not by Republican scumbag plutocrats.
Roland
Unemployment benefits allow workers to hope to continue earning a decent wage. That is what bothers the Repugs, whose goal is to take us back to the 1880s (if not the eighth century) when folks would grovel for the chance to work for a daily crust of bread.
Roland