Obama: Unemployment Benefits' Expiration "Just Plain Cruel" [Republicans Not Torturers?]

CBSNews ^ | January 04, 2013

[T. P. Pole]

We don’t abandon our fellow Americans when times get tough

What was that ambassador's name again?

[mongo141]

“Is it cruel in this country to expect people to work?”
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If you happen to be a RAT interested in staying in office it probably is. I happen to know a few folks that would say or do anything including voting for anyone that will keep the money coming in. They have learned to like getting their lifestyle supported by the Federal and State governments so they have no intention of going to work. The problem is when you see a cockroach somewhere there are always a lot more hiding from the light.

[GailA]

What is cruel is a diabetic US male can't get Medicaid from his state, he works PT no health ins. faces 0’care fines. He can't work more hrs because his wife who just had a Mastectomy and is on round 4 of her year of chemo will loose her treatments, they will also cover the 12 year old, but not the diabetic male head of house. And she can't go back to work until she completes the chemo, she is a CNA in a nursing home. Cancer was found because a patient kicked her in the breast. Stage 3 HER2 & hormone positive, made the walnut size tumor that had spread into milk ducts, loblue and 1 lympth node a stage 3 instead of stage 2.

[TBP]

Pass a bill extending unemployment, but tying it to job creating measures so we don’t have to keep doing this. Make the Democrats oppose it.

[Old Yeller]

LuciferCare is as cruel as you can get.

[Revolutionary]

A new problem has arisen because of the democrats: immigrants, legal and illegal have taken all of the fall back jobs. And in most cases are the hiring manager. As such they only hire their own kind. Every fall back job location is extremely monolithic. I am not big on extended benefits and I am pissed about this latest development.

[Mack the knife]

This is just another version of “the frog and the scorpion”.

The Budget bill was written primarily by a Republican and a Democrat, passed by the House(majority Republican) and the Senate (majority Democrat), and signed by the President(Democrat). By definition, it was bi-partisan. Then Obama critizes the Republicans for a feature of the bill.

Definition of Bipartisanship: When you pass a bill, anything “bad” about the bill is the fault of the Republicans, and anything “worthy” in the bill should be credited to Democrats.

Comprehensive Immigration Reform anyone?

[Texas Songwriter]

Stealing from hardworking taxpayers is cruel.

Putting 20 trillion dollars on the backs of our children is just plain cruel.

Making our children slaves to communist chinese is beneath contempt.

Where to the hell are the republican who should be on every talk show rebutting these declarations of obama. They are silent. The damn country is being lost before our eyes and no one will stand up for the Constitution.

[Steelfish]

Very well said!
Where are OUR representatives?