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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 02:46 PM Original message |
Poll question: Was extending unemployment benefits worth extending the tax cuts for the rich? |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. This assumes both will happen. |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Both provisions can br rolled into the same piece of legislation |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. It would be interesting to see how many jobless DUers would vote "no", |
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Luciferous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 02:51 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I am unemployed and I voted no. |
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dennis4868 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. okay but what about the unemployed... |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:33 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. There is a reason there are so many unemployed and that reason is |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. The Best Intererst Of The Nation Is To Help The 8,000,000 Americans Who Need Help Right Now |
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beforeyoureyes (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 04:47 PM Response to Reply #10 |
23. Amen. |
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dennis4868 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 04:48 PM Response to Reply #10 |
24. Giving tax cuts to the wealthy... |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 08:05 PM Response to Reply #10 |
29. Mitchy Mitch promised the tax cuts will create jobs. |
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tinkerbell41 (722 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 10:09 PM Response to Reply #10 |
37. DingDingDing!!!!!! |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 04:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
19. And what |
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dennis4868 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 04:45 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Really.... |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 08:05 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. Stimulus for jobs is a more sustainable solution. FYI that is Dem talk. nt |
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Luciferous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 04:49 PM Original message |
Exactly. My husband was laid off for 7 months last year, and even with cutting |
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Celtic Raven (415 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 04:30 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. +1 |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 10:04 PM Response to Reply #3 |
36. ditto |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:39 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. unemployed and voted no. |
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Luciferous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:49 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. +1 |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 04:49 PM Response to Reply #11 |
25. I'm unemployed and voted "yes" although I'm getting no unemployment benefits. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 07:45 PM Response to Reply #2 |
28. yep. |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 08:12 PM Response to Reply #2 |
34. You don't eat your seed corn - The Bush policies are what got us here, extending them |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-07-10 01:51 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. +1 |
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Bryn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
4. I vote no because .... |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
5. Hostage taking works for Republicans. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
7. What will Obama give the Republicans when the extension runs out? |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
8. If we also get Don't Ask Don't Tell repealed yes |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
9. Missing option - It's NOT either/or (n/t) |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 08:05 PM Response to Reply #9 |
31. Yes, it probably is. |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
12. I voted "no". Sometime or another, we have to call their bluff. It won't matter |
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DearAbby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
14. It is Political terrorism |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 07:43 PM Response to Reply #14 |
27. Too bad all the pundits fall in that 2%, otherwise the American people might be told what is |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
17. Was? has it already happened? |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 04:02 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I Don't Think Anybody Is Proposing Permanent Unemployment Benefits |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 08:07 PM Response to Reply #18 |
32. It makes it easier to disagree with Obama |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
21. It's like getting price-gouged after a hurricane wipes out your neighborhood |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
26. It's too bad the separate issues got linked together, but that's politics. |
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CakeGrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
33. There was a thread earlier this week about a poster's friend who attempted suicide |
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Jim Lane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 10:02 PM Response to Original message |
35. Holding my nose and voting "Yes". |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
38. by themselves? They weren't the impetus for the compromise |
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