Comments on: Paul and Grayson back Bunning’s block of jobless benefit extension

By: Media Artist

Media Artist — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:44:49 +0000

Will read more article from you….

Yeah bookmaking this wasn’t a high risk conclusion great post! ….

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:49:24 +0000

Let’s get something straight here…..unemployment benefits are NOT WELFARE! I don’t know how it works down there in Kentucky but in Pennsylvania we pay for those benefits from our paychecks. If you need to fund the federal extension I suggest you take it out of the next payment going to Cheneyburtton the company that is electrocuting our brave fighting men and women in their showers and charging them to wash their clothes

By: Wes

Wes — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:19:55 +0000

Another thing lost in the whole deal is the timing of the vote. It comes essentially one business day before it expires. This should have been addressed weeks ago, thus ensuring that any lapse in benefits will not occur. Bunning is not objecting to unemployment benefits, he is objecting to how it is being paid.

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:07:17 +0000

Jim Bunning is taking a lot of heat for essentially doing the right thing. I would say extending unemployment benefits is the same as welfare. There are quite a percentage of the unemployed who have given up looking for a job, and why should they look when the tax payers are constantly bailing them out. The first thing the democrats did when took control of both houses was to extend unemployment bailouts. They have to keep their useless and lazy base happy and dependent on the government. Finally someone said, NO!

By: Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:39:31 +0000

I understand that Senator Bunning’s stand is a hardship, and he probably understands that too. But the way I look at it, our senators have dual responsibilities here: (1) help out people in a time of need during a recession that our government is currently exacerbating and (2) keep watch over our nation’s fiscal condition. Bunning is the only person who is actually trying to do BOTH of those things. He has agreed that unemployment benefits should be extended, but also wants to make sure they are paid for rather than added to an already burgeoning debt. He cited actual dollars that have already been allocated that could be spent on this (Stimulus Funds). And clearly unemployment benefits ARE a stimulus (they will be spent), so I see nothing wrong with using those funds to extend benefits.

This is what happens with lame-ducks who aren’t worried about getting reelected. They try to do the right thing, instead of the politically popular thing.

By: small business owner

small business owner — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:41:12 +0000

Hey Right of Reagan and Big Ben,
Ronald Reagan left the country with the highest deficit in the history of the country, until George W. Bush overcame his huge totals in 2008.
Reagan always loved talking small government, but had the biggest government in years. We had more government employees under Reagan than Clinton. Bill Clinton left a surplus in 2001. That simply is a cold hard fact. The first surplus since a previous Democrat held office, Lyndon Johnson in 1969.
Remember all the talk in the 2000 election on how to spend it by Bush and Gore? Well Bush spent it.
And if you say that is not true, then I will have to conclude that you are a teenager.

By: right of reagan

right of reagan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:22:34 +0000

Bush was president 8 years….. the GOP only controlled both houses collectively for 4 full years…..

02 to 06 for the senate and 00 to 06 for the house…. so the spend spend spend was 1/2 democrats and 1/2 republicans…so idiot check your facts before spouting ignorance

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:24:40 +0000

Bunning is a heartless angry old man. I hope they kick him out of the Baseball Hall of Fame, that ´s a working people´s sport not a derranged old Scrouges privete club.

Hope his grandsons get to know what a soup line is

By: johndoe

johndoe — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:49:59 +0000

I know how I will vote, but not like some of the rich conservatives that are christen in name only
“The story of the rich man and Lazarus from the Holy Bible. This is both a warning and an encouragement, especially to the downtrodden in this life; there is hope”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfVtOJVhV7c

By: serah

serah — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:44:48 +0000

Thank you Senator Bunning. Having someone that will do what’s right for the country and not for self-improvement is hard to find these days. People on unemployment won’t come off unemployment until they have to. What ever happened to self-respect? GONE.