re: #54 cliffster

The benefits have to expire eventually, or they don’t. The wording may have been unfortunate, but the fact is that you have to pick a timespan, or be prepared to have the taxpayers (and indirectly, former employers) pay unemployment indefinitely. This is not sustainable. It’s not a pretty fact, but it’s a fact.

Oh my goodness. Unemployment benefits shouldn’t go on forever, but in economic downturns they get extended by an act of congress because it is harder and takes longer to find work.

Different economic times call for different measures. That shouldn’t be controversial.