rssMcConnell: Stop Spending Money to Help the Unemployed
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 at 11:50 am
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President Obama is speaking this morning at the Brookings Institution to outline his strategy for tackling the employment crisis. Before he spoke a word, Republican leaders were already attacking the news that the administration is eyeing TARP funds to pay the tab for the new stimulus bill.
“This is not only irresponsible, since the purpose of these emergency funds was to prop up the credit system in the midst of a crisis,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the chamber floor Tuesday. “It also violates both current law and the pledge we made that every dollar we got back would be returned to the taxpayer to reduce the national debt.”
This proposal is completely wrongheaded, but it’s perfectly illustrative of the way Democrats in Congress have been dealing with taxpayer money all year — by throwing it at one problem after another without much regard for the consequences. Whether it’s the Stimulus, Cash for Clunkers, or the health care bill that’s currently on the floor, Americans are running out of patience with politicians who promise jobs, but who deliver nothing but more debt, higher taxes, and longer unemployment lines.
Ignored in this critique is the inconvenient Congressional Budget Office finding that the stimulus bill has saved or created 1.6 million jobs this year, with a great deal of the money still left to be spent. Of course, the Republicans this year have already made evident the degree to which they’re concerned for the unemployed, delaying the recently passed unemployment insurance extension for the entire month of October while 7,000 people a day exhausted their benefits.
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Comment posted December 8, 2009 @ 4:28 pm
There is a huge disconnect between what is happening at the government level and what is happening in real life.
Even if the Democrats do something that looks to be helpful to people they do so to win an election and what they are doing doesn't necessarily help people, big dollars get thrown around big promises get made, but nothing actually happens….but the Republicans aren't much better doing nothing or coming up with nothing better in solutions and criticizing the administration also based on an election year.
They defend their positions, they publicize their good deeds and all the while there are more people on food stamps now than ever in history except for during the Great Depression. Record foreclosures and unemployment at all time highs with numbers manipulated to make things seem better. Headlines claiming a drop in unemployment claims were due to unemployment benefits running out and people getting part time seasonal retail positions at minimum wage, severe underemployment and still not keeping the electric on.
At the same time all of our Congressmen and women are employed with food in their bellies, health insurance, a roof over their head….federal and state gov positions still employing people for the most part while private companies are going down in droves and a handful of people able to make money off the stock market are doing so while Main Street sinks.
I've lived a while now in my life and I can say I am sorry I've lived long enough to witness such a travesty in the history of America. To say we should know better is an understatement. So what is really going on?
Do we think that all of a sudden our saviours will finally step up to the plate and people will start getting hired again, say oh about June July of 2010? Just in time to recoup themselves for a few months before November 8th and the polls open up for voting?
With all the brains in Washington right now, I think we can call things as they are, this is Jobsgate and it's a manipulation of the minds and hearts of the American people used as pawns in the great game of politics. It's time the electorate started to do something about it.
Get on the phones to your senators and representatives. They aren't doing the job, none of them. Remind them who they are working for and who pays them…YOU!
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Comment posted December 9, 2009 @ 2:04 pm
McConnell (R-Ky.) is the perfect representation of the stall, object and undermine group known as the GOP. He was one of the people that kept HR3548 from passing quickly. And to make matters even worse-they all passed a Bill that in essence is dead on December 26th. 2009. With 8 days of session left before the Holidays and the Senates recess, someone in the Senate best address the expiration of the EUC Laws, so that all of the unemployed can benefit from this recently passed Bill. Perhaps, some attention needs to be put on the GOP Party and their backroom deal with the banking industry. nd do us all a favor-if and when you do address the expiring EUC Law deadline-DO NOT come out in the media with you have given us more benefits as the reality at present is no one in a State with a 8.5% trigger can now benefit from the extra 6 weeks of benefits passed in this last Bill. Someone in DC better wake up, as it is painfully clear that neither party is looking out for the jobless in this Country and we will let you know our feelings on that topic next year when all of you on both sides of the aisle come up for re-election. Get a CLUE!
Comment posted December 15, 2009 @ 7:32 am
IS MC CONNELL KIDDING, DONT GIVE US MORE MONEY!!1 THEY HAVNT GIVEN US ANYTHING AS YET HEREIN FLORIDA!!! WE JUST RECENTLY GOT THE APPLICATIONS FROM A BILL PASSED OVER A MONTHA ND A HALF AGO!!!! THEY PASSED THE EXTRA 6 WEEKS BACK THEN ALSO WHICH NO ONE CAN GET AS IT IS DEADLINES NEXT WEEK!! HE NEEDS TO SPEND A FEW WEEKS IN ONE OF OUR SHOES, I WISH I COULDMEET HIM IN PERSON, THEY SHOULD LAY HIM OFF AND CUT OFF HIS HEALTHCARE AND MONIES AND SEE HOW QUICK THAT ASSHOLE CHANGES HIS MIND!!!!!! HAS ANYONE HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THE DEADLINE BEING FIXED A FEW WEEKS AGO I READ THEY WERE AWARE OF THE GLITCH AND WERE GOING TO FIX IT BEFORE DEADLINE ACTUALLY GIT HERE
Comment posted December 23, 2009 @ 11:04 am
Ronald Mc Connell is a clown, maybe one day he will be flipping hamburgers
“I WONDER IF HE WOULD LIKE FRIES WITH ALSO?”
Comment posted December 23, 2009 @ 4:04 pm
Ronald Mc Connell is a clown, maybe one day he will be flipping hamburgers
“I WONDER IF HE WOULD LIKE FRIES WITH THAT ALSO?”
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