2 million lose jobless benefits as holidays arrive

[Facetious]

The economy tanked because of the greedy that are bleating for an extension of the tax cut that has failed since 2003 to do what they claim it's going to do. Repeat has failed to do what they claim it will do. That sort of illogic runs rampant through the teabagger republican't party.

:error: The one's pleading for a tax cut extension are people who are involved in the small business sector who are beginning to see a sign of recovery . . . greedy? hardly!


You see everything through the prism of politics

 

[pete rose]

great, another "the government give them nikes!!!" thread.

 

[xfire]

The one's pleading for a tax cut extension are people who are involved in the small business sector who are beginning to see a sign of recovery . . . greedy? hardly!

Small business would be exempt under the democratic tax plan.

As for seeing everything thought a political prism, would you mind explaining why republicans are blocking the START treaty renewal and the Child Nutrition bill?

 

[ApolloBalboa]

As Jane so delightfully put it, both parties are to blame. I'm not going to be all one-sided, but simply put, both parties are content to be presented with an issue, point fingers, and serve it back and forth whilst sitting on their asses making money. The Republicans get flack for wanting to extend the tax cut and the Democrats get it for presenting solutions, only for them not to have the desired effect or to be voted against, stalling whatever possible solutions either party could come to.

Neither party has what it takes to run a country (successfully), which is why I support neither.

 

[anomaly]

Yip, yip, yip ,yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, mum, mum, mum, mum, mum.........GET A JOB!!!!

 

[maildude]

But Congress says we need to stop spending! Hell, if we just take the soup bowls and Ritz crackers away from all of these so-called "homeless" people, and if we kick those unemployed money suckers in the ass and make them get a job...at Wendy's...by God, we'd have enough money to light the Christmas tree in front of the Lehman Brothers building.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

They should start by kicking all the 20+ million illegal cocksuckers out. Yeah. That'd be a start.

 

[itcouldbeme]

Just did a couple rough calcs...

Looks like the amount needed to extend is about .25% of the gdp...

The number of people that would be "helped" is around .65% of the population...

Of all the social shit that I am completely against, an extension may not be a bad idea... :dunno:

Of course, I'm about half :beer:, and probably shouldn't be posting this...

Someone who knows more, check my numbers, and chime in...

 

[xfire]

Try this on for size-

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/01/business/main7106818.shtml

Newly released documents show that the most loan money over time went to Citigroup ($2.2 trillion), followed by Merrill Lynch ($2.1 trillion), Morgan Stanley ($2 trillion), Bank of America ($1.1 trillion), Bear Stearns ($960 billion), Goldman Sachs ($620 billion), JPMorgan Chase ($260 billion) and Wells Fargo ($150 billion).

And we can't extend unemployment benefits to 2 million people? Come the fuck on.

 

[Facetious]

They should start by kicking all the 20+ million illegal cocksuckers out. Yeah. That'd be a start.

The illegals are too valuable of a future voting constituency to do that! :nono:

 

[Hot Mega]

Just did a couple rough calcs...

Looks like the amount needed to extend is about .25% of the gdp...

The number of people that would be "helped" is around .65% of the population...

Of all the social shit that I am completely against, an extension may not be a bad idea... :dunno:

Of course, I'm about half :beer:, and probably shouldn't be posting this...

Someone who knows more, check my numbers, and chime in...

:1orglaugh:1orglaughI misread that for a second...I thought it read 25% of gdp....:eek::eek: GDP is about $15 trillion.:1orglaugh 25% of that would have people on unemployment for 20 years (or more).

 

[alexios]

"They're finding out now that no Christmas is coming! They're just waking up, I know just what they'll do. Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry, 'Boo Hoo.' "