Reply #8: I know. This makes me absolutely livid. [View All]

[inna]

I want to (virtually, of course) punch my Democratic senator in the face (and I swear, I'm not a violent person at all.)

Big business politicians of both parties have expressed their disdain for the unemployed, suggesting that extended unemployment benefits, now set at 99 weeks, are encouraging jobless workers to stay home and not look for work. Georgia Republican Congressman John Linder said that extended benefits were “too much of an allure.”

Senator Diane Feinstein, a multi-millionaire Democrat from California, complained, “We have 99 weeks of unemployment insurance. The question comes, how long do you continue that before people just don’t go back to work at all?” California has a 12.6 percent unemployment rate, with 880,000 workers unemployed for 27 weeks or more, and receiving extended benefits.

Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat with particularly close ties to the White House, voted against the unemployment extension and backed the $25 a week cut. “This is not something that can go on indefinitely,” she said. Otherwise, “it begins to look like a brand-new level of entitlement program, which is something that we really can’t afford to do right now.”

So, what are those who lose their unemployment benefits and still can't find a job supposed to do?? Kill themselves??

:banghead:

Meanwhile, the rich are getting richer and richer.

What a fucking country.

:nuke: