Ping WussGuard: Tax Cuts and unemployment benefits

[Fritz]

from http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~fof/forums/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=414123


Meanwhile, half a million people last month stopped looking for work (they gave up). No private sector jobs were created and lots of folks are losing their homes, their property because unemployment benefits have run out. Are the Republicans concerned about this? Naw, they're trying to make these tax cuts permanent.


Could you expand on the corelation between the federal tax cuts and unemployment benefits?

edit: sorry for hosing your name in the thread title WussGawd

[HornedFrog Purple]

Are you going to quit escorting?

[Fritz]

firemen are such assholes

[Fritz]

dola

but they have cool toys

[The Afoci]

I wish the government would get me a house.

[HornedFrog Purple]

Meanwhile, half a million people last month stopped looking for work (they gave up). No private sector jobs were created and lots of folks are losing their homes, their property because unemployment benefits have run out.

There are private sector jobs being created daily, people just don't want to do them. I don't think you can blame any party for that.

[HerRealName]

I wish the government would get me a house.

The only way we could buy our first house was through an FHA loan so they can help. :)

[The Afoci]

The only way we could buy our first house was through an FHA loan so they can help. :)

I am not asking for a loan. I am asking for a house.

[WussGawd]

Who is this WussGuard? :)

OK, apparently I was on way too much of a roll. The Republicans are opposing Democratic proposals to *extend* unemployment benefits (which is what I was trying and failing to say earlier) for folks who've been out of work beyond the usual 26 weeks and the most recent unemployment report showed the creation of only 21,000 new jobs, all in the public, not private sector.