Today's Political Rant

For some reason — groping for an excuse not to care, I guess — a lot of people think that if you're unemployed and collecting unemployment payments, you're a lazy, shiftless sponger who doesn't want to work. In fact, the ratio of open jobs to those trying to find one is around 1:3…and to collect anything in the way of that kind of government assistance, you have to show that you've been trying to find employment.

Still, tomorrow 1.3 million long-term unemployed will lose the meager payments that have been keeping them in food and shelter. You'd think Washington would wait until the Christmas decorations were down to do this to people. I wonder how many folks in Congress think that's a much less important matter than lowering taxes for the owners of Walmart.