White House Thinks Unemployment Creates Jobs

Dispatches recommended by Mike Shedlock:

“Real Clear Politics notes Unemployment Benefits Could Create Up To 1 Million Jobs”

“I understand why extending unemployment insurance provides relief to people who need it, but how does that create jobs,” Wall Street Journal’s Laura Meckler asked Jay Carney at Wednesday’s WH briefing.

Carney responded: “Oh, uh, it is by, uh, I would expect a reporter from the Wall Street Journal would know this as part of the entrance exam.”

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