Perdue’s gotta be kidding
My unemployment benefits — along with those of hundreds of thousands of Georgia’s unemployed workers — are among those that may be cut because of Republican petulance.
The AJC reports that Gov. Sonny Perdue is among the GOP governors who claim to be caught “in a philosophical bind” over accepting money from the stimulus package. Perdue, among others, is perfectly happy to accept the part that builds roads and bails the state out of its Medicaid mess.
But the unemployment portion of the stimulus might actually cause the state to ensure that it’s unemployment insurance program is decent. Here’s a bit of advice for governors whose “philosophical binds” caus them to do something decent for their constituents: Get a new philosophy!
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