Democrats Rally to Support Unemployment Insurance Extension

jjohnblack0124:29 PM Dec 3, 2010 I saw the numbers reported today. And if we had responsible people in congress the last two years instead of a bunch of obstrutionist republicans who blocked meaningful jobs legislation over and over again we might have had more jobs creation. *********** The Democrats have held the majority since 2007. Obviously, all the "obstructionists" weren't Republicans...

lo colon1:00 PM Dec 3, 2010 Rob and Kathy: tell us how tax cuts for the rich are going to create jobs? Unemployment Benefits are spent immediately on necessities at the local level benefiting local merchants and forstalling collapse of local businesses. It is a true stimulus and a moral imperitive. Cut out these benefits, the immediate result will be an additional burden on state welfare budjets, food stamps, local homeless shelters, and charities at a time when state deficits are at a all time high, a good e.j. Texas is 29 Billion in the hole. What's the GOP solution: cut aid to the poor, cut school lunches, cut Social Security, raise medicare premiums on Seniors, and so on. Good ol' Reagonomics, uh? ******************* You seem a bit confused. When did I ever advocate cessation of all unemployment benefits? I merely asserted that the benefits need to be paid for and responsibly administered. Also, that there has to be some kind of limit to the benefits. They can't continue indefinitely..

Soon-to-be-former-Speaker Pelosi's comments only serve to illustrate her total ignorance! Unemployment payments are an essential stop-gap to keep folks alive, but that's the extent!! For anyone with any business experience to even hint that unemployment benefits are job creators is ludicrous! If there was any validity to it, the best way to create jobs would be to fire EVERYBODY that has a job and have them all qualify for benefits...it's ridiculous and Pelosi should spend her declining years in a loony bin somewhere-she's earned it!!

Rob and Kathy: tell us how tax cuts for the rich are going to create jobs? Unemployment Benefits are spent immediately on necessities at the local level benefiting local merchants and forstalling collapse of local businesses. It is a true stimulus and a moral imperitive. Cut out these benefits, the immediate result will be an additional burden on state welfare budjets, food stamps, local homeless shelters, and charities at a time when state deficits are at a all time high, a good e.j. Texas is 29 Billion in the hole. What's the GOP solution: cut aid to the poor, cut school lunches, cut Social Security, raise medicare premiums on Seniors, and so on. Good ol' Reagonomics, uh?

jjohnblack0123:18 AM Dec 3, 2010 Where do the two of you work? It seems that you two are on this blog 24 sevens spewing nonsense. Who ever said that this was meant to be a permanent solution? So like the previous poster said if you apply for a job and their are multiple people applying as well only one of them will get it. You people sit around all day on your high and mighty pedestal always looking down on people when it looks like you should be looking for a job yourself. Maybe if you can tear yourselves away from spewing nonsense on this blog you might actually find one yourself because you have way too much time on your hands. Have the two of you ever considered getting a hobby? ********************** Really, John. Your satirical hypocrisy is hilarious...

jjohnblack0129:49 PM Dec 2, 2010 If you watch something other than Faux news you would know that the stimulus according to leading economist both conservative and moderate (which obviously the two of you are not) all agree that the stimulus created and saved 1 million jobs and averted a near depression caused by Bush 2 at the end of his failed presidency. Without this stimulus it is estimated that we would have ended up in a depression and nearly 800,000 more jobs would have been lost. ******************* First off, not all leading economists "all agree". Also, did you see the unemployment numbers reported today?

dokes4856- Tell us, how is increased taxes on the wealthy going to create a job for you?...

What happened to all the millions of jobs Obama's $800 billion "stimulus bill" was supposed to create?...

Unemployment compensation is a wage benefit, a bit of pay that is taxed away before the employee sees it. Increases in outlays for unemployment compensation eventually result in higher wage costs without any increase in employee take-home pay. This does not sound like the economic boon Pelosi describes: it is a recipe for longer unemployment durations and a less competitive America, driving even more jobs overseas.

Dont you think if Americans were willing to work for 5.00 an hour again there would be plenty of corperations bring jobs back home? Instead of inflation we need deflation so people can survive on 5.00 an hour, but the current plan where everything gets more expensive every year will not work long term, eventually everything will imploded.