Pres: Extend Unemployment Benefits to create jobs RIGHT NOW

[ArcadiaGP]

It's so crazy it just might work! It's magic! Make it easier to be unemployed... to create jobs!

Obama: Extending Unemployment Benefits Will "Help Create Jobs Right Now" | RealClearPolitics

 

[Kitty]

Lately I can't help thinking - Does he actually HEAR what he is saying?

 

[RockofStrength]

But you don't understand! With all the additional spending by the unemployed, we'll have new entrepreneurs create businesses that cater to this new source of income! And then they'll hire...the...people who already don't need jobs...

 

[Kitty]

Now you're trying to make my head hurt!

 

[Dogman]

He's like a broken record, it's the same thing over and over again and he expects a different outcome each time.
He is so far removed from reality that it is scary someone like him could be voted in as President.

 

[signut49]

Sounds good to me. A new form of welfare. Lose your job, don't look for another one, and stay on unemployment for the rest of your life.

 

[dross]

I love how it's Social Security and Medicare when we want the people who already pay taxes to pay more, but when we want to give away to our base it's suddenly "payroll taxes."

 

[Pocketman]

Here's what's wrong with this whole premise of spending and job creation. Virtually all manufactured items, are made outside the U.S.. Japanese cars are selling and many are made in the U.S.. Not typical purchases by the unemployed. Result is, our money spent creates jobs somewhere else! It's not like the old days when everything worth having was manufactured here.

 

[wrigleycub]

Wait........is this his way of adding hundreds of thousands of government jobs!

 

[wrigleycub]

He's like a broken record, it's the same thing over and over again and he expects a different outcome each time.


^^^^^^The definition of insanity!

 

[geronimojoe85]

So, how long can I suckle at the government teat if I lose my job today?

 

[ultraspec]

Did any of you truly expect anything less?

 

[Kitty]

So, how long can I suckle at the government teat if I lose my job today?

Anywhere from 26 to 79 weeks! Depending on the situation.

 

[dross]

So, how long can I suckle at the government teat if I lose my job today?

Don't forget that this is money your employer is forced to pay on your behalf, which is the same as saying it was taken from you, only indirectly. So, if there's nothing wrong with taking a Social Security check, there's nothing wrong with taking an unemployment check.

 

[geronimojoe85]

Don't forget that this is money your employer is forced to pay on your behalf, which is the same as saying it was taken from you, only indirectly. So, if there's nothing wrong with taking a Social Security check, there's nothing wrong with taking an unemployment check.

Oh don't get me wrong, I understand people are forced into paying this and absolutly feel that if you need it (unemployment, welfare, ect.) by all means use it. But this is reduculious.

 

[CarmelHP]

Anywhere from 26 to 79 weeks! Depending on the situation.

Actually, 93, down from 99 a few months ago.

 

[jdhaines]

Turn off money to the DEA, IRS, ATF, Dept. of Education and Dept. of Agriculture, and use 25% of it to fund major infrastructure upgrades including fiber optic, bridges, roads, underground future-proof electrical grid, etc. Put people to work doing real things, that will actually benefit society, and use less than half the money we're currently wasting on these stupid organizations not helping anyone. If you put in at least 20hours of work doing some public job you get your welfare money. If you don't, then you get enough food to survive and no money. You can live off the .gov, but it won't be any fun.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

I can honestly say, that even if I were "in need", I would never succumb to using the Government for anything. I would not file for unemployment, I would not use "foodstamps", etc...

I don't care if that makes me seem "too proud", because yeah, I'm a proud person with self-respect. It's no one else's job to take care of me.

Good thing I'm not in need, and show no signs of heading that direction.

 

[joslar15]

"So, when Congress gets back in September I want to move quickly on things that will help the economy create jobs right now. Extending the payroll tax credit to put a thousand dollars in the pocket of the average American worker. Extending unemployment insurance to help people get back on their feet. Putting construction workers back to work rebuilding America."

~Barak Obama, August 5, 2011

Translation: Stimulus package and shovel-ready *cough* jobs!!!

 

[moischmoe]

I can honestly say, that even if I were "in need", I would never succumb to using the Government for anything. I would not file for unemployment, I would not use "foodstamps", etc...

I don't care if that makes me seem "too proud", because yeah, I'm a proud person with self-respect. It's no one else's job to take care of me.

Good thing I'm not in need, and show no signs of heading that direction.

Been there, done that. I lost my job three years ago. I collected unemployment for one month until I decided to be a stay at home dad, at which point I stopped collecting. We tried to make things work on one income, but ultimately, we had to sell our house on six acres in the country (I miss my shooting range) and move into town, and a house we could afford. No handouts for us, thank you, we'll take care of ourselves.