All the out of work miners, drawing unemployment insurance and running out of it, should remember your senators this November. They went on vacation while you run out of money.
Quote:With the Senate failing to vote on the unemployment extension measure until after they return from holiday recess, many unemployed Americans plan to make their voices heard in the November election.
Hundreds of readers who voiced out shared their frustrations with U.S. Chronicle wrote that they will be taking action by voting out many U.S. government in November.
http://www.uschron.com/unemployment-exte...rs/111618/
TheRealVille Wrote:All the out of work miners, drawing unemployment insurance and running out of it, should remember your senators this November. They went on vacation while you run out of money.
Great post, RV! Harry Reid adjourned the Senate after refusing several attempts by Republicans to get a compromise bill to the floor for a vote. Republicans sought a deal to cut the budget, in accordance with the pay-go law that it passed and Obma signed, to pay for extended unemployment benefits.
Anybody whose unemployment check has been delayed needs to understand that the party in power sets the agenda for the US Senate, including deciding when to send everybody home on vacation.
I suggest that anybody who is upset that the Senate went on vacation before extending unemployment benefits again contact Senator Harry Reid to voice their displeasure. Reid refused to allow a vote on a Republican compromise that would have extended the benefits.
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Quote:Dems refuse compromise to extend unemployment benefits
Congress adjourns this week for the July Fourth recess without having passed a bill to extend unemployment insurance benefits to 1.3 million people who started losing them this month.
Democrats have been painting Republicans as unsympathetic to the long-term unemployed who will be unable to collect benefits, but Democratic leaders have rejected several offers by the GOP to vote for the bill if at least some of it is paid for.
"My concern is that the Democrats are more interested in having this issue to demagogue for political gamesmanship than they are in simply passing the benefits extension," said Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, who offered a deal that was rejected by Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politi...z0sfDAb1Mn
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"Every dollar of unemployment has to come from somewhere.
Funds for the latest unemployment extension come from the federal Economic Stimulus Package. To receive the money, states have to agree to certain terms laid out by Congress.16 According to Kim Rupert, a fixed income analyst at Action Economics, the majority of the Economic Stimulus Package has been financed through the sale of Treasury bills rather than simply by printing more physical currency.17 The Bureau of Printing and Engraving has confirmed that the print order on US currency has not increased."
http://www.mahalo.com/unemployment-extension
TheRealVille Wrote:From your article:
Are you shocked that the Democrat Whip is making excuses for the Democrat Majority Leader?
The bottom line is that Reid and his fellow Democrats did not want to place themselves in position to vote "no" on the Republican compromise bill. They wanted a campaign issue more than to provide more benefits to the poor unemployed who are suffering so much from Obama's mishandling of the economy.
The thing that will matter to voters in November is that the Democrats control the White House and both houses of Congress and we are worse off than we were before they assumed control. That is the bottom line. Democrats are grasping at straws and repeating their talking points is not going to sway anybody's votes. The moochers will rally around the Democrats and most other people will turn out in huge numbers to boot them out of office.
TheRealVille Wrote:All the out of work miners, drawing unemployment insurance and running out of it, should remember your senators this November. They went on vacation while you run out of money.
FYI, There are no senate elections in either W.Va., Tenn. or Virginia, this year and no incumbents running in either Ky. or Pa.
TheRealVille Wrote:"Every dollar of unemployment has to come from somewhere. Funds for the latest unemployment extension come from the federal Economic Stimulus Package. To receive the money, states have to agree to certain terms laid out by Congress.16 According to Kim Rupert, a fixed income analyst at Action Economics, the majority of the Economic Stimulus Package has been financed through the sale of Treasury bills rather than simply by printing more physical currency.17 The Bureau of Printing and Engraving has confirmed that the print order on US currency has not increased."
http://www.mahalo.com/unemployment-extension
I believe this article was from Dec. 09.
President Obama has ordered the US Treasury to speed up the process of printing money. The treasury has complied, and the presses are rolling full steam ahead printing staggering amounts of money. It appears this administration is determined to spend its way out of debt.
http://www.examiner.com/x-19536-Tucson-I...more-money
TheRealVille Wrote:"Every dollar of unemployment has to come from somewhere. Funds for the latest unemployment extension come from the federal Economic Stimulus Package. To receive the money, states have to agree to certain terms laid out by Congress.16 According to Kim Rupert, a fixed income analyst at Action Economics, the majority of the Economic Stimulus Package has been financed through the sale of Treasury bills rather than simply by printing more physical currency.17 The Bureau of Printing and Engraving has confirmed that the print order on US currency has not increased."
http://www.mahalo.com/unemployment-extension
Treasury bills have no value except for the "full faith and credit" of the United States federal government. In other words, the money to pay for future unemployment benefits will be borrowed just like every new spending bill that Congress passes will also be borrowed.
Since Byrd's death, Democrats have 57 votes in the US Senate. The Republican compromise bills could not have passed without 8 Democratic votes, yet Reid refused to allow a vote. If Democrats had wanted to extend the benefits, they could have simply agreed to have allowed a vote on the Republican compromise in exchange for Republicans allowing a floor vote on the Democrats' bill. The Democrats' bill would have passed and candidates could have debated the merits of each bill on the campaign trail.
Well that's it I'm NOT voting for Jim Bunning this November