Update to garion's article:
Jason Almire voted against extending unemployment benefits for long term unemployed that would have helped hundreds of thousands of people and voted against the jobs bill that could have put thousands to work. He then made these statements:

"At some point you have to take a step back and look at the relative value of unemployment benefits versus people looking for jobs." Altmire said business owners in his district (he declined to say which ones) complained of hiring trouble because potential workers would rather stay on the dole."

What his first statement means is that he feels ALL unemployed people have been looking for and now don't look for non-existent jobs, even ones that don't pay enough to allow people to basically exist, Altmire feels these people shouldn't get any help.
His second statement shows where his true concern is; business, not people. Making such a broad, unqualified and unsubstantiated comment shows he believes anyone on unemployment would rather stay there. What an ass!
If those business owners would pay a decent wage, there would be more people available than they could hire. But greed and profits get in their way.
Possibly Pseudo representative Altmire would like to change places with someone who has been unemployed for a year of two to see what it's like to live on virtually nothing while trying to find a job in this area that allows a person to even TRY to make ends meet, let alone exist. We all weren't born with a silver spoon shoved up our butts. Those who were have no idea what it's like to struggle financially. And those who become successful for whatever reason soon forget what it was like when they had nothing.
And as garion said, Altmire had no qualms about debiting future generations of your children for hundreds of billions in illegal war funding (because his business friends will make huge sums of money) but won't help Americans in need. (After putting us in debt fro the next 60 years, all of a sudden Altmire and his ilk pretend to be worried about the deficit?) Does he think this soon-to-be depression from the Wall Street fiasco is a figment of his imagination?
Prices continue to rise; product amounts continue to be reduced for the same prices which will in turn WILL create massive inflation.
The cost of gas hasn't risen; The cost of goods hasn't risen. Yet businesses continue to raise prices and increase their profits while providing less and less value to the consumer. They reduce the quantity and quality of product yet keep the price the same or even raise it. And the brain dead like Jason Altmire think that cutting spending will somehow make things better.
Jason, go back to school and take a basic economics class. This time try to pay attention. If people have money, they'll spend it. If they don't have money, they can't spend what they don't have. They government can spend...and does. It doesn't add to taxes. The wealthy and businesses aren't paying their fair share anyway.The amount unemployment benefits adds to the deficit you're pretending to be oh-so-worried about isn't 1/100th as bad as the funding you wasted on Afghanistan or 1/1000th as bad as what was spent on the illegal war in Iraq. Stop the war and spend the money at home. Or don't you care about people in America who aren't wealthy?
And I thought Melissa Hart was useless. Right now, with the anti-porn, anti-Wecht queen running against you, I see no difference between you. At least with Hart, we knew where she stood even if it was to screw people. You crossed over to the Right to side with big business over the interests of the people you supposedly represent. Instead, you listen only to those well off. I know. I attended some of your "town hall meetings" and watched your body language when conflicting questions were asked of you. Then your relaxing when someone from an affluent neighborhood or a businessman asked something or made a comment. It's a shame more people can't read you. But then, we'd probably have Mary Beth and the same thing we have now...which is nothing.
You are nothing more than a highly paid shill for business and are not worthy of being a Democrat...let alone a concerned human.

Bruce F



ALL Senators and Representatives are Adulterers, Fornicators, Homosexuals, Lesbians, Drug Addicts, Pedophiles and Pederasts (and other things too numerous to mention)!

Is that a fair statement? If members of Congress can use quasi-political logic to determine that all unemployed would rather live off benefits from the government than find a job, it has to follow that all members of Congress are, by their logic, Adulterers, Fornicators, Homosexuals, Lesbians, Drug Addicts, Pederasts, Pedophiles and worse – because of the actions of those in Congress (like Craig, Foley, Gingrich, McCain, to name a few).
How many members of Congress have we discovered who fit right into one or more of those categories over these last years? You know their names. I guess that means all of Congress is like them. (Congressional Logic?)
The list and links below are not even close to complete, but they’ll give you an idea of the thinking of the parasites that make these asinine statements.

Unemployment Extensions

Deficit Eclipses Jobs

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-idiot -Ariz.),
Ben Nelson (D-idiot - Ne.)
Sen. Judd Gregg (R- idiot - N.H.)
Rep. Jason Altmire (D- idiot - Pa.),
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D- idiot - Calif.)
Rep. John Linder (R- idiot - Ga.)
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R- idiot - Utah)
Rep. Dutch Ruppersburger (D- idiot - Md.)
Rep. Adam Schiff (D- idiot - Calif.)
Jim Clyburn (D- idiot - S.C.)
Kent Conrad (D- idiot - N.D.)
Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper (D- idiot - Pa.)

These “things” that try to pass for humans want to eliminate basic help for ALL long-term unemployed because they think ALL long-term unemployed would rather sit home and eat crusts of bread than try to find a job. Even if they CAN find a job that pays, at best today, minimum wage with no benefits but with the added Federal, state and local taxes, expenses of healthcare and transportation, not to mention such luxuries as food, shelter and utilities are they better off working?

These Congressional parasites who are granted $174,000 of taxpayer money each year plus perks, expect Americans to find a dwindling number of minimum wage jobs American Business with the complicity of Congress has allowed over the recent years to be outsourced. Americans and their families (values important to Religious Congressional hypocrites) are expected to exist on less than $300 per week. And if they can’t, so what?

None of this really surprises me any longer. Those in power from Obama on down have an agenda of their own and it doesn’t include the American people at least as equals and at least as human. But it DOES include the affluent. Whether the long-term unemployed live or die doesn’t seem to be a concern to these Congressional Senators and Representatives and President who can spend billions to kill American soldiers for the interests of corporations. They proclaim false notions of protecting America from enemies abroad while allowing Congress, the President and Corporate America to "kill" Americans through direct and indirect action, in their own country.
It’s almost Scrooge-like that they believe if (when) these Americans die…

“they had better do it now, and decrease the surplus population!"