Posted on 11/01/2010 5:19:20 PM PDT by Nachum
INDIANAPOLIS -- Armed security guards will be on hand at 36 unemployment offices around Indiana in what state officials said is a step to improve safety and make branch security more consistent.
No specific incidents prompted the action, Department of Workforce Development spokesman Marc Lotter told 6News' Norman Cox.
Lotter said the agency is merely being cautious with the approach of an early-December deadline when thousands of Indiana residents could see their unemployment benefits end after exhausting the maximum 99 weeks provided through multiple federal extension periods.
"Given the upcoming expiration of the federal extensions and the increased stress on some of the unemployed, we thought added security would provide an extra level of protection for our employees and clients," he said.
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Did you read the comments on the article There are alot of pissed off people who are tired of supporting people on UI for 99 wks. A few recommending the tea party as the only solution. If the dems and pubs were worried about us during this election just wait until the next one.
Conservatives should do everything in their power to help these unemployed people get back on their feet, because it builds loyalty that lasts generations. Here are some ideas:
1) Since before the Great Depression, America has had such an overabundance of food that it starves farmers and ends up rotting in expensive warehouses. We could give every bit of the excess away, and it wouldn’t hurt our economy in the slightest, in fact it would save money. It is different than every other kind of welfare.
Keeping people hungry is a poor motivator, because all they can think about is their next meal, not getting their act together. So Republican conservatives should make it a point this time to provide a river of food aid. And ESPECIALLY kill this insane corn into ethanol nonsense.
2) Right now America has an overabundance of housing. Much of this will end up the property of the individual States. So why not encourage them to provide “relief housing” for the unemployed, with a twist. As long as they are unemployed, the housing is free, but once they get a job, they get a better place, and pay a nominal rent, for which they get *equity* in that house. If they keep their job and paying that low rent, eventually they will become home owners, free and clear.
Even if they just get a minimum wage job, they are highly motivated to keep working, and especially to keep the property up, because if they keep at it, eventually it will be theirs.
This saves the States money, because derelict houses pay no taxes, are fire hazards, and attract squatters and worse. Having somebody live in them and take care of them takes the load off the State government, and eventually starts turning a profit. Again, if it is done as a conservative initiative, its builds a LOT of loyalty to the Republican party.
3) How about a room a board jobs program, that stops illegal immigration? Put up tent garrisons along the border. Put a lot of the unemployed in them, for minimum wage, three meals a day, and some medical and dental care, and set them to patrol the border.
Sure, it’s temporary make work, but it puts a hundred thousand people to some work instead of on relief, while stopping the flow of illegal aliens and drugs into the US. Not much more expensive than paying unemployment.
Put it all together and it shows that conservative Republicans are acting to relieve people who are in “progressively” desperate straits, not just sitting on their heels while people suffer.
FDR got the Democrats 50 years of loyalty for just *trying* to do something. Republicans deserve at least that much, for *succeeding* in turning the economy around.
Soviet style!
BUMP!
It’s not like unemployment offices hand out cash. Only reason they’d need to be armed is maybe liberalism is a mental disorder.
The best thing the republicans can do is get the govt off the backs of small business and let them create jobs for these people.
And they are waiting for the zombies they created to show up.
Normally, I’d agree, but the government has created such an astounding crisis that there can’t be a normal recovery until much of the wreckage has been cleared. But that will take time, and people need a roof over their head and food to eat until then.
I would as soon as drop people on a desert island, with just the clothes on their backs, and tell them to succeed through entrepreneurism. You can only do so much by yourself, and so fast.
Your housing idea would end up being as unsuccessful as the push to lend to unqualified buyers. Once someone is in a subsidized house, you'll never be able to throw them out if they quit working. There are still Katrina refugees in travel trailers.
Ordinarily, I’m a great believer in American agribusiness, but there are a peculiar chain of circumstances that could change this.
As happened at the start of the Great Depression, even with the Dust Bowl, there was a huge overproduction of corn, so much so that many farmers were burning it for fuel. (Wheat dropped to 25 cents a bushel (currently a little over $7/bu)). Yet there was no distribution to people who were starving.
But corn, as it is produced today, is very reliant on petroleum at several stages of its production and transportation. Just a year or two ago, it was realized that the fertilizer slurry pipelines are insufficient to maintain production.
And if there is a disruption in US Treasury bills, the credit the US uses to buy petroleum could be cut off, giving us just a matter of weeks of the buffer currently in the refinery system. This could double or triple fuel prices, and result in widespread fuel shortages.
Ironically, while production was being slashed, this would markedly increase the demand for corn based ethanol.
Anyone’s guess what could precipitate a crisis, but these are just some of the dangerous variables that exist today.
Those are some pretty good ideas.
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