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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Employees don't pay squat
	Date:	11/13/2009 5:05:04 PM

for regular unemployment insurance. That is a burden placed directly on the employers. However, the extended benefits are being paid by the federal government out of taxes paid (well, actually out of future taxes paid because we have a $1.2 trillion deficit) so in a way they will be contributing assuming they will pay federal taxes (which 46% of working folks do not). No one wants them to starve but I agree that some are holding out for a job making the same amount they did before being laid off rather than taking a lower paid position. I have also seen a number of recent articles about people that maintained their same lifestyle assuming they would find something sooner and are now panicking. I have a few friends that are in this boat and it is devastating as the end of the line comes closer.

The better answer of course would be policies that would result in job creation but instead we are getting porkulus plans that mostly protect government jobs and creates very few private sector jobs and higher taxes being proposed in the health care plan. None of these will or are even intended to reduce unemployment in the private sector.