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I agree. I've been reading your posts in various threads for years and I can attest to the fact that you do not have any intention of sharing anything, with anybody, under any circumstances.
Waiting for that PM so you can put your money where your mouth is and help share responsibilities..
You conservatives who are attacking this program are demonstrating not only your mean-spiritedness but also your ignorance of basic economics. Keeping income in the pockets of unemployed workers, and providing new employment opportunities, are two important ways to maintain aggregate demand. This is essential to economic recovery.
After my husband was layed off from a company that brought him and 350 other families down from NYC. He tried to find another job here in Tampa, but has had only 1 interview. Unemployment services has funding for re-education so he can better his changes to find another job. This is thanks to Obama.
Our Cobra payments are going to be $1,800 a month, but thanks to Obama, they will only be $600 a month.
What a terrible thing! He must be a socialist.
Are you saying that with all that stimulus money there wasn't a "shovel-ready" job for your husband?
Will BO be personally the $1,200 you are saving on your health insurance?
You conservatives who are attacking this program are demonstrating not only your mean-spiritedness but also your ignorance of basic economics. Keeping income in the pockets of unemployed workers, and providing new employment opportunities, are two important ways to maintain aggregate demand. This is essential to economic recovery.
The $5,000 is to get my husband working again and paying taxes. The $1,200 is only while we have Cobra, not forever. $20,000 is nothing to the massive expenses the government pays and this will get my husband back to work. I say that is a sound $20,000 investment! We could go on to welfare and get nothing to help him find work and the government would pay much more than $20,000 a year for how how many years? I could sign my kids up for kidcare and the government would have to pay anyway. The $20,000 investment is cheaper in the long run.
Unemployment does just hand over the money. You have to prove that you are unemployable with your current skills. Meet with their counsellors, look through their database of job listings, try to get interviews. If you still cannot find work, then they make you do other things. It took him over 2 months to get approval and you have to go to an approved facility. You can't take the money and decide to take dance lessons with it.
I know long term unemployed people who are now basically unemployable. Where do they sign up?
Are you saying that with all that stimulus money there wasn't a "shovel-ready" job for your husband?
Will BO be personally the $1,200 you are saving on your health insurance?
I wrote about my husband and our situation back in 2009. Back then, companies were doing massive layoffs, not hiring. He is a computer programmer that knows mainframe programming. He worked as a mainframe programmer for 30 plus years. Now out of work, his skills were outdated. Not too many companies use mainframe programs. In order for him to find work in the Tampa area, he had to learn newer skills. Romney asks "are you any better off now than 4 years ago"? In our situation, we are absolutely better off. The job market has opened up. He is finally working. I too found work.
The "shovel-ready" job doesn't really apply in his situation.
You conservatives who are attacking this program are demonstrating not only your mean-spiritedness but also your ignorance of basic economics. Keeping income in the pockets of unemployed workers, and providing new employment opportunities, are two important ways to maintain aggregate demand. This is essential to economic recovery.
Boo hoo hoo, you said people like me are mean spiritied.. waaaa
Hey jack.. WHERE DOES THE MONEY COME FROM? Answer, it comes OUT of the economy thus REMOVING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES to begin with..
You guys stand here and wine about economics but you always seem to leave the most important part out of the equation, WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?
My pocket. So instead of remodeling my property, buying a new boat or taking a vacation , the gvmt is spending it instead.
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