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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
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/11/iowa-debate-news-live-_n_924402.html#29_romney-and-unemployment-insurance
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Re: The Iowa GOP Debate - Romney on Unemployment Insurance
Of course he's not going to flat out come out against it. He doesn't want to lose millions of votes.
Re: The Iowa GOP Debate - Romney on Unemployment Insurance
Yeah, he is going to make us THINK that he will do something. Sounds to me like another one of those voucher systems, only this time for unemployment. He thinks the unemployed are stupid. Well, we know that IF he got elected, the first thing he would do would be to eliminate UI.
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Well, anyone who has been with this site for more than 1 day know what the repub stance on unemployment insurance is.
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I would go to Congress with a new system for unemployment [benefits], which would have [individual] accounts from which people could withdraw funds....
It might be the idea floated awhile back that while employed you contributed to your own unemployment fund (kind of like a 401K) and if you become unemployed it is your own money you collect from. I'll bet that's his idea, forget the part that millions can't do that now....
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He is another OUT OF TOUCH RICH buttwipe!
His daddy gave him EVERYTHING!
His daddy gave him EVERYTHING!
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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.
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Re: The Iowa GOP Debate - Romney on Unemployment Insurance
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.
Sooooooo You don't like Ronmey? LMFAO Well said!
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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?
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?
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He's against "endless unemployment benefits". Who on earth favors "endless unemployment benefits"? It's such a typical Republican response, a superfically sensible slogan until you think about it. Then, you realize it's nonsense and evil nonsense at that because it's a subtle attack on the unemployed, hinting that the unemployed are lazy leaches, who don't want to find another job.
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Re: The Iowa GOP Debate - Romney on Unemployment Insurance
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.
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Romney’s net worth pegged at $190-$250M. He will never give a damn about the unemployed or the middle class for that matter.
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Re: The Iowa GOP Debate - Romney on Unemployment Insurance
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?
I'm sure Big Business
is behind this somewhere.
The gap between rich and poor
is the only line they care about.
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Re: The Iowa GOP Debate - Romney on Unemployment Insurance
"Individual accounts"? That's a laugh. This is the same garbage that has been peddled for 401(k)s (to ditch real pensions) and MSAs (to replace company health insurance plans). All of these are scams designed to put all of the risk on the employee and none on the employer.
Romney is full of it.
Romney is full of it.
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Re: The Iowa GOP Debate - Romney on Unemployment Insurance
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.
In many areas there is no longer any place to "go in." I can't stand the lies that the unemployed are "gaming" the system. That is total garbage.
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Re: The Iowa GOP Debate - Romney on Unemployment Insurance
Well there would have to be places established to be able to "go in" this would create jobs too.
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