{"id":3501,"date":"2010-12-01T01:42:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T09:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2010-12-01T01:42:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T09:42:49","slug":"republicans-to-main-street-screw-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/01\/republicans-to-main-street-screw-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans to Main Street: Screw You!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hoped that this could be prevented, but the safety net for hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers just vanished, because yesterday, the Republican Party blocked a last ditch attempt to extend unemployment benefits.  By year end, over two million workers will be cut off.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"GOPhelp\"Federal unemployment benefits for millions of out-of-work Americans expired at midnight after Congress failed Tuesday to pass an extension for another year.<\/p>\n

Sen. Jack Reed, D-RI, took to the Senate floor Tuesday night to urge his colleagues to extend the benefits, but to no avail. <\/p>\n

"Now it is time to govern. Now it is time to act. Now it is time to do what we have always done in a situation like this \u2013 to pass a promptly and timely extension of unemployment insurance benefits<\/strong>," Reed said. <\/p>\n

"Acting now is the right thing to do, the responsible thing to do, the wise economic thing to do," he said. <\/p>\n

He cited that the jobless benefits serve as an economic stimulus that is more effective than tax cuts for the wealthy, one of the Republicans’ priorities during the lame-duck Congress. <\/p>\n

But Sen. Scott Brown, R-MA, objected to the Democrats’ bid to move forward with the jobless benefits bill<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow and Cornell economist Robert Frank explain why we would all benefit from passage of this extension I terms even a Teabagger could understand.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

So why do Republicans expose this?  They prefer to give million dollar tax cuts to billionaires that provide a safety net to the people those same billionaires dispossessed.<\/font><\/p>\n

This Christmas, the Grinch is a Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hoped that this could be prevented, but the safety net for hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers just vanished, because yesterday, the Republican Party blocked a last ditch attempt to extend unemployment benefits.  By year end, over two million workers will be cut off. Federal unemployment benefits for millions of out-of-work Americans expired at […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}