Congress has announced they intend to make it more difficult to claim Unemployment Benefits.
Starting next Monday, the forms will be printed in English.
Posts Tagged ‘Congress’
Re: Unemployment Benefits
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011The Fix
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011There recently was an article in the St. Petersburg, Florida. Times. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on: “How Would You Fix the Economy?” I think this guy nailed it!
Dear Mr. President,
Please find below my suggestion for fixing America ‘s economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the “Patriotic Retirement Plan”:
There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following
stipulations:
1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings – Unemployment fixed.
2) They MUST buy a new AMERICAN Car. Forty million cars ordered – Auto Industry fixed.
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage – Housing Crisis fixed.
It can’t get any easier than that!!
P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes.
Mr. President, while you’re at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare. I’ll bet both programs would be fixed pronto!
“B-b-b-but it’s His Fault … He Started it”….
Saturday, December 11th, 2010
The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this nonsense. So once more, a short civics lesson.
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009 as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011.
In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009. Let’s remember what the deficits looked like during that period: (below)
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is: “I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.”
There is no way this will be widely publicized. This is your chance to make a difference…
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010We’re going to be “gifted” with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don’t, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president who also smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke.
Ole Harry
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010‘The Buck Stops Here.’
‘It doesn’t matter how big a ranch ya’ own, or how many cows ya’
brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.’
Harry Truman
After President Truman retired from office in 1952, he was left with an income consisting of basically just a U.S. Army pension, reported to have been only $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an ‘allowance’ and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year. When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, ‘You don’t want me. You want the office of the president, and that doesn’t belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it’s not for sale.’
Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award
him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it,
writing, ‘I don’t consid er that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise.’ We now see that other past presidents have found a new level of success in cashing in on the presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruit s of their offices. Obviously, political offices are now for sale. Good old Harry Truman could have been correct when he observed, ‘My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference. I, for one, believe the piano player job to be much more honorable than current politicians.’
Thought of the Day
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Mark Twain
Maxine Sums up the Health Care Bill
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Let me get this straight. We’re going to be gifted with a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president who also hasn’t read it and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke.
Let Me See if I Understand All This…
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY,
YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY,
YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY….
IF YOU GO INTO CHINA ILLEGALLY,
YOU’RE CONSIDERED A SPY AND GET HARD PRISON TIME.
IF YOU GO INTO GERMANY ILLEGALLY,
YOU GET A HEFTY FINE, WORK IT OFF OR PAY IT OFF, THEN DEPORTED.
IF YOU GO INTO ENGLAND ILLEGALLY,
YOU ARE IMMEDIATELY JAILED AND DEPORTED…….
BUT IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY,
YOU GET:
1. A DRIVER’S LICENSE
2. A SOCIAL SECURITY CARD
3. WELFARE
4. FOOD STAMPS AND
5. FREE HEALTH CARE?
I guess I still don’t understand… maybe we need to VOTE OUT OUR LAWMAKERS.
*GO GREEN! RECYCLE CONGRESS!*
Let’s Say I Break Into your House!?
Thursday, June 11th, 2009Your House
A lady wrote the best letter in the Editorials in ages!!! It explains things better than all the baloney you hear on TV.
Her point:
Recently, large demonstrations have taken place across the country, protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration.
Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely.
Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests…
Let’s say I break into your house. Let’s say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave.
But I say, “I’ve made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors. I’ve done all the things you don’t like to do. I’m hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house).
According to the protesters:
You are Required to let me stay in your house.
You are Required to add me to your family’s insurance plan.
You are Required to Educate my kids.
You are Required to Provide other benefits to me & to my family (my husband will do all of your yard work because he is also hard-working and honest, except for that breaking in part).
If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my RIGHT to be there. It’s only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I’m just trying to better myself. I’m a hard-working and honest, person, except for well, you know, I did break into your house. And oh yeah, I get a free education, where you have to pay your own way through college. (TEEHEE)
And what a deal it is for me!!!
I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of cold, uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and bigoted behavior.
Oh yeah, I DEMAND that you learn MY LANGUAGE!!! 
So you can communicate with me. And don’t forget to make sure your forms are in MY language – I need to understand them…
Why can’t people see how ridiculous this is?! Only in America !
If you agree, pass it on ( in English ).
Share it if you see the value of it.
If not blow it off………
Along with your future Social Security funds, and a lot of other things!
Can You Guess Who?
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
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36 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectlybankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71, repeat 71
cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 currently are defendants in lawsuits,
and
84 have been arrested for drunk driving
in the last year.
Can you guess which organization this is?
NBA Or NFL?
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Neither, it’s the 435 members of the United States Congress the same group of Idiots that crank out
hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.
You gotta pass this one on!
