Congress And The Unemployed.

       There seems to be a continuing effort in Congress to eliminate long term payments of unemployment compensation benefits. The reasons vary but mostly suggest that those on unemployment for extended periods become complacent and wind up as part of the permanent welfare class. One thing that's true is that the longer someone is unemployed, the harder it becomes to get that person rehired. Companies prefer recently working to long term unemployed applicants.
       On the other hand, there doesn't seem to be the will in Congress to get these folks retrained in any other field. Congress doesn't seem to want to spend money on these poor folks in their unemployment to feed them or to teach them how to do any job. I think the idea is that these folks should just get out of bed and go to work. It's just that nobody has figured out where these folks should go to find the jobs. I guess that these Congressmen figure they found jobs so these unemployed folks should go out and get a job too.
       Well, one suggestion would be to go out and campaign for the jobs the current crop of Congressmen have. What they lack in experience might serve them well in Washington and serve the country well too. Now I don't mean to suggest our current crop in Washington aren't doing their jobs properly. It's just that the current crop isn't doing their job at all, mostly.
       There's an old saying "spare the rod, spoil the child." You could easily point out that somewhere along the line, these folks in Washington apparently never felt the rod. I think the best experience our current crop could undergo would be to find themselves unemployed. Even long term unemployed. Although I know of one previous Senator from Pennsylvania who doesn't seem to have learned anything. But that might not be the fault of the unemployment experience.
       The downside to this idea is that most of this current crop are lawyers. I see no value in turning these folk loose on an unsuspecting clientele. Can you imagine hiring one of these lawyers to represent you in a law suit? It might never come to trial.