His name describes what should be the
relationship between his brain and his
mouth.

I'm sure all those lazy fuckers that used to bring in $900/week are just delighted to be collecting $225/week for as long as possible.

Can anything possibly be stuupider than a fucking Republican? There are dust bunnies under my couch smarter than Tom Delay.

It's kind of a broad brush statement but true about some.

But at least he can dance, Axe!

Can anything possibly be stuupider than a fucking Republican?

LOL

Yeah, get a job like 0n Dancing with the Stars.

Delay is right. The unemployed shouls take whatever jobs are available, chopping cotton and scrubbing toilets or have their benefits cut off. Our economy is called "CAPITALISM" not "SELL YOUR LABORISM."

It's kind of a broad brush statement but true about some.

No one I know who has gotten unemployment benefits was sitting on their ass while those checks came in. The money's too small for that. Delay's nuts.

Um, hello...McFly...

Most of them WANT a job. And yeah, maybe they do suck at the unemployment teat a little long.

But a lot of them have given up or taken jobs below their skill level (underemployed) as a result of this economy. While waiting for it to be better, as promised by the current administration.

Just because no one in the current administration actually has a clue what it is like to look for work and run a company....

Just one glimpse of many seen in the past of this dirtbag's hatred for the middle class. Rove, Cheney, Delay. All dirtbags who embarass themselves and their party because they don't know when to STFU...

"Yeah, get a job like 0n Dancing with the Stars."

"When the complete morons of the world are looking for reasons to feel adequate..."

Of course, only a complete moron would think competing on Dancing with the Stars is a job.

No one I know who has gotten unemployment benefits was sitting on their ass while those checks came in.

my brother-in-law sat on his ass for 6 months doing absolutely nothing. When he saw that this would end sometime, he went out and found a job.

I was very disappointed in him.

"No one I know who has gotten unemployment benefits was sitting on their ass while those checks came in. The money's too small for that. Delay's nuts."

Well there you have it. Rcade doesn't know anyone who fits this category, so Delay must be nuts.

Our economy is called "CAPITALISM"

But it's really not capitalism, FWT. Capitalism failed in the 19th and 20th centuries.

-Of course, only a complete moron would think competing on Dancing with the Stars is a job.

It was the only "job" that particular moron could get after being run out of Washington.

I thought you only got unemployment if you were actively seeking a job. Is that not the case?

I'm sure those who are the sole or primary breadwinner want to find a job ASAP but most of those who aren't are not trying to find a job ASAP. My wife got laid off and she hasnt been collecting unployment. Her income wasn't needed in the first place because we don't live a lifestyle requiring it. I am going have her start collecting unemployment because why the fuck not. We may as well get the same benefit as everyone else.

I just finished my taxes and realize we owe Uncle Tom, Aunt Nancy, and Baby Harry money. We may as well get it from there.

another failed nazi may he rot in hell

I thought you only got unemployment if you were actively seeking a job. Is that not the case?

#16 | Posted by kanrei

True--the person has to fill out forms to show they are actively trying to find employment--resumes, calls, interviews, etc.

-

BPH--your wife pays into those benefits--she should use them when needed or laid off.

---

And there are studies that people who abuse the program--just like any other program when something is given for free by the gov't....

But by and large many more people are trying to find another job.

Problem is that there are no jobs--the gov't is sucking them out of the private sector.

Well there you have it. Rcade doesn't know anyone who fits this category, so Delay must be nuts.

Do you know anyone who voluntarily chooses to live off unemployment benefits instead of trying hard to get a job during that period?

People treating this like an undeserved handout are wrong. We bankroll unemployment when we have jobs.

Do you know anyone who voluntarily chooses to live off unemployment benefits instead of trying hard to get a job during that period?

you must live in a nicer gated community than me.

Hell, even I know folks who are guilty of exactly that.

offered my brother in lay a job,said he would not fuck up his benefits for 10.50 an hour,he was making 10.00 an hour before he got laid off,so go figure.

you must live in a nicer gated community than me.

