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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: Bindare_Dundat on November 17, 2010, 06:13:48 AM
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Unemployed Americans have collected $319 billion in jobless benefits over the past three years due to the federal government's unprecedented response to the Great Recession, according to a CNNMoney analysis of federal records.
The cost of such benefits will be central to the heated debate in Congress in coming weeks over whether to extend this safety net for the fifth time this year. Lawmakers must act by Nov. 30 or two million people will start losing extended benefits next month.
The federal government has already footed $109 billion of the bill, and lawmakers are super-sensitive to adding further to the deficit. But advocates are turning up the pressure to extend the deadline to file for federal benefits.
Regardless of what Congress does, employers big and small will be paying the tab for years to come.
Businesses traditionally cover the cost of state unemployment insurance and up to 20 weeks of federal benefits, which kick in when a state experiences high levels of joblessness. At issue now are a third level of emergency benefits -- lasting up to 53 weeks -- first authorized by Congress in mid-2008.
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Why should there be any 'benefit' to being unemployed?
I can name 5 people who look forward to unemployment as a vacation, to every 1 who lost their job and needs the cover.
UE seems to me like just another beauracracy the government can run to create a few more public union jobs.
If you didn't plan ahead, maybe you need to have some checks and balances in your life.
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We need workfare - you wan beefits or anything like that - show up at 8:30 and be ready to wrk on the roads, parks, etc.
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Oh but you can't FORCE poor people to earn their keep. That's slavery!
I agree thou.... we need a 1930's style CCC program that to get welfare of any kind, you show up and clean parks, pick up trash, walk dogs.... do something for society except leech.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Unemployed Americans have collected $319 billion in jobless benefits over the past three years due to the federal government's unprecedented response to the Great Recession, according to a CNNMoney analysis of federal records.
The cost of such benefits will be central to the heated debate in Congress in coming weeks over whether to extend this safety net for the fifth time this year. Lawmakers must act by Nov. 30 or two million people will start losing extended benefits next month.
The federal government has already footed $109 billion of the bill, and lawmakers are super-sensitive to adding further to the deficit. But advocates are turning up the pressure to extend the deadline to file for federal benefits.
Regardless of what Congress does, employers big and small will be paying the tab for years to come.
Businesses traditionally cover the cost of state unemployment insurance and up to 20 weeks of federal benefits, which kick in when a state experiences high levels of joblessness. At issue now are a third level of emergency benefits -- lasting up to 53 weeks -- first authorized by Congress in mid-2008.
Unemployment is a way of your government injecting BILLIONS of newly printed dollars into your economy...
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Oh but you can't FORCE poor people to earn their keep. That's slavery!
I agree thou.... we need a 1930's style CCC program that to get welfare of any kind, you show up and clean parks, pick up trash, walk dogs.... do something for society except leech.
and forthe women - guess what - your lazy asses are going to learn to run a day care and grow food and provide basic health care and assitance. Nofreebis any more.
This is getting stupid now.