...and fat on the free Government cheese, says Michelle Malkin.
"If you put enough government cheese in front of people, they are just going to keep eating it and you're just kicking the can down the road. And just to hammer this point about the unemployment benefits extension again, it was Larry Katz, who's a chief labor economist for the Clinton labor department, who came out with a study -- and there are a lot of these smart economists who say this -- that if you keep extending these 'temporary' unemployment benefits you're just going to extend joblessness even more."
Dr. Katz actually thinks unemployment benefits should be extended. In the NY Times:
For every job that becomes available, about six people are looking, Dr. Katz said. “Unemployment insurance gives income to families who are really suffering and can’t find work even if they are hustling to look,” he said.
It is too easy to say I'm offended by Malkin or that I'm disappointed and amazed that This Week would give her a seat at the round-table, even if it was their vacation edition. Growing up poor in Washington Heights we ate a lot of government cheese. It is one step above a Wish Sandwich. Not a meal went by where I didn't wish I had eggs or meat to go with that cheese. The American unemployed are not lazy, they are suffering the effects of 8 years of Bush economic mismanagement and there aren't enough jobs to go around.
The science behind Global Warming is irrefutable which I suppose explains why it comes as no surprise that the Bush Administration hid 1000s of satellite images that clearly show the tragic environmental impact. No WMDs, Global Warming is real, you get the picture?
The Obama administration has released those photos which can be viewed here, you be the judge.
Environmental impact aside the social and political impact of Global Warming is already changing the face of our world and impacting its citizens, no matter how resistance the religious and uninterested right-wing of American politics is.
The fifth annual Failed States Index—a collaboration between The Fund for Peace, an independent research organization, and Foreign Policy Magazine details the specific impact in their last section, appropriately titled The Last Straw. It is worth a complete read.
In 2007, the London-based NGO International Alert compiled a list of countries with a high risk of armed conflict due to climate change. They cited no fewer than 46 countries, or one in every four, including some of the world's most gravely unstable countries, such as Somalia, Nigeria, Iran, Colombia, Bolivia, Israel, Indonesia, Bosnia, Algeria, and Peru. Already, climate change might be behind the deep drought that contributed to the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan and hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Yea right. The tea-party movement has got your post racial America right here.
