House GOP blocks bill to extend jobless benefits (YES!)

State-Controlled Associated Press ^ | By Comrade Andrew Taylor

[USALiberty]

WASHINGTON – Republicans in the House have blocked a bill that would have extended jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed beyond the holiday season.

The most recent extension of jobless benefits expires Dec. 1. Two million people will lose benefits averaging $310 a week nationwide by the end of the year.

[USALiberty]

It's ABOUT TIME! How many "extensions" do people expect? Time to go BACK TO WORK! Watch, when the free money stops, suddenly we'll see the "unemployment" rate finally go down. Unemployment is like anything else. If you subsidize it, you get more of it.

[PGR88]

Watch the Unemployment rate drop by 2% overnight.

[Lazlo in PA]

[stocksthatgoup]

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll579.xml

A number of Dems voted NO as well.

[Lancey Howard]

Unemployment is like anything else. If you subsidize it, you get more of it.

Yep, and that is precisely what the scumbag Democrats count on.
They want to add as many government-dependent parasites to their "base" as they possibly can.

[CincyRichieRich]

That’s nice, but our side is too stupid to couple it with a message demanding tax cuts for businesses, LLCs, S-corps, etc., to allow businesses to really hire people...no, we have to be stupid and just vote against it without sound bytes for the media saying tax cuts...

[Navy Patriot]

The useful idiots are about to get the “feel” of Obamunism.

[Cheerio]

How could the GOP in the HOUSE block anything? There must be more to it than that.

[Cheerio]

A number of Dems voted NO as well.

The headline is a LIE - everything is to be blamed on the GOP when in fact the GOP in the House can stop nothing.

[HarleyD]

One of our relative has been collecting unemployment for ever. His wife works so he tells us it cheaper for him to stay at home and watch the kids then to go to work. Plus he gets paid for staying at home.

[jerry557]

This is risky...

What you do is not extend during news of job growth or through some type of incentive for businesses to create new jobs (tax cuts).

By just doing this outright...it could easily backfire on the GOP and the Dems will have a field day.

[etcb]

You make a valid point. In the current congress, the democrats hold a substantial majority and the republican minority can not block anything. If it failed in the house, it was the democrats who blocked it, not the republicans.

[aquila48]

“Watch the Unemployment rate drop by 2% overnight.”

You beat me to it!

[TexasFreeper2009]

good!

Maybe the bums will go get a job now.

[TexasFreeper2009]

lol, well I guess the Democrats can whine about it then in the elections TWO YEARS from now !

ROFL

[Sacajaweau]

Oh...I remeber that scene. I still have that movie...one of the few that I kept

[Redcloak]

The idiot Dems tried to jam the bill through under the House’s “fast track” rules. A “fast track” bill requires a 2/3 vote to pass, so the GOP has more than enough votes to block it.

[maddog55]

Concur and agree completely.

[MichaelCorleone]

For what it's worth, I first saw this on PBS’s Nightly Business Report with Suzanne Pratt and Tom Hudson, and it was reported simply as the extension being denied. Only by Congress, no political party was mentioned and no blame/credit was given.

That was a pleasant surprise to me.

[gleeaikin]

Under the 2/3 rule. Now we will see how much pressure gets applied to the people who didn’t vote for it.