One more time on Ben Nelson, the slimy republicans & unemployment insurance.

[GreenTea]

We all know that the republicans want the economy to be in shambles by the November elections.

This is sad and wrong.

And the disgusting "Democratic" Ben Nelson is helping the republicans at every turn.

I know many people professional & non (and so do you) who paid into the unemployment fund for many years when they were working and who have been desperately looking for work for many month's and unemployment insurance is all they had.....

Unemployment & stimulus bills are also the best way to stimulate a hibernating stagnate economy - you've got to spend money to make money.

The cold-hearted republicans also know this, that is why they've stopped unemployment insurance for so many who truly need it, then call them lazy and worst....

The republicans want to destroy any chance for the economy to rebound, all so they could take control of congress, then put a stop to everything that helps people, that our taxes pay for, instead, the republicans ideology favor our tax dollars going to the corporations, the rich for even more deregulation, less oversight for the corporations to cut corners.

Misinformed people around the country will vote for this selfish elitist republican corporate ideology & agenda again, the very ideology that put us in this exact mess.

Very pitiful - the obviously uneducated & uninformed do not even understand what ideology means....Still they repeat & pontificate the exact lies they hear word for word at Fox "news", Limbaugh, etc. ignorantly believing they have the true story, while never even considering thinking for themselves.

People are hurting, badly and need help!

Senator Ben Nelson
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1. Joan McCarter has a diary at Daily Kos

She has a chart up from The Atlantic showing that the number of people looking for work is more than 14 million, and the number of jobs available is just over 2 million. See it here:

http://joan-mccarter.dailykos.com/

This canard that people are just too lazy to get a job and are living the high life on non-existent unemployment benefits is more than a lie straight out of the pit of Hell; it's a sin, and one that was eligible for some pretty harsh words from any number of biblical voices from Moses to Isaiah, Jeremiah to Joel as well as both Jesus and Paul, along with John.

Ben Nelson, if he had a sense of shame, should be ashamed of himself.

[LaPera]

2. Insightful graph-chart. Thanks

[okcnhra]

3. Pure and Simple

Democrats / Republicans / Democrats / Republicans --- How about just being an American?

Problem here is that the bill is not "just" about unemployment benefits extension and tax credit extensions which is something I think everyone agrees needs passed! If you want a bill to pass 100%, make the bill only about extending the unemployment benefits and tax credits instead of throwing all the kitchen sink attachments onto it like a tar baby.

For instance, Section 413 deals with a additional 15.3% tax on small business that has less than three owners and basically gives the Internal Revenue Service an open door to write new taxation provisions that will effectively kill a lot of small family businesses that are just barely getting by now. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and other small business advocates are going crazy fighting this section to get it out of the bill. And that's a just cause and needed.

Don't think that section is about unemployment nor tax credit expirations....

So the news soundbites of non-passage make it sound like the unemployed are expendable when it's the same old political game of taking a sure bet and dragging it down with issues that are much tougher, less likely to find a foothold of passage and take a chance that they might just sneak through on the coat tails of the sure bet.

And the whole bill passage process slows down to a crawl or fails as all the hanger's on try to hold on.

Eliminate all the BS in the bill, make it only about unemployment benefit extensions / tax credit extensions and see how long it takes to pass.