Monday, September 21, 2009

Benefits Extension


Yahoo: House moves to extend unemployment benefits

3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

It's important that this is done with Un rates rising. The Stock Market is a lousy indicator of recovery because 90% of the investor class is wealthy or BIG Corp. and disconnected from the reality of main Street. The sad truth is the Rich have abandoned America's working and middle class and left us to fend for ourselves. The last so called recovery was also jobless and this one is far worse.

Jim Sande said...

Yes it has to get done. 13 weeks isn't that long either. The problem is the recovery is partly a government funded program and then the government has no money.

Glynn Kalara said...

What recovery? All Obama did was make sure people with great Gov't jobs didn't lose their nice jobs and benefits. Ok, I get that if they start losing their jobs etc. this thing just spirals down even more, but the signal it sends to the rest of us is YOU DON'T F*UCKING count. When do we start the recovery from the bottom up crap he promised? Instead, the banksters are on 1st, 2nd and 3rd. We have an economy with 3 sectors. First is the Big Corp. sector which has shed millions of workers and is largely the core of the GOper power structure and owns 90% of everything. 2nd is the Gov't sector which has merged with the Big Corp sector and protects it's power and last what's left of main street or small business. The last sevtor is in shitty shape crushed by the Corp and the Gov't sectors and taxed to death as well. So if u belong to the 1st and 2nd sector you've escaped the Depression but if ur in the 3rd your fucked.