Reply #9: There is no "gift" involved ...

[NanceGreggs]

Unemployment benefits are just that - a "benefit", bought and paid for, by the people who paid into the pot for years, and have a RIGHT to take from that pot when needed.

By the way, for the record - where the fuck was Bunning's big mouth when W was running up the nation's debt by giving tax-cuts to the wealthy, while waging an unnecessary, unjustifiable - and ridiculously expensive war in Iraq?

Had Bunning been carping about pay-as-you-go when his own Party's president was plundering the nation's treasury, I'd actually respect him for consistency in speaking up now. But such is not the case - as such is never the case when it comes to hypocritical Repubs who believe there's one set of rules for (R)s and a completely different set of rules for (D)s.

Unemployment benefits are not an "entitlement"; they are merely what is due and owing to hard-working Americans - many of whom are now out of work not by choice, but by circumstances created by the fiscal irresponsibility of Republican mis-administrations.

As for "taking the money from something that's not needed to pay for it", I couldn't agree more.

Let's start with Bunning's salary - obviously money poorly spent. There's no return-on-investment here - unless you count being entertained by the antics of a clueless idiot as a worthwhile expenditure.

Besides, we've already got Sarah Palin covering that. No need to pay double for the same If-I-Only-Had-A-Brain rhetoric.