Mitt Romney — buy your own damned unemployment insurance

Or, in a euphemism alert, Mitt Romney supports voluntary unemployment benefits.

In a Facebook status update recently, I listed "voluntary healthcare benefits" as one of the most ugly of many recent euphemisms on SpammedIn, I mean LinkedIn.

Looks like the Mittster's got that spirit:

The system is also not designed for a flexible economy like ours in which some employees move from job to job for short periods, and are therefore ineligible for unemployment compensation when they are faced with a protracted spell without work.
To remedy such problems we need a very different model, perhaps establishing individual unemployment savings accounts over which employees would exercise direct control when they lose their jobs, or putting in place financial incentives for employers to hire and train the long-term unemployed.

Now I agree that the economy doesn't help workers. But, "flexible"? Euphemism No. 1. No. 2, and bigger, is wanting to privatize unemployment bennies as part of the "ownership economy.

Oy.