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I don't believe mac d's pays enought to pay the rent and feed kids at the same time . and thats the way it is when you have to take kids jobs . I know the girls who wait tables here only get $3 per hour . If you want them to take those jobs then I think you should kick in the difference so that they can at lease wash .

Good for your friend, Lewis.

You're right. If a person sits on unemployment for extended periods, they don't want a job.

I'm not going to condemn them. If they are out of their homes and hungry, I could pick up labor for the cost of a couple meals and a bed in the barn. Just don't send me an engineer. They don't have the hands or the back.

You are so right txas gal. You earned the right to unemployment. I was laid off most of the summer but was secure in my union recall rights. We are brought back by senority. I had 17 years in. Got called back in July and been working since thanks to cash for clunkers. I hope you can find work in your chosen field soon and untill then I hope your unemployment holds out and the republicans dont fillabuster the extensions. It seems we have billions and billions for wars and nothing for the tax payers who fund them.

I hear ya'. I've done many jobs to make sur we were provided for.

Good luck to ya'!

I keep in mind, most jobs that have been lost and exported are gone forever.

What I was sort of concerned about are those who refuse to go beneath themselves and have a wait and see attitude. I'm a get up and do.

We have been being sold out for many years and this current administration is no exception. They are continuing the sell-out.

McDonald's isn't enough to pay the rent and feed/clothe the kids at the same time. My neighbor works full time at White Castles and gets health benefits and she also works part-time in the deli at a grocery store. Her two children get Medicaid and food stamps. She can't even afford to buy a car.

I bet this guy never had to work HARD for anything in his life.
If these people had to live a month in a working man/woman's shoes, they would NOT survive!

Shame on him..............

Then. I have a question. If having jobs are so important, why isn't Hussein making jobs a priority??

Geeze............everyone seems to forget that it was REPUBLICAN President George W. Bush who signed the first bill extending unemployment benefits..........I wonder why people want to forget that the Republicans first started the unemployment benefits extenssions? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm P.S. I know, as I was a recipient of that extension......... Thank you President Bush

My son was a manager at McDonalds and ALWAYS made MORE money than I made as a legal secretary of 22 years........Why does everyone always pick on McDonalds?

I think that Kentucky Republican is a idiot.These are hard times and millions of hard working Americans have lost their jobs.If the government can piss away a hundred billion here and a hundred billion there on banks and insurance companies they can also give a hundred billion to the hard working Americans who lost their jobs.I feel for these people as I have been laid off due to lack of work many times and know how hard it can be to find a job again.

It seems our wonderful government has no problem giving tax payer money to a bunch of fat,cigar sucking,millionares but gives nothing to our poor people.You can complain about Bush but I remember him extending unemployment benefits 3 times longer than usual during his recession.I also remember him cutting checks two times for the taxpayers of this country.$600 for single people and $1200 for married people.Obama should do the same.

If you are too sick to GO to work, work wont matter. Health comes first but it doesnt mean nothing else is important and I have faith jobs will also pick up.

Sen. Jim Bunning continues to object to extending unemployment benefits. On Monday, the Kentucky Republican once again prevented a vote on a bill that would extend eligibility for enhanced unemployment benefits and subsidized health insurance for laid-off workers by 30 days.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) asked for unanimous consent to move forward with the bill. If Congress fails to pass an extension, the National Employment Law Project estimates that 1.2 million people will lose their benefits in March.

"Six times last week, Democrats asked to extend their unemployment benefits for a short time while they work on a longer extension," Reid said. "Six times, Republicans said no. They didn't just say no to us, that is members of the Senate. They said no to their families in their own states and all our states count on us to act
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/01/bunning-objects-to-extend_n_481144.html

In an off-camera exchange on Monday, ABC News reported, "when Senate producer Z. Byron Wolf spotted Bunning exiting his office, Bunning said, 'I'm not talking to anybody.' When Wolf asked him to stay and talk to our cameras, Bunning walked toward the elevator and shot the middle finger over his head."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/01/bunning-objects-to-extend_n_481144.html

You are missing (PERHAPS INTENTIONALLY?) a major fact in this issue.........Bunning is all for, and so are the Republicans, for extending UCC benefits.........the POINT Bunning was trying to get through to everyone is that THERE HAS BEEN NO PLAN TO PAY FOR THE EXTENSION! The Democrats do not want to come up with a plan to pay for the UCC benefits extension, Bunning's whole reason for not voting for the way the bill now reads is because there IS NO PLAN TO PAY FOR IT.......

