[SheLion]

Tom Daschle has to blame SOMEBODY!

This is pathetic! Just what Maine needs........get a job you say? Where? Maine is jobless. Where will these people find jobs? Even McDonalds isn't hiring!

Maybe they can collect welfare........IF there is any welfare left after the SOMALI'S collect it! BARF ALERT!

[SheLion]

Maybe future Guvnor Baldacci can find jobs for these people...........yea, right...what does HE care!

[buccaneer81]

Yeah, but those Somalis wil be taken care of.

[Brimack34]

I hate the fact people think the Goverment give's these people benefits. First we are the Gov. 2nd I work 7 days a week in my Company every time we have this welfare payout my unemployment goes up too cover it.

[JudyB1938]

I keep thinking of all the nasty, condescending remarks people in this forum have made about unemployed people and about the truly homeless people (not the bums). As I see each thread about more and more layoffs, I wonder if they will be among those who lose their jobs - and I wonder if they will call THEMSELVES lazy and say all of the hateful things to THEMSELVES that they said about others.

People are coming to Las Vegas by the thousands every month, because they hear there's so many job opportunities here. I checked the classifieds tonight. If they are any indication, good luck is all I can say. For example, there were just TWO secretarial positions available in a city of 1.5 million people! Although I don't know the salary opportunities, you can bet your bottom dollar that wages will be low - since there is such a large job pool to draw from, making jobs at a premium.

I can't stop thinking of the young mother with a little boy about ten years old. He reminded me of one of my own sons about that age, and I complimented her on how polite he was. All of a sudden, she burst out crying. I was astonished. After she gained her composure, she explained that they were homeless. She was out of work and couldn't find a job. Poor thing. She had no front teeth. Who would want to hire her?

It's cold outside. May God see to the poor homeless children and keep them warm.

[Jhoffa_]

Willie will not be pleased at others cutting themselves in on his action like this..

[Myrddin]

Can anyone cite where the U.S. Constitution enumerates the power of the federal government to take money from taxpayers and redistribute it to people who are not working? Don't spend too much time looking. It is completely unconstitutional. As is most of the distribution of taxpayer funds by politicians. Socialists like Daschle are content to spew venom in the direction of the Republicans for not continuing an unconstitutional practice to buy votes. Socialists are such compassionate people....especially when they can do it with other people's money.

[Happy2BMe]

Reminds me of Marie Antoinette right before they lobbed off her head in response to the starving of the masses "Feed them cake."

Didn't our illustrious congressmen and senators enjoy a nice, hefty (self-voted) pay raise?

Seriously, there needs to be a grass roots effort to shift pay increase authorizations from the congress and senate back to their constituents on a "compliance" standard based on whether or not they did the work the voters hired them to do in the first place.

[GailA]

The employment section in the Memphis paper is thin, real thin, the thinest I've ever seen it in 17 years. Truck driving and security guard jobs seem to domineer what there is of it.

[dokmad]

?Regrettably, the House Republican leadership turned their backs on these families and refused to act, and the administration chose not to intervene before Congress adjourned,? Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle said Friday. ?This inaction by Republicans was unconscionable then and it is even more so now.?

What lil Tommy Dasshole does not say is how much pork they wanted added to the bill that was just plain irresponsible. Time to look at that bill and see the REAL reason why it was defeated. Socialist politics hard at work. And the sheeple will believe and bow down to these leftist pigs.

[B4Ranch]

As the story continues......

[cynicom]

Bottom line of capitalism is at work. The Chinese factories are humming along at top speed making things for you to buy. You and I both voted for a president that is a one world trader. It is not the upper class that is paying the bill, it is the middle class that will pay the bill and many will sink into the lower class.

[Republic of Texas]

Move to where the jobs are. As the great philospher Sam Kinison once said, (screamed)"We have deserts, we JUST DON'T LIVE IN THEM!".

[ex-snook]

"1,800 Mainers among jobless workers losing benefits Saturday-Just What We Need-Sad Alert"

Hey look at this from the GOP Wall Streeter's bright side. 'Free traders' will point out that NAFTA is really working because there are fewer people on the unemployed rolls.

[Walkin Man]

Where will these people find jobs? Even McDonalds isn't hiring!

Plenty of jobs in communist China and Mexico. Former President Bush was on C-span the other day crowing about how great NAFTA has been for the country. You can thank democrats and republicans for all this.

[Hank Rearden]

Gee - does this mean we won't be carrying those 800,000 on our backs for a while? At least until Bush caves in and starts giving away other people's money again.

[TC Rider]

When I lived in NE Pennsylvania and other northern climes, I noticed an unusual practice in the construction industry.

My Dad was a construction boss and he had a horrible time getting workers in the winter. It was common practice in those climes for a lot of construction to shut down for winter. The carpenters, laborers, etc were happy to take off a few months on unemployment, go hunting, fishing, etc.

By the time the benefits ran out, the days were longer and warmer and everyone went back to work. It was their version of a paid vacation, courtesy of Unemployment Security Commission.

Many were eager to back to work, but, there were many, who so long as the benefits lasted, would stay home and work odd jobs, off the books.

[Thinkin' Gal]

1,800 Mainers among jobless workers losing benefits Saturday

Call it the Baldacci Plantation.