Screw the unemployed

They've probably forgotten how we brought the economy to the brink of disaster and caused them to be unemployed in the first place.

So, Republicans succeeded in preventing unemployment benefits from being extended to those in need. Their claim is that we cannot afford it, and we're better off letting the unemployed find alternative means of supporting themselves and their families.

One thing, according to those same Republicans, that we have absolutely no problem affording is the Bush tax cuts to the very wealthiest Americans. That subsidy is supported by taxation on the rest of us.

Here's the cold truth. Bush's tax cuts account for 40% of the 2010 Deficit. Unemployment benefits account for just 3%.

www.sj-r.com/opinions/x1876471793/Ralph-Martire-Deficit-hawks-wrong-to-nix-jobless-benefits-extension

This isn't a hard math problem, conservatives. You're simply lying to your base, hoping they cannot understand the math.

It may seem bad taste to accuse Republicans of wanting a rise in unemployment but their actions leave no other explanation

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jul/06/republicans-party-of-unemployment

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www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/opinion/05krugman.html?_r=3&hp

Punishing the Unemployed - "Republicans have made the cynical calculation that blocking anything President Obama tries to do - especially anything that might alleviate the nation’s economic pain - improves their chances in the midterm elections."

Returning to absolute power by harming the very country you seek to control. And my conservative friends can't understand how I can't embrace "the party"...

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A look, on a small scale, of what results from actually implementing all that conservative economic rhetoric.

griperblade.blogspot.com/2010/07/conservative-economics-at-work.html

Gee, but it sounded so good when they just repeated their mantra over and over...

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Big money makes another big-time Republican operative a major player in the tea party movement.
www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39426.html

It's all about the money, big party agendas, and dirty politics...