House Dems To Reintroduce Longshot Bill For Long-Term Unemployed

[osoab]

:lol

House Dems To Reintroduce Longshot Bill For Long-Term Unemployed (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/07/99ers-bill-barbara-lee-bobby-scott_n_819767.html)


Democratic Reps. Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Bobby Scott (Va.) are reintroducing legislation this week to provide additional weeks of unemployment insurance benefits for "99ers," the long-term jobless who have exhausted their benefits and still haven't found work.

"The bill that I am introducing with Congressman Scott, The Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act, would ensure that these long-term unemployed workers get the long overdue assistance that they need to support their families, make ends meet and contribute to our economy," Lee said in a statement. "Our bill would add 14 weeks of emergency unemployment benefits and would make sure these benefits are retroactively available to people who have exhausted all their benefits and are still unemployed."

Our riot suppression scheme is more subtle than anyone thinks. :oo-->

[mick silver]

i am starting to think everyone needs to stop working . and let this game come to a end

[osoab]

i am starting to think everyone needs to stop working . and let this game come to a end



But just think of the children, mick. :D

[mick silver]

maybe we can put the children to work . i am still laughing on that one . hell all the kids i know are to lazy to mow the yards to make money

[osoab]

maybe we can put the children to work . i am still laughing on that one . hell all the kids i know are to lazy to mow the yards to make money


You can't IM, facebook, text, or surf the internet while you are mowing.

Poor kids, just can't do anything fun. :oo--> :sarc:

[mick silver]

you just hit the nail on the head osoab

[osoab]

you just hit the nail on the head osoab


That is another job kids can't do.

I wonder how many kids know what the working end of a hammer is.

[po boy]

Osoab, now that was funny thanks for the laugh.

[Ponce]

Like using a Band-Aid on a .50 caliber bullet wound.......

[chad]

i thought things had turned around and we were hiring like crazy?

[k-os]

They can't figure out how to get the FRNs circulating. Less banks are lending, and less people are borrowing. They're going to have to continue to give it away to "stimulate" the economy. Ugh.

[Ponce]

Yeah, and that's makes the Chinese more and more angry all the time......hope that they can get rid of all their fiat before we hit bottom.

[Sparky]

Why don't they pay them 14 weeks to go do something?

[Ponce]

Sparky?........that's what I wrote a while back, streets always need cleaning and also the wall where people have written something........why pay a city worker $25.00 per where those collecting could do it for $7.00?

[osoab]

Why don't they pay them 14 weeks to go do something?


Then you would have to pay a prevailing wage and insure them.
The unions would be up in arms about the unfair treatment. (I wonder if they could unionize the UE benefit receivers?)

With UE they pay a pittance and take some back as income tax. Then you give some food vouchers and the votes keep coming in. :D

[Sparky]

Sparky?........that's what I wrote a while back, streets always need cleaning and also the wall where people have written something........why pay a city worker $25.00 per where those collecting could do it for $7.00?


Exactly. Go clean something.

[Sparky]

Why don't they pay them 14 weeks to go do something?


Then you would have to pay a prevailing wage and insure them.
The unions would be up in arms about the unfair treatment. (I wonder if they could unionize the UE benefit receivers?)

With UE they pay a pittance and take some back as income tax. Then you give some food vouchers and the votes keep coming in. :D



Yeah, I realize the reality of the situation. This is why we have dug such a deep hole.

[Libertytree]

Why don't they pay them 14 weeks to go do something?


Then you would have to pay a prevailing wage and insure them.
The unions would be up in arms about the unfair treatment. (I wonder if they could unionize the UE benefit receivers?)

With UE they pay a pittance and take some back as income tax. Then you give some food vouchers and the votes keep coming in. :D





Yeah, I realize the reality of the situation. This is why we have dug such a deep hole.


And Congress has the shovels to dig a whole lot deeper and they ain't afraid to put their back into it either. In reality, all they're doing is giving morphine to a terminally ill patient, knowing full well that anything they do only prolongs the inevitable.

[Sparky]

Why don't they pay them 14 weeks to go do something?


Then you would have to pay a prevailing wage and insure them.
The unions would be up in arms about the unfair treatment. (I wonder if they could unionize the UE benefit receivers?)

With UE they pay a pittance and take some back as income tax. Then you give some food vouchers and the votes keep coming in. :D





Yeah, I realize the reality of the situation. This is why we have dug such a deep hole.


And Congress has the shovels to dig a whole lot deeper and they ain't afraid to put their back into it either. In reality, all they're doing is giving morphine to a terminally ill patient, knowing full well that anything they do only prolongs the inevitable.


Sad but true. And yet some of them are so naive or blind that they don't even realize this.

[Libertytree]

Why don't they pay them 14 weeks to go do something?


Then you would have to pay a prevailing wage and insure them.
The unions would be up in arms about the unfair treatment. (I wonder if they could unionize the UE benefit receivers?)

With UE they pay a pittance and take some back as income tax. Then you give some food vouchers and the votes keep coming in. :D





Yeah, I realize the reality of the situation. This is why we have dug such a deep hole.


And Congress has the shovels to dig a whole lot deeper and they ain't afraid to put their back into it either. In reality, all they're doing is giving morphine to a terminally ill patient, knowing full well that anything they do only prolongs the inevitable.


Sad but true. And yet some of them are so naive or blind that they don't even realize this.


I think they do realize it, to its full extent.

[Sparky]

Maybe. But I've always thought that Congress is a complex blend of deceitful and stupid.