On Unemployment Benefits? The GOP Likens You to a “Hobo.”
February 25, 2010 at 6:51 PM 1 comment
Millions of Americans are unemployed and living (barely) on unemployment benefits — mostly due to no fault of their own — but House and Senate Republicans apparently think they’re a bunch of lazy, whining, welfare-queen-types and they are fighting an extension of those benefits:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is trying to pass an extension of unemployment benefits, but is facing resistance from Republicans who are throwing up procedural hurdles and trying to use the extension as leverage to push through a tax cut for the wealthiest families in the country. Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) today questioned the necessity of an extension on the grounds that “we intend to have some immediate impact on the economy through what we’re doing.” And discourse in the House isn’t any better, with Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV) positing that extending unemployment benefits may be creating “hobos.”
The deal with Republicans is that their attention and effort centers on corporations and the rich (yes, Democrats, unfortunately, are trending that way too). They literally don’t care about average Americans; they just kind of get in the way.
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The_Conservative_Lie | February 26, 2010 at 10:06 AM
And apparently they think that when the unemployed have no income at all and can’t buy groceries, or pay bills, or otherwise spend money anywhere, THAT will help the economy. You know, because nothing encourages economic growth like taking money out of the system.
Fan of Palast? Check out what he has to say about the global economy and world bank. That is one of the strategies they use in countries where they support the economy. After they have essentially bankrupted the country, they tell the leaders it is all part of the process and then advise them to start pulling public monies out of the system. This is all to build a robber barron utopia. At this point, land and resources are dirt cheap and people are willing to work for anything.