Senate Rejects Extension on Unemployment Benefits

[CQuinn]

You just need to prove you have been LOOKING for a job.. if I go to Intel and tell them I want to design CPUs and I want to get paid $1 million a year.. I've been LOOKING, doesn't mean I'm serious.

I can't speak for every state, but here you have to provide proof that you actually made contact
in a verifiable way. They have the option of calling those companies to see if you actually
talked to someone there.

And the employers can file complaints back with Job Services if they get sufficient or significant
bogus contacts. Which is likely to happen if you are job seeking in an area with a lot of other
people looking for similar work. With enough complaints, compainies would either stop using
Job Service as a resourse for finding new employees, or Job Services would start restricting
problem jobseekers from being able to use their resources to find a job.

And the Intel facilities around here like to maintain a close relationship with local job centers.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

"RAM" : Kerry a no-show when it counts

The problem for John Kerry is you sure can't run against President Bush on the ``jobless recovery'' issue when the recovery is no longer jobless. And it's even harder to castigate Bush and the Republican Congress for blocking benefits for the unemployed when you're a no-show.

More from the "RAM" :roll:

A Kerry spokesman said: "John Kerry has fought again and again to extend unemployment benefits for workers left behind in the Bush economy. The reason we haven't succeeded is because George Bush opposes extending unemployment insurance and so do his allies in the Republican House of Representatives and 39 Republican senators."

Excuse me? It's 39 Senator's fault - not the ONE Senator who skipped the vote?

Priceless- just priceless.

CkG

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: CADkindaGUY


Excuse me? It's 39 Senator's fault - not the ONE Senator who skipped the vote?

Priceless- just priceless.

CkG

Could it aslo be that the majority of the senate felt that it was no longer needed.
If one Senator felt that their vote was not important, then that person, the party and people that repreresented can not complain

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: CADkindaGUY


Excuse me? It's 39 Senator's fault - not the ONE Senator who skipped the vote?

Priceless- just priceless.

CkG

Could it aslo be that the majority of the senate felt that it was no longer needed.
If one Senator felt that their vote was not important, then that person, the party and people that repreresented can not complain

but but but but but but......"John Kerry has fought again and again to extend unemployment benefits for workers left behind in the Bush economy."

Guess he didn't think it was worth fighting for anymore or maybe the campaign is more important to him(yes I'm waiting for that excuse to surface)

CkG

 

[Tripleshot]

Originally posted by: Ozoned

Originally posted by: CADkindaGUY


So does anyone have an answer to how long is long enough? 13, 26, 36....?

CkG

How long was it extended before we had Unemployment Benefits??




Entitlement> a government program providing benefits to members of a specified group..



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Entitlement? It's a damn insurance policy forced on employers and employees to pay the premiums and to be used when there are layoffs and downsizing or an employee is wrongly dismissed. The only,and I mean ONLY entitlement is foodstamps. America will not let people starve. walk into any workforce office in the countryand say I'm hungry and have no money for food, and bam, you will get your entitlement.
UI you pay for, out of every check. The money is invested, just like neocons like SS to be. It draws interest which pays recipients. It is far less than most paychecks,and is a short term gap filler in hopes that a person can find equal or better employment than what he left. Unfortunately, most who are on UI or looking for jobs are only finding low paying service sector jobs. That is what boosts the Unemployment figures, underemployment.

 

[rudder]

Hah it was a good thing he was absent. If he voted to extend benefits people would would say WTF was he thinking with unemployment at 5.6%, the same as when Clinton was in office. Had he voted no to the extension, he would be signaling an agreement that the economy was rebounding. I bet he will be absent alot until election time.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: rudder
Hah it was a good thing he was absent. If he voted to extend benefits people would would say WTF was he thinking with unemployment at 5.6%, the same as when Clinton was in office. Had he voted no to the extension, he would be signaling an agreement that the economy was rebounding. I bet he will be absent alot until election time.

~70% absenteeism since the beginning of the 108th Congress(started Jan 2003).
I don't think you'd lose your bet based on his history

CkG