I know unemployed people in several different economic situations. Here in Florida, the unemployment payments are the lowest in the nation. There's no way to live off them.

TOM DELAY???does he eat food or shit???

No one I know who has gotten unemployment benefits was sitting on their ass while those checks came in. The money's too small for that. Delay's nuts.

#8 | Posted by rcade

You need to get out more.

A right wing neighbor made similar comments as Delay, then the plant he worked closed, he's been trying to find a job for 4 months now. I don't hear much right wing stuff from him now.

Hell, even I know folks who are guilty of exactly that.

#21 | Posted by eberly

Sadly, I do too. While I think the majority ARE actually seeking employment, there are a few that milk unemployment to the end.

I think that instead of paying up to two years worth of unemployment (maybe more for some). The system should start some works programs such as were implemented to help get through the depression. Let these people do some of the work that is going undone since many agencies budgets are in the red and they are cutting jobs to balance said budgets, especially where the jobs may have to do with maintaining or improving infrastructure. There is no reason these people can't help fill potholes or pick up trash for their unemployment checks.

The only way I feel you can get unemployment and not work is if you are going to school to train for a new field of work.

"#8 | Posted by rcade

You need to get out more."

Actually, he's right that MOST people on unemployment are looking for a job and can't pay their bills with unemployment money. Remember, you had to have been working in the first place to receive benefits so most of these people are not the kind of person who doesn't want to work. Changing the policy to mitigate against 2% of those on benefits taking advantage while screwing over the 98% who are looking for jobs doesn't make sense.

We had plenty of money to bail out failed executives when our whole economic system is supposed to be based on competition (which requires that failures be allowed to fail). But helping out those fucked over by the mess those execs created is a major problem? Please. Anyone who didn't speak out against the bailouts but who complains about unemployment benefits is just an asshole.

I thought you only got unemployment if you were actively seeking a job. Is that not the case?

#16 | Posted by kanrei

True--the person has to fill out forms to show they are actively trying to find employment--resumes, calls, interviews, etc.

#19 | Posted by MURPHY

Actually, that depends. I spent many years in and out of work. Sometimes I had to go to unemployment every other week and sign for the check and show proof I looked for a job.

Other times, I wasn't asked to show anything, just had to go down and sign the paper, and wait for my check.

My brother's been unemployeed for several months. I know he hasn't been asked for proof of applying for a job and until it does run out, he'll probably continue to coast along.

I have a hard time believing that people are applying for jobs and showing such proof every single check.

I wonder if the unemployment office checks to see if the job application/employer is the same one every other week for the past 9 months from some...?

There's no way to live off them.

#23 | Posted by rcade

In many cases, they are not living off of unemployment. Someone else in the family may have a reasonable job and the unemployment is merely supplemental. In these cases, there is less incentive to seek employment.

#7 says:
Our economy is called "CAPITALISM" not "SELL YOUR LABORISM".

fascinating. imagine, a capitalist country where one cannot sell his own labor. hmmm....

#30 | Posted by Petrous

Thanks. I remember about 10 years ago when I managed a pizza place we used to have people come by and ask me to sign the paper that said the applied and I didn't hire them. I told them I was actually hiring and they left.

while I agree with most of your statement, I disagree that government should be able to force anyone to do much of anything. I prefer just cutting off the benefits after a certain amount of time. This is my problem with the whole healthcare debate. The Constitution guarantees the right to PURSUE life, liberty, propserity. It doesn't say anything about handing it to you.

Speaking as a Right leaning Libertarian, what a moron!!! I am one of the million or more uncounted unemployed, as I didn't qualify for unemployment. 5 mos and counting now, and although I've applied to jobs for 8.00 an hr, they won't even talk to me because I "wouldn't be satisfied" (had it put that way to me more than once) as my prior salaries were much higher. "Bite Me" DELAY!

Tom Delay: If I only had a brain.

