(I think of it as a payday loan, because the people paid the money in, in the first place, and will have to pay it back in the future)

I am sorry to break with the demeanor of this site but, I must admit that this is the first comment I have seen here that really pisses me off! You think wrong.

I normally like your comments but watch the spurious, uninformed opinions.

To someone who is surviving on Unemployment Compensation right now, you just insulted a whole lot of people. Just to make you feel a little more smug, my unemployment checks are for $275 per week. My total benefits available were ~$8000 TOTAL! I’d kill for a payday loan that WAITED for a payday.

Unemployment is ALWAYS paid for out of my check, even if I never collect. The only payback is going back to work and the payments continue.

To qualify for UEC you must be out of work through NO FAULT OF YOUR OWN! Incompetence, or bad behavior and you are disqualified! If I go to get food stamps right now, I am automatically qualified, because I have been fully vetted by the UEC system. Have you ever seen the amount of paper work and qualifications that allows me to skip? Government employees do not take skipping paper work lightly.

If this is like a low-rent “payday loan” then it is one I paid for before I ever got it and will continue to pay for as long as I am working.

Too much unearned money does something to people’s brains! I now have to question everything you have said if you can spout something like that! You have just lost every shred of credibility with me. One of the great things about reading here is I don’t have to fact-check most of the opinions here, people have developed credibility.

It’s hard enough to keep up enough self respect to give a good interview while sucking-up to someone, without elitists that couldn’t survive for 2 weeks in the “system” insulting you.

Would you like to try feeding and housing a family of four including a handicapped child on $275 a week? BTW my rent is ~$400 of that $275, so we may also be homeless real soon.

Once again, I apologize for the distraction to the real subject and violating the normal tone of here.

If these people you speak of are so powerful then when will we hear of preparations being made to have these war crimes trials? When will they start speaking publicly of the possibility we won’t be returning to anything near normalcy if the Congress (the people) don’t start acting to guarantee it?

If the Congress knows they are so desperate then why are they doing nothing?

You heard right. He’s said that repeatedly. I don’t believe it will happen.

reid is also protecting certain missing senators.