Unemployment benefits end for many people (a million, maybe or more) tomorrow

[lucy]

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Then, what?

[Hollybaere]

Then, what?

Then the Obama Regime will claim that the number of people collecting unemployment benefits has decreased, leading the sheeple to think things are getting better.

Watch and see.

[makesenseplease]

Then the Obama Regime will claim that the number of people collecting unemployment benefits has decreased, leading the sheeple to think things are getting better.

Watch and see.

The regime is at least giving lip-service to the problem.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/23/reid-seeks-to-extend-unem_n_473436.html

Don't know how it turned out.

[johnhp]

If you guys have a problem with unemployment benefits being extended isn't your problem with the guy holding that up?

Jones, 29, is among the 15,000 Illinoisans whose unemployment benefits expire today because of a filibuster by U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) Bunning is using Senate rules to block a vote to fund extended benefits for people nationwide who have exhausted the basic 26 weeks of coverage.


http://www.suntimes.com/business/2076255,CST-NWS-benefits01.article

How is it you all fail to address the actual issue?  There is legislation ready for the voting but this one guy is obstructing it.  You want the bill to pass, stand up to the right.

[Velleity]

How is it you all fail to address the actual issue? 

I would fall over dead if they ever did address the actual issue. Failing to address issues is what they do.

[johnhp]

Vell

i understand.  i just don't get not looking at exactly what is going on rather than decrying it as if it just happened.

[Velleity]

Makesenseplease has proven himself to be a duplicitous lying weasel.

I don't get it either, but there it is.

[johnhp]

Vell

All due respect, my posts describe the 1st 3 posts on this thread.

[Velleity]

Vell

All due respect, my posts describe the 1st 3 posts on this thread.

Not sure what you're saying here John. Either way I like calling Makesenseplease a lying, duplicitous weasel. 

[johnhp]

Not sure what you're saying here John. Either way I like calling Makesenseplease a lying, duplicitous weasel. 

Just including Lucy and Holly in my remarks about those who cannot speak to the facts of the situation.

[ivanm]

If you guys have a problem with unemployment benefits being extended isn't your problem with the guy holding that up?


How is it you all fail to address the actual issue?  There is legislation ready for the voting but this one guy is obstructing it.  You want the bill to pass, stand up to the right.

What are you suggesting should be done?  Does one vote stop the thing from going forward?
I think that you a Vel need to spend more time discussing the issue at hand and less time dissing other posters.
What are you two anyway, the forum hatchet men? 

[makesenseplease]

If you guys have a problem with unemployment benefits being extended isn't your problem with the guy holding that up?


How is it you all fail to address the actual issue?  There is legislation ready for the voting but this one guy is obstructing it.  You want the bill to pass, stand up to the right.

You've got a point there, John.  As I said, I don't know how it turned out.

Is Bunning the issue or is funding the issue

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/filibuster-sen-jim-bunning-bucks-unem

What's wrong with using unused stimulus money?

[ivanm]

You've got a point there, John.  As I said, I don't know how it turned out.

Is Bunning the issue or is funding the issue

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/filibuster-sen-jim-bunning-bucks-unem

What's wrong with using unused stimulus money?

 I was thinking they were going to do that?

[johnhp]

What are you suggesting should be done?

You idiots that live in RED states should call your Senators and get them to force that idiot to drop his hold.

Does one vote stop the thing from going forward?

i think you could use a primer on Senate rules: one hold can bring it to a grinding halt.

[johnhp]

Is Bunning the issue or is funding the issue

Bunning, specifically, and Republican obstructionism in general are the problem.  The proper working of government cannot go forward because these idiots want to set records for saying no.