Michelle Malkin Goes Loony Over Unemployment Benefits (VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/02/michelle-malkin-cynthia-t_n_249520.html
Jason Linkins

Michelle Malkin, Cynthia Tucker Spar Over Unemployment Benefits
(VIDEO)
Updated: 08- 2-09 01:35 PM

Michelle Malkin, for some reason, was invited to be a part of today's
THIS WEEK panel, maybe because she was wandering through the Newseum
or something. Anyway, she took on the issue of unemployment benefits
by saying that "If you put enough government cheese in front of
people, they are just going to keep eating it," which explains why
America has never grown tired of cheap cheese and why it's totally led
to nobody wanting to strive or excel or have a job in the past three
decades.

Malkin went on to say that "smart economists," including Larry Katz,
say that unemployment insurance only prolongs joblessness, and that,
basically, if the jobless started starving to death and dying on the
streets, it would give them the kick in the pants they needed to get a
job again. Everybody just sort of looked at Malkin, like she was
INSANE, and George Stephanopoulos very politely said, "Uhm...I don't
know if I follow that." To which Malkin replied: "BUT IT WAS A CLINTON
ECONOMIST, BLARGLE!" Stephanopoulos was still a bit dumbfounded,
wondering why anyone in their right mind would take unemployment
benefits "when a job was available."

Malkin's counter argument is that, for some reason -- who knows why
really, maybe there was a presidential administration that recorded
epic job losses for a decade maybe, it's a real mystery -- there has
been unemployment insurance for many weeks. And for some reason, they
are going to keep extending it -- as if there was some sort of ongoing
economic crisis or something! And because of that, "people will delay
getting a job until three weeks before the benefits run out."

Finally, Cynthia Tucker kindly points out that...uhm...if there are no
jobs to get, literally no jobs to be had, then it's probably a good
idea to sustain people's lives until such time as there are actual,
real-life job interviews to go on and real-life employers actually
taking resumes and whatnot: "That might be true when there are jobs
out there that are available, but there are very few jobs available at
the moment. So I don't think that people are just using that
unemployment to be lazy, instead of going out and searching for jobs."
Malkin attempts to yammer about incentives, but Tucker shuts that down
by pointing out that when jobs get advertised, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
ATTEMPT TO APPLY FOR THEM, which is a weird way of staying on the
dole, forever.
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