"is a temporary extension through June 2 that gives House and Senate Democrats time to iron out a measure to fund the program through the end of the year."
WTF?
Banks were taken care of and brought back to health with an endless supply of trillions in assistance?
Related:
"Democrats said deficit-financed jobless benefits are not only needed to help people unable to find work but are one of the most effective ways to pump up the still-struggling economy.
Not only are they incredible, they are NUTS!
Think of the WARPED LOGIC there, readers!
Yeah, let's TAKE TAX DOLLARS (actually, borrowing on them which will come with interest payments, but....) from the FEWER and FEWER WORKERS and BUSINESSES and give them to UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE so they can SPEND IT!
How about GETTING RID of the TAXES and CREATING JOBS instead?!!!
Nope, not from government!
“It’s an investment in our economy,’’ bill sponsor Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, said. “Unemployment benefits help our unemployed neighbors. And in helping our neighbors, unemployment benefits also help to keep open the neighborhood grocery store and the neighborhood gas station.’’
So why not JUST KEEP DOING IT, right?
"Jobless in Mass. will still get aid" by David Abel and Meghan Irons, Globe Staff | April 8, 2010
Most Massachusetts residents collecting unemployment benefits will continue receiving assistance for several more weeks, even as tens of thousands of others nationwide began losing the federal aid because Congress left for vacation without extending the benefits.
Is that like a royal flip off to the people or what?
That is why I DISTRUST ANYTHING THEY DO DOWN THERE!
It is either WRONG-HEADED or even MORE SINISTER!
We know WHO is WRITING the BILLS and DIRECTING the politicians with the campaign kickback$.
Officials said unemployed people in Massachusetts will temporarily continue to get benefits because of a law passed by the state Legislature last summer. However, if Congress does not extend federal unemployment benefits — which the Senate is scheduled to vote on when it reconvenes next week — as many as 50,000 Massachusetts residents could lose their weekly checks as of May 2, officials said.
“The extensions we have been advocating for are vital to assist people impacted by long-term unemployment,’’ said Joanne F. Goldstein, the state’s secretary of labor and workforce development, the department that oversees the state’s unemployment programs. “Our claimants need the financial assistance to continue their job searches — whether for fuel or food or to pay bills. Extensions help people get through the trying period of seeking a new job,’’ she said in a statement.
As if there were any really out there.
I'm so sick of being condescended and lied to by looting government and lying MSM.
They blew it because now, if something really does happen that demands our attention, well, I'm not going to want to hear it.
Not after the decades of agenda-pushing lies -- and the continuing of those lies on even more outrageous and grandiose levels.
More than 200,000 unemployed people throughout the country lost their benefits on Monday, according to the National Employment Law Project, a New York-based advocacy group for the unemployed.
And LOOK AT THAT, the government claims the UNEMPLOYMENT RATE went DOWN a smidge!!!
200,000 just fell off the roles!
THAT is the WAY OUR GOVERNMENT OPERATES, world, and it is SO, SO SAD!!!!
The group initially estimated that about 9,200 Massachusetts residents lost the federal jobless benefits this week, but it revised that estimate to less than 1,000, because it didn’t factor in the changes to state law. Andrew Stettner, deputy director of the National Employment Law Project, said he expects lawmakers will eventually extend the benefits through the end of the year....
Meanwhile, YOU WAIT in a what, America?
Darkened home with no electricity -- or has the foreclosure already been acted upon?
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WASHINGTON — Hours after Congress passed an $18 billion bill to restore unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed, President Obama made it the law of the land.
The measure is a welcome relief to hundreds of thousands of people who lost out on the additional weeks of compensation after exhausting their state-paid benefits. They now will be able to reapply for long-term unemployment benefits and receive those checks retroactively under the legislation.
The bill also restores full Medicaid payments to doctors who were threatened by a 21 percent cut and refloats the flood insurance program. Obama signed the bill when he returned to the White House last evening from fund-raisers in Miami and a speech earlier in the day at Cape Canaveral, presidential spokesman Bill Burton said....
What was the CARBON FOOTPRINT on that, 'eh?
The legislation cleared both houses of Congress last night. The House passed the bill 289-112 just two hours after it emerged from the Senate on a 59-38 vote that capped an unusually partisan debate. Republicans largely chose to take a stand against the legislation for adding to the $12.8 trillion national despite backing it by wide margins in December and again recently....
Several other popular programs had also expired, including federal flood insurance, higher Medicare payment rates for doctors, and generous health insurance subsidies for people who have lost their jobs. The situation became more urgent yesterday afternoon when Medicare announced that it would start paying doctors’ claims at a 21 percent lower rate. That would not be necessary now.
Yesterday’s measure provides up to 99 weekly unemployment checks averaging $335 to people whose 26 weeks of state-paid benefits have run out. It is a temporary extension through June 2 that gives House and Senate Democrats time to iron out a measure to fund the program through the end of the year. Fewer than one in three House Republicans voted for the measure. Just three Senate Republicans did....
More borrowed money we can not afford.
Anybody know where we can GET SOME BILLIONS?
Maybe SHUT DOWN a COUPLE WARS and NOT START any new ones?
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Still Stuck in the Senate
Sending in the Census
Yeah, you had time to fill that out while waiting.
Working for you, though, American.
