I love it when one wingnut quotes another wingnut as an expert on all things godly. That'd be you saints! 'Cause starving people is just so Christiany.
WSJ's Freeman Praises NC Gov For 'Politically Courageous' Cuts To Unemployment Benefits
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
From this Saturday's the Journal Editorial Report on Faux "news," the Wall Street Journal's James Freeman heaped praise on the "politically courageous" North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and repeated the latest laundry list of Republican lies talking points on extending unemployment benefits.
FREEMAN: Paul, this is a hit to North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and the members of the legislature there, who last summer, last year I should say, took the politically courageous step of cutting unemployment benefits, reducing them.
Now, this makes them look very hard-hearted. They took a lot of grief in the media, but the results are in. More jobs, in fact, North Carolina's really one of the country's job creation stars since then and it's for a lot of reasons, including, heavy taxes have to pay for these benefits and these benefits discourage people from seeking work. So, good for them.
Not exactly. Here's more on that from Think Progress:
In fact, the very sources the governor’s office cite for evidence all make a case in favor of continuing benefits: Unemployment insurance is a strong incentive to find work, since recipients must actively search for a job in order to collect. But the opposite scenario is now happening in North Carolina: The unemployment rate has fallen a percentage point, but that likely has a lot to do with people dropping out of the labor force. As the length of benefits shortened from 99 weeks to 19, 170,000 people lost federal benefits and others saw their weekly checks fall by nearly $200. In the wake of that change, the state has seen its labor participation shrink to a 37-year low: [...]
After Congress failed to extend long-term unemployment insurance, the rest of the country’s unemployed have joined North Carolina. More than 1 million people who have been out of work longer than six months have lost compensation, and Florida, South Carolina, Missouri, Georgia, Michigan, and North Carolina now provide fewer than 26 weeks of benefits. There has been an immediate impact on the economy, with state economies losing $400 million in a single week.
North Carolina’s failed experiment hasn’t prevented Republicans from highlighting the policy as a success. A Republican memo instructed lawmakers to spin it as a proof that ending the program can help the unemployed. But the memo merely asks Republicans to look compassionate while promoting policies that add more obstacles to finding work. http://crooksandliars.com/2014/02/wsjs-freeman-praises-nc-gov-politically
Here's one Republican plan to reduce health care costs
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, a former Replican member of Congress, has a plan to reduce health care costs: Changing federal law to allow hospitals to turn people away from emergency rooms.
“If they really want to get serious about lowering the cost of health care in this country, they would revisit another federal statute that has been there for a long time,” Deal told a crowd of dozens at a University of Georgia political science alumni gathering. “It came as a result of bad facts, and we have a saying that bad facts make bad law.”
There's no question that in many situations, emergency rooms are an extremely inefficient way of delivering care, but the problem hasn't been that ERs are open to anyone, it's been that there haven't been other options. And Deal, who not only has refused to expand Medicaid in Georgia but also wants to repeal Obamacare, is staunchly opposed to providing those other options. In Deal's dream world, he'd kick lower-income people off Medicaid, force people in the individual insurance market to go back to junk coverage, and erect moats around hospital emergency rooms. But he's against Obamacare, because Sarah Palin once said something about death panels. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/26/1280551/-Here-s-one-Republican-plan-to-reduce-health-care-costs
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