Obama Prepared to Let 900,000 State Workers Lose Their Jobs

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Monday July 12, 2010 · 12:28 PM PDT

2010/07/12 · 12:28

Without additional aid to the states nearly a million workers may lose their jobs by the end of the year. In recently alarming statements made by Presidents Obama's political adviser, David Axelrod, the WH has decided, based on the political landscape, to let those workers go.

Axelrod pulls no punches, he has made a political calculation that deficits over jobs is the right political decision and the President agrees with that course going forward.

Let me put this in context; there are nearly 16 million people out of work right now, 2.5 million have had all their benefits cut off at the moment and the WH has made a political decision that is a winning strategy to add an additional million state workers to the unemployment line because that will bring success in November's midterm elections.

Wow...that's some calculation.

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Deficits and Unemployment: Congress Mows The Grass While The House Burns

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Wednesday July 07, 2010 · 6:09 AM PDT

2010/07/07 · 06:09

With tens of millions of Americans unemployed the White House, along with Republicans and some conservative Democrats have decided to focus on the deficit while millions of Americans struggle to survive and millions more fear that they are about to lose their jobs as well.

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While Senators Celebrate, Millions of Americans Struggle to Survive

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Sunday July 04, 2010 · 8:18 AM PDT

2010/07/04 · 08:18

It's Independence Day and around the nation 100 United States Senators are eating shrimp cocktails, drinking champagne or possibly boating off Martha's Vineyard, while literally millions of Americans, who have lost their unemployment benefits, are on the brink of total financial collapse. Millions more are on such tight budgets that they can't find much to celebrate because they know they are next. Add to that a million more that know they will soon lose their jobs unless a few of 41 Senators, that have filibustered the jobs bill, decide that their livelihoods are worth saving.

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Tuesday June 29, 2010 · 7:46 PM PDT

2010/06/29 · 19:46

I've been having a hard time understanding the GOP strategy of attacking Justice Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights icon to millions of Americans, particularly black Americans. Since the election of Barack Obama, the right has really struggled with issues of race. The problem has always been there, but until it became clear that Mr. Obama was going to become President, they tended to give the illusion that they were really interested in developing closer ties to the black community. Now, all pretenses have been toss aside, so much so that they feel comfortable launching a full-blown, childish tantrum against one of the greatest civil rights icons in America history.

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States Plan For Massive Layoffs As Jobs Bill Fails In The Senate

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Saturday June 26, 2010 · 9:14 PM PDT

2010/06/26 · 21:14

An estimated 900,000 additional job cuts will be added to the 15 million unemployed workers that are already idled. With the Senate's failure to break a Republican filibuster on the HR 4213, commonly called the Tax Extenders Bill, which included re-authorization of extended unemployment benefits, states have begun to plan for layoffs, massive layoffs.

46 states are projected to run budget shortfalls for the coming fiscal year[1] and without the additional funding from the federal government, they will have no choice but to trim the state workforce:

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Senate Ready To Debate Wall Street Reform, Unemployed Readying For Evictions Notices

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Friday June 25, 2010 · 9:07 PM PDT

2010/06/25 · 21:07

OK, I'm venting...

I just read this in HuffPo:

President Barack Obama will keep pressing Congress to pass the bill, his spokesman said. But Democrats haven't shown they can come up with the votes.

That's leading Democrats to consider breaking the jobless aid measure from the catchall bill and try to pass it as a stand-alone $33 billion measure next week before leaving Washington for a weeklong Independence Day recess. Key Senate Republicans, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, are pressing the idea.

But a Reid spokesman said the majority leader is committed to passing a Wall Street reform bill next week and predicted Republicans would block any move to do a stand-alone jobless aid bill after that measure passes.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

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Thursday June 24, 2010 · 4:40 AM PDT

2010/06/24 · 04:40

Americans have a deep mistrust of government not because "government" is broken, but because our leaders do things like this:

The Republican alternative to the tax extenders bill would have extended unemployment benefits and offset the cost with budget cuts so steep it "would essentially shut down much of the federal government for the last two and a half months of this fiscal year," according to the CBPP.

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Tuesday June 15, 2010 · 2:06 AM PDT

2010/06/15 · 02:06

I see no difference between the lies told by the Bush regime and the Obama administration...both lied to cover their "rearends".

Mr. President, unemployment is at 10% and has been there all year, stop blowing sunshine up our butts...this economy stills sucks. If we still don't have any jobs or extended unemployment benefits come November, a lot of Democratic lawmakers will lose their jobs anyway. Stop acting like Republicans because conservatives won't vote for you anyway.

Do you really think you will get Republican votes because you cut off COBRA subsidies?

I mean really, do you think Republicans are going to forget their positions on Guns, God, Gays and Abortion and vote for Democrats because you cut off COBRA subsidies and unemployment benefits for a 4-5 million people, it's laughable. There is something mentally wrong with the Democratic lawmakers if they believe that.

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Poll - Should Bp Shareholders Receive a Dividend Payout?

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Thursday June 10, 2010 · 5:11 PM PDT

2010/06/10 · 17:11

To be honest, I'm sick of hearing about Bp's shareholders. They failed dramatically in their responsibility in ensuring their company followed U.S. law, safety rules and regulations. YOUR responsibility, as a shareholder, is more than cashing a damn check...Your company had just ruined the second largest fishery in the continental United States, saturated the Gulf coastline and wetlands with crude oil and you really think Americans give a fat rat's ass about your dividend...really?

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Unemployment - Dems Play With Fire: With 15 Million Jobless Dems Lose Appetite To Fight For Them

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Saturday June 05, 2010 · 1:42 PM PDT

2010/06/05 · 13:42

With over 15 million voters out of work, Democrats have begun to signal that they are not willing to do too much more to help them, especially the long term unemployed (those out of work 6 months or longer)

The May jobs report indicate that only 41,000 jobs private sector jobs were created last month;

Virtually all the job creation in May came from the hiring of 411,000 census workers. Such hiring peaked in May and will begin tailing off in June. By contrast, hiring by private employers, the backbone of the economy, slowed sharply.

They added just 41,000 jobs, down from 218,000 in April and the fewest since January.

"Although the economic outlook is improving, the recovery is still pretty tepid," said Paul Ashworth, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics.

The weakness in private hiring rattled Wall Street. Stocks tumbled and bond prices rose, as investors sought the safety of US Treasurys.[1]

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Arcane Law May Limit Transocean's Liability To 27 Million Dollars In Deepwater Horizon Explosion

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Thursday May 27, 2010 · 8:44 PM PDT

2010/05/27 · 20:44

According to a posting from the Buzbee Law firm, Transocean filed papers in federal court in Houston seeking to limit their liability to the value of the sunken vessel, the semi-submersible oil rig Deepwater Horizon, which Transocean values at only $27 million;

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Tuesday May 25, 2010 · 9:01 PM PDT

2010/05/25 · 21:01

We knew this moment was coming, it always does, the moment when a young president is presented his first major national security challenge. President Obama's moment has arrived...Mr. President, meet Kim Jong Il.

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