Although, that being said, he may well live in Oz (I'm sure he's not living in the same reality that the rest of us are forced to share). Maybe he can go and see the wizard for a little help in the brain pan area...

Sorry to hear that Lost. What they really mean is "how do we know you won't quit next week if something better paying comes along." It is a hard situation to be in.

Tom Delay is just the mouthpiece for a sentiment held by the majority of the GOP. He just doesn't have to risk any political fallout for saying it.

You need to get out more.

Or you need to stop hanging out with deadbeats.

People keep acting surprised that I don't know anybody who gets unemployed benefits and isn't actively seeking work.

I don't think my family and friends are exceptionally industrious people. But the ones on unemployment are doing everything they can to get off it. The jobs just aren't there for them.

As for me, if I wasn't working a half-dozen different jobs freelance, I don't know what full-time work I could find out there. Haven't had a "real" job since 1995.

What they really mean is "how do we know you won't quit next week if something better paying comes along." It is a hard situation to be in.

#37 | Posted by kanrei

As one that used to do the hiring, believe me I understand it too. And it's a good point. But also as one that needs to be paying child support and has only 200 a month in foodstamps (what a bad taste that itself leaves!) I'm willing to do almost anything. The bad thing is I have a CDL and can't drive due to a hernia (can't pass the DOT physical) If anyone has ideas I'd love to hear them!

"Haven't had a "real" job since 1995."

Braggart.

Lost,
Can you cook? Your back will limit your ability. Since you can't drive, delivery is out (good money in that). I think your best bet would be to go back to school, but that won't help the child support issue. Service jobs are always out there. You just need to really sell yourself like you have no ego at all and convince them $8 is a bloody fortune for you.

Kanrei, I live south of Atlanta and seriously, have put out at least 3 resume's a day on all the employment sites DOL included for over 5 mos. Gone door to door at businesses. This Ga boy is not afraid of work as I've worked my way up from entry level to management more than once. I keep a positive attitude and know that when "HE" is ready I'll be in one but it's up to me to keep the search up. It's just when people that I used to respect make blanket statements like that well...it gets to me!

Atlanta is a tough market from what I hear. I wish I knew what to say to help. Good luck and stay strong.

I appreciate that my friend.. The good wishes do help!

What field by the way?

I had five resumes emailed to me in the last three weeks. Lots of environmental engineers out of work. Some of them since the beginning of the slow down.

Environmental engineers should check out Florida. Everglades National Park and the myriad of tourist attractions like Cypress Gardens and such or am I misunderstanding that field?

One of the guys was from Sarasota. I don't think he was a PE yet, Right out of college.

Transportation/Warehouse Management. I grew up in a mechanics household, started working with dad at age 12 on weekends. Latter teen to early 20's diesel/automotive machinist. Then got into transportation/warehousing. The last few years on my resume' are marred however by a divorce I wasn't expecting and the mistakes I made afterward (letting depression get the better of me and affecting my health and performance). All that is behind me now, but can't seem to catch a break to prove myself again.

this is ignorant

1) companies don't hire you unless you have 5 years experience in whatever it is you're applying to

2) there aren't many jobs to apply for. For every job there's 2000 applications

3) companies don't train anymore

4) get your head out of your ass

And this is the things I keep receiving from the GDOL site more often than not, although I'm constantly on the site and apply to anything within my skill level hours after it's been posted...
Thank you for your interest in Job Number 7833078 for the position of
CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAG.

The position you have applied for is no longer available.
Maybe Mr Delay could get me a tryout for "Dancing"!!! I know I look better in a cowboy hat than he does!!!

Tom Delay:

The Unemployed need to get a job
The Hungry need to get some food
The Homeless need to settle down
The Poor need to get money
The sick should stay healthy
The dying should stay alive

#51 Pragmatous> 2) there aren't many jobs to apply for. For every job there's 2000 applications.

