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People want to be unemployed

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Rob Archer
Mar 07, 2010
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Former GOP House Majority Leader Tom Delay says that unemployment benefits keep people from getting a job -- that people are unemployed because they want to be unemployed.

"You know," Delay said, "there is an argument to be made that these extensions, the unemployment benefits keeps people from going and finding jobs. In fact there are some studies that …

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