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GOP Senator Mitch McConnell Blocks Unemployment Benefits for 2 Million Americans
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is demanding that government spending cuts be made to pay for an extension to the federal unemployment insurance program, which expires on Dec. 31, 2012, reports the Associated Press.
Without the extension, about two million people will lose their unemployment insurance. On top of that, another million will see their benefits run out after January 2013.
However, Sen. McConnell has not required the Bush tax cuts, which benefit the very wealthy, to be offset by any government spending cuts.
In Sen. McConnell's home state of Kentucky, as many as 24,000 people will lose their benefits this week.
Kentucky's unemployment rate remains high at 8.2 percent.
The Associated Press reports:
McConnell’s office says it’s too early to make such an assessment because Obama’s plan is unclear on whether extended benefits for the unemployed would be paid for with cuts in other programs or on how it would deal with an expiring estate tax, among other issues.
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I just received a call from a
I just received a call from a political party representative. Which one doesn't matter, IMO. They're encouraging voters to call and express their concern about the lack of resolution over the fiscal cliff. There are operators in the Capitol today taking messages. If the operators are busy, one can leave a message.
Call. Be heard.
I'm not sure if I can leave a number here without violating terms of service for the site, but you can Google "US Senate switchboard phone number" and "US House of Representatives switchboard phone number".
My message was simple. "I vote, I always vote, and I'm watching. Find a way to reach a compromise so that people who cannot afford it will not bear the brunt of this blatant partisanship. Again, please tell the Congressman/Senator - I VOTE, I ALWAYS VOTE, and I'm watching to see if he makes certain there is some resolution to this issue."
I'm a Democrat in a red state and red congressional district, so giving specifics would have been futile (I've learned this in the past). I wanted them to know that not reaching an agreement is not something most of us, regardless of party, will tolerate.
It's about time that somebody
It's about time that somebody motivated the folks who think they can vote for a living to go out and work for a living. The jobs are there, just not the ones they think they are entitled to.
Go back and read what it was
Go back and read what it was like to be poor in the US before FDR....
Mitch McConnell is the
Mitch McConnell is the Scrooge of the 21st Century. But he's an uncaring and un-remorseful sociopath. What goes around will come around.
People who don't donate,
People who don't donate, contribute their time or bother to do anything but whine deserve the politicians/government they get. You do not have to live in KY to make sure Mitch McConnell's political career ends in 2014. If you can't bear to support a Democrat, find a moderate Republican how will help restore some sanity to the GOP. Every traitor who signed Grover Norquist's oath of obedience to him over their oath to the Constitution & their own constituients, SHOULD be tarred & feathered. But running them out of office will have to do.
In the last election, the
In the last election, the incumbent McConnell won by only a six point margin. Kentucky is not quite as "red" as many profess, in fact the number of registered Democrats exceeds the number of registered Republicans. Wendell Ford, a Democrat, was a US Senator for Kentucky from 1974-1999. The current Governor is a Democrat. The state's electoral votes went for Carter in 76 and Clinton in both 92 and 96.
If the Dems ran someone who was just left of center and they ran a good campaign, McConnell could lose. He's immensely disliked even in his own state.
IMO Rand Paul wouldn't have won if Jack Conway had run a better more aggressive campaign and had not attacked him about a religious issue (you just cannot do that in Kentucky).
"However, Sen. McConnell has
"However, Sen. McConnell has not required the Bush tax cuts, which benefit the very wealthy, to be offset by any government spending cuts."
Surprised boys and girls? All say "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO".
Drive democrats to the polls Mitch. The only sad part about this is the story doesn't go into how many republican unemployeds will be affected because we all know blue states care for the red states.
Again, where are all of the republican minions?
Working our jobs, earning
Working our jobs, earning money to support all those democrats on welfare and unemployment.
jmcv02
Jmcv02, And don't forget to
Jmcv02,
And don't forget to keep working because hundreds of illegals and other Americans want their monthly freebees...they're counting on YOU and ME!
God Bless!
Don't forget that most people
Don't forget that most people on welfare are white christians...
Mitch the Turtle Boy is
Mitch the Turtle Boy is probably THE worst Senate minority leader ever, and a lousy human being to boot. His legacy will be remembered badly, without any redeeming merit he will go down in the History books (at least in the one's not approved by those school book morons in Texas) as one of the biggest wastes of a vote committed in any state of the Union, much less Kentucky.
You have to realise that the
You have to realise that the Majority leader has the power, and it has been Harry Reid that has tabled the last two years of house bill sent to him concerning the budget, reform, or taxes. So in may ways he has 100% stoped congress from functioning. His constitutional duty is to present the bill sent by the houst to the Senate to vote on them, they can tehn O.K. the bill and send it to the president, if not they can return th bill to the house with recomended changes, the house then can confer with the Senate on the bill and send it again to be voted on where with a compromise or without it can be passed by the senate and then forewarded to the president,,, Harry Reid has stoped the process as soon as the bill reaches him by tableing it and not letting the senate to vote on it