Several months back one of the local companies actually put an ad in the paper for about a dozen open job positions. It was the first time they had done so in over a year. My commute just happens to pass by their front doors, and by 7:30am I bet there were at least 300 people lined up waiting for the doors to open at 8:00am. Sadly, it reminded me of those pictures from the Depression of people wearing sandwich boards trying to find a job.

Kanrei:

The Mouthy need to learn silence
The Self-important need to learn humility
The Insignificant need to learn their place
The FLuffers need to make way for the real actors

Yes Cook, I do say those things and you should follow them like I do.

Given that the economy is in strong recovery--the Obamapompom wearers are reminding us of that every day--why can't these people find jobs? Over a year of Obamanomics, a full year after the stimulus that kept unemployment from going to 8%, and we still have all these chronically unemployed people around?

Hmmmm.

When were you planning on starting, FLuffy?

I said "should follow them like I DO" which means I already have started. So you can't read either, huh?

Next to dethspud, you are the worst read on here. Aren't writer wanna-bees supposed to get better over time?

Wow, an illiterate telling me I am a bad read is like a blind art critic.

Or is your obtuse writing style your definition of 'interesting'?

Again, an illiterate saying my writing style is "obtuse" carries as much weight as a blind art critic.

Seriously, Kanrei, do you think you're funny? Am I the one that has to tell you that your mom and your relatives were totally wrong, and that you actuallly DO belong in that dead-end job of yours?

Oh Horace, you really need help.

What say you FLuffy? Will you ever be a writer, or just the guy that takes cares of disposing the plastic gloves with the one stinky finger?

I hope you're taking notes, FLuffy.

re Given that the economy is in strong recovery--the Obamapompom wearers are reminding us of that every day--why can't these people find jobs? Over a year of Obamanomics, a full year after the stimulus that kept unemployment from going to 8%, and we still have all these chronically unemployed people around?

Hmmmm.

#57 | Posted by rightisright at 2010-03-08 03:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

Do you have a job?

I got you hooked on my writing apparently. Like or hate doesn't matter when they read. You not only read every word, but comment. How many times have you been published by the way? Been quoted in Slate? Been quoted on MSNBC? Move along wanker.

Be nice to Crackfish, K.

He's a new dad.

Oh Cook, for me:

Published: 79 times

Quoted on Slate: 2 times

Quotedon MSNBC: 1 time

"Again, an illiterate saying my writing style is "obtuse" carries as much weight as a blind art critic. "

It could be worse. AKAstupid could be criticizing your style.

What say you FLuffy? Will you ever be a writer, or just the guy that takes cares of disposing the plastic gloves with the one stinky finger?.....

Sorry that ones funny, especially since my lil sister had that job a few years back... Seriously!!! hahahaha

If Rcade said my writing was crap, I would take it seriously. Had I not had success with my writing, I would take it seriously. If Cookfish had any clue at all, I would take it seriously. Since none of the above is true, I don't.

Wow, an illiterate telling me I am a bad read is like a blind art critic.

#61 | Posted by kanrei

I was blind once and they refused me re-entry into the sculpture exhibit. They shouldn't refuse real art lovers.

Oh Cook, for me:

Published: 79 times

Quoted on Slate: 2 times

Quotedon MSNBC: 1 time

#71 | Posted by kanrei

Kanrei, you've posted more than 79 times on the DR, haven't you?

Kanrei, you've posted more than 79 times on the DR, haven't you?

Yes, which is why I said "published" and not "posted." When "Published," you submit work, it is accepted or rejected. Posted, you do it yourself and there is no rejection process to go through.

How do people this ignorant and out of touch get elected to public office?

delay can suck my dick.

I'm sure all those lazy fuckers that used to bring in $900/week are just delighted to be collecting $225/week for as long as possible.

Can anything possibly be stuupider than a fucking Republican? There are dust bunnies under my couch smarter than Tom Delay.

#2 | Posted by axe

Axe has no idea what this thread is about.

In order to understand it, you must have been unemployed for an extended period of time. I was. I had to retrain myself.

