Bipartisanship: Senate Will Act on Unemployment, Health Care and Housing

The republicans want this President and this Great Nation to fail. This President has inherited almost 30 years of republican ideology. It will take more than a few months to fix the damage. There are 18 more republican senate seats on the ballot in 2010. We need to send them all packing along with some yellow dog democrats.

I would like to add, if you want a better Congress, don’t give one party control of both Houses. If the Clinton years proved nothing else, they proved that when one party controls Congress and the other the White House, then very little gets done and the economy does well.
Try adding some Libertarian or Green party members to Congress and get some new ideas, instead of the same old lame ideas repackaged.
Democrats have one answer, more government,no matter what question is asked. Republicans pay lip service to the market, but in the end, their question is either do nothing, or let government become involved, just in a less intrusive way (except for the ridiculous Patriot Act).

I would like to see an honest debate about health care. Schumer decries health care profits as if they are evil. he failed to mention they have paid in nearly twice the $12 billion in Federal and state income taxes. I wonder if that impact has been added to their COB estimates.
Our government has been and projected to underfund Medicare to the tune of 50% as far as we can see. Even if they cut my parents Medicare Advantage plans.
Democrats and Republicans have not had ANY political will to make Medicare acturially sound. If they cannot control the current program and back the promises they have made to all Americans, how can they run a health care system?
Sen. Schumer, please do tell!

I don’t think allowing the Government to dictate as to who gets help and who doesn’t is very wise. Look at auto sales; through the roof when getting tax credits, very few are selling now that the incentive is gone. Housing is moving because of the same reasons. Part of the problem that caused the collapse was spending borrowed money-yet here the Government goes again. When we pay the piper is not known but you can be darned sure that all of us are going to give up something.

Investigate recent GI deaths in Afghanistan. Make sure no one went rogue and followed partisan Republican politics. We Americans are tired of our tax dollars going to waste on military leaders not understanding how to communicate successful strategies and campaigns. If these military leaders don’t understand supply and demand, well, there are unemployment lines we will place them in and put into place military leaders who are hungry enough to get the right job done with winning strategies without flaws. Get this war completed then bring our men and women in uniform home alive and well to their families. With 21st century strategies and technologies, there aren’t any excuses for losing this war. Stop whining about losing Republican power in Washington and do the people’s work on the battlefield of Afghanistan and other hotspots. We American women are losing patience with ignorance. Get the job done right the first time. Stop the waste and political Republican party pandering. Stop going rogue — do the job right the first time. Get educated, develop troops, learn territory as if your own backyard, and put America first not your ill run Republican rogue party. We American women are tough as nails on the inside and we look nice on the outside. Now sugar and spice will continue to be nice when the job is completed timely and successful with less damage to our men and women in uniform. Bring them home as you received them — healthy, well, and alive. American women are watching and we are tough beyond anyone’s imagination. Now do your job military leaders as we Americans expect you to do so. We pay you and we have high expectations of ROI, best practices from you and your care of our precious cargo that you have — our sons and daughters. Now do the job right or possibly we need to look at the pay structure from the Pentagon and possibly we pay you military leaders way too much. Take care of American tax dollars, our sons and daughters, use them with best practices and next steps in order to resolve difficult projects and turn them into successful campaigns. Now do your jobs right the first time.

scottjeffries: why not simply avoid the taxpayer’s current health care middleman – the HMO ? Instead of Joe taxpayer paying the middleman an excess of money and have the government collect taxes from his profits let’s cut straight to the government receiving money from the taxpayer? Each exchange of money costs money to administer . Instead of paying those administrative costs and HMO profits why not have the money go directly to health care services?

There are many medical health care centers in America and they are in operation in order to provide medication, therapy, counseling and relief to people suffering from various diseases. These centers work to lessen the load that hospitals face. They run under different names and some of them specialize in certain fields.

Do we really want our government’s help? Can we afford their help? Someone put foward a good question on one of the “news” shows yesterday. It kinda went like this: Why don’t we vote on lobbyist and that way we can get rid of the middle man? Works for me!

Our Congress is not going to fix anything. Each representative has one goal: get re-elected. Support their party! Keep the cash coming in! Pat a few more people on the back! Shake a few more hands! Do nothing that upsets anyone!

THIS IS A REPLY TO >>>> Posted by: Mike | Oct 4, 2009 2:04:46 PM
Looks like a nice year’s “paid vacation” for a lot of people … Why work? when you can receive a paycheck every two weeks – and that probably pays better then a job at a lower wage … When will they learn … extending unemployment benefits – extend the number of unemployed.
VACATION???????? YOU call worrying about feeding your children a vacation? you losing your home is a vacation??? You need to start reading and comprehending what you read, there are NO JOBS and those that are out there you either don’t have the experience they want or you are over qualified. I have applied for 1000′s of jobs so don’t you sit there and talk about VACATION…….I wish I were on a vacation, but this stress I am under with hoping to feed my daughters and not live in a car, doesn’t feel like a vacation to me bud!!!

can anyone tell me now that both houses past the unemployment bill when will the benefits start for us jobless
people.
PLEASE FIND OUT AND LET ME KNOW.
ROBERT