Santelli: "Stop Spending!"

[Riot]

as for people having their benefits abruptly taken away-they had been extended to a previously unheard of 99 weeks of unemployment benefits. 5 weeks short of two years! that is also unsustainable.

So is life without food.

Our government has always extended unemployment benefits during times of historic economic hardship. Except for now. This is the first time in our American history those benefits have been cut off with this level of unemployment.

Thank you GOP.

i have people coming and applying, who have been off work for months upon months. they readily concede they saw no reason to seriously job search, as they had easy money flowing in-their words, not mine.

If it's simply laziness keeping the current unemployment numbers at 10%, then the hundreds of thousands of unemployed who just had their benefits cut off will go out and get jobs immediately. We can expect the unemployment numbers to quickly fall to the usual baseline within a couple of weeks, I guess.

[Honu]

Originally Posted by Riot

So is life without food.

Our government has always extended unemployment benefits during times of historic economic hardship. Except for now. This is the first time in our American history those benefits have been cut off with this level of unemployment.

Thank you GOP.



If it's simply laziness keeping the current unemployment numbers at 10%, then the hundreds of thousands of unemployed who just had their benefits cut off will go out and get jobs immediately. We can expect the unemployment numbers to quickly fall to the usual baseline within a couple of weeks, I guess.

I dont know if its laziness or people just thinking they are to good to do a diffirent job. I get paid scale at my job but to make a little extra money I clean houses on the side for 25 bucks an hour which is more than I make at my "job" job an hour. You can make a job for yourself if you have the want to, I learned that when I moved to Hawaii where jobs are very limited and very scarce you have to be willing to make your own way and believe me there are lots of ways to make money if you just open your mind and dont think you are too good to provide a service or do something you havent done before. People better get used to the idea of a new occupation because most of those jobs that have been lost are not coming back.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Riot

So is life without food.

Our government has always extended unemployment benefits during times of historic economic hardship. Except for now. This is the first time in our American history those benefits have been cut off with this level of unemployment.

Thank you GOP.



If it's simply laziness keeping the current unemployment numbers at 10%, then the hundreds of thousands of unemployed who just had their benefits cut off will go out and get jobs immediately. We can expect the unemployment numbers to quickly fall to the usual baseline within a couple of weeks, I guess.

it's not still that high, is it? that stimulus should be getting those numbers down any day...after all, it was billed as keeping it from getting to 10 to begin with, so surely once more of that original money is spent, the numbers will come down. obama said so back when he asked for it-it's bound to happen sooner or later.