Who Bought Brown's Election?
Yeah, that's who bought and paid for him, voters -- and you thought you were voting for change.
So what else of note has he been up to?
"It appeared the spat would have little impact on ordinary Americans because lawmakers expect to resolve the dispute this week.
Related: Stimuloot Sunday: Unemployment Helps the Economy
Little impact, 'eh?
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Ever notice it takes those a**holes forever to help you while wars and banks get loot right away, Amurka?
Yeah, actually, I think you do.
"The 78-to-19 vote was taken after a GOP senator who was single-handedly holding up the legislation finally relented under withering assaults by Democrats and dwindling support within his own party.
Good thing that crazy prick isn't coming back.
Also see: Jim Bunning is not running for reelection
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Related: Don't Blame Bunning
And that's a liberal saying that, folks.
Okay, the bill is done then, right?
Eight days later (but they can't redo health care):
"Senate votes to extend jobless benefits" by Associated Press | March 11, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted yesterday to extend key pieces of last year’s economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and money to help financially strapped states pay for health care for the poor.
The 62-36 vote overrode protests from conservatives who say the bill adds too much to the $12.5 trillion national debt. Six Republicans joined all but one Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, in voting for the bill.
Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, voted against the measure.
The plight of the jobless and the political power of an annual package of tax breaks powered the measure through the Senate, even though it would add more than $130 billion to the budget deficit over the next 18 months.
“The bill is not a second stimulus....’’ said Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York. “It would be cruel, even inhumane, to tell these people that their unemployment benefits expire.’’
Even though that is exactly what it is.
What's in a name, right?
How about getting them jobs and having this nation stop shipping 'em overseas, Chuck?
Related: Slimy Schumer
Oh, gotcha.
The measure is the second piece of the Democrats’ much-touted jobs agenda to pass the Senate this year, with more elements promised, such as help for small businesses suffering from a credit crunch.
What credit crunch?
Fed and taxpayers flooded the market with trillions; where did that money go?
Concern over out-of-control budget deficits is a big challenge to the success of the agenda.
Then STOP the WARS and LOOTING of the TAXPAYERS FIRST!!
The bill yesterday chiefly resurrects elements of the stimulus bill that expired at the end of last year, including more generous unemployment benefits, health care subsidies for the jobless, and Medicaid aid to cash-starved states.
But it is not a second stimulus because Chuckie said it wasn't; they realize how toxic the terminology has become.
Related: Administration Telling the Truth About Stimuloot
Yeah, that is what they should call it.
And the second stimuloot looks like it's here as predicted, doesn't it?
The measure will now be negotiated with the House, which is wary about some Senate provisions.
Maybe not.
Oh, so YOU ARE STILL WAITING, unemployed AmeriKan!!!!!?
Can't they just PASS the SENATE BILL like they want to pass the health care screwing?
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Then why the slam on Brown?
He voted for it!
"Senate rejects extending funding for youth summer jobs program; Local officials disappointed with Brown" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | March 13, 2010
Just wondering why the article was found in the Metro section; Glob not get the word that Brown working out of Washington now?
The state is set to run out of millions of dollars in federal stimulus funding that last year helped pay for 7,000 summer jobs for youths in Massachusetts, and the US Senate earlier this week rejected a proposal to extend the funding, outraging community organizers who argue that money for jobs should be a priority.
There is always the military, kids.
In a division of the state’s two senators, freshman Scott Brown, who campaigned on the creation of new jobs, rejected the proposed amendment, which was cosponsored by his counterpart, John F. Kerry.
Do they still say hello in the hallway?
Kerry said in a statement that the Senate’s rejection of the funding was disappointing, while Brown said the country can no longer support programs without proper funding.
The proposal would have committed $1.3 billion under the Workforce Investment Act, helping to create up to 500,000 youth jobs nationwide. Last year’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided $21 million to Massachusetts over two years. Of that, $16 million was spent and paid for 7,000 jobs. The balance of the money will be used this summer, said Susan Lange, vice president of the Youth Pathways Division at the Commonwealth Corporation, a state consultant.
But local economic and community development officials said the federal government must renew funding for a program that not only puts money in teenagers’ pockets, which helps the local economy, but provides youth with work experience and something to do in summer....
Hey, if it ain't a banker or war-looters pocket that has a campaign kickback hole, forget it.
Kerry, who cosponsored the amendment with US Senator Patty Murray, said he will continue to push for the legislation.
“I was invested in it because it brought back upwards of $86 million to the state for jobs and created more than 11,000 summer jobs, which I hear about from mayors all the time,’’ he said.
But he doesn't have time to talk about health care?
