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  • squire PB: 
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  welcome back to the welfare state ...we are going to wake up in two years at this rate incl the HB1388 just passed under the radar screen and wonder where our country went ...something like those well meaning Germans in the 30's

  Oct 08 05:43 PM | Link | Reply
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  • sglaney: 
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  99 weeks? why bother trying to get a job while you can have a 2 year paid vacation!?

  Oct 08 05:45 PM | Link | Reply
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  • Mudduckk: 
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  cha ching! we can do like the banks and take all this free money and plow it into the market. Saweeet!

  Oct 08 05:48 PM | Link | Reply
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  • castle: 
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  An effective way for the democrats to get 2 mil. votes and share the cost with all of us workers. Wonderful

  Oct 08 05:52 PM | Link | Reply
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  • tunaman4u2: 
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  We really aren't too far off of socialism eh?

  Oct 08 05:55 PM | Link | Reply
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  • cash: 
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  Sweet! I can take a two year vacation thanks to all you slackers, working hard!

  Oct 08 06:00 PM | Link | Reply
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  • Poor Texan: 
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  Well, they were passing out free money in Detroit so why is this a surprise. It's a tacit admission that the unemployed will be that way for a while because our government is incompetent when it comes to business.

  Oct 08 06:18 PM | Link | Reply
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  • nova: 
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  tunaman4u2 wrote:
  " We really aren't too far off of socialism eh?"
  
  Socialism has very little to do with welfare. Socialism is redistribution of wealth instead of welfare.
  
  Soviet's socialism was simple: people who don't work do NOT eat. This is the real socialism.
  
  L. Johnson's "Great Society" welfare system is what the present President and Congress are trying to emulate.
  
  The bottom line: the US politicians do believe that printing money will solve all problems without any adverse consequences.

  Oct 08 06:37 PM | Link | Reply
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  • ebworthen: 
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  Hard to tell what you truly believe from your comments.
  
  It seems you are against printing money, but giving money to people who are not working is somewhow not printing money?
  
  I worked retail enough to see how food stamps were abused by those who got them to buy cigarettes and liquor.
  
  I did enough manual labor to have guys on my crew "take the Winter off" by going on unemployment so they didn't have to be out in the cold and could sit at home on the couch of their Welfare collecting "old lady" (mother of one or two of their four or five children) and watch football.
  
  Obscene.
  
  
  On Oct 08 06:37 PM nova wrote:
  
  > tunaman4u2 wrote:
  > " We really aren't too far off of socialism eh?"
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  > Socialism has very little to do with welfare. Socialism is redistribution
  > of wealth instead of welfare.
  >
  > Soviet's socialism was simple: people who don't work do NOT eat.
  > This is the real socialism.
  >
  > L. Johnson's "Great Society" welfare system is what the present President
  > and Congress are trying to emulate.
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  > The bottom line: the US politicians do believe that printing money
  > will solve all problems without any adverse consequences.

  Oct 08 06:50 PM | Link | Reply
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  • User 497776: 
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  I would rather spend it here than waste it in Iraq or Afghanistan, pay bonuses to Merrill Lynch employees or Ken Lewis and his retirement. Of all the misguided spending decisions made by our government, this one--if it goes through--does not make the Top 10.

  Oct 08 07:02 PM | Link | Reply
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  • User 283977: 
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  Giving someone a fish relieves their hunger for a day…. Teach someone how to fish and you feed them for a lifetime.
  
  Congress needs to concentrate on re-booting the job creation machine of small businesses as opposed to giving away money. I would think that most people that lost their jobs want full employment, not more entitlement programs.

  Oct 08 07:11 PM | Link | Reply
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  <<Senate Democrats introduce legislation that would extend unemployment insurance benefits for up to two million Americans, some of whom could collect for up to 99 weeks.>>
  
  When I read this I actually sat speechless for a 5 minutes at the thought of this going through.
  
  You know what? I change my mind. I cannot even comment on this. All I can say is if we allow this to go through we continue to deserve everything we get as a country.

  Oct 08 07:12 PM | Link | Reply
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  • Teutonic Kn...: 
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  With the government as the major player in the residential mortgage market, sizable ownership in auto and banking, where is the promise of Free Enterprise? America is about all but to lose its vigor and vitality.

  Oct 08 07:32 PM | Link | Reply
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  • MarketGuy: 
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  If this passes, I'm buying even more commodities. It will only serve to debase the Dollar further.

  Oct 08 07:53 PM | Link | Reply
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  • bigduder: 
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  Well it does suck, but which is better paying 2 million people to find work or deal with 2 million hungry people rioting in the streets?

  Oct 08 10:40 PM | Link | Reply
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  • paulseglund: 
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  Did I hear you correctly "welfare is not socialism"? It is income redistribution so what else do you call it? The eastern europeans do have it right when after 90 days if you cannot find work, then you don't get any more benefits. I am very concerned about the future of our country as it seems to get more ridiculous every day.
  
  
  On Oct 08 06:37 PM nova wrote:
  
  > tunaman4u2 wrote:
  > " We really aren't too far off of socialism eh?"
  >
  > Socialism has very little to do with welfare. Socialism is redistribution
  > of wealth instead of welfare.
  >
  > Soviet's socialism was simple: people who don't work do NOT eat.
  > This is the real socialism.
  >
  > L. Johnson's "Great Society" welfare system is what the present President
  > and Congress are trying to emulate.
  >
  > The bottom line: the US politicians do believe that printing money
  > will solve all problems without any adverse consequences.

  Oct 08 11:15 PM | Link | Reply