Does the GOP Hate Jobs?

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via In These Times:



Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Weekly Audit: Does the GOP Hate Jobs? (10:39 am)

By Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger


Through inaction and timid legislative negotiations, Congress just keeps letting the U.S. sink deeper and deeper into the economic abyss. Last week, Congress denied relief to the jobless and is currently poised to undercut a proposal that would rein in predatory lending. With unemployment out of control and banks pillaging citizens’ pocketbooks at every turn, the economy is in dire need of serious financial reform and a major jobs package.

More than one million have lost unemployment benefits

As James Ridgeway emphasizes for Mother Jones, over a million people receiving unemployment benefits ran out of financial rope on March 1 thanks to Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-KY) self-righteousness. As a result of bizarre Senate procedural rules, Bunning’s sole “no” vote was enough to stop a bill that would have extended unemployment benefits for those who are out of work. Of course, Bunning had plenty of moral support from his fellow Republicans. Ridgeway highlights a Think Progress post on Rep. Dean Heller’s (R-NV) preposterous argument that it is time for the government to cut off unemployment benefits, since there are so many bums.

“What makes Heller’s statement really stupid, of course, is that people could become hobos if Congress doesn’t extend unemployment benefits, rather than if they do,” Ridgeway writes. “Modest as they are, these weekly benefits are what’s keeping thousands—and perhaps millions—of families out of poverty.”

As Brian Beutler notes for Talking Points Memo, Bunning’s economic insanity also triggered a 21% cut in the fees doctors receive for treating Medicare patients. That’s a big “Screw you!” to seniors. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.theittlist.com/ittlist/ind/5663/weekly_audit_does_the_gop_hate_jobs/

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1. That’s a big “Screw you!” to seniors

How, pray tell? Try telling my doctor that he is a senior.
This is not going to hurt the individual. This is a way of cutting health insurance costs,not health CARE!!