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The good thing is that most Americans don't know that. They just know that a Republican is single-handedly holding up the Federal Government from extending unemployment benefits - and that the video shows he's a complete jerk.
I sent mr Bunning my thank you email this morning...
Mr Bunning, single handedly saving american taxpayers money..
Senate Democrats spent Thursday night hammering away at Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) for single-handedly holding up action in the upper chamber – but he blurted out a message to one of them on the Senate floor: “Tough s—t.”
And at one point during the debate, which dragged on till nearly midnight, Bunning complained of missing a basketball game.
"I have missed the Kentucky-South Carolina game that started at 9:00," he said, "and it's the only redeeming chance we had to beat South Carolina since they're the only team that has beat Kentucky this year.
The unemployment rate in Kentucky is 10.7 percent.
Republicans continue to be the party of no. They continue to not get it. 1.2 million people won't get unemployment benefits they need to survive, and he's complaining about missing a basketball game on TV.
LOL @ the thread title and the mis-information.
These liberals talk about Fox news. Geesh, this forum is a hot bed for mis-information.
Why doesn't he try to control spending by reducing the pay members of Congress receives?
Why doesn't he make members of Congress pay for their own health care?
Those are some ways we can reduce spending but of course he'd rather stick his middle finger to the unemployed while doing nothing to help create jobs.
Why doesn't he try to expand our manufacturing base?
Why doesn't he try to get some infrastructure projects started?
That can help the budget rather than doing this political grandstanding.
Your premise would be that he is not doing all these thing , when in reality he just is not going along with the lefts idea of how to do these things . They are 2 totally different things, and either you know that and are just being disingenuous or just being ignorant.
Originally I'm from Chicago but moved (stupid mistake) to Louisville, Kentucky, a few years ago.
His attitude in Kentucky can be very well understood; the most (MOST) important thing in the world is basketball. I'll bet that a lot of the trailer dwelling people agree with his attitude. In Kentucky basketball is the meaning of life; a reason for living. People's lives or health are nowhere near as important.
Jim Bunning is a zero. I wonder how times he had been beaned during his baseball career?
They shouldn't have to, but this bill is on the table because Obama and crew pis*ed away over a year's time on their health care reform back-room deals debacle instead of focusing on the economy and jobs.
They remind me of those experiments where 4 year-olds aren't able to keep themselves from immediately trying to grab and eat one marshmallow, when if they had only waited they would have been rewarded with two.
In other words, they went for instant gratification instead of reaping larger rewards by focusing on more important issues - the economy and jobs.
Informed Consent ! ... A Great Deal Of 100% "TRUTH" In Your Post!
In all fairness folks anyone whom has closely observed the "Outrageous Shenanigans" of HO & Crew can only deduce that these are obviously the lowest ranking amateurs that have ever been in such an enormous position of power !
The tremendous level of utter inepitude is absolutely appalling !
Indeed America is swiftly sinking into the sunset with this "Ship Of Fools" at the helm ................... Thank You / Lamar
In a report released on Jan. 13, 2010, the president's Council of Economic Advisers estimated that between 1.77 million jobs and 2.07 million jobs were created or saved by the stimulus through the fourth quarter of 2009.
Separately, the council's report cited four independent analyses of the same question. These estimates were by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, as well by three private-sector economic-analysis firms. Here's what those groups found:
• CBO: Between 800,000 jobs (low estimate) and 2.4 million jobs (high estimate) saved or created.
• IHS/Global Insight: 1.25 million jobs saved or created.
• Macroeconomic Advisers: 1.06 million jobs saved or created.
• Moody's economy.com: 1.59 million jobs saved or created.
A couple of caveats: These estimates are based on economic models that vary somewhat from study to study, and not everyone buys the idea that it's possible to measure how the economy would have fared in the absence of a stimulus.
Indeed, some economists, including many conservatives, believe that the multiplier effect from the stimulus is small or nonexistent. "Every dollar Congress injects into the economy must first be taxed or borrowed out of the economy," writes economist Brian Riedl of the conservative Heritage Foundation. "No new purchasing power is created; it is merely transferred from one part of the economy to another. ... Removing water from one end of a swimming pool and pouring it in the other end will not raise the overall water level -- no matter how large the bucket. Similarly, borrowing money from one part of the economy and redistributing to another part of the economy will not create new growth -- no matter how big the stimulus bill."
We acknowledge that there's some dispute on this question. Still, the independent estimates we've seen have credibility, and they all agree that at least 1 million jobs have been created or saved. That, in combination with the hundreds of thousands of jobs cited on recovery.gov as being funded directly by the stimulus, contradicts Brown's assertion that the bill "didn’t create one new job."
How long should people get unemployment benefits? 2 years? 3 years? 5 years? 10 years? If you can't find a job after a year you aren't serious. You may not like what you have to take but taxpayers shouldn't have to pay benefits to people indefinitely.
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Thank You / Lamar
