According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, in 2011 the federal government overpaid 14 billion dollars ($14,000,000,000!) in unemployment benefits – 11% of total benefits for the year.

We are not humored.  We served in various executive capacities at DoL-ETA in the early 80s and dealt with the same rate of unearned largesse, a problem still not remedied.  Worse is that Unemployment Insurance is emblematic of all federal support programs; all are astonishingly inefficient.

Yet our Progressive friends still labor to find a single federal program where savings can be made.