[Robert357]

Isn't unemployment insurance a state program? Yes, but extending it during a economic crisis is something that some feel is an entitlement requiring federal action. Why should this become a federal program, when so much federal legislation is geared at killing jobs?

Tell the people suffering to ask their state legislatures to decide between public pensions, public schools, public welfare, public safety and extended unemployment benefits.

[glorgau]

Tell the people suffering to ask their state legislatures to decide between public pensions, public schools, public welfare, public safety and extended unemployment benefits.

They did decide - and the decision wasn't in favor of extended unemployment benefits.

[staytrue]

“Isn’t unemployment insurance a state program?”

Yes, but if the state unemploment ins. program runs out of money, it can increase taxes or it can borrow from the federal govt. only the loans must be paid back when time improve which in Obama’s case is never.