when do they start handing out the free drugs???I worked the last 10 or 15 years as a prepper, getting more serious in the last couple of years.
I stopped putting other men's children through college in 2012 and used the time and unemployment money to cap some projects and ideas.
Now I'm relatively self sufficient, but older and a little more broken down, unable to get a job, or even work it if i GOT one and I tell ya' ...
NOTHING beats having a job and a paycheck.
We're doing OK and I have no fear we'll suffer much if the rug is pulled out, but shopping for ONLY what's on the list is disappointing.
The solution is easy and I am surprised the GOP has not offered it.
Extend the benefits for a year but make it a loan that, like student loans, has to be paid back.
If dems oppose immediately attack them as uncaring.
It does appear that Hayes has a disordered mind, but he does have a point that paying out unemployment benefits actually encourages them to "get back to work." They do that "under the table" in order to supplement their unemployment benefits.
Chris Hayes surely knows that already, but he wants to help his fellow leftists change the subject from health care to other things.
Whatever Marxists say it is it is. Charging more for healthcare makes it more affordable.
Pray America is Waking
when do they start handing out the free drugs???Melissa Harris Perry went further and said the alternative to this helping hand (unemployment comp extension) to find a job was welfare and the GOP wanted Americans on welfare.
Don’t forget the argument that unemployment comp puts $$$ in ‘Americans pockets’ which they spend right away stimulating the economy which creates jobs.
Quite frankly, in that scenario, it's an easy choice. However, make it $300 a week working vs. $0 for sitting at home, and I think you'd have more people actively looking for work.
Liberalism truly is a mental disease.
There might be an alternative to this. To start with, evaluate the unemployed as to *why* they are unemployed. Often there are hidden, correctable, educational reasons, like illiteracy or the inability to do basic math.
Remember, for many years, public schools graduated students with minimal education. Now that they are adults, they are often caught, and unable to make up for that lost opportunity.
So a state could hire some teachers specifically to teach the unemployed those essential skills, *while* they are being paid unemployment, and looking for work. Hopefully at the same place.
I like news from parallel universes.
This little MSNBC tool has all the brain power of a chef salad.
Woe to them that call evil good; and good evil
Chris Hayes: I'm 'Uncomfortable' Calling Fallen Military 'Heroes'
Chris Hayes’ wife...Hayes is married to Kate A. Shaw, assistant professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImEfJyOvls4
Published on Jun 27, 2013
Cardozo Professor Kate Shaw discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions on DOMA and Proposition 8, and the impact they will have on marriage equality in America.
Hayes’ brother Luke worked on Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign
Mr. Hayes is fairly obsessed with wealth inequality and tends to address the topic at a machine-gun clip. “The core economic fact of America since 1973 is rising, accelerating income inequality, more specifically, in a pattern that confers the largest gains to a smaller and smaller group at the top,” he explained.
At the sight of a nod, he moved on.
“I’m using data from Pikkety and Saez,” he explained, “He won the John Bates Clark medal.”
Nod.
“I call it fractal inequality, because inequality reinscribes itself every level.”
This is not blowhard punditry; Mr. Hayes, an editor-at-large at The Nation, is deep in it right now. On his days off, he works on revisions of his book, due out from Crown Publishing in spring 2012. “The book is about how accelerating inequality has produced dysfunctional elites,” he explained, “which have produced failing institutions and broken the bonds of trust between the people and the leaders of the institutions.”
The son of a retired public school educator and a community organizer turned Department of Health advocacy worker, Mr. Hayes was born and raised in the Bronx. After graduating from Hunter College High School in Manhattan, he attended Brown, where he studied philosophy, wrote and acted in plays and met Kate Shaw, now a law professor and former associate counsel to President Obama. The two wed in 2007.
While Ms. Shaw attended law school at Northwestern, Mr. Hayes landed a fellowship writing for In These Times, a leftist investigative journal. When she began a clerkship in D.C., he got a writing and editing gig at The Nation. There, his eloquence made him seem a natural for cable appearances.
After a run of successful guest spots, including hosting for Rachel Maddow in spring of 2010, MSNBC offered him a network analyst contract. In July 2010, he was among several invited to sub for Ms. Maddow while she was in Afghanistan, in what is now seen as an audition.
Read more at http://observer.com/2011/10/msnbcs-fresh-faced-chris-hayes-makes-it-up-as-he-goes-along/#ixzz2pqhnXsMo
After signing his contract, he and Ms. Shaw packed up their Prius and moved to Park Slope. (He now gets around on a bike.)