Federal Unemployment Benefits Decline, Biden's Infrastructure Gaff, Olympic Activist-Athlete Troubles

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Jim and guest host Chad Benson celebrate the end of federal unemployment benefits in some states which is nudging unemployed Americans to return to work. They also say "I told you so" as Biden threatens to veto a bipartisan infrastructure bill if a far-left bill is not also passed using reconciliation. Lastly, the marvel at an Olympic athlete's refusal to be reverent during the playing of the national anthem... at an event dedicated to representing your country.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 3 Martini lunch.
0:05.2	Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbas of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:11.0	3 Martinis coming up.
0:14.4	Happy, happy, happy, beautiful Monday to you.
0:16.9	I hope everybody is well and Chad Benson in for Greg Corumbas.
0:20.9	Of course, Jim Garrity, National Review is here as he always is.
0:24.1	Hope all as well with him got a lot of stuff to get to.
0:27.1	Jim and first.
0:29.0	It may be working.
0:30.0	Apparently, if you tell people they're not going to get paid, they're going to be forced
0:33.3	to go get a job and get paid.
0:35.1	Yeah.
0:36.1	That was the conclusion of a lead story in the Wall Street Journal this past weekend.
0:39.8	Now, it is worth noting the New York Times has one saying, no, it's not the case.
0:43.8	I don't know if I was deliberately in response to the Wall Street Journal article and they're
0:48.5	quickly putting out a counter spin or their own interpretation of the data, but the
0:53.0	Wall Street Journal actually was just yesterday.
0:55.9	Americans are leading unemployment roles more quickly in the states that are cutting off
1:00.1	benefits.
1:01.1	And he points to Missouri as an example of this.
1:03.9	These are the boost, the pandemic aid have boosted unemployment payments by $300 per person
1:09.4	each week.
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