Really. Here’s James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal hoisting Paul Krugman (New York Slimes) with his own petard*. It seems John Kyl asserted that overly-generous unemployment benefits result in disincentives to seek work, an assertion Paul Krugman countered with,
“To me, that’s a bizarre point of view–but then, I don’t live in Mr. Kyl’s universe.”
And, that the Democrats’ view–that generous unemployment benefits are NOT disincentives to seeking further employment–are, “what textbook economics says.”
Taranto then quotes from an economic textbook, “Macroeconomics,” authored by Krugman,
Public policy designed to help workers who lose their jobs can lead to structural unemployment as an unintended side effect. . . . In other countries, particularly in Europe, benefits are more generous and last longer. The drawback to this generosity is that it reduces a worker’s incentive to quickly find a new job. Generous unemployment benefits in some European countries are widely believed to be one of the main causes of “Eurosclerosis,” the persistent high unemployment that affects a number of European countries.
That’s right. Libtards think
- No one will check to see whether they’re liars or not and
- No one cares whether they’re liars or not, anyway.
They might be almost right about the second. We’ll see come November.
Great link, better than reading the comic strips.
I hope they aren’t right about the 2nd.
And major “duh” to the whole extended benefits discussion. If I didn’t have to work to live in the same way I live while I am working… that’s kind of a no brainer. Freakin’ idjits.
“Freakin’ idjits.” Nicole, I think you give them too much credit… *heh*
Curses! Foiled again!
I’ve spent the better part of the last week trying to work the phrase “hoisted with his own petard” into a blog entry. For some reason, I’ve had it on my mind – and yeah, the voices in my head don’t let such things go.
I’m not sure whether it’s scarier that I use such things as the springboard for blog posts or that someone else beat me to this particular punch.
Either way…nice one…and now I have to come up with some other rabbit trail to chase.
Nah. I give thee leave to use it, also.