The stock market’s up, record Black Friday sales, record Cyber Monday sales, oh come all yea faithful, it’s that time of year again when we start attacking the poor and unemployed for being poor and unemployed. How many of you out there know that if we stopped sending unemployment checks unemployment would end immediately? No, it is true. You see if we stop sending the checks and kicked all the unemployed off of the unemployment rolls, the unemployment rate would go to zero, because the unemployment number is calculated by using the number of unemployed receiving unemployment benefits.
The neo-cons are now pushing to stop any renewal of federal unemployment benefits; hence all unemployment would stop at 27 weeks. And then they can come on FOX News and say the economy has been renewed and of course as previously mentioned, they will have the numbers to support their claim.
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