Unemployment Entitlements Stalled: Victory For Fiscal Conservatives
Do you want to shake senator Jim Bunning’s Hand? You should. Thanks to him, millions of dollars have been saved in money that would
Jim Bunning, (R) Kentucky
have otherwise gone to unemployed people simply by virtue of their joblessness. The GOP senator from Kentucky instigated a one man filibuster halting the legislation to extend these entitlements. Not only does the government not legitimately have the authority to hand out money this way, it is completely irresponsible to do so on the federal credit card.
Of course, there were detractors. Illinois Democrat senator Dick Durbin said, “The simple fact of the matter is that this is an emergency situation and should be treated as such.”
Really? How is not handing out free money to people an emergency? The only emergency worth mentioning is that of the ever growing national deficits and debt (Mr. Durbin doesn’t seem to care about that, however). The real emergency for senator Durbin is that he can’t claim to have “helped” people with his unlimited, taxpayer-funded credit line.