Extending unemployment benefits will encourage people not to look for work, says Michelle Malkin.
The writer and columnist told a roundtable panel on ABC’s This Week that “there are a lot of these smart economists who say that if you keep extending these temporary unemployment benefits, you’re just going to extend joblessness even more.”
The total number of jobs in the United States continues to decrease. A report in the New York Times states that as many as 1.5 million Americans will lose their unemployment benefits in the coming months.
But Malkin says that if US unemployment benefits — already extended to 79 weeks — were extended another 13 weeks, as is being proposed, it would mean only that people would re-enter the workforce later.
“What happens is … people will just delay getting a job until three weeks before the [benefits] run out,” she said.
“If you put enough government cheese in front of people, they’re just going to keep eating it and you’re just kicking the can down the road,” Malkin said.
She ran into some opposition from ABC’s reporters at the table, who disagreed with the notion that only laziness is preventing people from finding work. Host George Stephanopoulos wondered what kind of reasoning would be needed to “choose unemployment benefits when a job is available.”
“There are very few jobs available at the moment, so I don’t think people are just using that unemployment to be lazy,” said ABC’s Cynthia Tucker.
“When businesses advertise the few jobs openings they have, they’ll advertise 20 openings, they’ll have 6,000 applicants.”
Malkin also took one on the chin from Bill Maher on Friday night. On his HBO show Real Time, Maher brought out a copy of Malkin’s new book, Culture of Corruption, about the first six months of the Obama administration.
“Six months in office and already we can make this judgment?” he asked, to audience laughter. (The Video)
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What a total clueless SKANK! Say you dumb bitch a company announces a job opening and their are people lined up around the block hoping to get a minimum wage job should give you a fucking clue. Also you ignorant slut unemployment is a fraction of what you were earning! I tell you what during the .com bomb I worked 6 months in three years, I didn't sit on my ass, I busted my fucking ass off looking for work. So someone who used to make six figures is going to sit on their ass because they now get $3-$400 a week?
God the cluelessness of these talking heads like this bitch who is only Parroting what she is told is truely amazing! 
