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800,000 Jobless Americans to Lose Aid
USA Today / AP ^ | 12/28/2002 | AP Staff

Posted on 12/28/2002 11:13:08 AM PST by ex-Texan

Edited on 04/13/2004 1:40:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: dimsstupid; joblesscheckslapse
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To: Republic of Texas
In case you hadn't noticed ... the stock market has crashed for the last 3 years. Many many people LOST their life savings in the market including many in usually safe mutual funds and 401k's. So ... since YOU seem to be an investment genius ... what exactly would YOU have invested in .. maybe you can get the $1,000,000 plus money I lost over those years
321 posted on 12/31/2002 7:41:36 AM PST by clamper1797
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To: Republic of Texas
I NEVER said I was for extending UI ... I said earlier ...

BUT that is not why I am posting on this thread. I am out here because a few morons out here think that the laid high tech workers are a bunch of lazy shiftless people who are staying out of work just to get that measly $4000 in extra UI

Do take some remedial reading classes you may benefit from them

322 posted on 12/31/2002 7:44:01 AM PST by clamper1797
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To: clamper1797
My results were the same as yours. My ATTITUDE is the only difference.

Love to stay and chat, but I've gotta get to a closing. Happy New Year.

323 posted on 12/31/2002 7:44:40 AM PST by Republic of Texas
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To: Republic of Texas
Simple things for simple minds ....
324 posted on 12/31/2002 7:45:59 AM PST by clamper1797
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To: Republic of Texas
Ok in the spirit of the New Year ... truce ... and ... I take back my private post to you.
325 posted on 12/31/2002 7:48:17 AM PST by clamper1797
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To: clamper1797
And severly cut corporate taxes here in the good ol USA
Doesn't that go without saying? Give corps a carrot of reducing their taxes, but give them the stick of less cheap H1b labor here and outsourcing all internal work overseas.
326 posted on 12/31/2002 9:25:45 AM PST by lelio
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To: glory
My husband was actively looking. Maybe your husband has not reached management or supervision level in what he does. Unless it is in construction if he does he will have a hard time. And we have heard that has happened in the mid-west too! So guess that they are not immune to it.

MCD
327 posted on 01/01/2003 1:30:47 AM PST by MSCASEY
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To: clamper1797
... maybe you can get the $1,000,000 plus money I lost over those years..

Query - you had more than a million bucks invested in equities, yet you are a victim? No - you are a dummy.

328 posted on 01/01/2003 6:04:34 PM PST by Senator Pardek
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To: clamper1797
...what exactly would YOU have invested in...

Well, after I lost a half million I would have put the rest in T-bills.

You're lying about losing a million in the market, are you not?

329 posted on 01/01/2003 6:06:49 PM PST by Senator Pardek
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To: clamper1797
They just can't get it into their heads that the high tech worker spends many many hours a week looking for a job and can't work 40 hours at Burger King and still be available for interviews, job fairs and travel (for interviews). Some of these people believe that the high tech worker has not tried to get jobs even in those low paying areas when in fact they are working many hours a day to do exactly that (I know because I did).

I bet you'll be just thrilled to learn that General Motors is now hiring "experienced information technology professionals" to work on a long-term project at GM headquarters. At $12 an hour. Then they will complain that they can't find enough "experienced American workers" for this project so they will have to ship it out to Bangladesh, where the "highly experienced information technology professionals" are available for $12 an hour.

330 posted on 01/01/2003 6:21:41 PM PST by Alouette
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To: Senator Pardek
I wish I was exaggerating
331 posted on 01/01/2003 8:31:21 PM PST by clamper1797
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To: RLK
January 8, 2003

GOP passes jobless aid bill
By Stephen Dinan and Amy Fagan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

     The 108th Congress opened yesterday with Republicans controlling both chambers, and they immediately flexed their legislative muscle to pass an unemployment benefits package in the Senate.

