File This Under D’oh
Via HuffPo:
Three-quarters of registered voters think Congress should forget about the deficit and preserve extended unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for laid-off workers, according to a new poll commissioned by the National Employment Law Project.
Citing deficit concerns, Democrats in both chambers of Congress have said it’s time to start thinking about how to wrap up the extended unemployment benefits put in place to fight the recession. But 74 percent of people surveyed said they agreed with the statement that “it is too early to start cutting back benefits and health coverage for workers who lost their jobs.“
Ya think?
And remember that famous 21% that makes up the Far Right/Tea Party? I found them again…
But only 21 percent of 803 voters surveyed by polling firm Hart Research Associates agreed with this statement: “With the federal deficit over one trillion dollars, it is time for the government to start reducing spending on health care subsidies and unemployment benefits for the unemployed.”
Tags: COBRA, Deficit, Unemployment Benefits
Three-quarters of registered voters think Congress should forget about the deficit and preserve extended unemployment benefits…
And 51% of registered voters will vote against Democrats if their opponent runs ads with a scary voice attacking them for deficit spending.
This current fiscal showboating is crazy. It won’t help Democrats if jobs don’t recover and people don’t care about the deficit. I know they say they do but they’re using “deficit” in place of “economy.” Targeted stimulus is a good thing. The biggest way to improve the deficit numbers is to grow the economy. Financial austerity has to wait until recovery.
They must have taken that poll over and over to find the right wording. The debate is not cutting back existing spending on the unemployed in fact it has been expanded. It is should we spend even more money and not pay for it. The wording of this seems like someone wants to take away what was already promised.
Here is a more accurate portrayal. Unemployment insurance pays for 6 months. Due to the awful economy it has been expanded to a maximum of almost two years. Should it be further expanded even though the deficit exceeds a trillion dollars if the cost is not offset?
A. Yes ignore the deficit.
B. Cut spending and re-prioritize.
C. Raise the unemployment premium to pay for it
D. Cut business taxes instead or give tax credits to hire long term unemployed people.
E. Just stop spending more and more we are broke.
See if you would get a different result
Sane people and most economist agree that being a defcit hawk during a recession is pointing the gun footward. How shocked am I to see David on the wrong side of this issue? Not very. He is as crazy as a bedbug
there,s no such thing as the easter bunny, santa claus and a jobless recovery. simple definition of a depressio; businesses are not hiring because people are not spending, and people are not spending because busunesses are not hiring, and around and around we dance till we all fall down, if your not getting dizzy by now your not paying attention. P.S. the world will end one day after a republican does not recommened cuting business taxes. Good luck to all, we are all going to need it.