unemployment running out -- again

NEW NATIONAL & STATE-BY-STATE ANALYSIS:
WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL ACTION, NEARLY 5
MILLION JOBLESS WORKERS WILL LOSE BENEFITS
BY JUNE


Studies say (Doesn't that sound great? You can say ANY CRAP if preceded by those two words) five million workers will lose unemployment benefits by June if no further extensions.

In other words, these folks are GETTING WELFARE -- only, it has to be voted on by Congress every couple of months.

GOD FORBID we actually call it WELFARE -- that's a dirty word for a lot of these folks. after all, they are the HARD WORKERS, the BACKBONE of American society -- blah, blah, balh, etc. THEY are NOT the "kind of people" who get WELFARE.

We have turned so much of what was once a part of the safety net into evil buzz words that we can't carry on a rational conversation about what is really needed.

Self delusion, the fantasy of radical individualism, the privatization of public functions, demonization of government, have led us to a place where real answers that might insult someone, or attack their ideology cannot be considered.

In the words of Paul Krugman --- "We're doomed."