I was out of work off and on for a year and after 18 months of being out of my original career, I finally got that job that got me going again.

But, you have to start working and take that first low-paying job before it gets going again.

I didn't read the article and taking Tom Delay's statement at face value.

Yes! I agree. If you are unemployed, you need to "get a job"

Again, I know what it's like to be there, though. It's tough especially if you have a family.

Axe, you don't have a family and haven't been working long enough to collect unemployment, so you have no business making any comments. Any comments coming out of you come off idiotic.

offered my brother in lay a job,said he would not fuck up his benefits for 10.50 an hour,he was making 10.00 an hour before he got laid off,so go figure.

#22 | POSTED BY SEMTEX111

did the job include health insurance? probably not.

The unemployed need to get a job?

Whats the problem here? The unemployed say the exact same thing every morning.

Don't they????

What's the first thing a person asks a new acquaintance . . . "What kind of work do you do?"

There's a certain amount of shame that comes with unemployment . . . and a certain amount of depression, too. Sometimes, a LOT of depression.

Whatever reason there might be for losing a job, or not being able to find one, a person's dignity takes an enormous hit. Your job is part and parcel of your identity.

I'm sure there are slackards who wait for their benefits to run out but, for the most part, people like to have a job.

As for Tom Delay, he's been eating at the political trough for so long he doesn't remember the difference between good economic times and bad.

Delay will be collecting a hefty pension as a long time House member.

I watched all of this interview with candy crowly on cnn and the headline is not what he said at all as even the 'godfathers' first paragraph says but of course we all know how important it is to 'grab' you with the headline...but he was talking about personal responsibility and thats something that libs want no part of because it interferes with the govt takeover of you life.

BUT to go back and talk about the culture of corruption...
lets review..what was he found guilty of??

OH I REMEMBER AGAIN

NOTHING............!!!

AND voters in austin and texas told his the ass who was after him what they thought of him last tuesday...as in get out of here.....

"I'm sure there are slackards who wait for their benefits to run out but, for the most part, people like to have a job."

If you know anyone who needs a job, please send them up here where I'm at in North Dakota. Due to increased energy prices, the area is experiencing a small boom, and oilfield workers can start out with no experience making more than $20 an hour. In the small towns that surround the oil fields, a very nice house can be purchased for around $120k. The current unemployment rate in North Dakota is between three and four percent, compared to the national average of ten percent. In other words, ND is currently experiencing full employment or close to full employment, depending on what standard you are using.

You can look at virtually any labor forecast and see that there are many, many high paying jobs that are going unfilled. The problem is that they require skilled labor. Those workers that have been working in low/unskilled positions are, generally speaking, resistant to change. They don't want to have to go to college in order to get a high paying job. They want the job to come to them.

I would contend that any extended unemployment benefits be accompanied by a requirement to have some sort of long-term employment plan. The unskilled workers that are unemployed now are still going to be unemployed a year from now, unless they gain some sort of marketable skill. If they are not doing that, extending those benefits is a waste of taxpayer money and a bad investment.

Tom Delay.... I got five bucks says Trump fires him in the first week!

Many of the unemployeed dont seek jobs or look for places to apply that arent hiring. Two of my brother in laws have been on unemployment for over 1 year. One spent 6 months in Peru while he collected every week. The other lives in the family cabin up north and doesnt want to have to move back to the Milwaukee area where he would be able to find a job in a matter of weeks.

For most of you claiming that none or few cheat the system shows you are clueless or just how plain stupid being a liberal has make you.

I have a family member on unemployment (more than a year now)...

He was offered a part-time job... but decided for the difference (about 40 or 50 more per week) he would rather stay on unemployment.

I he still getting health insurance benefits from his employer?

