Posted on 12/02/2010 10:24:06 AM PST by Phlap
The White House on Thursday urged Congress to extend jobless aid for unemployed Americans and warned that failure to act could inflict a heavy toll on the U.S. economy.
"Without extended benefits, the country would have had 800,000 fewer jobs as of September 2010, and failure to act to extend benefits again could cost the nation 600,000 jobs by the end of next year," according to a new report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
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I don’t either. Maybe the Unemployment office is going to have to cut some staff ...
SnakeDoc
The truth simply is not in these people.
The White House idiots (socialists all) still believe that one can stand in a bucket, grab the handles, and lift the bucket.
Such is the stupidity of a progressive mind.
They need that many people to administer unemployment benefits?
I guess it takes a lot of people to keep people unemployed. Government workers, state unemployment offices?
More arm twisting. This is a monumental game of chicken that government plays on its citizens. Unemployment extension vs. tax cuts for all. It’s that simple. Won’t get one without the other. Only problem is the WH has a bigger mouthpiece and a kneepad-clad media.
They are trying to paint the narrative in advance that the Republicans are going to be responsible for the future job losses if they don’t continue the unemployment benefits.
Republicans need to NOT fall for this, and put forth the proposal to cut the National Endowment of the Arts and/or NPR to pay for the temporary extension (swapping permanent programs cuts to temporary increases is ALWAYS a WIN!)
Rush needs to propose this on the air!
That is just crazy talk. What a bunch of total BS artists.
I say extending jobless aid will cost 8 million jobs.
(see how easy that is to do)
Amazing,, we are truly through the looking glass. Sending out an unemployment check, is now seen as “creating employment”.
What, extended benefits somehow keeps those trying to help the unemployed, employed?
This is not right.
No problem. According to the media, all obama has to do is fart and he creates a billion jobs. As long as Chris Matthews has a mouth, obama never has to ....
It’s convoluted BS....The big top is collapsing...Wait till millions of these people start getting really hungry and still no jobs available....They know what will happen...
That’s the only thing that makes any sense. :)
Even though I was screwed up with new math while attending public grade schools, this is beyond me, unless we are talking about the federal employees who hand out the checks.
So now they are treating people on unemployment as having “jobs”?
-PJ
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