If as what Obama had recently announced that 2014 will be a great year for the economy, why then the need to extend the benefits at a cost of a billion dollars a week, when instead of the government, the economy would insure the income that the jobless have currently failed to secure for themselves?
Now, now, don’t be trying to talk sense...
It is about buying votes... even some FReepers want this passed... work up a lather of socialist suds... rinse and repeat.
What I’m puzzled about is how the “Senate” controls this when it’s a spending issue that by law has to originate in the House? Not that Boner would do anything to reign in spending.
After their “bi-partisan” budget deal that democrats agreed to and praised, that INCLUDED ENDING unemployment benefits, it did not take long for them to pull that football away from the hapless GOP Charlie Brown
“If this doesn’t get fixed, it will hurt about 14 million Americans over the course of this year,” Mr. Obama said.
And why Mr President is this necessary? You have been President for 5 years now. Where are the jobs? Oh that is right, Obamcare caused thousands to lose their jobs or to become part timers. Easy to see why you would want to see unemployment extended. I think most Americans would rather have a job then a government check.........
HOWQ the system works needs to be revised. The old terms simply can't stand anymore.
The Republicans are morons. First they cancel funding which hurts them greatly by those that held jobs, then they pass it anyway which gives Zero a win.
Stupid is as stupid does.
How many billions have the King and Queen’s socializing and their vacations sucked out of the US taxpayers since they took over their Kingdom?
If I did the math correctly that is 8k for each unemployed person. That is about 2500$ a month.
High praise, indeed!
The Republicans should offer to extend unemployement for 3 years if the Democrats will agree to repeal the ACA.
Serious how about a bit of statagy here.
The economy would probably actually really improve if they did this.
There is a big pile of gorrila s*** on the floor!
All this does is helps democrats. It provides cover for their policies which are destroying America.
I thought we were in the throes of an economic recovery and now everybody has free healthcare? My brain hurts!
The large part of the Senate GOP voted against this.
It also seems to me that 99 weeks is just 5 weeks shy of TWO YEARS. You could finish an Associate Degree and retrain for an in demand job in that length of time.
Zero's comments about how unemployment insurance helps stimulate the economy is literally one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. He would fail a high school economics class if he answered that on an essay about how unemployment affects the economy.
a/k/a ODimwit expresses his love forthe RINOs?
What’s really going on here is that “Unemployment Benefits” are being turned into a long-term entitlement. This reminds me of a routine that the late comedian Sam Kinison used to do about world hunger -
“But I’m not trying to make fun of world hunger if in fact I think I have the answer. If you want to stop world hunger, stop sending them food. Don’t send these people another bit folks. You want to send them something, you want to help? Send them U-hauls. Send them U-hauls, some luggage, and send them a guy that goes Hey, we’ve been driving out here every day with your food for the last thirty or forty years, and we were driving out here, through the desert and it occurred to us that there wouldn’t be world hunger if you people lived where the food is! Get out of the desert! You live in a f***ing desert!”
Brain damaged voters in this country, if they have jobs, have no idea what’s going on in this country unless it’s mentioned on reality TV or American Idol or whatever those stupid shows are called.
>> “If this doesn’t get fixed, it will hurt about 14 million Americans over the course of this year,” Mr. Obama said.
Obama gets away with this dogma while Republican politicians like Peter King brand Cruz something akin to a traitor.