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Obama says GOP making life harder for the jobless

obvious Child said:
Perhaps not, but cuttings benefits, including medical insurance which the GOP is pretty much doing by refusing to allow such bills to go forward is making life harder for the jobless.
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Unemployment benefits already cover basically two years. Since you "work in the financial related industry", please explain how paying people not to work really gives them an incentive to find a job?
 
NolaMan said:
Unemployment benefits already cover basically two years. Since you "work in the financial related industry", please explain how paying people not to work really gives them an incentive to find a job?
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WEll - Obama's solution really employed thousands - temporarily - thankfully it's 2010 and time for the census.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
I think the 'always say no' is childish and immature - it's NOT leadership.
I think that filibusters are also childish and immature - and are NOT leadership - note how BOTH sides are quite guilty of this.
I think that continuing to pass bills, amend legislature which raise costs, spike taxes and fluff up our already overpuffed debt is childish and immature - note how the government is addicted to this type of activity.
I also think that denying assistance from other countries while we're in need is childish and immature.
I think that continuing a war that said president spoke against is childish and immature.
I, lastly, think that trying to blame every single action, issue and problem on the former president is childish and immature.

Do I need to go on, do you get my point?

This is why I don't support either party - they're all about pointing fingers at everyone else even though, between the two, they both are to equally blame for all of our problems.
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Bingo! The beat of the "Cola War" of American politics goes on.
 
obvious Child said:
Perhaps not, but cuttings benefits, including medical insurance which the GOP is pretty much doing by refusing to allow such bills to go forward is making life harder for the jobless.
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what happened to pay go?
 
Redress said:
Gotta love political grandstanding with things like unemployment benefits in a time with close to 10 % unemployment.
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What's hilarious is extending unemployment benefits for longer than a year. That's freaking hysterical. Maybe if the state capitalists in power would actually do something other than further cripple the economy through their theft and redistribution then maybe we could actually improve the unemployment rate itself rather than putting a band-aid on a slit throat.

What makes it hilarious is these same republicans who voted against this because of the debt had no problem squandering the near balanced budget Clinton left them.
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The Republican controlled Congress balanced the budget and forced Clinton into welfare reform by shutting down the federal government. Clinton did everything within his power to insure that the budget wouldn't be balanced, oh and FYI the national debt went up every single year of the Clinton administration.
 
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Deuce said:
Well, we could always try Reagan's plan. Cut taxes some more and simultaneously raise spending through the roof. That was pretty good for us in the long term!
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How about cut taxes and spending?
 
Redress said:
Gotta love political grandstanding with things like unemployment benefits in a time with close to 10 % unemployment. What makes it hilarious is these same republicans who voted against this because of the debt had no problem squandering the near balanced budget Clinton left them.
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You if they had voted for spending on benefits: "What makes it hilarious is that the same republicans who shout and scream about spending are now voting for a spending bill."


Actually, that would make a lot more sense to criticize them for, rather than for finally voting for what they say they believe in after having done otherwise in the past.
 
Redress said:
Gotta love political grandstanding with things like unemployment benefits in a time with close to 10 % unemployment. What makes it hilarious is these same republicans who voted against this because of the debt had no problem squandering the near balanced budget Clinton left them.
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Quite obviously YOU sir are no economist.
 
Areopagitican said:
The fact is, if Obama cared for the jobless at all, he'd actually put them on the top of his agenda. Yet, of course, first came banks, then an ad hoc insufficient stimulus that was largely ineffective, then healthcare, healthcare, healthcare... healthcare healthcare healthcare... jobs... healthcare healthcare healthcare.

He's a buffoon if he thinks anyone is buying his "oh, I actually care about the poor. It's those other out of touch richies who don't."
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INteresting. What would you have him do? Please be as specific as you can be.
 
Goyboy said:
When President Obama comes up with policies that don't add to the national debt, then I'll believe what he says about the GOP.
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You mean like the GOP did?
 
MrVicchio said:
Method used high US Debt, Gov't control and heading down the road, the raised expectation that if things go south the Gov't will "Just bail us out". Like I said, short term save, long term fail.
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So no actual answer. Why am I not surprised?

Do you even know how they stabilized the credit markets?

I'd ask you to explain the TED rate and money velocity, but frankly, you are one of the most uneducated about what actually happened.
 
Goyboy said:
I didn't say that the GOP members were any better at reducing the national debt. They are equally guilty of adding to the national debt.
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I would agree to equal guilt. Do you hold equal distian? Will you believe anything republicans say?
 
obvious Child said:
So no actual answer. Why am I not surprised?

Do you even know how they stabilized the credit markets?

I'd ask you to explain the TED rate and money velocity, but frankly, you are one of the most uneducated about what actually happened.
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Yes, I have no clue at all. I didn't lay out in EXACT detail and minute point by point explanation why their actions were bad. Nah, I gave some general points because it's a very complex subject and this is an internet debate forum not a policy discussion. Besides, no matter what I post you'll claim that I'm wrong, that your superior knowledge of the subject is superior and that I don't understand it.

I do have better things to do then try to satisfy your level of "explanation"

Has anyone else noticed that when OC demands you explain something, if it's not hyper-explained he ****s on your post as if you are a stupid idiot, yet when forced to explain anything he just runs away?
 
obvious Child said:
So no actual answer. Why am I not surprised?

Do you even know how they stabilized the credit markets?

I'd ask you to explain the TED rate and money velocity, but frankly, you are one of the most uneducated about what actually happened.
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Stabilized the credit markets.
Now that's an oxymoron.
 
digsbe said:
In Obama's mind what isn't the GOP responsible for? This is just another hack political comment made by the president.
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Similar to what the GOP does towards Obama. Both sides need to stop the blame game and do something.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
Similar to what the GOP does towards Obama. Both sides need to stop the blame game and do something.
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CC... Nobody needs to do anything, remember the GOP have an election to win in November, not actually help the country ;) and the democrats... well I think it's just rather the failure of the system that allowed them to come up with such weak legislation as they have with certain aspects of the Health and Wall street reform bills.
 
Jetboogieman said:
CC... Nobody needs to do anything, remember the GOP have an election to win in November, not actually help the country ;) and the democrats... well I think it's just rather the failure of the system that allowed them to come up with such weak legislation as they have with certain aspects of the Health and Wall street reform bills.
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Folks on both sides are more interested in winning elections and blaming/attacking the other side than actually doing anything. When folks wonder what is the biggest problem facing American, today, or wonder what is the number one thing that prevents solutions, all folks need to do is look at the idiotic partisanship on both sides. Then they can stop wondering.
 
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