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Nov 19th, 2010 at 9:08pm
 
Jobless Aid Extension Blocked in House Over Cost


Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- A bill to extend jobless benefits for three months was defeated in the U.S. House, threatening to cut off aid to thousands of the nation’s long-term unemployed.

Republicans, in a replay of a dispute earlier this year, blocked the legislation because its $12 billion cost would be added to the government’s deficit. They demanded offsetting savings elsewhere in the budget.

The 258-154 vote fell short of the two-thirds needed under an expedited approval process. Voting against the bill were 11 Democrats and 143 Republicans.

Aid is set to expire Nov. 30 for some unemployed, and with Congress out of session next week for the Thanksgiving holiday, lawmakers will have little time to find agreement before then.

“This bill is like déjà vu all over again, and not in a good way,” said Representative Charles Boustany, a Louisiana Republican. “We all want to help those in need but the American people also know someone has to pay when government spends money, and it shouldn’t be our children and grandchildren.”

Representative Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, said “ending unemployment assistance will not only be devastating for these individuals and their families but it will also hurt the economy as a whole by undermining consumer confidence and demand.”

About 8,400 Americans will see their unemployment checks cut off by the end of the first week of December, according to Labor Department estimates. By the end of the third week of December, 1.36 million Americans will be affected if Congress doesn’t act, the agency said.
The unemployment rate last month was 9.6 percent. Jobless benefits were cut off earlier this year for some unemployed people after a similar dispute in the Senate led by Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning.

The bill is H.R. 6419.

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http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=anXt2jwnVLmg
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Interesting priorities?

Trillions have been found to support the BIG END of town, which is like flushing money down the toilet.

But those who are now long term unemployed, in the worst downturn since the great Depression, who would spend whatever they get, there's no more.

The inference being, they can find a job, if they really want one and that is just plain wrong, in the current circumstances!
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Reply #1 - Nov 19th, 2010 at 9:42pm
 


This is crazy - especially since there is a simple and long-overdue solution: cut off the blood supply betwixt Treasury and the warmongering puppeteers of the Republicans...

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Reply #2 - Nov 19th, 2010 at 9:44pm
 


Either way, it's time for a bit of transparency on the compounding costs of senseless warmongering...

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Reply #3 - Nov 20th, 2010 at 5:32am
 
What do they want? a full blown rebellion. I hope we don't follow America up that destructive path.

It's a sick world when governments can give bailouts to the banks and multinational corporations, then sit and watch their own people go destitute. They don't treat their own any better than Iraq or Afghanistan, who they see fit to invade for human rights abuses.

Where is the $600billion stimulus going I wonder?
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andrei said: Great isn't it? Seeing boatloads of what is nothing more than human garbage turn up.....
 
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Reply #4 - Nov 20th, 2010 at 6:30am
 
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About 8,400 Americans will see their unemployment checks cut off by the end of the first week of December, according to Labor Department estimates. By the end of the third week of December, 1.36 million Americans will be affected if Congress doesn’t act, the agency said.
The unemployment rate last month was 9.6 percent. Jobless benefits were cut off earlier this year for some unemployed people after a similar dispute in the Senate led by Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning.


It's unbelievable. No wonder there's such a high crime rate in the US. The banks and the corporations created the sub-prime crisis with their highrolling gambling and the unemployed are the collateral damage.

We may very well go down this path if the Coalition is returned. The Tories in the UK are planning on doing the same and Abbott has already been over there to study their policy on cutting welfare from the bottom up.
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Reply #5 - Nov 20th, 2010 at 6:47am
 
mantra wrote on Nov 20th, 2010 at 6:30am:
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About 8,400 Americans will see their unemployment checks cut off by the end of the first week of December, according to Labor Department estimates. By the end of the third week of December, 1.36 million Americans will be affected if Congress doesn’t act, the agency said.
The unemployment rate last month was 9.6 percent. Jobless benefits were cut off earlier this year for some unemployed people after a similar dispute in the Senate led by Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning.


It's unbelievable. No wonder there's such a high crime rate in the US. The banks and the corporations created the sub-prime crisis with their highrolling gambling and the unemployed are the collateral damage.

We may very well go down this path if the Coalition is returned. The Tories in the UK are planning on doing the same and Abbott has already been over there to study their policy on cutting welfare from the bottom up.



Time to shut down and lock up. There's only one avenue to take when you're penniless and hungry. It will be a case of every man for himself, survival of the fittest.

Some of these people have paid tax all their lives, thousands and thousands of dollars, and the government don't see fit to give them a meat pie. No wonder people don't have much incentive to work these days.
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Reply #6 - Nov 20th, 2010 at 8:53am
 
just like the sale of the port of brisbane

they spent over 1 BILLION in infrustructure

over the past 8 years reclaiming the sea for the port expansion

yes 1 BILLION dollars of fiat currency the corporation (facist;that is

when governments and corporations come to-get-her and government

spends [peoples taxes]

and the profit goes to the shareholders)

this is clear and legal theft

do not be in a state of fear

the cricket is on today crikey cobba

namaste

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