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Rep. Jesse Jackson Calls on Government to Hire All Unemployed Americans for $40,000 Each
Foxnews.com ^ | October 14, 2011 | FN

Posted on 10/14/2011 6:51:13 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay

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To: OldPossum; GLDNGUN
...and note in the article, the newly hired worker gets to now buy a home in this Five-Year "temp" government sponsored plan..

I thought first Fox News had been hacked, when reading this story; as GLDNGUN above asked if this is "satire".

21 posted on 10/14/2011 7:09:14 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay

All at taxpayers’ expense, of course. These people are becoming so transparent that it’s laughable; if not frightening.


22 posted on 10/14/2011 7:09:46 PM PDT by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Why just $40K? Why not pay everybody $1Million. Then we’d all be rich, right? s/


23 posted on 10/14/2011 7:10:19 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: I see my hands

The union would settle all that when they negotiate the new contract.


24 posted on 10/14/2011 7:11:11 PM PDT by albionin
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To: fight_truth_decay

Hey Jesse Jackson Jr, you dumbass POS SOB commie pig! I’ve got a better idea, that was already implemented in the USSR (before they went belly up because of failed economic central planning polices). How about if we copy the USSR for this program.... the protesters & unemployed pretend to work and the gubmint pretends to pay them. Everybody ends up being a winner. /s


25 posted on 10/14/2011 7:13:02 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: fight_truth_decay

Doesn’t yo daddy need another assistant?


26 posted on 10/14/2011 7:13:56 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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27 posted on 10/14/2011 7:14:44 PM PDT by CommieCutter
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To: fight_truth_decay
I can see the protesters now rushing out to "sign up"!! [NOT]


28 posted on 10/14/2011 7:15:21 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama's secret: "Once you learn to fake sincerity you've got it made")
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To: fight_truth_decay

Send me $40,000 and I’ll pay off my house. Talk about a stimulus package. Jackson is nutty.


29 posted on 10/14/2011 7:17:11 PM PDT by madison10
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To: fight_truth_decay

Why not a million each? Or better yet, 10 million each...


30 posted on 10/14/2011 7:17:35 PM PDT by GOPJ (Occupy Wall Street Zombies Lastest Chant: 'You Can Have Sex With Animals')
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To: FlingWingFlyer

What is it with black politicians (democrats) and Marxism?


31 posted on 10/14/2011 7:17:42 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Aaron0617
I'm makin a lil less than that now, i'll take it too. But who manages us? What keeps me and the other 15mil from sitting at home playing Xbox and mailing in a timesheet each week?

And who pays for this?? And where is the cleaning equipment etc going to come from? Wont someone have to pay for that too? Do we all get a free broom?

32 posted on 10/14/2011 7:18:53 PM PDT by Aaron0617
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To: fight_truth_decay

insanity


33 posted on 10/14/2011 7:19:46 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: fight_truth_decay
Oh, jeeze, Jesse Jackson's reading my posts.. When the last balloon was lifted for another 700 billion dollar stimulus package, I pointed out that it'd be like paying 15 million people $40,000 a year, but of course, Jesse wouldn't DREAM of hiring anyone without full benefits, would he? Oh, no no. Vacation pay, sick pay, family leave, full health with dental and vision, for everyone in the family! And then after the year's up, 99 weeks of unemployment!
34 posted on 10/14/2011 7:19:46 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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It’s kind of odd here. $40k in New York City won’t cut it for most folks who are unemployed. $40k in Detroit will buy you a fancy brick house in a rough neighborhood, and a 8-year old Cadillac that you drive up and down the street. Then you go to Red Bay, Alabama, and $40k buys you a triple-wide, with a brand-new Jeep at the local dealer.

There is a broad sense of fairness or unfairness....depending on your location in life....to this Jackson ‘rainbow-dream’.

My personal advice is that if you are unemployed and under the age of thirty....go to your Army recruiter and sign up. You will get a far richer deal in the end....and feel good about the paycheck that the government hands you.


35 posted on 10/14/2011 7:22:13 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: fight_truth_decay
calls on the federal government to hire the nation’s 15 million unemployed Americans for jobs paying roughly $40,000 each,

I think it should be $400000 each. Or maybe $4 million each.Hey, the government can just inflate the currency however much they want.

36 posted on 10/14/2011 7:23:16 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: fight_truth_decay

I’m sure many people would go in tomorrow and do something to eventually get let go, then collect unemployment for awhile, and wait for their $40K federal job. $40K is more than a lot of people make right now. Far above minimum wage. Almost $20 per hour, and you get federal benefits.


37 posted on 10/14/2011 7:24:04 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: I see my hands
Add to taxpayer COST of the 40K the COST of ObamaCare health care =embedded costs to employ per worker -makes it what now? 60K if I thread lightly in my guesstimations?

Wait what do our fighting young men and women risking their lives in these unfriendly countries in ALL these wars we have going on... make???

lol...And if there is a trans-gender washroom you can use that too..

38 posted on 10/14/2011 7:24:09 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay

This lunacy by the leftist in our government is enough to drive a sane man crazy.


39 posted on 10/14/2011 7:25:28 PM PDT by ImNotLying (Politicians and diapers should be changed often and for the same reason!)
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To: fight_truth_decay

OMG!?

What colossal stupidity...lol

The average Freeper is an Einstein compared to this buffoon.


40 posted on 10/14/2011 7:26:39 PM PDT by Bobalu (More rubble, less trouble)
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