Republicans New Welfare Queens: The Unemployed
For years unemployment has worked wonderfully. That was until the Great Recession, where deregulation and Wall Street excesses tanked the U.S. and global economies.
The economic shock saw U.S. employers shed nearly 8 million American workers. A horrified uncertain public panicked, first voting in Democrats who didn’t act fast enough, and later the repentant Republicans who caused this mess.
Big mistake. Republicans have always thought of the unemployed as something akin to the welfare queens of the past, sitting on fat weekly checks, talking on cell phones and buying plasma TV’s.
