While Americans Suffer, The GOP Continues to Stall On Additional Unemployment Benefits
While new unemployment claims rise again and Americans are losing their homes because they can't find work - work that doesn't exist, Republicans obstruct the passage of extended unemployment benefits by adding "poison pill" amendments aimed at ACORN and at providing yet another tax cut.
We won't forget. And we won't let you forget.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The number of first-time filers for unemployment insurance rose last week, snapping two weeks of significant declines, according to a government report issued Thursday.
There were 531,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ended Oct. 17, up 11,000 from an upwardly revised 520,000 the previous week, the Labor Department said in a weekly report. The week included the Columbus Day holiday.
A consensus estimate of economists surveyed by Briefing.com expected 515,000 new claims.
"[The initial claims figure] is somewhat surprising," wrote Jim Baird analyst at Plante Moran Financial Advisors, in a research note. "Excess slack in the system and employers' hesitance to ramp up hiring appear likely to weigh on the labor markets for some time."
[...] The government said 5,923,000 people filed continuing claims in the week ended Oct. 10, the most recent data available. That was down 98,000 from the preceding week's ongoing claims, and would -- if not revised -- mark the first time since late March that continuing claims were below 6 million.
But the slide in continuing claims may signal that more filers are falling off those rolls and into extended benefits.
Continuing claims reflect people filing each week after their initial claim until the end of their standard benefits, which usually last 26 weeks. The figures do not include those who have moved to state or federal extensions, nor people who have exhausted their benefits.
get a job in health care
the GOP and DEMS give away billions to them
and they are bound to destroy immune systems with their latest social experiment
talking about suffering
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http://www.expressen.se/halsa/1.1750592/de-bl...
Even though it appears that you might be a little off topic, an English translation of the Swedish website you provided in the link above, might be very helpful for us to understand what the heck your talking about.
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Want a real challenge? Try catching a greased swine flu vaccine.
Are only hiring ceo,,, They are cutting the doctors , tests and other expenses that cut into the profits..
The democrats sealed their corruption activities and policies by forcing you have to BUY a policy from them if you wish to or not..
I wonder just how much political and other funds the Baucus and the other democrats received for this piece of s....
Notice the Big Mouth democrats like Pelosi , Reid , Levin , Hoyer , Schumer , Obama and others are full of it..
You can not believe a word that trikles down their lips..
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/200...
October 20, 2008
Obama's Speech in Tampa, Florida
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Are shooting themselves in the foot. (IMO)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
was a few blocks away from here when I was a child. It's since been torn down to build commerical buildings...
Anyway...
I agree with Handypants that the GOP are shooting themselves in the foot with this one, but unfortunately they are taking innocent people down with them...
I've never seen change without a fire
Politics before people. It's American Politics. Two party politics works as well as Capitalism. It's simple. Each politician (Congress, Senate, President) gets a one time six year term. After that, you're done, you cannot run again. Take away some of the perks like public health care for life to weed out the leeches. That and a nonpartisan ethics board that is permitted to shoot lobbyist as they hand someone their business card.
AND HEALTH CARE FOR ALL!
is intended to be a factual statement
health care for all... except ex politicians!
That's one of the perks we have to take away. That's probably why most of them run anymore.
is intended to be a factual statement
I think its a great idea to take away the perks of out representatives while they are failing the citizenry. First we need some real campaign finance reform and then we need to start cutting their pay until they start serving the people who elected them.
who make the laws? Huh?
how can it be that such a minority party can obstruct?!
Obama will take care of the problem with a little bipartisanship.
FOX NOISE.
End the wars, dismantle the Psychopathic Corporate Perpetual War Machine and reinstitute the WPA.
End Corporate Person-hood and replace the Sociopathic Crony Capitalist Corporate Welfare Ponzi Scheme with a system designed for the common person.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Take back the money Wall Street spent on bonuses, and give it to the unemployed! Too simple? I don't think so, you crooked and greedy bastards.
Very soon being a Republican will be equated with wife beating, child molestation, pawning Grandma's only television, mugging a blind person, lifting valuables from the hospital rooms of terminally ill comatose cancer patients....
hooker frequenting, public bathroom toe tapping, Appalachian hiking, cheating on your spouse, bribe taking, war profiteering, war mongering, dereliction of duty, violating oaths of office, using your office for personal gain, lying, hypocritical behavior. Oh, yeah. And thinking businessman Jesus sanctions all you do, regardless of what it is because you think you are chosen. I agree that you are chosen. The question is what are you chosen for? Might not be what you are anticipating.
