The only bright side to this bill as it stands is that it sets up a nice comparison; you will have the high unemployment states getting worse while low unemployment states are relatively better. It should provide some data that remind us next time why we shouldn’t write moral hazard into our laws.

Not that the left side of the aisle will pay attention, of course.

RCB, now tell me again what might make someone move a factory to an island in the Pacific. Maybe it could have something to do with “Detroiters won’t work for less than their unemployment checks”?

Woof, well done with the pictures. Herbert Hoover’s big government spending, documented well in Murray Rothbard’s “America’s Great Depression,” helped to sustain and deepen an ordinary recession. This move by Congress promises to do the same.

Note also the practice of destroying wealth in the Seattle Hooverville. Just like “cash for clunkers.”

This is Obama’s economy.

Obama made industry the enemy of the state. Stop punishing business with all these threats of new taxation. Stop the ridiculous Health Care scam. Stop the fear mongering. Stop the asinine global warming scare. Stop demonizing the nation Obama. Try governing from the center. Reward everyone not just the unions and the welfare recipients. Stop lying.

Stop being a jack ass Barry.

I’m sure you recieve benefits from the government.

The people who pay taxes in this country pay for everything; the govt owes them repayment. Those benefits come from the taxpayers. The complaints are about non taxpayers getting “benefits” at our expense, minus the chunk the greedy govt takes for itself, it’s bloated salaries and lavish benefits and pension plans.

There was a time when receiving any form of welfare was considered something not to be proud of. When you found yourself in that position you’d do anything, work 2 or 3 jobs, flipping burgers and scrubbing toilets at gas stations if necessary, to get off of it.
Since the ’90′s there’s been a growing class of individuals that apparently lack the self respect it takes to remove themselves from the dole. Some are proud of the fact they’re sponging off of the efforts of their neighbors via the government, they’re funemployed or some other term they come up with to mask the fact from themselves that they’re living off of welfare and have no pride. Near as I can tell they’re the irresponsible generation.

Get it?

Yeah, I get it. By your philosophy if my house is old and i want a new one, just buy insurance and accidentally have it destroyed. Then, because I paid $1200 a year to insure it I’m entitled to a new one and all new contents too. Yep, I get that line of thinking, I know too many that think that way. And I’m thinking you all fit into that generation I mentioned. God help this country.

You are all missing the gravy of the program. Collect the unemployment AND work under the table somewhere until the benefits run out.

That’s how you work it.

I can’t think of very many good reasons why we should strive to be the country with the most intelligent gas station clerks and burger flippers.

No Todd, I’m sure you can’t. Especially when you can sit on your ass doing nothing but becoming a lethargic couch potato addicted to Opra while being handed a living at your neighbors expense. Aspire loser!

Don’t flatter yourself. If you worked at a gas station or flipped burgers you would still be stupid.

I wouldn’t say that WHFF, if the libs have their way taxing those that employ others we’ll all be welfare deadbeats when all the jobs outsource to countries with lower corporate tax levels. Think about it. If you started a business, would you start it in a country where almost half of what you earn goes back to the government and you still have to make the initial investment to start the company? Fuck that shit, I’d go where I could find the most favorable conditions for me, don’t like that, don’t apply to work for me. If you choose to apply to work for me and accept working for me, you’ve agreed to my terms, I haven’t agreed to yours. That’s the way it works, lazy fucks that expect more than their willing to give seem to see this from a different, obscure, perspective.

See ya Spartacus,

See ya Woof. Be sure to write about how that getting blood from a turnip works out for ya!! Aspire!

Maybe it could have something to do with “Detroiters won’t work for less than their unemployment checks”?

As a Detroiter, I have to say that yours is an unfounded statement. I’m a teacher, I don’t work in the automotive industry, but I know plenty of people who do, or did, rather. CEOs shutting down plants is the reason why Detroit has such a high rate of unemployment, not because people would rather just live off of the “cheese,” as someone put it.

I know plenty of people who are hard working, who have families, that had their lives collapse because of layoffs at plants. Not only Ford and GM, but suppliers, too. My parents own a business that does electrical contracting in Detroit. Nothing near automotive, but they’ve been hit hard because GM used to give them a lot of contracts, and now construction has been halted, and electrical work isn’t needed.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but please do not say that people are not working because they’re fine with collecting unemployment. Unemployment doesn’t cover the costs of a family. It doesn’t cover the cost of medical bills. No one I know wants to be on unemployment.

Yeah, I get it. By your philosophy if my house is old and i want a new one, just buy insurance and accidentally have it destroyed. Then, because I paid $1200 a year to insure it I’m entitled to a new one and all new contents too. Yep, I get that line of thinking, I know too many that think that way. And I’m thinking you all fit into that generation I mentioned. God help this country.
Spartacus on September 23, 2009 at 02:53 pm

On top of being a “con” you are an arsonist.
You will not get a penny. Only a cell in a nearby jail.
God help this country.

Insurance .
You payed $800 for comprehensive on your car.
You run off the road in an ice storm onto a frozen lake ,your car sinks in 20 feet of water.You survive by floating to the surface buoyed by stuffing empty big gulp cups, discarded under your seats, into your jacket.
Your car is destroyed. Are you entitled to only $800?
Get it?

The good old days when a man went to work and his wife stayed home raising the kids and braking bread. Even more gooder days when sturdy yeomen wrenched everything a family needed from the land.

There was a time when receiving any form of welfare was considered something not to be proud of.

Those were notthe good old days. People stood in line for soup, watched familiy members wither and die.

Now two or three people in a family work to maintain a family.
Bubba and Spatacus are convinced that placing people in the most dire economic circumstances is what’s needed.