GOP Senator..."tough shit" for the unemployed

[SpidermanTuba]

"I have missed the Kentucky-South Carolina game that started at 9:00," he said, "and it's the only redeeming chance we had to beat South Carolina since they're the only team that has beat Kentucky this year.

If that fuck really cared about Kentucky basketball he'd leave the legislation to the rest of Congress and go watch the game.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Republican white house and congress

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
2000 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.8 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.1 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9
2001 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.5 4.6 4.9 5.0 5.3 5.5 5.7
2002 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 6.0
2003 5.8 5.9 5.9 6.0 6.1 6.3 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.0 5.8 5.7
2004 5.7 5.6 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.5 5.4 5.4
2005 5.3 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.1 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.9
2006 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4

Democrats take over congress

2007 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.7 5.0
2008 5.0 4.8 5.1 5.0 5.4 5.5 5.8 6.1 6.2 6.6 6.9 7.4

Democrats have white house and congress

2009 7.7 8.2 8.6 8.9 9.4 9.5 9.4 9.7 9.8 10.1 10.0 10.0
2010 9.7


Any questions?

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[potter 58]

yea tired the asshole wants to make look like it's all the Dems fault as usual and we both know that is total bull shit, BTW I do find it hypocritical that Bush vetoed nothing in the first 6 years and just about everything in the last 2

We both know it took both sides to get us in this mess, at least if you are a little bit honest

 

[keee keee]

And the problem with paying for it out of the stimulus money would be... ?

used for the same reason to buy votes.

 

[keee keee]

Republican white house and congress

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
2000 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.8 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.1 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9
2001 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.5 4.6 4.9 5.0 5.3 5.5 5.7
2002 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 6.0
2003 5.8 5.9 5.9 6.0 6.1 6.3 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.0 5.8 5.7
2004 5.7 5.6 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.5 5.4 5.4
2005 5.3 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.1 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.9
2006 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4

Democrats take over congress

2007 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.7 5.0
2008 5.0 4.8 5.1 5.0 5.4 5.5 5.8 6.1 6.2 6.6 6.9 7.4

Democrats have white house and congress

2009 7.7 8.2 8.6 8.9 9.4 9.5 9.4 9.7 9.8 10.1 10.0 10.0
2010 9.7


Any questions?

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sometimes the truth hurts!!!! Nows the time to stop blaming Bush and start blaming the DEMS!!!!!! Looks like history is repeating itself. Dose this every time a dem gets in office!!!!

 

[Jay Canuck]

LIMBAUGH: You know I'm getting so many people -- this Louise Slaughter comment on the dentures? I'm getting so many people -- this is big. I mean, that gets a one-time mention for a laugh, but there are people out there that think this is huge because it's so stupid. I mean, for example, well, what's wrong with using a dead person's teeth? Aren't the Democrats big into recycling? Save the planet? And so what? So if you don't have any teeth, so what? What's applesauce for? Isn't that why they make applesauce?

 

[uscitizen]

the spin is mike when you broke it down when the Dems took over in o6, never mentioning that Bush finally found his veto pen which seemed to have been lost for his first 6 years , you know when the other pricks controled congress

Curious...what does the veto pen have to do with hard data?
Before you answer....you dont want to look like a hypocrite trying to spin it now....do you?

Didn't you post the unemployment data?

 

[CMike]

the spin is mike when you broke it down when the Dems took over in o6, never mentioning that Bush finally found his veto pen which seemed to have been lost for his first 6 years , you know when the other pricks controled congress

Not a clue what you are talking about.

 

[CMike]

Republican white house and congress

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
2000 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.8 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.1 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9
2001 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.5 4.6 4.9 5.0 5.3 5.5 5.7
2002 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 6.0
2003 5.8 5.9 5.9 6.0 6.1 6.3 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.0 5.8 5.7
2004 5.7 5.6 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.5 5.4 5.4
2005 5.3 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.1 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.9
2006 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4

Democrats take over congress

2007 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.7 5.0
2008 5.0 4.8 5.1 5.0 5.4 5.5 5.8 6.1 6.2 6.6 6.9 7.4

Democrats have white house and congress

2009 7.7 8.2 8.6 8.9 9.4 9.5 9.4 9.7 9.8 10.1 10.0 10.0
2010 9.7


Any questions?

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Thank you

 

[Jay Canuck]

hmmmmmm....

 

[EriktheRed]

Well, good for Sen. Bunning making himself the poster boy for why the GOP shouldn't be given back the keys to the country. Gonna play really well this election season, eh?

 

[CMike]

hmmmmmm....

Office Of The Speaker indeed. Not surprising.

I notice it doesn't say based on what.

 

[Avatar4321]

Hoover was not a progressive. Who told you that lie?

Herbert Hoover. I would think he would know.

Oh--another thing to point out

The stimulus of 2009 had a tax cut

The stimulus of 2008 had a tax cut in a form of a tax rebate

So?

Bush cut taxes twice(that is right--twice)

The only tax increase I can find was on cigerettes

Yet no one wants to point out that these tax cutting policies has yet to produce the results that Reaganism promised.