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Analysts say that the employment levels for youth are at record lows, and in a dire economy adults are taking jobs that used to be held by teenagers.
And here we are growing robustly for two quarters, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, I've kind of given up on the MSM.
It's all the lies, you know.
Spokeswoman Dot Joyce said Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston “believes wholeheartedly that summer employment not only gives our young people positive experiences, but it also gives them the discipline and economic independence that helps them be successful in life.’’
“Especially in this year, in this down economy, summer jobs for young people are most critical,’’ she said.
The stimulus program funded 700 jobs in Boston last year. Overall, the city created 10,153 youth jobs through partnerships with private industry and with state and federal funding....
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Yeah, about those jobs!
A one-day wonder but a front-page feature in the Metro section:
They carried handmade signs that read, “More money for teens, less need for cops,’’ and “Youth jobs reduce youth violence.’’ Many wore buttons with photos of friends who have been slain in recent years. They said the issue was a matter of life and death, for them and their friends.
Chanting “we want jobs,’’ several hundred teenagers from Roxbury, Dorchester, and beyond marched through Boston Common and rallied at the State House yesterday to protest deep cuts in two state programs that subsidize summer jobs for thousands of low-income youth.
“Cutting funding will cut jobs, and more kids will be chilling on the corner, causing more youth violence,’’ said Edith Ayuso, an 18-year-old from Dorchester, addressing the rally from the steps of the State House. “Cutting jobs for youth is like cutting part of our education.’’
The programs at issue are Connecting Activities, which subsidizes private-sector jobs, and YouthWorks, which funds government and nonprofit jobs. Citing a budget crunch, state officials have cut funding for Connecting Activities from a high of $7 million in fiscal 2007 to $2 million this year, and Youth Works from a high of $11.3 million in fiscal 2008 to $4 million this year.
City officials and youth workers have called the programs a lifeline for teens during the summer months, when gun violence typically spikes. But the initiatives, which subsidized 11,783 jobs last summer, have been slashed as federal stimulus aid has dried up and legislators grapple with an economic crisis....
Related: The Massachusetts State Budget
See where the increased taxes and revenue is going, dear readers?
Sick of the obfuscating and repetitive MSM garbage like me yet?
But David G. Tuerck - executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute, a conservative think tank - said the state does not have money to subsidize jobs for teenagers this year, along with many other programs.
“At some point, you have to take funding away from programs that would otherwise be sustained if it weren’t for this downturn,’’ Tuerck said. “This means that some people, even teenagers, are going to have to suffer, just like the people in the private sector.’’
Yeah, all except bankers, war looters, corporations, and the politicians that live off and direct the tax loot are hurting and must bear the pain.
And from what the business section has been reporting, profits and business are going just great (with all the favorite qualifiers my college writing instructor told me not to use).
Organizers of the rally argued that the state needs to subsidize jobs because entry-level positions, which were filled by teenagers in past summers, are being snapped up by older workers desperate for jobs in the recession. Lew Finfer of the Massachusetts Communities Action Network, said the teen employment outlook is the worst it has been in 30 years....
Sort of FLIES in the FACE of all the BUSINESS BULLSHIT I've read for the last SIX MONTHS to a YEAR, but whose keeping track anymore?
Governor Deval Patrick has recommended cutting the programs by another $300,000 in next year’s budget. In addition, Nancy Snyder, Patrick’s point woman on summer jobs, said that federal stimulus money, which subsidized 7,000 jobs last summer, will support only 2,000 jobs this summer.
To soften the blow, Patrick may use some summer jobs money from next year’s budget for jobs this summer, Snyder said. Patrick is also urging Congress to allocate money for summer employment in a pending jobs bill, she said.
I think that just got struck down -- a MONTH LATER(?)!!!
“It’s good for kids and good for the economy,’’ Snyder said. “We’re pushing hard for it in the national jobs bill.’’
Probably why Congress canned it.
I mean, war is good for the economy and we need soldiers, kids!
The large crowd at the demonstration gave 15-year-old Luis Roman of Roxbury hope that state and federal officials would restore the programs.
AS USUAL, "HOPE" turns out to be nothing but a PILE of YOU-KNOW-WHAT!
The teenagers - numbering 700, according to the organizers - were mobilized by Sociedad Latina, Project RIGHT, the Dorchester Youth Collaborative, and other groups that work with youth....
They call the Globe about it or did the Glob just decide to promote them on their own?
Or did they hear a loud ruckus outside the office and wonder what it was?
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Reid’s wife gaining after car accident
Yeah, that has kind of overshadowed the MSM coverage like another recent event.
