Republicans really don't care about the costs of extending unemployment benefits. All of their actions suggest they are willing to jack up the deficit to benefit their base. The reason they hate unemployment is their belief that people on unemployment are lazy. Unfortunately many in their base have had to accept unemployment benefits and they really appreciate the assistance while hating the fact that they need to accept unemployment. This reality leads to polls favoring an extension of the unemployment benefits, which is again not good for Republicans.
Given that Republicans believe those on unemployment are lazy and polls don't really matter to them, I say they take this opportunity to draw a line in the sand. If Republicans truly believed their own rhetoric, they would let the unemployment benefits lapse and people will have no choice but to return to work. Since getting a job is solely based on the want to work according the Republicans, we should see an immediate drop in the unemployment rate shortly after the benefits run out. With all of the extra tax revenue these newly employed would generate, we could afford to rehire many of the laid off police officers and spend extra money on correctional facilities. This will be necessary since apparently even lazy people need to feed their families and apparently being too lazy to work doesn't make you too lazy to become a criminal.
I know what your thinking, this sounds too good to be true. This is practically the Utopian society that you as a Republican have always dreamed of. Republicans, being the only people willing to pull themselves up by their boot straps will find jobs and prosper and Democrats, all being lazy, will expose themselves as the criminals they really are and spend the rest of their lives behind bars. Now if only the Republicans in DC had the balls to back their own beliefs. If only.
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