You Had To Have Had A Job To Get Unemployment

Tired of people thinking of unemployment benefits as welfare, it's not. It helps people who had jobs as they find a new one. In NYC, the most you get is $405 a week, thats $1600 a month. If you think someone is not looking for a job and living off their benefits, you are an idiot.

But if you're mega-wealthy, then the GOP thinks you need all the help in the world:

As Obama and congressional Democrats have been eager to point out, Republicans do not apply the same fiscal discipline when it comes to the Bush administration's soon-to-expire tax cuts for the wealthy. Letting the tax cuts expire would save $678 billion over ten years, according to the Office of Management and Budget.

"After years of championing policies that turned a record surplus into a massive deficit, the same people who didn't have any problem spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans are now saying we shouldn't offer relief to middle class Americans like Jim, or Leslie, or Denise, who really do need help," Obama said, referring to three people who joined him in the Rose Garden.

via huffingtonpost.com

Unemployment checks go right into the economy. They don't trickle, they go straight in at the supermarket, the rent check and the corner store.

Millionaire congresspeople have no idea what it's like to live this way and don't really care to find out.

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