Caninope wrote:Obamacult wrote:In sum, the free market isn't perfect -- but part of its strength is that it is dynamic and always competitive -- hence resources can move from heretofore unproductive and passe uses to emerging resources that heretofore were lacking.
Unemployment insurance actually helps create a competitive labor market by lowering the transaction costs of moving from one job to another.
UI creates artificial inducements to enable moves from one market to the other. Hence, any economically rational reallocation from one sector of the economy to the other is based, not on economic reality or sustainability, but what some politician or bureaucrat thinks is beneficial.....
or more likely, how many votes the politician who sponsors the bill thinks the legislation will buy him.
IN sum, an economy run by politicians for politic motives has been demonstrated overtime to be far less effective than an economy run by economic realities.