Before I’d cut any check, I’d want an accounting for the expenditures that led up to this shortfall? Also, it wouldn’t be a bail out. It’d be a weekly sum that would just tide loose ends for these people listed. What ever mindset regarding expenditures got NJ into this financial problem, wouldn’t be fed with federal money.
Oh you want to talk about deliberately hampering the recovery? Let’s talk about the Democrats hero act that would pay about 75% of the unemployed more than they can make working.
Facing a for real Depression, let us let several States go bankrupt and stand in the way of programs that would put money into the hands of people who would immediately spend it into the economy.
We are looking at a full blown Depression. This isn’t going to be a V shaped recovery. This idea that there are some people that may make bank on Unemployment doesn’t do anything to negate the fact that what the economy needs to recover faster is people spending money into it.
Fastest way to get money into the economy is to give it to the people who will immediately spend it.
Don’t worry… the rich people will still get it in the end.
Then you wouldn’t part of the group being paid more to stay home than you can make working. And why should I pay you if you can’t get hired making as much as you were before anyway? It’s beneath you to work for less but not to take money from your neighbors?