Republicans’ Unemployment Shame

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3. Why is 52 weeks the magic number?

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A person is an evil, sub-human being if they want to stop payments after 26 weeks, but they should get a Nobel prize if they want to do exactly the same thing after 52 weeks?

That makes no sense. We should stop polarizing issues like this. We should make proposals for a short-term extension that is combined with job re-training programs and pegged to phase out as the unemployment rate goes down.

But Democrats never do that. What they are proposing is an all-or-nothing-no-strings-attached program that any Republican is going to see as plain old welfare nanny state.

We need to change the debate into something more constructive, something that at least a few Republicans can support.