Absurd: “Unemployment is good for Economy”
February 22, 2012
Valerie Jarret, a White House senior adviser kept a straight face while explaining to a crowd in North Carolina how unemployment welfare checks are good for the economy.
by Daniel Halper
Weekly Standard
February 22, 2012
This evening, speaking at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina, White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said that folks getting and spending unemployment checks is a healthy thing . . . because it stimulates the economy.
“Even though we had a terrible economic crisis three years ago, throughout our country many people were suffering before the last three years, particularly in the black community,” Jarrett said. “And so we need to make sure that we continue to support that important safety net. It not only is good for the family, but it’s good for the economy. People who receive that unemployment check go out and spend it and help stimulate the economy, so that’s healthy as well.”
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