Now, I for one am totally for the extension, jobs are no where to be found, no where........... but the democrats have continually been spending, spending, spending, and have no way of paying for any of the bills they have been passing.............. THIS HAS TO STOP..........the USA CANNOT keep on printing money, cannot, and I do not think China will continue to do so, keep having CHINA buy our debt......obama was already reprimanded by China for his reckless spending spree...........PRETTY BAD WHEN A COMMUNIST NATION HAS TO REPRIMAND THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA ON HIS SPENDING POLICIES..........

Ahhh....it's so refreshing to get news instead of FOCKS/Limpball propaganda...

Some only have "points" dictated to them by political/industry shills...I can smell the stench of that near by...ahem.

Pretty funny, actually, because Bunning and some of the GOP is like a teenage boy being dragged to a shotgun wedding trying to claim it's not all his fault and that he was probably tricked into this situation. That besides, he _can't_ marry her because he's already married to someone else and that as an old-school Mormon, he's standing on principle -- _his_ rights are being violated because given his druthers, he'd be a polygamist. The fact that hypothetical teenage boy doesn't have a job and spends what little money he DOES have on playing World of Warcraft online is just an inconvenient detail.


-Kerry O.

??????????????? The above paragraph makes no sense......... I cannot decipher what is trying to be stated

It's simple, really-- like the lad who has to own up to paternity under the shadow of a 12 ga., the the GOP strategy for this fall is to filibuster everything in sight (they've already threatened to do so/have done so 40 times this year already, a new record that looks to triple the old one), so as to hem and haw their way out of responsibility for obstructing needed legislation. Their aim is to blame the gridlock on the Democratic party while being pretty cagey about what they'll do, hoping people won't notice.

Oh, they'll strike up the Tax Cutz Fer the Rich Band and claim tort reform will make medical care so cheap and plentiful we'll be giving dogs, cats and hamsters MRIs with all the excess capacity it'll generate. (Laff.)

It might even get them a few seats, but after it's all done, they'll still be like Mark Sanford of S. Carolina.


-Kerry O.

Well, try as I might, I cannot comprehend how you came up with this comparison.......nevertheless......Bunning was not 'filibustering' he was, in his own words 'OBJECTING' to the democrats NOT having a plan to pay for the UCC benefits extension, which, by the way, was temporary and only extended benefits for 30 days to some 400,000, whose benefits, including all of the Tier 1, 2, 3, were already used up. The bill also included other provisions for other projects, NOT just for the UCC benefits.

Be that as it may, it was quite obvious that Bunning had no intention of never voting for the bill, he was making a last stand, as he is retiring, to point out the fact that Harry Reid, who partook in initiating the 'pay as you go' policy, was totally going against his own policy in wanting to pass a bill with NO provision for paying for it. A bit on the hypocritical side for Reid and the democrats. Point in check that Bunning made quite clearly.

End result is 'voila' pull out of the magic hat, a new bill was quickly packaged together (perhaps the democrats already has this on the back burner and just want to score some desperate last minute political points to use against the Republicans for the November elections?????), which bill is even bigger, but my oh my, all of a sudden there is a way to pay for it.......and all shall vote for it and live happily ever after........

P.S. Oh, this was on the news tonight, FOX of course, what else would I dare to watch?

FOX is not a news outlet....try CNN or remain ignorant.

"Bunning relents; jobless benefits deal reached"

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/02/jobless.benefits.bill/index.html?hpt=T3

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www.outfoxed.org

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