About 37,000 North Carolina residents lose jobless benefits

[The Northerner]

WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) – About 37,000 North Carolina residents lost their unemployment benefits on Saturday when Gov. Beverly Perdue refused to sign a budget bill that extended the benefits for those unemployed more than 99 weeks.

The Republican-controlled General Assembly met in a rare weekend session on Saturday to pass a bill extending the benefits but forcing the Democratic governor to accept a 13 percent cut in the $19.9 billion state budget she presented in February.

After the legislature acted, the governor's office said Perdue will veto the legislation.

"The General Assembly has once again shown they are willing to play games with people's lives in holding hostage some 37,000 unemployed North Carolinians," the governor said in a statement.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110416/us_nm/us_northcarolina_jobless

[Sherman A1]

1. Charming

These are just hate filled people......

[ladjf]

3. Violence prone sadists. nt

[Synicus Maximus]

2. Workers should have benifits until they find work.