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#18:
There’s really no point arguing with you. You’re extrapolating anecdotal personal evidence to explain the situation.
Fact is, there are more people than there are jobs. To a degree not seen since the depression.
#7 What did Nancy P. do on the public tab? She was living like a Goddess. How does Obama and his family live? Where does the money to pay for it come from?
Remember his commit about public health care and it applying to him?
Look at Gore and Clinton. The amount of money they’ve sold out for or extorted from the Saudi’s is obscene and the Clinton charities are a gold mine. I think the last data according to Adam was that it cost them something like 30,000,000 to handle that money which was a heck of a big chunk of the funds handled. Had to pay for their kids wedding no doubt. I wonder if their son in law is on the pay roll? Just asking.
I’m not sure about the Bush Presidents. They seem to be more or less happy with the wealth they already have but then I haven’t been digging either and they clearly are more circumspect in their dealings.
Don’t worry about all the small stuff folks. When it all comes crashing down there will be a huge die-off of the excess population.All the government-dependnt welfare folks. People who’ve mostly had self-sufficiency and survival instincts bred out of them. Then we won’t have to worry about unemployment, jobs or government.
Get a damn job! We owe you nothing. Stop asking for free money and demand that the government quit stifling businesses and penalizing the working. There is not an honest person in this world that would want or could possibly expect years worth of welfare.
I work to support my family not yours, they are your responsibility. Why the does the government have the right to take my family’s sustenance at the point of a gun to feed you and yours?
Sadly the amount we tax payers spend in subsidising corporations in a supposed free market nation would pay for all these people to be employed by the government and we would still have excess funds on hand to go towards other badly needed projects.
The corporations are the biggest welfare recipients. Not individual citizens.
To all who would cut these people off and claim to be Christian. Please stop, you’re not anything of the sort.
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#24:
“Why the does the government have the right to take my family’s sustenance at the point of a gun to feed you and yours?”
I hope you complained just as loudly when they took your money, at the point of a gun, to fund the bailouts and the war.
Did you ever think that maybe these people need unemployment benefits because the gov’t has been taking half of their income, “at the point of a gun” as you say, and therefore couldn’t save anything?
Since my post mistakenly disappeared I thought I share it again.
“All I have to say is FCK Bush and his father.”
#23, I think that scenario could also go the opposite way. There could be a lot of people on welfare that have learned to live with little, whereas the middle class people that have a lot now don’t know much about living with nothing. A lot of the people that are wealthy are the ones that need services done for them because they don’t know how to do it themselves. I bet a lot of people living in the sticks know how to hunt an animal and skin it and eat it. It’s been rumored that’s why the deer population is so much lower in many states this hunting season is because people living in the rural areas are killing them for food. A person used to eating out every day probably won’t have those survival skills. But it’s all just speculation and b.s at this point anyway. If shit got that bad then I think politics will be the last thing people will be thinking about.
Just wanted to point out that this extension doesn’t give the 99ers another 13 months. The 99ers are still done after 99 weeks. This new bill just covers those behind the 99ers who are about to lose benefits.
I won’t denigrate these people. I will say that people who can’t find work for two years should perhaps move to where the opportunities are. My family was forced to do this in the late 1970s. America has always been a mobile society. Some places with high unemployment just aren’t ever coming back.
#29:
“I will say that people who can’t find work for two years should perhaps move to where the opportunities are.”
And how are they supposed to pay for the move?
“And how are they supposed to pay for the move?”
The same ways generations of Americans have.
First – the economy since the end of 2008 has been the worst since the Great Depression. So most people living & working today have never had to deal with something like this before.
Second – even in the worst of times most people are employed and many go through the whole thing with no problems at all. If you are one of those lucky people shut up and thank God for what you have.
Third – While it is true that “Anyone” can find a job. It is one of those bull sh** statements used by liars. The truth is this: if every available job in this country were taken tomorrow by an unemployed person there would still be 6-8 million unemployed people. So while it maybe true that anyone can get a job it is an absolute lie that everyone can.
“First – the economy since the end of 2008 has been the worst since the Great Depression.”
Yep. Barry and Nancy Lugosi have quite the track record. Hope and change!
The Republicans and Democrats respond to recessions the same way. They both increase deficit spending.
The Republicans do it by cutting taxes (mostly to higher income people) and increasing spending (mostly military).
The Democrats do it by cutting taxes (mostly mid income people) and increasing spending (mostly by increasing aid to various support programs and increasing infrastructure spending).
Problem with this recession is the normal stuff was not enough to end it as fast as normal. If you like the Republican or Democratic deficit spending better is a personal preference. The bottom line is the economy isn’t ready for the Government to stop deficit spending yet, which is what this new agreement on taxes and spending is all about.
Was unemployed for over seven months. Business had just started to pick up a little bit where I worked by late summer 2009 after the 2008 Masters of the Universe Money Meltdown Moronathon. I was already concerned about my job, but things were looking up. Then the Sept 21st 2009 Five Hundred Year Flood Event. Drowned all the business’s equipment. Owner managed to clean up, repair and replace about seventy percent of the gear. Enough that we were back in business this summer. If he hadn’t owned the two buildings the business operated out of, it wouldn’t have been possible. Government was NO help at all. Over half the other businesses in the industrial park just went under. Even with unemployment, if I didn’t own my home I’d probably have been robbing banks. The local TV news shows that to be quite popular around here now.
>>To help our readers kill their Christmas spirit
As someone who is also laid off
FUCK YOU