Congress Fails to Pass an Extension of Jobless Aid - NYTimes.com

No one's hands are clean in this one; both Republicants and Demonrats playing identity "I'll show you" politics while millions of Americans wait in limbo and wonder if they're going to have money to eat this month.

Look, I'm very fiscally conservative, but there is NO logical reason why unemployment benefits shouldn't be extended yet again. In fact, I think they should be extended until there are actually jobs out there for people to work. I know so many well-educated, (what would be) hard-working, motivated people out there that are simply unable to find employment. These intelligent people, who should probably be making $60K+ a year (good money in my area) would be more than willing to work at McDonald's right now to pay a few bills if they could even get a job there in the first place!

However, these high-paid morons that we decided to vote into office for whatever reason seem completely oblivious to the plight of millions of middle-class, working Americans. Atleast the Democrats have shown some sympathy here, but they're not willing to come to a compromise with the Republicans. The conservatives came up with a nice proposal: since we have all this unused stimulus money still floating around, why not use it for this purpose? Alas, the Democrats shot it down.

Still, though, the Republicans contiuously supported one of the biggest spenders in US presidential history and NOW they're concerned about a deficit?! Kiss my ass! Let's see you high-paid morons in the unemployment line, then cut you all off without any warning whatsoever. Maybe if you uppity idiots ever had to work for a living, you'd think of things a little differently.

We can't do this as a country, we just can't. We're so concerned about sending foreign aid to who knows how many nations, but we can't take care of people here that can't get a job? We're glad to spend billions, if not trillions of dollars to bail out a bunch of corporate a-holes and Wall Street brokers, but we can't throw our middle-class a bone every now and again?

Screw all politicians. There's not a single one of you imbeciles that I'd vote for to lead our country, because apparently you can't even think of the consequences of that vote you cast.

/rant over