all claiming unemployent had to have had a job paying into it, so how much was recieved and how much has been payed out.....are the banks paying for bailout insurance
Why not stop spending money rebuilding Iraq Infrastructure,roads,etc.. on our dime? Pull back our soldiers from South Korea,Saudi Arabia,Iraq,Germany,etc.. And doing so we can afford to extend benefits and keep lots of spare change from the savings by not being the global police on our dime. Let the germans pay for their own security, lets see how long they can keep up their benefits, same with everyone else. Also cut out all Financial Aid to other countries and pull out of the IMF and UN.
+1. For the cost of 3-4 F-22's we can give everyone legal person in this country health care and pay down the debt. Heath care I want just not with an RFID chip.
The day after you do that, terorists will take it as a weakness of USA and start bombing every US friendly nation all over the world. And you don't want that. The world needs a police and it is unfortunate that Americans have to pay for the services with the paper money they print for free but gladly welcomed by all the nations. So in essence the whole world is paying for the police service but they are not aware of that. Very smart if you ask me
make the unemployed work off their checks by doing national service. the number of unemployed receiving government checks will drop precipitously .
Like send them to the gulf to clean up the oil that they wanted. I bet the 2.6 million US jobs that are unfilled would be gone in no time. Suddenly they would be qualified for those jobs for fear of contact with dirt and oil. Brazil has a lack of skilled workers with 1.6 million jobs unfilled in the engineering, nutrition, pharmaceutical, construction, shipbuilding industries. During the recession of the 1970's and 80's, I knew a lot of entire families that moved to Brazil to work for several years. But that was a different time with a different work ethic and no sense of entitlement. Those people made things happen for them. When they moved back to the US when the economy got better, they were far ahead of their peers.
Let those countries tax their population further and cut services so they can then hire their own Military to fight the terrarists.
That is what FDR did with the Civilian Conservation corps. Worked great, people worked, learned work ethics and skills and we ended up with a battle ready population, since they were healthy and learned to work and take orders, work in a team etc.. for WWII.