...he's right, of course. As Ben Franklin once said: "...we need to make the poor uncomfortable in their poverty...". We need politicians with that kind of rude directness. We used to have them: "Mr. Clay has said that he would rather be right than president. Mr. Clay need not worry, for he will never be either." -- reminds you of someone? And don't forget the Sumner-Brooks Affair, when Senator Brooks of South Carolina so savagely beat Senator Sumner, an abolitionist, on the floor of the Senate that he was crippled for life. You see how dull and insipid politics are now compared to what they used to be in the good old days. And why don't politicians challenge each other to duels like they used to? That would not only liven things up, it would improve the breed by weeding out the unfit and the cowardly.

"There is an argument to be made that these extensions, the unemployment benefits keeps people from going hungry and resorting to crime in order to feed themselves and their families.

FTFTD

Be Well.

Have a single neighbor that hasn't exactly beat the pavement to get a job---in fact, had a chance to work for a temp agency since he had certain job set skills but decided not to since it would involve moving. What's interesting about these threads is many posters look at the name of the one making the comment and before their brains consider the comment logically, are shooting their mouths off condemning the statement based on their biases toward the person and not the accuracy/semi-accuracy of the statement.

"There is an argument to be made that these extensions, the unemployment benefits keeps people from going hungry and resorting to crime in order to feed themselves and their families."

Uh, familes don't ever have to go hungry. The last time I checked, there were more bed in homeless shelters than homeless to fill them. It's not, and never has been, a question of people starving. It's a question of people being able to afford the high standard of living to which they have become accustomed without having to provide something of value in return.

But I don't disagree with you, if people were going to resort to crime in order to feed their familes, it would probaly be easiest to pay the hundreds bucks or so a month to provide them with the requisite amount of plumpy nut.

Uh, families don't ever have to go hungry.

They shouldn't but they do.

--3.5 percent of U.S. households experience hunger. Some people in these households frequently skip meals or eat too little, sometimes going without food for a whole day. 9.6 million people, including 3 million children, live in these homes.

I'm sure all those lazy fuckers that used to bring in $900/week are just delighted to be collecting $225/week for as long as possible.

Can anything possibly be stuupider than a fucking Republican?

#2 | Posted by axe

Well, how about this:

"We only lost 36,000 jobs today, which is a really good thing!" Harry Pie-hole

Kanrei, you've posted more than 79 times on the DR, haven't you?

Yes, which is why I said "published" and not "posted." When "Published," you submit work, it is accepted or rejected. Posted, you do it yourself and there is no rejection process to go through.

#76 | Posted by kanrei

Actually, that just sounds like pre-dumping instead of the DR's post-dumping.

He was offered a part-time job... but decided for the difference (about 40 or 50 more per week) he would rather stay on unemployment.

#88 | Posted by 1libertarian

ever heard of a homeless bum working at macdonalds because he can at least make a little money

of course not...

but you and liberty better be carefull...like him quoting ben franklin and all that...the left here will skewer you for that IF its not proving thier point....

Uh, families don't ever have to go hungry.

They shouldn't but they do.

--3.5 percent of U.S. households experience hunger. Some people in these households frequently skip meals or eat too little, sometimes going without food for a whole day. 9.6 million people, including 3 million children, live in these homes.

www.worldhunger.org

The last time I checked, there were more bed in homeless shelters than homeless to fill them.

Spud's guessing the last time you checked was never.

Most homeless shelters operate at max capacity and the homeless (often veterans) who arrive late are known to die when the weather turns cold.

Be Well.

#94 | Posted by dethspud

There is no need for people to be without food and shelter--there are plenty of food pantries and shelter in this country---once again the problem is often the people in need----if you're an alcoholic and inebriated most of the time with Korsakoff's syndrome or Wernicke's encephalopathy you're not going to have the sense to get out of the cold for protection or take the time and steps to get the food available---and that goes for paranoid schizophrenics that roam our streets. Also, why are these people on our streets dying---guess what, it was the result of the rights movements of the sixties and seventies--many of these people could no longer be placed as easily in institutions where they had food and shelter. Sometimes, Dethspud, your ignorance is appalling.

"For most of you claiming that none or few cheat the system shows you are clueless or just how plain stupid being a liberal has make you."

