Posts filed under “Funemployment”
Newt Gingrich Vs. Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich on President Obama’s job policies (11/2/11): “This country has been maniacally anti-jobs. Obama is a left-wing radical who believes in class warfare and then he’s surprised that everybody who he’s attacking doesn’t create jobs. Newt Gingrich on Occupy Wall Street demonstrators (11/19/11): “That is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has [...]
The GOP of 2012
There was a mindboggling moment during last nights’ Republican Debate when Anderson Cooper asked Herman Cain whether he stood by a remark he made a couple weeks ago that the unemployed can only blame themselves for their predicament. After Cain responded that he meant what he originally said, the crowd erupted in a roaring applause [...]
Get A Job
Associated Press (10/16/2011): Sandra Fox, 69, of Baton Rouge, La., stood, confused, on 46th Street with a ticket for “Anything Goes” in her hand as riot police pushed a knot of about 200 shouting protesters toward her. “I think it’s horrible what they’re doing,” she said of the protesters. “These people need to go get [...]
Depends on the Definition of Accessible
A few days ago, Politico ran an article that detailed how many Republican Congressmen are opting out of holding open Town Hall forums and instead are charging their constituents upwards of $35 to attend private gatherings. For however much Congressional Republicans proclaim that the American people gave them a mandate to enact their right wing [...]
Still Waiting for Obama to Lead
Someone better recommend a treatment for the appeasement bug that’s been going around congress. This time, it’s the Congressional Black Caucus, who’ve decided to throw Black America under the bus to accommodate President Obama’s centrist agenda, while at the same time complaining that Obama’s latest bus tour hasn’t made its way enough into black communities. [...]
Adding Unemployment Insult To Unemployment Injury
Steve Benen writes today: Nevada’s Angle believes unemployment benefits doesn’t help anyone; Alaska’s Joe Miller believes unemployment benefits are unconstitutional; Kentucky’s Rand Paul thinks it’s time to cut the jobless off before we’re worse than Europe; and a wide variety of Republican lawmakers have said the aid to the unemployed is encouraging laziness. It’s ironic, [...]
Unemployment Benefits: Fictions, Facts And Figures
Republicans in Congress have continued to hawk the myth of the fat lazy unemployed, living high on the hog off their extended unemployment benefits instead of lifting a finger to actually seek work, despite all the jobs out there. Here’s a random sampling: Sen. Richard Burr: The wrong thing to do is to automatically today [...]
Literally Unprecedented Obstructionism
The Huffington Post headline reads: “Unemployment: Congress Has Never Before Dropped Extended Benefits With Jobless Rate So High“. Though the jobs crisis shows few signs of abating and the unemployment rate continues to hover near 10 percent, Congress allowed extended unemployment benefits to expire at the beginning of June, causing so far more than 1.2 [...]
Idle Thoughts
This morning, we learned that in April, the economy added 290,000 jobs, the largest increase we have seen since March 2006 (when George Bush was president, and still had 33 months left to wreak his unique brand of economic destruction, which thoughtfully spared the have-a-lots while showing no mercy to the have-nots). House Minority Leader [...]