Unemployment Benefits may not go thru.....

[lib2DaBone]

I dont know how many are in the same situation as I am? My unempoyment benefits have run out. This doesn't look good. (Yet Pelosi & crew are going to give Bush another $165 Billion for his war) We are headed into a depression and they are flushing money down the toilet as fast as they can...unbelievable.
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Extension of Benefits For Jobless Is at Risk


House Democrats Modify War Funding Bill

By Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 4, 2008; Page A08

House Democrats are likely to drop a 13-week extension of unemployment insurance benefits from a major spending package that includes continued funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and that would create a new education benefit for military veterans returning from the battlefields.
(more) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303237.html?hpid=moreheadlines

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. The war profiteers get richer while everyone else can go to Hell

That has been the attitude in Congress on BOTH sides for years now. No one gives a rat's ass, as long as the rich get richer and the fat bribes -- excuse me, large campaign contributions -- keep rolling in.

Politicians belong to whomever pays them, and the common folk are hopelessly outbid each and every time.

[Hestia]

2. Enough people raise hell, the benefits will come again - in case

ya'll weren't there, in the 1970s, unemployment was 12%, with most getting benefits. It's how Ronnie got into office - hippies getting benefits would bring down the country. (Sorry thread drift there)
Thom Hartmann was just talking the other day how actually unemployment is now at 12%, so Congress will have to extend benefits. How many dollars is that in Iraq dollars - a day, a week?