Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH): Extending unemployment insurance is a "disincentive" for people to get a job

http://gregg.senate.gov/public/



An extension to unemployment benefits is shaping up to be the central fight when this bill makes it to the Senate floor. The committee extends unemployment payments for 13 weeks for those whose benefits have run out, with 26 more weeks available in states with a 6.5 percent unemployment rate. Only four states qualify for this extra assistance: Alaska, Michigan, Mississippi and South Carolina. Grassley said he was willing to go along with the measure if it meant increasing households eligible for the rebates.

Republicans are vowing to fight this measure, pointing to a private-sector analysis that shows jobs grew in January 2008. Sen Gregg, R-N.H., railed against the need for the extension, saying it could actually have the reverse effect of what's intended in a stimulus bill.

"To extend unemployment insurance by a year, in areas where you have full employment, you give a disincentive for people to go out and get a job," Gregg said. His own state's unemployment rate is well below the national average, at 3.6 percent

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326928,00.html

Unemployment compensation is barely enough to keep you from starving. Nobody would put off looking for a job just to get that pittance.

and have at least some benefits.

What a clown.

by close to $100 per week. Too bad neither of those amounts is gonna keep the roof over our head. :(

Oh, Judd's on top, all right. He can't conceive of being under anyone else heel. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. He's just not that big, even after 30 years of sucking up to Reagan, Bush and Shrub.

Not to mention unemployment.

More B.S. "incentive" economics claptrap.

I hope we can get rid of this asswipe at some point.

and he can suck it up being unemployed

:grr:

Ya just wanna strip some of these asshats of their identities and see if they like life in the real world.

Judd "The Dudd" Gregg was the fellow helped by the NH GOTV
phone-jamming scandal.

Tesha

Apparently he doesn't understand that most people would rather work. That people have a sense of pride about making a living (or at least, a wage, for the time being). That most people who lose their jobs don't suddenly say, "Woo hoo! Now I can live off Uncle Sam!"

I work with people who are unable to work because of an on-the-job injury. Yes, they get time-loss payments (about 60% of their working wage), but I know first hand that the largest percentage of those people want to get back to work.

Losing a job, or not being able to work for awhile because of an injury, has a ripple effect in one's life. However, I doubt Senator Asshat will ever understand that.

you could quit a job and that afternoon you could get another. they`d hire you on the spot so if you wanted to work that day just dress for the job. those days are gone forever. 13 more weeks is 13 more weeks of food and gas to look for a job that does`t exist....

about 6 months to get a job assuming the person tried very hard. It probably takes longer now.

...18 months here in New Hampshire (he is well over 50). Did I mention that he is one of those we hear so much about who is not well educated? He just has two degrees in math and 25 plus years in IT. He didn't confine his search to just this area either.

better educated. Oh, and the job I got was just awful -- low pay for my education and responsibility and a very, very bad workplace, not in terms of the superficial, but in terms of really important things. I could not tell you how bad it was. I quit many months ago and my boss still owes me money. So the job you get over 50-60 is usually not very desirable.

and contraception causes pregnancy. So he says he that in areas where there is "full employment" there is some chance for the unemployed to find a job? Oh, well, no reason to think that anyone who earns an "R" for affiliation is sane.

he'll be filing for unemployment in two years...

The only question is will we get Senator Lynch, Senator Shea-Porter, or Senator Hodes.

They leave government service to begin earning the
bribes that were saved up salaries to which their
deep knowledge of government operations entitles
them.

Judd will do just fine.

Tesha

Where is this magical freaking land?

Roughly, unempolyment numbers only count people
receiving unemployment compensation. So if we
completely ended unemployment compensation, that
would end "unemployment" as well!

Life in Republican la-la land has these funny
quirks, you know?

Tesha

So I can exert control over the lives of others and turn my holier-than-thou ideology into law - while making the claim that I'm serving the people.

sorry for yelling. Things are pretty dire here in Michigan.

just living in the lap of luxury on those unemployment benefits!

in New Hampshire. He whined at the time he was tossing the widow out, about how he needed the money. Let there be no doubt about Jughead Gregg: he is a Complete Republicon Homelander brimming with Konservative Kompassion.

I was almost physically ill. He's the stereotypical Republican - "I'm fine, too bad about you."