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I think that I voted yes, under the condition that Congress cut some other social spending program to PAY for this extrension.
Sorry if my yes vote skewed the results.
How about cutting the social spending we're doing in the ASIAN land wars we're currently pissing money away on?
You down with that?
On top of those "slave wages" there is the cost to build a factory there and the cost to proodcue there (taxes, etc) and the cost to ship back to the US.
So I again ask, what prompted those employers to ship the jobs overseas?
Maybe the unions got a little greedy with those "for life" benefits that no one else gets?
Everything the companies have given the unions was worked for and agreed upon. In all cases, the employees gave up something for a secure retirement, ie, lower wages currently, no increase or a low increase in wages, etc. Now you think those companies, after getting the work out of the workers shouldn't have to keep up their end of the bargain?
Unions accepted a certain package of wages and benefits.
What happens when companies cannot pay those wages and benefits anymore? Two possibilities: THe company closes, throwing all the workers out of work. The company renegotiates its contract, allowing them to continue to employ people, albeit at lower wages and benefits.
Which would you choose? There's no real third choice.
Wow! you're right! Because some twenty something sees unemployment as a paid vacation, those benefits should be denied to a forty something with two kids and a mortgage! Brilliant solution!Yeah. that's what people who lost their jobs are thinking! How on earth can I just sit here for a while longer?
If that's what you truly believe, then I submit you have never lost a job and watched your family wonder if and when the next meal will be served.
You've surveyed every single unemployed person and found they all fit this category, right? You never came across some 20-somthing who said "gov't paid holiday, let's party!"? You never came across someone else who said, "i've got 2 months severance plus unemployment. I can afford to wait for the right job" right?
Because that is exactly what happens.
While we're at it, let's stop all housing assistance to everyone because there are a few folks abusing that system!
baby? gone with the bathwater.
and everyone knows a fall down drunk. Should we bring back prohibition?Wow! you're right! Because some twenty something sees unemployment as a paid vacation, those benefits should be denied to a forty something with two kids and a mortgage! Brilliant solution!You've surveyed every single unemployed person and found they all fit this category, right? You never came across some 20-somthing who said "gov't paid holiday, let's party!"? You never came across someone else who said, "i've got 2 months severance plus unemployment. I can afford to wait for the right job" right?
Because that is exactly what happens.
While we're at it, let's stop all housing assistance to everyone because there are a few folks abusing that system!
baby? gone with the bathwater.
I personally have 3 friends around around age 45, two with kids who think it is a vacation. My wife has at least 50 financial clients who think the same. Many of these people work on the side for cash. One of my friends was really pissed when one of the companies he applied for hired him. Since August he was 5 months on unemployment & was looking foreword to taking the entire summer off. Just last week he told me he got himself let go again so he could continue to enjoy the summer.
I think that I voted yes, under the condition that Congress cut some other social spending program to PAY for this extrension.
Sorry if my yes vote skewed the results.
But what about the small and mid sized companies that will have their unemployment burden put them over the top?
It is not as cut and dry as congress eliminating other expenses. What about the businesses? We have already cut all other expenses to bare bones minimum.
We have no leeway.
While some small percentage of these unemployed Americans are slackers the vast majority of them are not and I am concerned about what they are going to do when those minimal Unemployment checks are stopped. So I support extending their eligibility period and we can finance it by suspending Israel's annual $3 billion welfare check. And if need be we can start hacking away at a lot more "foreign aid" and start aiding our own.
Another thing we can do is knock off the goddam drug war which produces more harm than good.
I'm also in favor of confiscating any individual personal assets in excess of twenty million dollars and restoring the progressive income tax to a maximum level of 90%.
Anyone else have suggestions?
99 weeks seemed to not be enough.The GOP's crime in all this was to ask...How do we pay for it?
My question is what happened to the stimulus? where are the jobs?...Did someone think to ask the President that?...and finally my last question,how long do we extend the benefit? If 99 weeks aren't enough what is...199.299,399...
I'm also in favor of confiscating any individual personal assets in excess of twenty million dollars and restoring the progressive income tax to a maximum level of 90%.
While some small percentage of these unemployed Americans are slackers the vast majority of them are not and I am concerned about what they are going to do when those minimal Unemployment checks are stopped. So I support extending their eligibility period and we can finance it by suspending Israel's annual $3 billion welfare check. And if need be we can start hacking away at a lot more "foreign aid" and start aiding our own.
Another thing we can do is knock off the goddam drug war which produces more harm than good.
I'm also in favor of confiscating any individual personal assets in excess of twenty million dollars and restoring the progressive income tax to a maximum level of 90%.
Anyone else have suggestions?
While some small percentage of these unemployed Americans are slackers the vast majority of them are not and I am concerned about what they are going to do when those minimal Unemployment checks are stopped. So I support extending their eligibility period and we can finance it by suspending Israel's annual $3 billion welfare check. And if need be we can start hacking away at a lot more "foreign aid" and start aiding our own.
Another thing we can do is knock off the goddam drug war which produces more harm than good.
I'm also in favor of confiscating any individual personal assets in excess of twenty million dollars and restoring the progressive income tax to a maximum level of 90%.
Anyone else have suggestions?
Yeah. Quit being pea green with envy and quit worrying that someone else has more money than you do.
and everyone knows a fall down drunk. Should we bring back prohibition?
