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Kyl Threatens To Block Unemployment Benefits To Push Tax Cut For Multi-Millionaires This is a fairly shocking admission of priorities. 1.1 million workers are scheduled to have their unemployment benefits expire in the next month, with 2.7 million on track to lose them by April, while unemployment is still at 9.7 percent and there are six unemployed workers for every job opening. 6.3 million Americans have been unemployed for six months or longer, which is the most since the government began keeping track in 1948 and “more than double the toll in the next-worst period, in the early 1980s.” Yet Kyl is willing to hold unemployment benefits hostage in order to fashion a tax cut for heirs of the very wealthiest estates. http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/02/25/kyl-estate-tax-ui/

Anybody ever heard from Fred how Town Crier got its name?

that, or neo-feudalist haven

where is your tiara, princess?

or was it "research"? I forget. Saw the boy in the mansion on the hill has asked you to become his steady jill There'll be parties by the score the wine will flow But here's the reason I beg you not to go Cause they're not your kind of people, your kind of friends They'll turn your laughter to teardrops and in the end You'll come back to your kind of people torn all apart So please don't go baby please don't go

could be shipped to Japan for "re-education"

Must be KKK with the tiara, which explains the level of his discourse. Not the foul mouth though.

"slaves are making this product for less than you do, so you'd better consider becoming a slave yourself... or you'll be unemployed"

Necessary expenses like daycare, healthcare, transportation (2nd car for 2nd wage earner), housing, and taxes (sales tax and fees) have gone way up, and much faster than wages have gone up. Hence we are nowhere near the picture of debt resulting from reckless spending on unnecessary items painted by conservatives who revel in blaming the victims of their policies. p.s. and I know you like to think that the cost of communications has gone down because it fits your "deregulation is good" mantra but I'd like to see your evidence. Society is not yet collapsing but there are the highest poverty levels in 50 years, 1/3 of Americans without adequate access to health care, half of kids will be on food stamps during their childhood, etc ..

well, the level of the discussion certainly improved since KKK showed up.

You forgot the most important part, jackass: "This illustrates the growing unaffordability of the U.S. health care system, even to people who are by no means indigent."

Maybe you could travel to Thailand for some affordable, prosthetic testicals, j_b? what no comment about how this article blew your argument out of the water? "People are desperate," Smith tells WebMD. "This illustrates the growing unaffordability of the U.S. health care system, even to people who are by no means indigent."

More Americans Seeking Surgery Abroad (WebMD) Dismayed by high surgical costs in the United States, increasing numbers of American patients are packing their bags to have necessary surgery performed in countries such as India, Thailand and Singapore. "This is not what is sometimes snootily referred to as 'medical tourism,' in which people go abroad for elective plastic surgery," says Mark D. Smith, MD, MBA, president and chief executive officer of the California HealthCare Foundation in Oakland. Today's "medical refugees," the term Smith uses in an article published in the Oct. 19 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, are going to foreign countries for lifesaving procedures such as coronary bypass surgery and heart valve replacement, and also life-enhancing procedures such as hip and knee replacement. "People are desperate," Smith tells WebMD. "This illustrates the growing unaffordability of the U.S. health care system, even to people who are by no means indigent." more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/18/health/webmd/main2104425.shtml

Only because of unfair trade when Americans are supposed to compete with nations that have labor conditions reminiscent of the 19th century and environmental destruction. Spoken like a true regressive per usual. If slavery in some developing nations was what we had to compete with, libertarians would have no problem with it: "if you don't want to be unemployable, you'd better produce for less than a slave does"

You are completely right. There were millions of Americans in the street who knew Bushco were lying. Dems in congress demonized Nader for his saying they weren't very different from Republicans, then they promptly proceeded to prove him exactly right.

45,000 death a year for lack of access to healthcare and 40+ millions without insurance is as close as you want it to get? and you issue ominous statements/veiled threats if Democrats pursue the politics they were elected for? What a sick puppy you are. I'll tell you what Adolf, why don't you bring it on and we'll be glad to see your ass in jail to receive the attention it needs.

Hum, whatever, I am not here to split hair about what you think constitute aggression and whether firing cannons at someone while blockading them qualifies. Anyway, nobody that I can see here is putting Roosevelt or Lincoln for that matter on pedestals despite your gratuitous affirmations to the contrary. But your insistence that the way they conducted murderous wars they were forced into is equivalent to Cheney and co lying to start an unnecessary war of aggression for resources that resulted in numerous death of innocents is a clear symptom of your sick mind.

Lincoln started the civil war? Just yesterday, you were acting as if you were an history expert or something.

Without knowing too many specifics it's possible that some fat could be trimmed (esp. among higher wages like McGinn was suggesting to do in Seattle) but it's likely nowhere close to what is needed. Cutting significantly into that 60% share of the spending demands cutting essential services and it is likely not the choice that people want to make.

I don't know of any such source of data, but your bls document says that employer compensation cost of the private sector and that for state and local government employees are very similar (respectively $27.40 and $29.49), which suggests that non-civilian employees and federal gov employees make up most of the difference between private and public employer compensation costs. Anyway, it seems to blow a big hole into your argument that unreasonable employee compensations schemes are the cause of state budget shortfall.

I hope they put a shirt on because it's going to be sloppy contact in that heat.

don't forget the great gun culture ..

You first. I hear Somalia is exactly what you are looking for: low taxes, minimal government (LOL), no regulations, ... it's "freedom".

They want to use the budget crisis they manufactured to destroy public employees unions, like they did in the private sector. "Burn, baby, burn".

People go to other places/countries all the time to get specialized surgery. There is no profound meaning in this. Lame.