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LeMieux Blocks Extension of Unemployment Benefits
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Sen. George LeMieux. Credit: www.youtube.com/user/SenLeMieuxdotgov
Led by Sen. George LeMieux, R-Fla., Republicans shut down a Democratic effort to extend unemployment benefits in states with the highest jobless rates.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., had called for the Senate to pass, under unanimous consent, the “Americans Want to Work Act” on Wednesday. The bill would have added a fifth tier of unemployment insurance benefits in states with unemployment rates above 7.5 percent.
But LeMieux stepped in to oppose the measure, saying there was no funding source.
"Senate Republicans have and will vote to extend unemployment compensation if it is paid for. Easy to do, but Democrats won't support it," LeMieux said.
"While we're all certainly sympathetic and want to work to make people go back to work -- my home state of Florida certainly suffering with very high unemployment -- we need to know how we're going to pay for it so we don't put this debt on our children and grandchildren."
A fifth-tier extension would have given an additional 20 weeks of unemployment insurance (UI) pay to unemployed workers who had exhausted their benefits -- a population estimated at roughly 2 million.
The so-called "99 bill," referring to the current benefit ceiling of 99 weeks, would have extended payments to 119 weeks.
As they have during previous debates, Democrats argued that unemployment benefits help to stimulate the sagging economy.
"The reality for us in America is that we will never get out of debt with more than 15 million people out of work," Stabenow said.
LeMieux countered that a country with a $13.5 trillion deficit cannot afford to keep spending money it doesn't have.
Stabenow, who called the bill an emergency measure, vowed to continue to fight for passage, but the Senate and House adjourned hours later for their October recess and will not reconvene until after the Nov. 2 election.
To override LeMieux’s objection to using the unanimous consent provision, Democrats would have had to file a cloture petition and invoke cloture with 60 votes. Only if those time-consuming steps were taken could actual debate have begun.
LeMieux's office did not respond to Sunshine State News' request for comment, but the conservative Heritage Foundation says there are sound fiscal reasons to oppose yet another extension of unemployment benefits.
According to Heritage research:
• Extending either the amount or the duration of unemployment benefits increases the length of time that workers remain unemployed.
• Roughly one-third of workers receiving unemployment benefits find work immediately once their benefits expire. This happens both when unemployment is high and when unemployment is low, said a report in Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
• Each 13-week extension of benefits increases the average length of time workers receiving benefits stay unemployed by approximately two weeks.
• Families respond to unemployment benefits by reducing other income. Research in the Journal of Labor Economics found that wives’ earnings fall by between 36 and 73 cents for each dollar of benefits married men receive.
Commenting on the bill from the U.S. House, Rep. Bill Posey, R-Rockledge, shared LeMieux's concerns.
"In a best case scenario it (the bill extending unemployment benefits) would've only funded half the claims. (The bill) was very broadly written with no accountability," Posey said.
LeMieux, who was appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist to fill the seat vacated by retired Sen. Mel Martinez, is widely believed to be gearing up to challenge Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., in 2012.
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Rep = Support for big business and the rich.
Dem = Support for the public and working class.
99 or 119 weeks = welfare
Quit whining, get off your rear ends, find a job, and take care of your families. Quit waiting for tax payers and the government to do it for you.
You son-of-a-bitch.... go take an economic class, a political science class and a accounting class before you make such statement. If they want taxes to fund the common wealth, that's fine but when they have a surplus, give the money back to me or reinvest it in new projects and publish with a statement on the return on investment, and not waste it on bull[filtered word].
People like you will bend over just because the media tells you it's the new hype. You are the type of people we call cattle.
I work and pay taxes for security and insurance, otherwise I would just fund my own road, protection, and retained wealth. If the government can't provide a safety net, why the fcuk should I pay taxes? For what reason should I pay taxes? WHY???
Now, with foreclosures continuing to be high and the unemployment rate consistantly high (even with the doctored numbers) the Republicans want to balance the budget---as if that is possible to do in the next few Generations! If they want to pay for the 5th tier, then do it the way they payed for the cronie balouts and for the support to governments of other countries, and to support the military EMPIRE....etc, etc, etc. PRINT IT! There its done. Then get rid of their buddies THE CENTRAL BANKERS--like former presidents did, and return to constitutional money system. That would level the playing field, and that is NOT what theses power hungry, money addicts don't want. They still want to treat us like mis-behaving children....and if we let them, then we deserve what we get!
The Left- right paradigm is a ploy! Get out off the arena and LOOK at the game you are playing-- you are the event! They are not in the game, they are calling the plays, and its thumbs-up, or thumbs-down for us! If they could just kill us off they would! No, loins in the ring thouth---not yet!
LePuke has done NOTHING to help Florida. 14% unemployment, in the top three for forclosures,
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Life is a series of choices. You can choose to work hard, go without the frills, save money and have money saved when it comes time for a recession like this one.
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You have got to be kidding. I am in my early 50's and made a decent living until about 3 years ago when the economy tanked. I am now grateful for work that pays about 70% less than the last 15 years. It's a HORRIBLE job market out there. Staff in stores tell me that 20-40 people go in EVERYDAY looking for work. You must live in a Republican sub-division, since the rest of us are living in the real world. You wouldn't survive a month on unemployment benefits.
and the Extensions end. And by the way they will be extended. If there not you'll see the Bread lines and crime go through the roof in this disgrace of a country. The only way back is to put an end to NAFTA and FREE TRADE. Screw the rest of the world AMERICA FIRST.
stabenow was on saying the deficit will never go down until we have jobs in the US thats true and i wished the best for her and hope her and 99% of the other democrats can break the filabuster and go ahead and pass it because november will be the end of the republicans we got now they will no longer be a senate because im voting them out
Perhaps by closing this loophole - i.e. count social security payments as income for unemployment compensation purposes - a lot of state money could be saved and a lot of working families could receive benefits longer.
I personally know of retirees who collect both social security and unemployment but, trust me, have no intention of returning to work. They'll stay on the gravy train until it stops.
Many seniors have been forced to take out SS early, at a much reduced rate, just to avoid absolute homelessness. $300 a week (and that's the MAX--many more of the unemployed never even get that maximum) is not enough to keep a roof over your head when there is no one who can take you in, unlike young workers who more often have the option to move back in with the family, and are more likely to get hired for jobs that require heavy physical labor or service work. (Not the the young are having an easy time either, I don't want to imply that.)
So cobbling together a survival existence with a few hundred from unemployment benefits plus a small SS check is the only way thousands of seniors here in Florida are even surviving.
If you want to cut costs, I agree there are too many wealthy seniors who really don't need their SS benefits check--if you want to cut spending, why not start with revising THAT policy instead of picking on unemployed and nearly destitute seniors who are barely managing to cope with this sudden financial loss, while at the same time having to cope with medical and other aspects of aging.
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