[reaganaut1]

I don't think unemployment benefits should last longer than 6 months. If someone has not found a job in that time, they need to lower their sights and/or be willing to move to an area with more job openings.

[John Valentine]

Its expiration is expected to have far-reaching ramifications for the economy, cutting job growth by about 300,000 positions next year...

Only a true libtard could read this without laughing out loud. Cutting unemployment benefits will SPUR job growth as the sit-at-home benefit recipients will be forced to get up, go out and actually start working again.

Albeit at a lower pay scale than they would likely wish.

[Sgt_Schultze]

The net effect will be that 1 million people will no longer be considered unemployed and will be dropped from the pool of those seeking work. The official unemployment rate will drop. Leftist will cheer.

[Red in Blue PA]

they need to lower their sights and/or be willing to move to an area with more job openings.

Love to hear this type of advice from people who have not even walked a step in the shoes of the unemployed in THIS job market.

For some jobs, there have been several hundred applicants and more per opening. Watch the JOLT report for an aggregate number. Saying "just move" sounds nice, but moving cross country costs many thousands of dollars and is not good advice in a piss poor job market. Who is to say the new job they land out there will not simply evaporate? Then all that money spent moving is for not.

I do not wish ill on people but I do wish many who do not see things as they are will be put in that situation someday.

[Venturer]

I would bet that 2 months after the unemployment benefits end 50% of those people have some kind of jobs.

[DoodleDawg]

“Why didn’t they offer a plan that met the speaker’s requirements — fiscally responsible, with something to create jobs — or any plan, for that matter, before they left for the holidays?” asked Michael Steel, a spokesman for John A. Boehner of Ohio, the speaker of the House.

Why didn't the Speaker preempt them by offering one of his own?

[rktman]

Just think, this coming weeks jobs report will show a net gain of 1 million employed since they will be off the un-employment list. Obvious the economy is turning around/has turned the corner. If you’re not filing, you must be working. Right?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Job search sites:

http://www.Indeed.com

http://www.Jobvertise.com

http://www.Careerbuilder.com

http://www.nationjob.com

http://www.ajb.dni.us/

[Klaatu Barada Nikto]

This means that starting Monday, most of those 1.3 Million people will finally get off their lazy butts and start looking for jobs. The rest will look for other ways to loot via more permanent “entitlements.”

[From The Deer Stand]

I know of two industrial businesses that are looking for new workers which they will train yet the number of applicants are few. Easier staying home living on the unemployment check and EBT cards.

[SkyPilot]

Between 2008 - 2012, we spent over half a Trillion dollars on direct cash payments for unemployed.

Unemployment benefits cost: $520 billion

Since 2012, Billions more have been spent - we are now approaching 3/4 of a Trillion dollars spent since 2008 on unemployment.

Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Patty Murray, Harry Reid, and Obama just betrayed our military and retired military - cutting their hard earned and well deserved pensions - in order to "save" $6 Billion......over ten years.

Disabled military are not exempt from the cuts.

Someone tell me, how in the hell do we justify spending tens of Billions of dollars now.....paying people not to work?

[kearnyirish2]

“If someone has not found a job in that time, they need to lower their sights and/or be willing to move to an area with more job openings.”

Maybe 20 years ago; those days are gone. The fast food places near me (big chains) don’t seem to have a single worker born in this country; less than 1/2 speak passable English, and apparently no Americans are even considered for the positions.

[Popman]

1.3 million jobless workers

cutting job growth by about 300,000 positions next year

Sorry these numbers don't make any sense...

By cutting off 1.3 million of the employment rolls, certainly some of these folks will get off the dead asses and take a job, any job...so how does that cut job growth ?

and pushing hundreds of thousands of households below the poverty line

Are not these folks already below the poverty level ?

[MrEdd]

And if government action is preventing any employment opportunities, they need to be motivated to do whatever it takes to change the government in question.

[lurk]

With every department, agency and check printed, we have to ask the question, Why is the government involved in this area of Americans’ lives? We have to ask this of unemployment benefits too.

[OpusatFR]

Instead of asking why Congress has not funded the extension, perhaps the question the idiots in the media should ask is why there is such a serious lack of jobs in this country.

Of course, that wouldn't be politically expedient for the left.

As far as “lowering ones sight” try getting a menial job out here. For every one position open, there are thousands applying.

If you have an advanced degree in engineering, you are competing against others with even more experience, AND the added fillip of H1B visa candidates shoveled into the country and working for much much less. In fact, so much less, they can live five together in order to make ends meet.

It is always more comfortable to comment from a position of relative comfort and security on the failings of others actually experiencing the hell out here on the jobs front.

[SoFloFreeper]

Federal jobless benefits ought to be eliminated completely. Let STATES handle joblessness as they see fit.

Of course, federal laws and regulations that CONTRIBUTE to joblessness also need to be eliminated.

[Fresh Wind]

I’ve been on unemployment twice. The first time, I had to actively look for a job for the benefits to continue. The second time, they didn’t seem to care.

Is this the norm now?

[JPG]

How many in the past magically found work just as the unemployment benefits were ending? 26 weeks is a lifeline, 99+ weeks is a way of life.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I don't think unemployment benefits should last longer than 6 months. If someone has not found a job in that time, they need to lower their sights and/or be willing to move to an area with more job openings.

The problem with lowering your sights is that employers know that you will jump ship as soon as you can. That has been my experience, having been laid off twice in the last five years. Right now, I'm working at 2/3 of my former pay, and I'm looking.

We'd be better off if unemployment was eliminated. Employers could plan on people working at a lower level of pay for about 6 months, which is probably the average period of employment for much of retail.

[HangnJudge]