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February 27th, 2010 at 3:08 pm
How long would it take the Democratic Party controlled US Senate to do it the regular way, where “Unanimous Consent” would not be required (I hate it when there are long, complicated words, which I might misspell as part of the process, especially because I can’t “preview” this page.)?
The problem is, Senator Bunning has a point. The US Senate promised to not pass stuff that increased the debt. Didn’t they understand what they were doing? And, the benefits need to be extended.
Regards — Cliff
March 1st, 2010 at 9:09 am
Don’t buy it for a minute. This was a vote intended to bolster Brown as some kind of independent-minded new generation of leader. He cast a vote that wasn’t needed and in what I am sure is a carefully orchestrated response, was immediately ripped by conservative opinion setters. The whole point was to let him stray off the reservation when his vote didn’t matter to try to solidify his Massachusetts base. Just watch what happens when it does matter; he’ll do what he’s told, but can point to this vote and crow about his “independence” when he’s called out for voting contrary to what his constiutents prefer.
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:10 am
How much longer would this have extended benefits? My understanding is that in Mass benefits can last as long as 75 weeks. Just how long should be people be able to file claims?
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:01 am
When there’s a 9-10% unemployment rate, -b, as long as it takes. Unless you WANT people to starve and lose their homes and be on the streets?
Keep in mind, if you draw unemployment, you have to keep checking in with them and prove you’re looking for work. You can lose your unemployment quite quickly if you stop looking and they catch you (as I recall, it wasn’t easy to “game” that either - it’s been a long time since I collected in a previous downturn, but I remember going through that). So it’s not like handing out cash to undeserving people who aren’t looking for work.
There just literally ISN’T any work out there, and that’s WHY we have a safety net. So let’s all be patient and have a bit of compassion.
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:04 am
Also, keep in mind, UI is paid by employers into a pool. I pay UI for instance (once my company pays out past a certain minimum in salaries). It is, essentially, an insurance premium (in fact it goes up if I lay people off, which is a bit of a disincentive to be a bad company which hires and lays off indiscriminately). So the laws might extend the eligibility period, and perhaps right now the feds need to subsidize that money pool due to high demand, but generally speaking, it’s an employer insurance premium, not your income tax or anything else, that goes into paying unemployment.
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:40 pm
So if unemployment stays at this level for the next several years (which I think it will) we should just keep extending the benefits? 2 years, 3 years, 4 years?