Sharron Angle, the Nevada GOP’s candidate for Senate, is arguing that the government should cut unemployment benefits to get the jobless back to work. Angle has
“„What has happened is the system of entitlement has caused us to have a spoilage with our ability to go out and get a job. … There are some jobs out there that are available. Because they have to enter at a lower grade and they cannot keep their unemployment, they have to make a choice now.
“„We’re making them make a choice between unemployment benefits and going back to work and working up through the ranks of that job and actually building up a good wage again. …
“„What we need to do is make that unemployment benefit go down, not just completely remove the safety net from them while they go out and go to work.