They may wait till it gets colder, or maybe they best do it, now, or maybe they wait till summer? I think in January.
More people are probably screwed out of the unemployment system from all kinds of other reasons. Some dork weed wrote some where a resturant in Newville fired a guy for stealing 20 and has done this many times now over the past few years, I bet he even keeps winning the UC claims against his cases. These people out here are very criminal. Also very republicam, I can but you cant. When I do it it is OK, But when you do it not OK.
That person didn't mention the name of the returant.
I saw almost 30 people working at Lowes tonight!
business I am going into, along with the hibachi heater/cook stoves that I intend to sell with the boxes. Anyone interested in buying a franchise?
Lol, that sounds very unwater proof. You may have a good idea but no land? 2 UC checks from average people prolly pay for some sort of long term cardboard box with a little ruber roofing and some duck tape.....Spray paint Obamaville on the sides?????Hehehe....
You can add your own personal touches to those you sell. It won't be like McDonald's where everything has to be exactly the same. I believe in freedom of expression.
nice. When the cops tell you to move along, just fold up and go. Toss it right into your shopping cart and off to new horizons. It will be a thing of beauty.
get some small exaust sytem clamps for a car use the hand truck stucture to assemble a nice wire rack from wall mart on the inside, maybe even a kraco radio and a small solar cell. 1 Led bulb. Cool shit.
down for?
76% of health related bankruptcies are people who HAD health insurance when they became ill.
This very day, 120 people died because they didn't have health insurance
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Hey here is a good 1, one of my most favorite Dj,s just fined me 350 for not "filing" my taxes. I paid them, haven't looked for the recipte, but it wouldn't state what year anyway was hand written, by the privatly owned tax collection agency in Carlisle. Now at that time I was very hurt from an injury at work I could'nt hardly move I did the others online, I over paid locals always so I just didn't do the paper work, eee GaD.
Ok so when I go pay the amount they were asking for. I only had like 60 bucks in my pocket, I had to skip a doctors visit, the one that was helping me, cause some how my no-copay policy turned into a co-pay policy ........FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF00000000000 Blue screen in mind shutting down.....
Susan K Day, will she toss me in the joint again? Lol, what fucking fun these prick ass people are out here, screw your back getting fixxed, screw your child support, screw your worker compensation, just screw you, how refreshing.
And we are gonna start screwing your kid too, how you like them beans.
GOP believe that if they can make it even worse on the people the people will blame the dems and put the gop in office it's the only shot they got it seems.
doesn't seem to be working the way they hoped it would. Not for any of them.
No, this is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpDvoGABj1o&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsQZdCGUgU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS3lu1Bwl_0
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I luvs me some Veronica Lake.
What, the original Jessica Rabbit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGPhpvqtOc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HONXAKYyai8
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Hubba-hubba
Never tell the truth , never admit to the facts , just be a total asshole ... welcome to the Republican party .
Ding ding, today's wnner!
Are you selling bumper stickers with this on it?
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
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Neoatg - you're spot on with that. They don't want folks working, having health insurance, or *gasp* creating unions. Much preferable that folks stay broke and angry, spending the day with basic cable and AM radios where their minions and flying monkeys fanatically endeavor to saturate despondent minds with the farcical concept that the oligarchs were not responsible for their unemployment in the first place. It's quite the deft strategy - you'd almost have to diagram it. But for them, it's innate.
That's one hell of a paragraph. I like your writing style. Read it 4 times already.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
The entire focus of the GOP over the last 30 years, was to destroy the american worker. Now that the mission has been accomplished, why would they give a rats ass?
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
voters were too busy with their own lives to closely follow Congress.
The internet tubes have changed everything.
We need to target offenders like this and those who voted against Franken's contractor rape amendment and make sure their votes are common knowledge come election time.
Stick it right back in their faces with tv ads targeting the less informed television audience.
I am not worried as you see once the Health Care bill passes this party of Obstruction becomes the party of Irrelevance. They are to Stupid to see the will of the people and are condemning themselves to a 40-50 years of exile and I will be one that will SH*T and PISS on them when they whine and lie about the opposition.
You MORONS on the right have been played and your to STUPID to realize it. HAHAHAHA!
My prediction? They will pay for this.
Re-Thugs are classically obtuse when it comes to what is important to the American people. Remember Newty shutting down the federal government? This is much the same type of thing, on a smaller scale.
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