In 2001, the liberal British economist Dr. Richard Layard wrote: There is ample evidence that unemployment (and employment) is affected by how the unemployed are treated. Other things equal, countries that offer unemployment benefits of long duration have more unemployment (and less employment). This is because employment depends on the effective supply of labour. Layard wrote those wordst fully seven years before Congress passed the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008. The new law dramatically extended the duration of unemployment benefits, from (typically) 26 weeks to as much as 39 weeks. Democrats controlled both houses of Congress in 2008. Then came the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama's famous “stimulus bill,” that further extended the duration of unemployment benefits, so that by the end of 2013 the typical duration of unemployment benefits was 99 weeks. Further, the ARRA...(Read Full Article)