This is how important unemployment is to congress.

[Phlem]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/lawmaker-unemployment-hearing_n_3148362.html

FFS.

-p


PS sorry if this has been posted before.

[montanacowboy]

1. BUT THEY ARE EMPLOYED

and that's all that counts

[Phlem]

2. ugh

so true.

[closeupready]

3. Actually, this level of unemployment is perfectly fine with Congress'

lords, I would argue, so far from being unimportant, what is really important here is obfuscating the fact that this is, as Krugman wrote yesterday, exactly what they want.

[OneGrassRoot]

9. Do you have a link, by any chance?

Sorry, my connection is being ridiculously slow and searching isn't happening.

[closeupready]

10. No problem, here you go:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/opinion/krugman-the-jobless-trap.html



>>So we are indeed creating a permanent class of jobless Americans.

And let’s be clear: this is a policy decision. The main reason our economic recovery has been so weak is that, spooked by fear-mongering over debt, we’ve been doing exactly what basic macroeconomics says you shouldn’t do — cutting government spending in the face of a depressed economy. <<

[OneGrassRoot]

11. Thanks so much. :) n/t

[HiPointDem]

4. add the picture

[Phlem]

7. Sorry

Still haven't figured out how to add pictures.

-p

[HiPointDem]

12. right-click on the one i posted, highlight "copy image location", & paste into your op.

i have an old windoz but it should be something like that.

didn't mean to sound like i was giving an order, btw. i was tired. sorry.

[Phlem]

13. No Worries buddy.

and thanks for the info too! Double score!



-p

[sarisataka]

5. At least Sen. Klobushar (D-MN) showed

it would have been more embarrassing to have no one there.
I wonder how many others only came because they heard about the picture.
Current members:

Dems
Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota, Vice Chair
Bob Casey, Pennsylvania
Mark Warner, Virginia
Chris Murphy, Connecticut
Martin Heinrich, New Mexico

Repubs
Dan Coats, Indiana
Mike Lee, Utah
Roger Wicker, Mississippi
Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania

Independent
Bernie Sanders, Vermont

All are Senators, the House has not yet elected members to the Committee. If any are from your district, maybe they should hear from you. I am e-mailing Sen. Klobushar to thank her for attending.

[Phlem]

8. Sadly none.

But I can always count on my favorite Independent to do the right thing!

-p

[Marrah_G]

6. They should have named it "bengahzi hearing"

THEN people would have fucking shown up.