Don't rob workers to pay unemployed freeloaders

Lifestyles
Feb 25, 2010
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I read your Feb. 11 editorial, “Out-of-work Ohioans need Congress to act” with frank shock. The first third of your piece quotes facts from the Heritage Foundation. There was no disputing of the fact that simple human nature is that if you can get something for nothing, then we do.

The revulsion began with the second half of the piece — the open appeal for the looting of the hard-won wages of those of us who are willing to work. It may seem generous for your newspaper to urge Congress to give away more money, but (no big secret) there is no more money.

It would take a Haiti Benefit every day for the next 150 years just to raise enough money for the president’s budget for this year. Congress doesn’t make money... we do.

The only way to get more is to confiscate it from those who are working and to give it to (by your figures) the 130,000 freeloading Buckeyes (the one-third of the 400,000 unemployed you mention) who will go to work once the handout stops.

The defense that this looting is stimulating the economy denies that rightful earners of the money would spend the money just as well as the those who sit around waiting for benefits to run out.

John Bailey

Lebanon

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