A cruel Christmas gift: Jobless benefits cut

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Extended unemployment benefits will end today for 1.3 million Americans, just three days after Christmas. The cruel cutoff of income for the long-term jobless and their families exemplifies the contempt of the Obama administration and the entire political establishment for the working class. The move threatens millions of unemployed workers and their families with poverty.

Never before in the post-war history of the United States has the government cut off extended unemployment benefits while jobless levels remained as high as they presently stand.

In the course of 2014, another 3.6 million workers will exhaust their state unemployment benefits and be left with nothing. Taking into account family members who rely on these benefits as their sole source of cash income, some 5 percent of the US population will face destitution as a result of the cutoff of these funds.

A renewal of the extended benefits was left out of the budget deal reached in Congress earlier this month, with the approval of the White House and congressional Democrats. The total cost of extended unemployment benefits would be $25 billion in 2014, less than 1 percent of overall federal spending.
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Read more @:
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/28/pers-d28.html
 
they don't care about their fellow Americans.

they want this government to fail.

they hate government.

just ask them
 
I remember a funny cartoon from long ago the gist of which was: "Justice... Ron Reagan is reincarnated as a poor pregnant black girl"

My hope would be that all those who cruelly begrudge the poor and unemployed someday find themselves poor and unemployed.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
What a surprise...it appears as though the author of the OP is just another partisan hack won't respond to the truly DAMNING questions.
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LOL, Rose is a Socialist! We have so many partisan hack Socialists on this site.

It seems Rose's point was both Republicans and Democrats contributed to the benefits being cut. I'm surmising here she would say you would expect that from the Republicans but not from the Democrats so why did the Democrats go along? Can you answer that Zap? Can Desh?
 
because it was the ONLY way to get a budget passed.

the republicans don't let budgets pass anymore
 
They do bad shit and then blame them on the dems in any dishonest way they can think of.

That is what happens when one of the parties os taken over by people who hate government.

they want it to fail so they don't let much good happen.

there has to be some kind of a paycheck for them in it
 
evince said:
because it was the ONLY way to get a budget passed.

the republicans don't let budgets pass anymore
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Oh, you mean negotiations are the only way to get a budget passed and in the negotiations the Democrats were willing to negotiate away extended jobless benefits?
 
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