Wait a minute. Wait a god damned minute. Are you saying we shouldn't have helped these folks who would have otherwise been on breadlines , as many were, when their jobs suddenly disappeared from under them. Because despite there being no jobs, your conviction that they must be a lazy bunch of bums should be enough to disqualify them from getting our help when their jobs suddenly disappeared. Yikes.
That's a more reasonable position. But I can also see the good sense and benefits to come from bumping the the lowest wage folks up to a living wage and from holding the line on higher paid laid-off workers who will nevertheless struggle to squeak by on what seems to others to be overly generous, government payments. I hope the intention was not to keep everyone treading water, but rather to leave those previously living on credit at least not worse off then they were before they lost their jobs. I am not an enthusiastic advocate of wages below what it takes to just get by, leaving one with only one alternative, namely to rely on subsidies of some kind.
