The current liberal mantra is that an unemployment benefits extension (beyond the current 2 years) is a positive thing for the economy and for prosperity in general because these benefits keep people at subsistence levels, and at that level of income all money received is spent immediately on the basics of life, and this quick expenditure of the slight money they receive is a stimulus for the economy.
If this were true then Haiti and North Korea would be great and powerful nations because everyone in them is living at the poverty level and spends every cent they can get their hands on for food and shelter. A further extension of the Democrat idiocy would be to say that employment is old thinking and that if all Americans were out of work and living on unemployment payments, our nation would prosper as never before because we would all be spending the slight money the government would dole out on food, which, in their lack of logic would assure full employment. Do I have that stupid thinking straight? Does it make any sense? NO!!
Democrats are often people of affluence who are out of touch with what makes an economy prosperous, and they are out to gain favor with their constituents from their give-away programs. These people are self-destructing idiots who don't understand that only when people have excess income that can be invested for their own selfish profit (and does not have to be immediately spent on basic subsistence) can an individual, a family or a nation prosper and have more money than the pittance the government hands out.
Liberal Democrats are fools and must be politically defeated and buried on the "trash-heap of history". Our newly elected legislators must not bargain nor negotiate with these fools. The new legislators won the election and must act like it by taking charge and steam-rolling all legislation proposed by the party of poverty.