The Iowa GOP Debate - Romney on Unemployment Insurance

08/11/2011 10:47 PM Romney And Unemployment Insurance

Mitt Romney said at Thursday night's debate that he was in favor of ending the current system of unemployment benefits, but did not support doing away with unemployment insurance altogether.

"If I were president right now," said the former Massachusetts governor, "I would go to Congress with a new system for unemployment [benefits], which would have [individual] accounts from which people could withdraw funds…"

How that would actually work, Romney didn't say. And he stressed repeatedly that he was against "endless unemployment benefits." Still, the mere idea that Romney would support some form of unemployment insurance is kind of noteworthy for this Republican field.

-- Sam Stein

I would go to Congress with a new system for unemployment [benefits], which would have [individual] accounts from which people could withdraw funds....

sbraney wrote:This buttwipe used to be called Mitt Robbed Me when gov of Mass. He is your typical con touting the bull regarding self-sufficiency as if he knows anything about that. What a dumb ass - what he's proposing wouldn't begin to cover ones expenses - he either doesn't understand the insurance industry or just rattles whatever enters his pathetic, deceitful head. While I believe that learning to be responsible and self-reliant builds character, it's no wonder that scumballs like Romney have NONE since he relied on seed money from his old man - and undoubtedly married well - it certainly didn't come from brains. In fact, his ONLY business claim to fame makes it impossible for Americans to sustain a job, because "businessmen" like Romney would rather gut the American workforce and go after cheap labor globally to enrich themselves. These hypocrites are willing to do whatever it takes to increase profits - regardless of whether or not families and whole communities are destroyed in the process. Remember that gangsters believe profit trumps life always - corporations are more valuable than people according to cons. What's completely exasperating is that these jockstraps consider themselves close to something they think is god. It's perfectly acceptable to pillage the planet too - which should make it obvious that their god has horns. Bachman, Palin, Perry, Romney, Santorum, etc., are nothing more than very greedy and vicious thugs screwing us with a smile on their smug faces. Going to church no more makes one a christian that sleeping in your garage makes you a car - and these evangelical sociopaths truly prove it. They are an outright insult to the Creator of this amazing Universe. Shame on them and to the pretend democons. The same right wing fascists were responsible for helping Hitler rise to power, and under eerily similar circumstances.

lendmeflight2 wrote:This would just be a savings account that you would draw from if you lost your job. There is no insurance involved. He blatantly said he would do away with it. You might as well just save the money yourself.

Anyone who thinks a republican is, was, or ever will be on the side of the unemployed at this point is seriously deluding themselves and probably beyond the grasp of common sense.

I'm just shocked that working people would want to do away with something like this. Do these people think they will never lose their jobs?

lendmeflight2 wrote:I'm for endless unemployment benefits. I think it should work the way it does in England. You have benefits until you find a Job BUT you have to go in every week and turn in your job searches.