The new bipartisan compromise bill to be passed by congress and signed by
Obama looks to be more of the same spending stimulus. Do they not realize
that they are spending too much and digging us deeper in debt ?
It now seems permanently ingrained as the rights of Americans that they should be
payed a salary whether or not they are employed. The so called compromise bill to be
passed ( of course right away ) extends the unemployment payment for 13 months !
The cost is a staggering 50 billion bucks.
A certain number of the unemployed would rather get their $350.00 per week than
work. There are also , unfortunately, some individuals with zero skills or abilities or,
for some other reason, are unemployable. This is a dilemma. One cannot just let these
people starve.
Suggestion: ( It won't happen ) After 13 weeks the unemployment pay should be
reduced to perhaps $200.00 per week, not enough to keep them from working but
enough to keep them from actually starving.
A tiny afterthought: The mindset of the administration shows itself by the needless
expansion of the school lunch program at a cost of a paltry 4 billion dollars. Just petty
change by today's standards.
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I am deeply discouraged by both Democrats, Republicans and Obama as it relates to this "compromise".
Republicans have been harping about deficit spending for the last 2 years. Here was a golden opportunity for them to consider belt tightening. They did not, and for me have lost yet more credibility.
Obama, as far as I am concerned, just got royally outplayed. Give credit for a well played agenda by Bush and republicans on tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. He would have made them permanent if he could have, but molified the Democrats by making them expire.
What he effectively did was make sure that anyone who tried to let them expire would be painted as the heavy, as well as giving some future Republican Congress/President yet another bargaining chip.
I may comment more on the joblessness situation, but will leave that for another day.
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