how do you NOT extend unemployment benefits in a recession???

[LSK]

Does anyone have a fucking brain in DC???????????

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[Solly Mack]

1. it's not the lack of a brain that causes it

[rodeodance]

2. How do you NOT vote for kids health insurance or more food stamps in america?

[Selatius]

3. Easy. When Wall Street tells you not to. Then, you fold. End of discussion.

Your master knows best, so get back to work, or the bullwhip is coming out.

[Atman]

4. By being a Republican, or a corporatist.

And thinking only of your donors and business friends. Republican or DINO, same shit different day. Corporations first!

.

[Kansas Wyatt]

5. Yep, they want a free market economy...

Where unemployed workers are forced to accept lower skilled lower paying jobs, due to the lack of jobs.

Funny how they want that, but support illegal immigration to flood the job pool and depress wages.

Brought to all Subjects by our Corporate Government.

[pscot]

6. The republicans wouldn't like it

and we mustn't do anything to annoy the republicans.

[I work for workers]

7. Apparently it's easy.

[acmavm]

8. Maybe Nancy needed that money for the raise Congress just

recently granted itself.

Congress gets $4,100 pay raise

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress members in 2008 will receive salaries of $169,300, a boost of $4,100 over the salary they have had since January 2006.

That 2.5% increase is mirrored by similar raises for associate justices of the Supreme Court, who will see their pay go from $203,000 to $208,100, and Chief Justice John Roberts, whose pay will rise to $217,400 from $212,100.

The salary figures were published in Tuesday's edition of the Federal Register.

Last year was the first since 1999, when the pay was $136,700, that members of Congress did not receive a cost-of-living allowance raise along with other federal employees. Democrats, newly elected to the majority, had vowed to block an increase in their paychecks until Congress raised the minimum wage.

With the minimum wage increase accomplished last year, House Democratic leaders joined with their Republican counterparts to oppose a procedural vote to bring the COLA issue to the floor, leaving the way clear for their automatic raise.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-01-09-Raise-me_N.htm

[Robbien]

9. Because the Bush Dems and GOPers are saying no

and Reid and Pelosi are saying well okay then.

[mother earth]

10. That's what you do when you belong to the corporations.

We don't have a democracy, our gov't is broken because it is bought and paid for.

They want us to be a third world country so that profits can go global and our way of life must be driven down to expedite their plan. They want us to be grateful for their crumbs.