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1.7 million government employees are facing the axe

OK, that's not exactly the headline the major news outlets are running with.

Those mean old Republicans! Trying to force us to live with our means. How dare they!

Now remember, these are extended unemployment benefits, above and beyond what state unemployment insurance covers. In most states the current cutoff is 99 weeks. That's 5 weeks shy of two years. I know plenty of people whose last "real" job didn't last that long.

So if you're one of the 1.7 million folks who've been collecting "unemployment" for 99 weeks already, you're an employee. Of the federal government. Your job is to fill out a form once a week. Then they pay you. (Which is probably about as much work as the average full-time federal bureaucrat does in a week, for significantly more money. If I was you, I'd demand a raise!)

The Democrats want to keep paying you. That way you'll think of them when you head into the voting booth this fall. You're not likely to vote against the guy who writes your checks, right? If Harry Reid and his henchmen lose their government jobs, you could lose your government "job" too.

Unfortunately they've been paying you with borrowed money. And not just any borrowed money, it's money they borrowed from your grandchildren. And their grandchildren too.

And if they keep borrowing like that, we're doomed.

The only way to forestall these dire predictions is to grow our economy. Really grow our economy. Keynesian "stimulus" won't do the trick. Only private sector growth can rescue us from turning into the Weimar States of America.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you were trying to kill private sector growth, you couldn't do much better than the Obama Administration has done. So yeah, we're doomed.

He'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please.

Posted at 15:49 by Chris Wysocki   [/democrats]   Comments | Archived | Perm Link |
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