Posted on 02/06/2014 12:34:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON — The Senate failed to move forward on a three-month extension of assistance for the long-term unemployed on Thursday, leaving it unlikely that Congress would approve the measure soon and dealing a setback to President Obama’s economic agenda.
The vote was 55-to-42, falling short of the 60-vote threshold to break a Republican filibuster effort.
Republicans and Democrats, many from the nation’s most economically depressed states, had been trying to reach a solution that would allow people who have exhausted their unemployment insurance to continue receiving benefits as long as the government offset the $6 billion cost.
Ultimately, how to pay for the program proved too big a hurdle for senators to overcome.
“We’ve given them everything they wanted. Paid for,” said Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, flashing his irritation at Republicans who blocked the bill.
He said Democrats would keep pushing to extend the benefits, which expired at the end of last year, leaving more than 1.3 million Americans cut off. That number has since grown to more than 1.7 million.
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What would you do without the benefits? Take a lower-paying job? Cut your costs?
Good for you, Rebel! You’ll be better off not remaining unemployed longer—as the extended benefits would make possible.
Yep. I watched a friend of mine go through the other approach.
He was a highly-paid professional who started out saying that he was pretty sure that he could get hired pretty quickly, but he kept encountering positions that he wouldn’t consider because they paid less than his old job. Then he got a little more desperate and sold his condo. Then he tried to start his own business, but that didn’t work. Then he moved back in with his father. He’s scrambling for bits of work now years and years after the layoff, while still sending out resumes for long-shot positions.
Did you ever think it is YOUR attitude that keeps you from being hired?
On behalf of my friends - all engineers, who had stellar careers, and are now long-term unemployed: Screw You. We're dealing first with a flood of cheap imports from overseas, and then as those imports get power over the hiring process, we're dealing with direct discrimination as Americans.
Why don't you actually try to educate yourself on the matter?
Yeah to what you said, sincerely hope things turn around for you. I am in a very similar situation.
Wait. You think that is something new? First it started with imports and our manufacturing got creamed. The influx of engineers is a result of most kids today can’t do the math to become an engineer. I am fully educated on the subject. So you want to blame ME because you want higher wages than the going rate. The economy is tuff. I suggest you study some basic economics like supply and demand.
FU Ken
Yeah, that's the problem, especially - when they ask "What is your salary expectation?", and I reply "Whatever the going rate is for this position in your company." Yup, you nailed it!
Of course, we are to totally ignore your nice remark above that you put an engineer's resume in the garbage can for suffering from long-term unemployment.
You ARE part of the problem, by your own admission.
Another unsolicited PM from “IC Ken”. I am breaking “netequitte” and posting these publicly as a) IC Ken is a Grade A Ahole, and 2) these are unsolicited ad hominem attacks on me, by a person who has never met me and does not know a thing about me. Guess it never occurred to IC Ken that when I apply for lower wage jobs for “a job, any job” I never get called for an interview since I have MBA coursework on my resume. But IC Ken knows it all, so let’s just sit back and wait for his wisdom/s
From IC Ken:
Get a job. Any job. Change your attitude some and maybe you can become hireable.
And that is why when my husband’s job with IBM went bye-bye, he immediately went back too swinging a hammer, or paint brush or whatever, and took in computer repair work as an independent so there was no “blank” in his work history.
Next step (if I can’t make the freelancing work) is lower the salary I’m looking for, then bankruptcy, then move in with the kid.
Thank you, I hope the same for you. At the risk of repeating myself, after being a hard and successful worker for the last almost 40 years I never, never, in my wildest nightmares thought I’d have this hard a time getting a job.
And let me just state for the record (even though it’s a little OT for this reply) I HAVE come down in the salary I’m seeking a good deal so far.
Ugh—bankruptcy would be a tough one.
Actually there is something to if people took jobs for less money, there would be more of them. Just as when the government mandates more employer costs, employers hire less, if talent were available for less money, more would be hired.
Best not to put everything on your resume if you’re looking for a ‘filler’ job.
Eh, it wouldn’t really bother me. I’ve “worked hard and played by the rules” and now I’m up the creek and living in a country where those in power (on all sides) seems very unconcerned with a person like me, I’ll file guilt free I can tell you that.
Just stepping up here a bit....but I don’t think you are the problem,...... it’s the state of this nation, business, and all under this administration forcing companies to do what they have to do to survive this beast controlling our nation.
Anyone working for someone else right now is on shaky ground even if they are working....the rules have all changed once were a part of our workforce and employment.
I think we should all take Government jobs and wreck havoc within it. Might be exactly why Obamacare isn’t getting fixed.
“Funny how the ‘giveaways’ are considered ‘benefits’ while my SS payments are ‘entitlements’.”
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What’s funny about that? You paid your money into SS so you should be “entitled” to your monthly check. What is funny is that people call welfare and food stamps entitlements as if people are entitled to them.
n·ti·tle
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1.
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Been there, done that, to hell with the T shirt. Ran my own business twenty years, paid unemployment taxes on my own salary and my few employees wages. Then when I shut it down due to rapidly changing technology I could not draw a dime.
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