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Originally posted by Xcouncil=wisdom
DON'T be scarred! 9 out of 10 poeple are not unemployed...and before our "crisis" 9.4 out of 10 were not unemployed....
Originally posted by St Udio
lets see, today is Marz1st, so its been a Week since Bernanke told the Congress They Had to immediately cut their Deficit Spending !
(implying things such as unemployment benefits, & entitlements like Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare need to be rationed out less freely)
Bernanke, & i guess Geithner and Paulson...all want their million dollar pay for themselves and the clique of corporate bankster elites who are part of the club ! (est. subtotal $9.66 Trillion, in 20 months)
but the measely $100-300 Billion$ for the 'riff-raff' workers in the nation
is deemed 'outlandish, break-the-bank, unwarrented Deficit 'spending'
whereas the high & mighty, monied, class elites outlays are beneficial 'Investments'
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when the subsistance pay ceases, there should be no riots in the streets...
instead lets revisit the tour buses around the fat cats mansions
on free sight-seeing tours.... as was done in Deleware & Conneticut ~2 years ago
reasonable ?
Originally posted by ChrisCrikey
I will look for a link, but today I also read that by June of this year another 5 million peoples' unemployment benefits will run out (unless there is a sudden creation of jobs).
here is one link on this:
money.cnn.com...
We need some big projects and I hope they expand all things "green" and renewable energy sources - the USA needs to be leading on this.
Originally posted by Subjective Truth
I have been wrestling with the question for the last week what happens to America when it stops? I think it is the only thing holding the country together right now. And if it does stop it will unravel the very fabric of America. When people lose everything they often become very angry and that anger could turn to hate.
What I wish the administration would do is really create some jobs and no more money anywhere until America is back on it's feet. Let the world worry about places like Haiti it is not our job. We need new roads and schools better infrastructure across the board. Why not put all the electric lines underground?
If they do not create jobs and cut off the unemployment America is lost as we know it. It is simple create jobs and get the unemployed working again. Why is it so hard to do that? I am starting to wonder if they care about jobs at all.
And this is not a political issue Bush was just as bad it is a American issue.
[edit on 28-2-2010 by Subjective Truth]
I am from the uk and i am on benefits, i dont understand the american benefits, how come your cheques run out ours never do,some of the benefits are long term?