Bill To Help 99ers Deemed Too Costly - "Leave it to Cleaver"

The White House did not respond to a request for comment. The administration has estimated that four million Americans will run out of unemployment benefits this year.

Those exhaustees' prospects for additional help are grim. Lee and Scott are meeting with House Republican leaders Thursday to discuss offsetting the cost of jobless benefits with cuts elsewhere in the budget, but the pair may not receive help from their own party. Democratic leaders have adamantly refused to "pay for" re-authorizations of extended unemployment benefits for the past year; none have suggested they would support spending cuts in other areas in order to add 14 weeks to jobless payments.

rainer123 wrote:I am beginning to think troycomic may be right. Things don't look good for the 99ers

smindles wrote:Right. How can they ask for that bill now when they don't even have the budget straightened out. Good thinking Troy. Boneheads in Washington do everything backasswards anyway.

mint wrote:With all the budget cutting going on in Washington, this bill doesn't have any chance of being passed. That's not negativity, it's jus stating the obvious.

But why hasn't Obama or Congress created any kind of a jobs progam???

Jobless_in_Ma wrote:

mint wrote:With all the budget cutting going on in Washington, this bill doesn't have any chance of being passed. That's not negativity, it's jus stating the obvious.

But why hasn't Obama or Congress created any kind of a jobs progam???

Im not sure I would say it has NO chance of being passed. The numers do not lie. At some point 99ers will need to be addressed. The numbers are growing week to week. They can only hide that for so long. The media has already caught on to whats going on with the latest UI rates and job figures.

Also congress did have Bills that were filibustered in which would deter some of the practices that led us to this.

here we are 3 months into a GOP led House, and ZERO bills introduced. Where are the jobs from the tax cuts for the "Wealthy"? Thus far none.

Follow the jobs bill clock we have to see exactly in real-time how many job creation bills have been introduced by the GOP.

mint wrote:With all the budget cutting going on in Washington, this bill doesn't have any chance of being passed. That's not negativity, it's jus stating the obvious.

But why hasn't Obama or Congress created any kind of a jobs progam???

Angelicrisis wrote:Why do we as people have to make things more difficult then they have to be.

DesperateInRI wrote:

mint wrote:With all the budget cutting going on in Washington, this bill doesn't have any chance of being passed. That's not negativity, it's jus stating the obvious.

But why hasn't Obama or Congress created any kind of a jobs progam???

Sign the petition for a new WPA. That is what got this country out of the first Great Depression. It may help get us out of the Great Depression II.

One question I have is, why hasn't Congress done anything to create jobs? The President went along with the tax compromise in December that the GOP promised would stimulate the economy to create jobs. That didn't happen. Instead, businesses are sitting on their profits and expecting employees they had to keep to do the job of 3 or 4 people.

President Obama can't create jobs. He can only sign into law legislation that has been passed by both chambers of Congress. As you know, nothing is getting done there. Now, if the government doesn't shut down, Congress will be on another 2 week break after next week.

DesperateInRI wrote:

mint wrote:

If an added weeks bill can't be passed because of budget cuts, how do you think they could pass a much, much, MUCH, more expensive work project? Where do you think this money would come from?

mint wrote:With all the budget cutting going on in Washington, this bill doesn't have any chance of being passed. That's not negativity, it's jus stating the obvious.

But why hasn't Obama or Congress created any kind of a jobs progam???

Obama unwisely used up all his ammo trying to pass Obamacare. It makes me sad to think how things might be different he had spent that energy on jobs in his first year. Especially if he is a 2 term president-he would have had plenty of time for healthcare and not given the repubs an issue to beat him up on constantly.