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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,729 posts)
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 02:34 PM Sep 2021

Ted Cruz to millions of Americans who lost their unemployment benefits on Labor Day, "get a job"

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas reacted to news that millions of Americans had lost their unemployment benefits as of Labor Day by telling those who were out of work to get a job.

Cruz tweeted Monday night, sharing an article by ABC News that carried the headline "Jobless Americans have few options as benefits expire."

"Um, get a job?" Cruz wrote in his tweet. "There are millions of vacancies, and small businesses across the Nation are desperate for workers."

Three federal unemployment-aid programs were scheduled to end by Monday. The programs were the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, and a program that provided people with $300 a week in Federal Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ted-cruz-told-millions-americans-032805749.html

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Ted Cruz to millions of Americans who lost their unemployment benefits on Labor Day, "get a job" (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2021 OP
Wish he would do his job instead of grandstanding. nature-lover Sep 2021 #1
Does he bluedevil4 Sep 2021 #2
He's an ass. He spends $300 on lunch, the pig, and thinks Luz Sep 2021 #7
How is this worthless, fucking oxygen thief a Senator? Aviation Pro Sep 2021 #3
I respectfully offer that Texas is the taint. Comfortably_Numb Sep 2021 #5
Sorry I didn't finish, had to reply to an important work email that was ridiculously unimportant. Comfortably_Numb Sep 2021 #6
"Get a job", he piously exclaimed... The Unmitigated Gall Sep 2021 #4
 

bluedevil4

(305 posts)
2. Does he
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 02:38 PM
Sep 2021

think we don’t want to work? He acts like getting $300 a week allowed us to live an extravagant life style 🙄🤦‍♀️

Luz

(772 posts)
7. He's an ass. He spends $300 on lunch, the pig, and thinks
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 04:08 PM
Sep 2021

that same $300 per month is WAY to much to give the unemployed and their families.

I repeat. He's. A. Pig.

Aviation Pro

(12,124 posts)
3. How is this worthless, fucking oxygen thief a Senator?
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 02:38 PM
Sep 2021

Oh, that’s right, fucking Texass.

(If Florida is America’s penis Texass is its anus).

Comfortably_Numb

(3,793 posts)
6. Sorry I didn't finish, had to reply to an important work email that was ridiculously unimportant.
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 02:59 PM
Sep 2021

Taint—-as in taint worth a bucket of piss nowadays….

The Unmitigated Gall

(3,779 posts)
4. "Get a job", he piously exclaimed...
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 02:43 PM
Sep 2021

...After which he re-latched back on to the taxpayer teat he’s been feeding on for a decade.

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