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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: swatbuznik

you beat me by 4 seconds ...


41 posted on 10/09/2009 6:45:05 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: Libloather

The Senators should be the ones unemployed. Can’t wait to make it happen!


42 posted on 10/09/2009 6:50:12 PM PDT by sourcery (Those whom the gods would destroy they first make socialist...)
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To: Libloather

May I remind those who are now out of benefits, the Democrats control what is voted on in the Senate. Just so they’ll know who to blame.


43 posted on 10/09/2009 6:53:58 PM PDT by jch10
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To: Libloather

good for the senate!

bloodsucking liberals who always want handouts are now bitching that a year of free money for them to sit around sucking buds isnt enough?

they can go find a dumpster, NO MORE WELFARE

KEEP IGNORING THAT BILL, SENATE!


44 posted on 10/09/2009 7:09:40 PM PDT by skipper18
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To: Libloather

Oh it couldn’t be that bad, I haven’t seen the liberal media showing all the homeless sleeping on the sidewalks covered with cardboard and pushing shopping carts 24/7! (sarc just barely)


45 posted on 10/09/2009 7:36:01 PM PDT by Bassfire (sure you can trust the government, just ask an Indian)
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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.

Cash in your chips, Todd, and support your family. Sell your house, cash in your 401K, pawn your wife’s jewelry, hold a garage sale - whatever it takes. I’m real tired of my stolen tax dollars paying for you to sit on your fat ass and take food from my family.


46 posted on 10/09/2009 7:51:03 PM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: Libloather

Not to worry. ACORN can always hire more pimps and hos thanks to your “stimulus” tax dollars.


47 posted on 10/09/2009 8:05:16 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (What's the difference between Obama and Hitler? Hitler wrote his own book.)
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To: ChocChipCookie
"This has been my worry for quite a while. Will we start seeing an increase in crime as desperate people, used to getting welfare checks, no longer receive them?"

Welfare people will receive money even if you don't eat. You (an ex-taxpayer), may wind up having to ask them for food money for yourself.

48 posted on 10/09/2009 8:08:16 PM PDT by blam
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To: sergeantdave

Well, the 401K is worth diddly, nobody is going to buy the house for enough to cover the mortgage, the pawn shops are full and paying pennies on the dollar and everybody is having a garage sale.

I’ve lived through a prolonged economic downturn. It’s one thing to say man up, do whatever it takes-but sometimes there is nothing left, I’ve seen it. You can’t get that job flipping burgers if the engineer already took it, besides, nobody has money for burgers these days. Property crime isn’t that big a problem- nothing left to steal and nobody left to buy it if there was. What most folks are going to do if they have any gumption left is pack what they can into the car and head for someplace where there are jobs....here in the 907 I am seeing a large and larger number of out of state plates. More than just the usual military, and Michigan is well represented here. “will the last person to leave Michigan please close the door and turn off the light?”

I can see this situation helping with the illegal immigrant problem-there soon won’t be a job Americans won’t do. They’ll deport themselves as jobseekers get less picky and more willing to displace them in the workforce.

So yes, I’m going to have sympathy for these folks. Right up to the point that they start streaming across the landscape like zombies, then you do what you gotta do.


49 posted on 10/09/2009 8:22:21 PM PDT by Gnomad
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To: Libloather

And nothing for those who have long fallen of the unemployment rolls and have given up looking for a job. But yeah, lets keep giving “hope” to those who remain on those rolls.......

Funny how stimulus was meant to create and save jobs when in all truth, it has become nothing but a nipple for those wishing to milk off. Now comes a second nipple.....


50 posted on 10/09/2009 8:27:47 PM PDT by cranked
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To: ChocChipCookie
This has been my worry for quite a while. Will we start seeing an increase in crime as desperate people, used to getting welfare checks, no longer receive them?

What will be tragic is the demise of desperate people driven to threaten those who have been stockpiling ammo for months anticipating desperate times...

OBAMA'S FAULT!


51 posted on 10/09/2009 9:03:50 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: LibFreeOrDie
The welfare checks are still flowing, it’s the unemployment checks that stop.

There is the crux of Obamite job creation.

Welfare checks won't go to families where the husband lives at home with his family. Those marriages won't last, there will be a boom in the caseload at the local Social Serpent's offices, and they will fund more positions for social workers.

Job creation. See?

52 posted on 10/10/2009 7:31:19 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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