Sen. Lindsey Graham spouted off to the Greenville (SC) News about unemployment benefits being too generous in the Coronavirus relief bill and “incentivizing” people not to work.
He either doesn’t know or is spouting pure bullshit to make it sound like people can just decide to quit their jobs and collect unemployment instead of work.
You can’t. You can only collect unemployment if you’re fired or laid off.
It did not go well when the newspaper posted about the story on its Facebook page.
In fact, there isn’t a single positive comment about Graham as people correct Graham’s misinformation about unemployment and say the one-time $1200 payment they could get is not enough to get them through this crisis.
UPDATE: Went back and checked this afternoon. Post had grown from 44 comments to 174.
It did not get better for Graham. I found two people defending him in responding to other comments. Didn’t see anyone posting a supportive comment of their own.
We also had tornadoes move through South Carolina last night. Nine dead in the state. Some homes and businesses destroyed. Lots of trees down.
Wonder if Graham will take a swipe at people again while they’re down.