Republicans Kill Unemployment Benefits - Why?

[Joanne98]

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[Crowman1979]

1. The Republican party never has nor ever will give a damn about the middle-class.

Just read about who was most ardent about stopper workers rights in the past 100 years. You'll find and (R) by their name every time.

[tridim]

2. I just posted my theory in another thread..

I think they did it to make banks richer via overdraft fees. I just got hit with $140 worth in one day after discovering my UI is gone.

[TheDebbieDee]

3. Repukes kill unemployment benefits because they're trying

to make their supporters think that only black and brown people are getting them.........

Unemployment has become the new food stamp program - in their minds, only the undeserving and unentitled ask for these benefits!

[ck4829]

4. K&R

[Triana]

5. The other debate is 'where is a reasonable place to set living wage'?

NOT 'mininum wage', a LIVING wage. A wage that an individual or family can LIVE off of.

Until there are JOBS (ie: STOP sending jobs to cheap-o-rama countries whose desparate people will work for pennies a week and STOP bringing those people here for those below-low-wage jobs so Psychopath CxO can have a fatter salary and bonus and so Corprats' Wall Street stocks can stay high) -- we will have high unemployment and need unemployment bennies.

EITHER pay unemployment or do something about jobs - both the number of them and the quality of them (ie: implement LIVING wage laws in the US).

Or - we sink.

I guess the bobbleheads in guvmint bought by Corprat AmeriKa prefer the latter. After all it doesnt' hurt THEM. And YOU - well YOU are expendable. Go rot in Hell.

So there we are.

It ain't rocket science.

Zero jobs = zero recovery. Funny no one 'up there' groks that.

Actually I suspect they do. They just mostly don't give a damn. Two things matter to the 'powers that be': MONEY and political maneuvering. Where are YOU on that list? You're NOT. Neither am I.