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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP constituents also depend on jobless aid (link fixed)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140114/DABAFI4G1.html
Jan 14, 3:45 AM (ET)
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - When federal emergency unemployment benefits expired last month, the effects ran deep in a Colorado county marked by two exit ramps off Interstate 15 - one leading to the conservative religious group Focus on the Family, the other to the Fort Carson Army post.
Hardly a liberal bastion, El Paso County has the largest number of people in the state who lost unemployment benefits, and many aren't happy about it. Plenty of Republicans, too, depend on jobless aid that Republicans in Congress are hesitant to prolong. The ideological argument for standing against an extension of benefits - that the aid can ultimately make it harder to find work - meets a more complex reality where people live.
Democrats propose to extend the emergency benefits for people who have been or are about to be out of work for more than six months; Republicans are less inclined to take that step, particularly if it means the government borrows more money. The paralysis led to the expiration of benefits for 1.3 million long-term unemployed on Dec. 28. Lawmakers are still working on a compromise.
The standoff infuriates people such as Lita Ness, who lost her job as a civilian contractor at Peterson Air Force Base in August 2012 and just received her final check from the unemployment office.
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GOP constituents also depend on jobless aid (link fixed) (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Jan 2014
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Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)1. And welfare benefits.
I've known a few of these people myself. They really do believe they should be entitled but others shouldn't because they are sure they are cheating.
Of course, most of them are cheating too because it it nearly impossible to live without doing so.
And, so are a whole lot of the wealthy (and middle class) for which reason I can only surmise as greed.
FatBuddy
(376 posts)2. when white reactionaries need help, it isn't welfare though
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)3. Wrong link
Omaha Steve
(100,428 posts)4. Fixed
Woke up in the middle of the night and 1/2 asleep.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)5. GOP, manure - works for me. lol nt
Sandy one
(24 posts)6. Lies
Lies and more lies. I am amazed. I was positive that no member of the GOP/TEA ever was unemployed, needed help, used Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid or God help us a taker of food stamps. This was only a problem for liberal democrats and their families. The commie, socialist AP must have a hidden agenda.