On today's Fox News Sunday Jon Kyl was asked by Chris Wallace if the Republicans will support more economic stimulus and extend the unemployment benefits, all the while the benefits will end tomorrow for many Americans because of Repub obstructionism.
Late last month, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) announced that he was blocking unanimous consent to move forward on a measure in the Senate to extend unemployment benefits — similar to what Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) did weeks prior. However, this time, other Senate Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), are backing Coburn’s obstruction.
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Senators are on recess until April 12, meaning people losing their benefits tomorrow will have to go without relief for at least a week. “I understand that Republicans are upset they didn’t get their way on health care,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said, chiding the GOP’s obstruction. And on Friday Reid called on the GOP to stop blocking the benefits. “[T]heir obstruction endangers the economic certainty of millions of families,” he said.
Kyl does say they will have to extend the benefits because unemployment is still so high, but he also says it's not a job stimulator. He says by continuing to pay people UI compensation it keeps them home on the couch eating Bon Bons and watching soap operas. It's free money, and you all know how lazy liberals love that free-no-strings-attached-money! Yippee lets take a vacation!
Have you ever had to live on the small barely-get-by-not really-enough-to-buy-food-PLUS-pay the monthly bills unemployment checks Senator Kyl? I kinda doubt it. I also doubt those living in his state of Arizona could live comfortably on 500.00 a week unemployment check and not seek work. I wonder how many unemployed are Republicans, and do they support the GOP obstructing benefits for the unemployed all over this country. Do they suffer yet still blindly support the party of NO COMPASSION??
