Republican Senators On The Unemployed: Let Them Eat Cake

[Pharaoh]

I was talking to a friend today who's moving with his wife and kid to his father-in-law's house -- which is already in foreclosure. "What if the sheriff comes and changes the locks while you're gone?" I said.

"Then I guess we have to move," he said. "At least we can save a couple of months' rent, if we're lucky."

He lost his job a couple of months after I lost mine, and his unemployment ran out, too. Unlike me, he has a masters degree, and school loans. Fortunately for them, his wife's still employed. One of her relatives just offered them a car, but they don't have the $75 to change the title.

And the thing is, they're not at all unusual. So why are the Republican Lords and Ladies of the Senate so blithely ignoring the plight of the unemployed? How can they be so indifferent, or so uninformed? Not only are they refusing to help them by extending unemployment benefits, holding them hostage to get yet another massive tax break for the rich, they also insult them by accusing them of being too lazy to work. Shame on them! Oh, I forgot -- they have no shame.

If the Democrats had any spine at all, they'd let the tax cuts expire and let the Republicans deal with the fallout:

http://crooksandliars.com/

[somone]

1. In a 1789 France, these assholes would have been sent to a raised platform

in a public square - along with the cat food commission.