How long is too long?

Anyone?

Thread Killah!

This asshole needs a lift in Dr. Kevorkian's VW minibus.

Another Phillie phuck.

I am glad that this "pool of warm diarrhea on a shag carpet" finally was pressured into doing the right thing. I suppose the lame duck Senator had to have his last bit of TV face time. It’s too bad he used it to let the media know that he is a “Dick.”

I think he qualifies for BDIU. It's only been 5 months for me, but this is the longest I've ever been unemployed and it sucks. I have the good fortune to have a husband who's still making money so I'm fine, but there are lots of people who aren't as lucky as I am. The reality is the long term debt of the US doesn't matter when compared to people being able to pay their heating bills in the middle of the winter.

Does anyone have a number on how many unemployment payouts are too many? I think it is up to two years now.

Carrying forward from yesterday.. yeah, I do have concerns about how long UI can last.

But the last recession had a largely jobless recovery, and so far that seems to be the case with this one as well. When there are few jobs available, how does simply cutting off UI help? It would seem to only worsen things. I think nicemarmot summed it up better than I ever could.

Bunning made 100,000 instant enemies yesterday. He'd better hope that none of them are so destitute and desperate that they feel they have nothing to lose by taking their revenge on him personally and violently.

Are you talking chin music? He may have pitched a perfect game, but it was against the Mets. The fact that he struck out Ed Kranepool doesn't exactly qualify him as a political genius

As someone who just spent 11 months with unemployment as my only life line, I think it's terrible that Sen. Bunning would put the millions of unemployed in a bind just to make a point. There's plenty of wasteful spending to target right now. The people that are claiming unemployment checks need them right now. They don't deserve to be used as political pawns.

He wasn't against the extension, only that the bill failed to find money in the budget for this first. Obama and the democrats have been talking a lot about fiscal responsibility a lot lately. Clearly they have no intention of actually practicing it.

He had no objections when the Republicans under Bush borrowed and spent us into the ground. Running up over $2 trillion in debt isn't exactly the height of fiscal responsibility. He's a hypocrite, like most Republicans.

I suppose the thought it that a Republican can borrow and spend until the cows come home, but a Democrat can't. Pure hypocrisy!!

I agree. The republicans lost their way and spent way too much under Bush. That's why they are out of power now. Regardless, Bunning was right to make a fuss. Somebody has to try and stop this economic insanity and fast even if they don't have a stellar past. Bush may have drove the economy into a ditch but Obama is taking it straight over a cliff.

What's the big deal, we can just print more money! Bernanke is championing that skill as we speak.

The problem here is that this "gentleman" comes up with NO SOLUTIONS (as republicans do) after being involved in causing the economic crisis!

What a DOUCHE!

Stating the OBVIOUS (there is a deficit) while the congress trying to tackle such an economical crisis is just LAUGHABLE and not even consequent.

"Let's not allow progress! So then we can blame it on "them"..." : the GOP's strategy.

How can this guy play robin-hood, while being of all a pro corporate power republican?!

How can you be so shallow and totally incoherent to expect to fix the deficit with TAX CUTS!

Perhaps Palin can answer that one, specially if the "cause" of America's problems are the "unemployed"!

I know you're just a partisan troll. But you are so out of touch with reality it's comical. The fact is that economy is rebounding. Job losses did nothing but increase under Bush, and the Obama administration has reversed the trend.

Wrong SP, it has NOT Been reversed. we are been losing jobs (net).

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2010/02/house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-compares-job-losses-under-presidents-obama-and-bush.php?page=1

And there is no economic recovery but a market recovery, Wall Street has recovered after the bailout but not Main Street.

If you take out the government jobs that were "saved/creates" job losses are still devastating every month. There is no real rebound... it's all based on borrowed money being poured into the economy, not real growth.

Saying one party did this, so we can do that is childish and not productive. They are both bankrupting this country and all of our future. Any pennies you have saved in your life will be losing value over time as everyone knows this country has no hope of paying off its debts at this point without using the printing press.

It is sad that we are still mired in this us vs them BS... no one sees the writing on the wall. Because Bush and the 2000-2006 Rep congress were royal F-ups doesnt excuse the 2006-present Dem congress and Obama from sending us further into a ditch.

The economy might be rebounding but the government will soon grind to a halt.

The only way to keep the government solvent at this point is drastic spending cuts and across the board tax hikes. Obama and the Dems will refuse to cut any expensive entitlements, while Republicans will block any tax hikes. At that point absolutely nothing will get done while the bills continue to grow.