Today on CNN, Tom Delay had this to say about the "real reason" for the high unemployment rate:
“There is an argument to be made that these extensions, the unemployment benefits, keep people from going and finding jobs.
In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people stay on unemployment compensation and they don’t look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out."
Candy Crowley asked: “People are unemployed because they want to be?”
Delay responded: “Well, it is the truth. And people in the real world know it.”
Delay is trying to support his argument that unemployment benefits cause laziness or apathy. Hmmm. As one of the "people in the real world", I seriously question that assessment.
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