Lone senator blocks unemployment benefit extensions - CNN.com

WOW. So there IS somebody in the senate who understands that you have to actually PAY for stuff. Amazing.

This is one of the biggest loads of monkey feces that the folks in washington have ever thrown at us. They wait until a couple of days before the thing expires to vote for it so they can classify it as an "emergency" and bypass annoying things like the CBO assessments.

Hopefully this will not happen and the bill will end up dead.

I do not necessarily oppose unemployment insurance programs. For the most part I think that they are a relatively good idea. Unemployment should not be necessary, but since most americans apparently do not have the sense that god gave to a little green apple, they do not save any money since apparently it does not occur to them that their job may not be entirely permanent. Like most social welfare programs, I am willing to grudgingly go along with it because it keeps sheeple at home watching television instead of robbing those of us who are productive as we try to go about our daily lives at gunpoint.

BUT COME ON. Unemployment benefits were never meant to last for years on end and they SHOULDNT. If you give people unemployment insurance for months and months and months, it prevents labor market corrections that NEED to occur. Those labor market corrections that NEED to occur but do not will keep other corrections that NEED to occur from happening. Otherwise you are essentially building a bigger bubble on top of the little one.

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If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. —Samuel Adams

I thought this was the goal? Don't you ever read Krugman...our noble prize winning economist?

You give congress a blank check and naturally this is what happens with the exception of a few noble senators from time to time (very rare).

I've liked Jim Bunning from the time I watched him pitch at Connie Mack Stadium. I was even lucky enough to be in the right place when he won re-election in the late 80's-early 90's and crashed his election night celebration party.

Why is it so hard for politicians to see that heaping taxes on our grandkids is becoming more and more repulsive to the American electorate?

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- Margaret Thatcher

"We had the machine scared and scrambling, and for them it is just the beginning of an election year filled with surprises. They will be challenged again and again across this country. When there's trouble in Massachusetts, there's trouble everywhere -- and now they know it." Senator Scott Brown (R MA)