Scare 'em!

Rush Limbaugh doesn't like Bush's plan to extend unemployment insurance. Here is an excerpt from Limbaugh's website: (our emphasis)

There's nothing that's better than a job, and the longer you pay people not to work and not to go out and get a job, the longer they won't. Fear and need are incredible motivators. What is it that we need to revitalize the economy? More unemployment benefits? No. We need more people working.

According to Rush's "logic", we have unemployment not because there aren't jobs out there, but because people aren't looking hard enough. So much for business incentives, right? Of course it's all B.S, but that's Limbaugh for you. People having a ball on unemployment insurance? Rush implies that folks are insensitive to having higher incomes. By that reasoning, we should soak the rich, 'cause what do they care if they have an additional $100 grand?

But the important point is that for Rush and others who are comfortable, they don't give a rat's ass about people in need.

posted by Quiddity at 12/16/2002 04:11:00 PM