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     With 51 senators — a net addition of two — the Republican majority was able to bring to the floor its version of a bill to extend existing unemployment benefits for 13 weeks.
     Democrats protested but didn't have the votes to pass their own plan to nearly double the scope of the program. They relented rather than forcing a stalemate, and the Republicans' version passed without dissent.
     In order to keep the benefit checks flowing, a bill must pass in Congress and be signed by the president by tomorrow. Republicans said the House never would accept the Democrats' larger program.
     "We will not pass and they will not concur with a doubling," said Sen. Don Nickles, Oklahoma Republican.
     House Republicans said they will pass the Senate bill today to have it on the president's desk tomorrow.
     Republicans' next test for the president's agenda could come on the nominations front.
     President Bush yesterday resubmitted several nominations that were blocked by the Democrat-controlled Judiciary Committee last year, including those for U.S. District Judge Charles W. Pickering Sr. and Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Richman Owen. Mr. Bush wants both of them elevated to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
     Mr. Bush also resubmitted the nomination of Miguel A. Estrada for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
     Republicans reclaimed control of both chambers for the first time since June 2001, when Sen. James M. Jeffords of Vermont left the Republican Party to become an independent and threw control of the Senate to Democrats.
     November's elections returned control to Republicans. Yesterday, Sen. Bill Frist, Tennessee Republican, became majority leader and the point man for the White House agenda.
     In his first floor speech as Senate majority leader, Mr. Frist promised to try to work with Democrats.
     "It is my hope in this Congress that we will be defined by achievement as well as a cooperative spirit," he said. "I look forward to working with our colleagues, both on our side of the aisle and the other side of the aisle."
     Sen. Tom Daschle, South Dakota Democrat, fell from majority to minority leader but said his party was newly invigorated as the opposition. He announced a package of bills that Democrats were planning to pursue, including legislation to increase the minimum wage, crack down on hate crimes and provide a prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients.
     In the House, Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois Republican, was elected to his third term as speaker with the support of 228 Republicans. As is the custom, Mr. Hastert voted "present."
     Not all 205 Democrats supported Nancy Pelosi of California, who as their party's leader was also their candidate for speaker. Three Democrats — Reps. Ralph M. Hall and Charles W. Stenholm of Texas and Ken Lucas of Kentucky — voted "present," while Rep. Gene Taylor of Mississippi voted for Rep. John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat.
     The House has 55 new members, and the Senate has 11.
     Among the new senators are former presidential candidates Elizabeth H. Dole, North Carolina Republican, and Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, and a former senator, Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey Democrat.
     House members could invite family on the floor, and dozens of children filled House seats for the opening ceremonies. In the Senate, floor privileges are more closely guarded, though former senators such as Bob Dole, Mrs. Dole's husband, are allowed.
     "He's handling this role reversal very well. I think he's enjoying it very much, and so am I," Mrs. Dole told reporters.
     It was the first Congress sworn in after September 11, and Mr. Hastert reminded his fellow members of the responsibilities and risks stemming from the terrorist attacks. He recalled the fourth hijacked plane that crashed into a field in Pennsylvania on its way to Washington. "We sit in this chamber knowing it may very well have been the target of that ill-fated flight," Mr. Hastert said.
     He said Congress would keep its commitment to the president to protect the nation. "We are determined it shall never happen here again," he said.
     The 108th Congress is the first to have a woman, Mrs. Pelosi, as a party leader. Mrs. Pelosi and several of her colleagues noted that her position as minority leader would put her in line to become the first female speaker of the House if Democrats won control in 2004.
     Vice President Richard B. Cheney conducted the official swearing-in of the 35 new or re-elected senators, and his presence led to heightened security.
     A guard stopped Sen. James M. Talent, Missouri Republican, who was not wearing his member's pin. The guard let him proceed to the floor only after he explained that he was a new senator.
     Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, the senior Republican in the Senate, became the president pro tem, third in the line of presidential succession behind the vice president and speaker of the House.
     While the Senate was working on the unemployment package, the House was constructing its rules for the new Congress and passed on a party-line vote the Republicans' set of rules creating a new select committee to handle Department of Homeland Security issues.
     "This select committee will be our eyes and ears as this critical department is organized," Mr. Hastert said.
     Democrats said some of the other rule changes serve only to consolidate the Republican majority's power and let them duck tough decisions such as a stand-alone vote on increasing the nation's debt capacity.
     "An increase in the debt limit should require action by Congress and the president," said Rep. Dennis Moore, Kansas Democrat.
     Another rules change abolishes the eight-year limit on the speaker of the House.
332 posted on 01/08/2003 5:42:15 AM PST by Uncle Bill
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To: Uncle Bill
It's a new year, but I don't know about the "happy" part yet. It hasn't started off with much of a bang.
Seems like the urgings are to get happy so nobody looks too closely at things 'cause they won't be happy if they really did.
Just call me Mr. Pessimistic, but here's wishing to you and yours a Happy New Year too.
333 posted on 01/09/2003 4:07:09 PM PST by philman_36
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