Senator Kyl,

trying to dig himself out of the hole he is in, calls unemployment insurance a "necessary evil," but of course says nothing about the tax cuts for the filthy rich being BOTH unnecessary AND evil:

Most economists, including Mark Zandi, a former adviser to Kyl's homestate GOP colleague John McCain, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, say that spending on unemployment insurance stimulates the economy because the jobless spend nearly the entire check. The wealthy, meanwhile, save most of the money they receive from tax cuts, spend it on luxury goods or send it offshore.

Zandi might as well have saved his breath. Who needs facts when you are a slave to neoliberal ideology?