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Congress Fails to Act as Thousands Collect Their Last Unemployment Checks ('We're Dying Out Here')
ABC News ^ | 10/09/09 | BETSY STARK and SADIE BASS

Posted on 10/09/2009 5:35:54 PM PDT by Libloather

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To: FlingWingFlyer

And hey, the market rallied!!!

So at least the criminals at Goldman Sachs and JPM and the other “insiders” are doing all right.


21 posted on 10/09/2009 5:48:36 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (I'd rather be a teabagger than an ankle-grabber.)
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To: EagleUSA

The Democrats want the economy to get worse and it will.

They remember what happened with FDR.


22 posted on 10/09/2009 5:49:49 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's health care?)
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To: Huskrrrr

But first, exactly how many weeks have you been ON unemployment?


23 posted on 10/09/2009 5:52:04 PM PDT by 9422WMR (When seconds count, the cops are only minutes away.)
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To: Libloather

They do NOT care.


24 posted on 10/09/2009 5:52:23 PM PDT by television is just wrong (one big ass mistake America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Frantzie

They remember what happened with FDR.
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Yeah, and it finally took WW2 to turn our economy around. The policies of FDR actually prolonged our economic depression of that time.


25 posted on 10/09/2009 5:55:24 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: chris_bdba
I’d say for most it is time to start looking for somewhere else to live like the low income projects.

There's a long waiting list to get into low-income housing. Many or most of the people who have been on unemployment long enough to watch their benefits expire--26 weeks to a year--have long since given up nice accommodations and have cut every expense to the bone.

Have some sympathy. This could be you.

26 posted on 10/09/2009 5:58:03 PM PDT by ottbmare (I could agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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To: Libloather

OBAMA MONEY!!!!!

Mmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmm! Feel the luuuuuuuuuuv, baby!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0I6mhZ5wMw


27 posted on 10/09/2009 5:59:46 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ('They're drinking the juice.'~ Barack H. Obama)
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To: Libloather

How can people be so worried when they have the chance to serve the Dear Leader. They should be happy he got the Nobel Peace Price; he’s clearly the most qualified ever to receive the award.


28 posted on 10/09/2009 6:00:24 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: EagleUSA

Havn’t these people taken enough??? What about the ones getting stuck with the bill. Including THE CHILDREN.

So selfish. Can you hear them all saying “FEED ME”!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGRN39oifsE


29 posted on 10/09/2009 6:06:17 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Libloather

It’s all George Bush’s fault. His failed policies are kicking in now. Praise the Dalibama.


30 posted on 10/09/2009 6:07:18 PM PDT by Harley (Life is Tough, But It's a Lot Tougher When You're a Liberal. Stop Global Whining Now.)
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To: Libloather

We’ve had 4 or 5 separate extensions to unemployment.

Last I counted, it was up to something like 91 weeks (!)


31 posted on 10/09/2009 6:07:23 PM PDT by BobbyT
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To: Libloather
I wonder if the senators of this great country ever wake up worrying about how to pay their electric bill

No, silly. They are too busy worrying about how to make those bills bigger so they have more funds for themselves and to spread around for votes.

32 posted on 10/09/2009 6:07:53 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Libloather
including a pay raise for House and Senate staffers

What a system

33 posted on 10/09/2009 6:10:46 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Libloather

“I wonder if the senators of this great country ever wake up worrying about how to pay their electric bill or feed their family.”

Is this a trick question?

parsy, who doesn’t want to jump too quickly on this


34 posted on 10/09/2009 6:14:15 PM PDT by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

There will always be welfare, anything else is at best temporary in nature. A long time ago, Rush said on TV “end welfare now” and I agreed with it then and now.


35 posted on 10/09/2009 6:15:05 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: Libloather

***”I wonder if the senators of this great country ever wake up worrying about how to pay their electric bill or feed their family. I do,” said Todd Bowling. ***

No, Most of them are rich from the lobbyists and the graft, and they keep their families working too, with nepotist government contracts and jobs.


36 posted on 10/09/2009 6:23:47 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: ottbmare

I do have sympathy and is why I’m offering suggestions. To just sit and wait for the landlord to move you out or be thrown out by the mortgage company is asking to lose everything that you own! I’ve seen that happen before and it isn’t pretty. I’ve been homeless before so I know how to survive. I think there are many who are about to find out and have no idea what they are about to face. Time to face reality and yes I know it could be me. Luckily because of my experince I own my home and I think it would take atleast a year of back taxes before the county threw me out.


37 posted on 10/09/2009 6:30:20 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Libloather

You got to quit thinking like that.

Think how Washington looks at you Citizens are a cost center.

The Federal government can print money, and citizens always want some for one reason or another. These pathetic pleadings by the proles are annoying at best, and costly. Not only that but serfs are living longer. Older serfs are even more draining on our masters purses. Hence Obamacare, the destruction of health care success and the reduction of expenses by killing off expensive non tax expense covering serfs.


38 posted on 10/09/2009 6:31:24 PM PDT by Leisler (It's going to be a hard, long winter)
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To: Libloather

Why, that just means less are on unemployment and the economy is making a turnaround! Yaaaaaay!!!/thick, syrupy sarcasm on waffles...


39 posted on 10/09/2009 6:44:10 PM PDT by swatbuznik
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To: Lancey Howard
You would think that a Democrat congress that can waste a trillion tax dollars on a porkulus spending spree could come up with the funds for lifetime “unemployment” welfare.

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Don't the unemployed roll off the official U3 stat number when the checks stop? IS THIS A BACKHANDED WAY TO ROLL MORE PEOPLE OFF AND MAKE U3 NUMBERS LOOK BETTER AT THE EXPENSE OF HIGHER U6 NUMBERS??

40 posted on 10/09/2009 6:44:14 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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