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1.3m losing unemployment benefits Saturday
Boston Globe ^
| 12/28/2013
| Annie Lowrey
Posted on 12/28/2013 10:24:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Well there goes the economy according to Pelosi. She says that unemployment money stimulates the economy.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:34:35 AM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: SeekAndFind
An extension of the unemployment program did not make it into the two-year budget deal that was passed just before Congress left on its winter recess. It tried really, really hard but just barely missed the cutoff. Idiot journalist enablers.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:35:36 AM PST
by
Pan_Yan
(Who told you that you were naked? Genesis 3:11)
To: SkyDancer
One can only note that they aren’t losing unemployment
benefits, they are losing EXTENDED unemployment benefits.
That is benefits BEYOND what they would normally receive.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:37:13 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Slump Tester
"Im trying to figure out how this will cut job growth."
I see you had the same thought as I did (post #19). On the surface, it just sounds like a lie. The purpose? Maybe to make it seem like those who support the cuts are opposing honest work.
To: SeekAndFind
maybe the merchants who have been having trouble finding employees will not be able to fill some of their vacancies...
To: SeekAndFind
The welfare rolls just grew by 1.3 million. The government will just try to sweep these people under the rug, out of sight, out of mind. In the mean time, the economy in china is going like crazy, with all of the work we exported to them. Make companies and shareholders pay through the ass on capital gains and stock earnings and dividends. You want to gamble? Pay up, or leave, and if your sorry ass sides with the chinese, then you lose your US citizenship, and you can suck up to your communist chinese masters.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:40:38 AM PST
by
factoryrat
(We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
To: SeekAndFind
provides up to 47 weeks of supplemental unemployment insurance payments to jobless people looking for work. Its expiration is expected to have far-reaching ramifications for the economy, cutting job growth by about 300,000 positions next year and pushing hundreds of thousands of households below the poverty line.
Ths Boston Globe's reporting makes it sound as if it's the government's responsibility to make sure that unemployment benefits keep people "above the poverty line".
Fact is that, if people were already depending on unemployment benefits in order to "make a living", then they were already below the poverty line. Getting a handout doesn't change the economic status of a person or family.
So, how long does the Boston Globe believe that people continue getting unemployment benefits? If the benefit keeps getting extended, then it's for certain that many or most of those people, will not be going out to seek work, and might stay on the dole indefinitely. Eventually, people have to start being responsible for themselves.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:40:49 AM PST
by
adorno
(Y)
To: Gaffer
Or Binder & Binder! “You have too much to worry about (like what size big screen TV to buy or what kind of beer to get), let us rip the government off for you!” And of course extract our “fee” for doing so.
To: SeekAndFind
Obama won the presidential election and democrats control the senate and most of the judiciary.
Talk to them about it.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:42:44 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
(Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
To: SeekAndFind
Heartless republican bastids.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:45:35 AM PST
by
saganite
(What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
To: tet68
But it still is ending though, isn’t it?
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:45:53 AM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: SeekAndFind
pushing hundreds of thousands of households below the poverty line. Voted for King Obama put these hundreds of thousands below the poverty line years ago. There are some who are really in need, the rest gamed the system.
To: Gaffer
“And they need more....”
I was on that unemployment. The entire industry I worked in for 30 years has been killed by Obama. I’ve applied for jobs world wide. I’ve had a few interviews, but I’m 59 and up against men much younger. (I cut 20 years out of my resume to get those interviews.)
Now, do I really, really need the money? Thanks to Obama the cost of groceries and fuel has gone through the roof. The money I’ve saved was mostly destroyed by what he did to the economy and the stock market. (I was heavily invested in coal, for one thing.)
I see no prospect for continued employment while Obama and the Democrats are in charge. I’ve applied for much lower end jobs and haven’t gotten so much as a phone interview, probably, with two degrees, because I’m grossly over qualified. I even dumbed down the resume, but when they ask for my previous titles that probably kills it.
I did manage to get ten months running a US Navy project that was under investigation for fraud and abuse. No company employee wanted to get within touching distance. I not only completed the contract, I also built a successful case to prove their innocence. But the rest of their business was in near collapse due to what Obama is doing to the military.
In one way, I’m pleased that Congress has done this. In another way I’m upset that Congress didn’t fix any of the underlying economy that created the unemployment; sequestration and Obamacare.
To: SeekAndFind
How do we square the fact that we have high unemployment on the one hand, and the pro-amnesty crowd crying to certify illegal aliens in the country because their labor is crucially needed. I’m just an ol’ country boy so explain it to me in easy to understand words.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:46:23 AM PST
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: SeekAndFind
The good news is these millions will be taken off the official government unemployment numbers thereby pushing the unemployment rate down and allowing our dear leader to tout that the economy is improving, just look at the unemployment rate.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:46:27 AM PST
by
Starstruck
(If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
To: SkyDancer
"Well there goes the economy according to Pelosi. She says that unemployment money stimulates the economy."
So that's the alleged link between unemployment benefits and job growth? That one is messing with my brain. If unemployment benefits allow people to buy things they otherwise wouldn't buy, this allows employers to hire more people? Just how many unemployed people does Pelosi think we need in order to grow the economy?
To: Steve_Seattle
It just occurred to me what a small # are losing unemployment benefits, compared to how many have already lost their health insurance.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:50:50 AM PST
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: KC_Conspirator
Blame the people responsible - Obama and the democraps.Can't. Obama and the democraps made it against the law.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:53:13 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
To: SeekAndFind
The media are already blaming it on Republicans.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:54:10 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
To: Steve_Seattle
So that's the alleged link between unemployment benefits and job growth? That one is messing with my brain.Well, in fairness, we should remember that Nancy Pelosi actually says that food stamps are the best economic stimulus, but unemployment is up there as well. You must bear in mind the synergy at work: food stamps plus unemployment is a powerful combination, and then throw in Sec. 8 and Medicaid and you have all the ingredients for a full Detroit-sized boom.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:57:28 AM PST
by
sphinx
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