Over two million people will stop receiving jobless benefits immediately if Congress doesn't make a #fiscalcliff deal!!!

Well they cut benefits to the mooshers overseas - foreign aid and other government programs that operate overseas.

this column is not about your-anus

Quit being so anal...

Sadly these will be people, 40yo or older, who have fielded 100's of job app's but were not employed because the TPTB want's them young and stupid, not realizing that the continual brain/experience drain on this country is destroying it. While it is hard to appreciate any of the TPTB, there is one, in History, that realized a greater profit potential simply by providing his workers, with better wages and jobs , he was Henry
Ford... to bad his progeny don't realize and act to rediscover the creation of an empowered middle class that wants to buy, if only if it had the means...

Question for ya .. Are we payin for your school as well??? well its BS. My oldest is a senior in high school. I dont qualify for obama money because Ive worked my ass of my entire life and made a good living. Should be saving for retirement in 18 years but cant Have 32 k a year for school.Cry me a flippen river.

sounds like fun

You are allowed to claim EU and go to school. It is part of a government program. Obama wants tko retrain people instead of bringing in immigrants. He wants to put Americans first.

Now that the elections over, the useful idiot 47% can suck it. Toooo goooooood!!!

lol says the Canadian socialist

Retrain them for what? What the hell is Obama going to be teach you that would in any way be applicable to a potential job?

You realize nobody learns anything in this idiotic "retraining" programs, right?

my mom gets about $150 a week unemployment.

If a million people were getting $150 a week, that would be about 7 billion dollars a year. That is a drop in the bucket, the Federal budget is 3 TRILLION year. That is .2% of the Federal budget.

They claim Federal Unemployment costs hundreds of billions a year, that's because of the people who get huge checks, like $1000 a week, even thousands of millionaires get unemployment and they get the biggest checks.

It's not the poor people on unemployment that are the problem, it's the rich people on unemployment.

You are allowed to claim EU and go to school. It is part of a government program. Obama wants tko retrain people instead of bringing in immigrants. He wants to put Americans first.

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lol says the Canadian socialist

Says Obama. He said it on CNN.

I think Obama will be re-elected in 2016. They will undo the constitutional ammendent. Before the ammendment they were allowed to run as many terms as long as people wanted to re-elect them. I think a lot of people will want him to run again

they do that here.

for the first 6 months out of work we get jobseekers allowance which makes up the jobless figures. after 6 months its less money and called something else which takes you off the jobless list.

stinks!!

Exactly. The Democrats want America to be awash in poor people -- that's their power base. If poverty declines, Democrat power declines. That's why they want amnesty for illegal aliens, most of whom are poor.

Poor, desperate people needing government assistance -- that's beautiful music to Liberal ears.

And arrogant Republicans sneering with contempt at the poor (like in this thread) -- that's also beautiful music to Liberal ears.

Good! 99 weeks is fucking crazy. Go work at McDonalds. I would.

Let um do it .. Think new world order.

Oh yeah, people are living high on the hog on that measly $400 a month. You're an idiot moron. I hope you loose your job because you are in serious need of a reality check!!!

Idiot with no clue what it takes to pass a constitutional amendment to undo a constitutional amendment.

If they didn't outsource jobs overseas, bring in 13 to 18 million illegals, bring in millions of immigrants, and hire millions of H1 and H2 workers on visas, then there wouldn't be so many unemployed.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12582603

Exactly. The Democrats want America to be awash in poor people -- that's their power base. If poverty declines, Democrat power declines. That's why they want amnesty for illegal aliens, most of whom are poor.

Poor, desperate people needing government assistance -- that's beautiful music to Liberal ears.

And arrogant Republicans sneering with contempt at the poor (like in this thread) -- that's also beautiful music to Liberal ears.

Well said. But what to do about it. That's the problem.

You are allowed to claim EU and go to school. It is part of a government program. Obama wants tko retrain people instead of bringing in immigrants. He wants to put Americans first.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12582603

lol says the Canadian socialist

Says Obama. He said it on CNN.

I think Obama will be re-elected in 2016. They will undo the constitutional ammendent. Before the ammendment they were allowed to run as many terms as long as people wanted to re-elect them. I think a lot of people will want him to run again

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12582603

Idiot with no clue what it takes to pass a constitutional amendment to undo a constitutional amendment.

You could be right. But Obama can use executive order to do what he wants especially if he has an army of desperate people to back him up.

If people start talking about changing Constitutional amendments why protects the 13th? Why is one any different than the other?

It does not matter anymore. This country and everything in it, is dead!

Only two million? Why not all? Over 8 million people are on unemployment... 40 million + on food stamps.

Ohh nooo. two million people who's 72 weeks are at an end. Maybe they should invest in GETTING A JOB.

Nobody cares if people stop getting government cheese.

There's jobs out there. I work a crappy little job at a quasi-minimum wage place.

Maybe a cold hard dose of the shitty reality out there will wake people up from their slumber.

We're supposed to feel bad for the people whose government checks will be cut off? Please, go out and apply like everyone else.

I see, they continue to rule you through fear