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I seriously cannot believe how strongly they are opposing extending unemployment benefits in this country. They do not want to announce there is a recession, but everyone keeps saying 'it's very likely'....and oh by the way, you people in the depressed states with 8% unemployment...well you can just lose your homes, deal with not having an income and go on your merry way???

Where the fuck are these jobs suppose to come from? We don't make anything anymore and the only thing we export is empty shipping containers.

I just don't understand the opposition. We can spend billions a day on this war and they cannot help regular folks with a whopping 360$/week check for a few more months?

And they are worried about stopping the requirement of people to work 20 weeks before claiming benefits.....AGAIN - WHERE THE HELL are people suppose to find work? If we could find work for 20 weeks, don't they think we would then not have a need for unemployment????

We have people in this state applying for jobs where 500 other applicants are lined up with them. We have folks being told they are overqualified because they cannot find anything with the degrees they have. Seriously. What the hell does this government think is going to happen here?

Oh but lets keep them from getting extra unemployment. I mean seriously. They don't REALLY need it. There is work everywhere.....all those foreclosed homes...that's just a joke !



ETA: Is this because Bush wants to do everything he can to avoid leaving office on a recession? If they formally announce a recession, he would have no choice but to take measures like extend unemployment.....maybe it's just that. He simply will avoid it at all costs, even if it costs Americans their livlihood, homes, retirement money whatever....

I'm so fucking fed up.

Nevertheless this Iowa disaster and what that is going to cost and the continued downward cycle it's going to add to.....all those people with no flood insurance, now no homes, businesses under water so jobs are lost....

With Ohio ranking right up there as either 7th or 8th in the nation of high  forclosure rates, I can see your point GR8PYRZ.
It just sickens me what is happening to this great nation of ours.

Where is that barf icon when you need it?

Yeah, I saw that list that had Texas just above Ohio I think for foreclosures but Houston is supposedly great for finding employment? Uhm, finding slave-wage jobs maybe. We have cheap housing too, but when the wage gap and the housing prices grow further and further (farther?) apart everyone in the middle falls out.

We are seeing the results of thirty years of the Reaganomics War on the Middle Class. The abolishment of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, coupled with the all the tax cuts for the ultra rich, and all the other shit that's been done have left billionaires reaping the benefits while the rest of us drown. And here it is.

Of course Bush wants to leave the economy is dismal mess! That way when it takes 3-4 years to climb out of it, the Republicans can hammer on the Democrats, blaming them instead of themselves, and because people have such short memories, who do you think will swoop in to "save you from the evil democrats"?

Basic economics. It's always the other guys' fault and YOU'RE always broke because of it.

Of course, they want to have a recession. So it is the democrats' job to spend money and get it cleaned up. And then get blamed for "big spending".

Plus with a recession, people are too worried about their homes to see all the crap that is going on with the war and enviroment. ("I know! Let's save the gas prices by tearing through the wildlife and natural reserves. Wind power, solar power and alternative thinking for energy is such a wimp-idea.")
The other problem is the bio-technology (ethanol law that says that they have to have so many gallons of bio-fuel every year.) Here in the Midwest we just got done with some major flooding that lost in Iowa alone over 3 million acres of crops. Corn prices have completely skyrocketed to over $8 a bushel. In past years they were doing well to get to $2 a bushel. That is why corn products were in everything. With corn prices at crazy levels, everything at the store will cost more. From cereal to meat to ketchup to ice cream.

But in a recession the rich will stay rich and that in the end is all Shrubby and his cohorts care about.