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House GOP blocks bill to extend jobless benefits (YES!)
State-Controlled Associated Press ^ | By Comrade Andrew Taylor

Posted on 11/18/2010 5:44:37 PM PST by USALiberty

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It's ABOUT TIME! How many "extensions" do people expect? Time to go BACK TO WORK! Watch, when the free money stops, suddenly we'll see the "unemployment" rate finally go down. Unemployment is like anything else. If you subsidize it, you get more of it.
1 posted on 11/18/2010 5:44:46 PM PST by USALiberty
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To: USALiberty

Watch the Unemployment rate drop by 2% overnight.


2 posted on 11/18/2010 5:47:34 PM PST by PGR88
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To: USALiberty

3 posted on 11/18/2010 5:47:53 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: USALiberty

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll579.xml

A number of Dems voted NO as well.


4 posted on 11/18/2010 5:48:23 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Wealth = Net Worth ...........Income = Net Work!)
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To: USALiberty
Unemployment is like anything else. If you subsidize it, you get more of it.

Yep, and that is precisely what the scumbag Democrats count on.
They want to add as many government-dependent parasites to their "base" as they possibly can.

5 posted on 11/18/2010 5:48:36 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: USALiberty

That’s nice, but our side is too stupid to couple it with a message demanding tax cuts for businesses, LLCs, S-corps, etc., to allow businesses to really hire people...no, we have to be stupid and just vote against it without sound bytes for the media saying tax cuts...


6 posted on 11/18/2010 5:54:11 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: USALiberty
The useful idiots are about to get the “feel” of Obamunism.
7 posted on 11/18/2010 5:55:58 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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How could the GOP in the HOUSE block anything? There must be more to it than that.
8 posted on 11/18/2010 6:02:53 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: stocksthatgoup
A number of Dems voted NO as well.

The headline is a LIE - everything is to be blamed on the GOP when in fact the GOP in the House can stop nothing.
9 posted on 11/18/2010 6:04:02 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: USALiberty

One of our relative has been collecting unemployment for ever. His wife works so he tells us it cheaper for him to stay at home and watch the kids then to go to work. Plus he gets paid for staying at home.


10 posted on 11/18/2010 6:04:20 PM PST by HarleyD
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To: USALiberty

This is risky...

What you do is not extend during news of job growth or through some type of incentive for businesses to create new jobs (tax cuts).

By just doing this outright...it could easily backfire on the GOP and the Dems will have a field day.


11 posted on 11/18/2010 6:04:26 PM PST by jerry557
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To: stocksthatgoup

You make a valid point. In the current congress, the democrats hold a substantial majority and the republican minority can not block anything. If it failed in the house, it was the democrats who blocked it, not the republicans.


12 posted on 11/18/2010 6:08:28 PM PST by etcb
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To: PGR88

“Watch the Unemployment rate drop by 2% overnight.”

You beat me to it!


13 posted on 11/18/2010 6:09:45 PM PST by aquila48
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To: USALiberty

good!

Maybe the bums will go get a job now.


14 posted on 11/18/2010 6:09:51 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: jerry557

lol, well I guess the Democrats can whine about it then in the elections TWO YEARS from now !

ROFL


15 posted on 11/18/2010 6:11:08 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Oh...I remeber that scene. I still have that movie...one of the few that I kept


16 posted on 11/18/2010 6:12:51 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Cheerio

The idiot Dems tried to jam the bill through under the House’s “fast track” rules. A “fast track” bill requires a 2/3 vote to pass, so the GOP has more than enough votes to block it.


17 posted on 11/18/2010 6:16:21 PM PST by Redcloak (What's your zombie plan?)
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To: USALiberty

Concur and agree completely.


18 posted on 11/18/2010 6:18:35 PM PST by maddog55 (OBAMA, You can't fix stupid...)
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To: USALiberty
For what it's worth, I first saw this on PBS’s Nightly Business Report with Suzanne Pratt and Tom Hudson, and it was reported simply as the extension being denied. Only by Congress, no political party was mentioned and no blame/credit was given.

That was a pleasant surprise to me.

19 posted on 11/18/2010 6:20:18 PM PST by MichaelCorleone
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Under the 2/3 rule. Now we will see how much pressure gets applied to the people who didn’t vote for it.


20 posted on 11/18/2010 6:20:44 PM PST by gleeaikin
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