Or maybe you just associate with an inordinate number of lowlives.

Someone painted Food Waster on the Cardboard compactor behind the local Food Lion.

let me ask the guy who comes in to the library everyday after I see him begging on the corner

okay well he's not here at the moment...must be a lot of traffic at the light.

"They shouldn't but they do."

There are currently around 35 million americans that recieve government assistance in the form of food stamps, and that represents about 60% of the 58 million americans that are eligible. In other words, there are 23 million americans that already have access to food programs, but for whatever reason choose not to partake.

And just to help you put it in perspective, the vast majority of these "hungry" households still have TVs, and cars, and cell phones. In other words, costs that could be cut out if malnourishment were truly a concern. And I'm not aware of any americans dying of starvation, although I am aware of many being too fat. In fact, obeisty is a bigger problem amongst the poor than it is with the rich. When before in the history of our species has that been a problem.

...so does Tom, just not in the House,
Senate, or White House........or, on
any televised medium show casing his
dancing um, uh, ???, skills???

No one I know who has gotten unemployment benefits was sitting on their ass while those checks came in. The money's too small for that. Delay's nuts.

#8 | Posted by rcade at 2010-03-08 12:12 PM

"We only lost 36,000 jobs today, which is a really good thing!" Harry Pie-hole

#95 | Posted by Sabbatai

Which beats the fire out of the 700-800,000 we were losing month after month in late 2008 and early 2009.

Tom Delay: Unemployed Need to Get a Job???

ALRIGHT Mr.Delay so give them a JOB with the US CONGRESS!!! Then they won't have to do any more real work than they're doing now but they'll make $160.000 a year plus have free health coverage and access to numerous Congressional and Corporate Lobbyist "Slush Funds"! How many unemployed wouldn't go for that kind of Easy,Sweet Heart,Gravy Train DEAL??????????????????

I learned during the Health Care Summit Congressmen's salaries are now $176,000 when Sen. Enzi suggested we all buy catastrophic policies and fully fund Health Savings Accounts.

President Obama pointed out that Congressmen make $176,000 and HCSA's are easy to fund for them, but many middle class families make $40,000 pre-tax income and can't afford to fund HCSA's.

Why shouldn't we have the same choice of insurance plans Congressmen have? I haven't seen a drove of GOP Congressmen forgo their insurance plans for catastrophic plans only. Why don't they if they think that's the solution, or think buying into a large pool is good for them but not for us who pay their salaries?

"I'm sure all those lazy fuckers that used to bring in $900/week are just delighted to be collecting $225/week for as long as possible.
Can anything possibly be stuupider than a fucking Republican? There are dust bunnies under my couch smarter than Tom Delay."
#2 | Posted by axe

"The amounts vary dramatically, though, from a maximum of $230 in Mississippi to $628 in Massachusetts."

"I'm sure all those lazy fuckers that used to bring in $900/week are just delighted to be collecting $225/week for as long as possible.
Can anything possibly be stuupider than a fucking Republican? There are dust bunnies under my couch smarter than Tom Delay."
#2 | Posted by axe

"The amounts vary dramatically, though, from a maximum of $230 in Mississippi to $628 in Massachusetts."

The unemployment rate in my town is 13.60 percent(U.S. avg. is 8.50%). Recent job growth is Negative and this year decreased by another 3.70 percent. Many young married guys have joined the National Guard, that's their only income.

So come here and tell them "go get a job"!

"The amounts vary dramatically, though, from a maximum of $230 in Mississippi to $628 in Massachusetts."
articles.moneycentral.msn.com
That would be $966 - $2721 per month depending on your state.

Is "maximum" a concept you're not familiar?

First line of your link:

Could you live on less than $300 a week? The average unemployment check in the U.S. is $293. That's $1270 a month, average.

Excuse me, the part quoted from the first line is:
"Could you live on less than $300 a week? The average unemployment check in the U.S. is $293."

The next part is my multiplication of the average times 4.3333 (monthly income).