Libs couldn’t be any more detached from reality if they tried.
Via Newsbusters:
Friday’s All In with Chris Hayes exhibited host Hayes’s latest example of fuzzy logic as he argued that paying people unemployment benefits, rather than encouraging them to go longer without taking a new job, actually encourages them to “get back to work.”
After applying loaded words and phrases like “unconscionably” and “screwing over millions of people” to Republican opposition to unemployment benefit extension, the MSNBC host played a clip of Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul arguing that unemployment benefits encourage people to remain unemployed longer, and then responded:
Paul is, not to put too fine a point on it, full of it. You only get federal unemployment benefits if you are actively seeking work, and the millions of Americans who are unemployed, they are, by and large, not choosing to be unemployed. Right now, there are almost three unemployed people for every job opening. Long-term unemployment is at its highest level in 30 years. In fact, what congressional Republicans are doing right now is entirely unprecedented.