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Unemployment benefits: not until Bush tax cuts pass, Senate GOP says - CSMonitor.com
The inaction means the imminent loss of unemployment compensation for some 800,000 out-of-work Americans, with nearly 2 million long-term unemployed expected to be affected by Jan. 1, according to the Labor Department.
US Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, speaking Wednesday at a press conference organized by Democratic congressional leaders, said that by next spring, another 6 million unemployed workers will lose benefits if Congress does not act. Millions of families are going to struggle to put food on the table or put gas in the gas tank, she said.
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To me, political negotiations mean "do we put a bridge here or a train", or do we build another aircraft carrier or spend the money elsewhere?
Or how we deal with Iraq.
But letting millions of Americans suffer so you can get a few more dollars for the wealthy? How is that good for the country?
And this fight over health care? Willing to bring down the world economy to keep the poor and the middle class from getting less expensive health care? Makes no sense to me.
Is holding all or part of the country hostage "good politics"?
The inaction means the imminent loss of unemployment compensation for some 800,000 out-of-work Americans, with nearly 2 million long-term unemployed expected to be affected by Jan. 1, according to the Labor Department.
US Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, speaking Wednesday at a press conference organized by Democratic congressional leaders, said that by next spring, another 6 million unemployed workers will lose benefits if Congress does not act. Millions of families are going to struggle to put food on the table or put gas in the gas tank, she said.
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To me, political negotiations mean "do we put a bridge here or a train", or do we build another aircraft carrier or spend the money elsewhere?
Or how we deal with Iraq.
But letting millions of Americans suffer so you can get a few more dollars for the wealthy? How is that good for the country?
And this fight over health care? Willing to bring down the world economy to keep the poor and the middle class from getting less expensive health care? Makes no sense to me.
Is holding all or part of the country hostage "good politics"?