We had 7 years of growth until Democrats took back Congress. We still pay over a third of our income in taxes. And no one has bothered cutting spending. Can't imagine why we are having economic problems when the government is borrowing all the money out of the economy and then taxes a third of our income.

No--I am serious--When did we raise taxes? We have not raised income or corporate taxes since the Clinton era--and Clinton cut taxes before leaving the White house so I am starting to wonder if cutting taxes to stimulate the economy is really a solution here. Why not stabilize the tax code and look at cutting spending in non-essential areas such as research and so forth?

You understand the Bush tax cuts were designed to phase out by the Democrats this year and next year don't you? That means taxes will return to pre-Bush levels by January 1, 2011. It means we will see 2010 look better than it should because businesses and intelligent people will be doing all they can to move next years profits to this year to avoid the tax increase that is set in the bill. So this year is going to look better than it actually is and next year is going to look like hell.

Oh by the way. At some point the Laffer curve concept of cutting taxes to increase revenue will fail as well. In fact--the lafffer curve theorixes a rate for maximum governmental revenue--to cut or increase taxs from this point is to diminish government revenue so the question becomes what is the ideal tax rate--not lets cut taxes to increase revenue.

Obviously. It's a curve. But the idea that taxing one-third of our income is a good idea is ludicrous.

 

[Jay Canuck]

hmmmmmm....

Office Of The Speaker indeed. Not surprising.

I notice it doesn't say based on what.

when you stop giggling like a girl try and read the source........

 

[CMike]

I did bottom left it says "Office Of The Speaker" aka Nancy Pelosi.

 

[Bfgrn]

i did bottom left it says "office of the speaker" aka nancy pelosi.

source: Bureau of labor statistics 2/5/10

 

[American Horse]

Domestic terrorism by anti American SCUM continues...

Jim Bunning Repeatedly Blocks Unemployment Benefits Extension, Tells Dem 'Tough Shit'

Updated below: The Senate has now recessed for the weekend without taking action.

Jim Bunning, a Republican from Kentucky, is single-handedly blocking Senate action needed to prevent an estimated 1.2 million American workers from prematurely losing their unemployment benefits next month.

Bunning just wants it paid for. Shouldn't this whole thread be about Pay-Go, you know the legislation passed by the congress in February that requires all new spending be paid for or off-set? That's what Bunning is standing up for.

As for my own position on the issue; there is evidence that as long as unemployment benefits are extended people put off finding employment, put off decisions like moving for instance to where employment can be found; that it discourages employment. Including state and federal nemployment benefits, together they are more than half of an unemployed persons full pay. If the they have no transportation or other employment expenses, a person could get along quite well on unemployment insurance, especially if one member of a husband and wife team is still employed.

 

[CMike]

i did bottom left it says "office of the speaker" aka nancy pelosi.

source: Bureau of labor statistics 2/5/10

It says on the bottom left "Office of the speaker" (Nancy Pelosi)

What that means is Pelosi took whatever information from the Bureau Labor of Statisics which Pelosi's office didn't say what it is, and manipulated it to show what she wants to show.

Very manipulative.

 

[oreo]

Domestic terrorism by anti American SCUM continues...

Jim Bunning Repeatedly Blocks Unemployment Benefits Extension, Tells Dem 'Tough Shit'

Updated below: The Senate has now recessed for the weekend without taking action.

Jim Bunning, a Republican from Kentucky, is single-handedly blocking Senate action needed to prevent an estimated 1.2 million American workers from prematurely losing their unemployment benefits next month.

As Democratic senators asked again and again for unanimous consent for a vote on a 30-day extension Thursday night, Bunning refused to go along.

And when Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) begged him to drop his objection, Politico reports, Bunning replied: "Tough shit."

Bunning says he doesn't oppose extending benefits -- he just doesn't want the money that's required added to the deficit. He proposes paying for the 30-day extension with stimulus funds. The Senate's GOP leadership did not support him in his objections.

And at one point during the debate, which dragged on till nearly midnight, Bunning complained of missing a basketball game.

"I have missed the Kentucky-South Carolina game that started at 9:00," he said, "and it's the only redeeming chance we had to beat South Carolina since they're the only team that has beat Kentucky this year.

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SO MUCH FOR THE "PAY AS YOU GO"---:

What--that lasted for about 2-1/2 weeks--





I have no problem helping the unemployed in this country--I just wish the government would cut other government spending---to offset this extention of unemployment benefits--as they said they would do--just 2 1/2 weeks ago.

Fat chance of this administration or congress actually cutting into other meanless--wasteful government programs in order to extend unemployment benefits.

Eventually--this country is going to have to swallow the bitter pill. Either we do it now, or go into massive debt & then decide to take the pill.

Your choice America.

 

[Avatar4321]

SO MUCH FOR THE "PAY AS YOU GO"---:

What--that lasted for about 2-1/2 weeks--

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I have no problem helping the unemployed in this country--I just wish the government would cut other government spending---to offset this extention of unemployment benefits--as they said they would--2 - 1/2 weeks ago.

Fat chance of this administration or congress actually cutting into other meanless programs in order to extend unemployment benefits.

I don't have a problem helping the unemployed either. Im just not convinced that violating the constitution is the necessary way to do it.