Contrary to right-wing mythology... nobody, and I mean NOBODY can actually live off of unemployment for any extended period of time. The cap here in WA is $600 a week I believe? And to make that, you have to have been earning more than 50k a year. The national average of unemployment benefits being paid out is about $200 a week. Yeah boy... them lazy deadbeats are livin' it up for sure on that fat stack!

Unemployment isn't some welfare giveaway either. The money for it has been paid into a fund by the employee and the employer. It's called Unemployment INSURANCE after all.

The thing that continually amazes and saddens me about the right-wingers is that they ALWAYS think their fellow poor and middle-class citizens are tryin' to get one over on them. Yet they continually allow those who really ARE gettin' over on them to keep them distracted and angry at the wrong people? They happily go through life as political and corporate dupes and I just don't get it?

Why do war supplementals have to increase the deficit Hank?

Why do corporate tax giveaways have to increase the deficit Hank?

The Stimulus money has already been specifically allocated... and you republitards would be screamin' even more bloody murder if the Dems took money away to pay for something else.

A LOT of hard-working Americans are still in dire financial straights thanks to 30 years of Reaganomics. WHY can't you wingnuts put the hate aside for just a little while for the good of your fellow working-class citizens and the country as a whole?