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Showing Original Post only (View all)HuffPo: Unemployed Republican who votes libertarian cries when GOPers block unemployment aid [View all]
This is why you don't vote Republican/Libertarian:
WASHINGTON -- When Senate Democrats fell just one vote short of advancing a bill to restore long-term unemployment insurance last Thursday, Russ Holton wept.
"Imagine that, a 44-year-old man crying while watching TV," he said. He had watched the vote on C-SPAN 2. A day later, his cable provider cut him off because he hadn't paid the bill.
Holton is one of the 1.7 million long-term unemployed people missing out on federal benefits because Congress stopped providing them in December. Six years ago, he was making $85,000 per year at his job in tech sales. Today, the seams of his life are fraying.
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A registered Republican who says he votes "libertarian," Holton has found the experience "maddening." After being laid off in June 2013, Holton, who lives in Mason, Ohio, exhausted his six months' worth of state unemployment benefits, and only received a few weeks of federal insurance before it expired on Dec. 28.
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"I just want someone to have a freaking heart," he said, referring to members of Congress. "They are going home to a house where all the utilities are paid for, and we are here struggling."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/12/unemployment-benefits_n_4769558.html
"Imagine that, a 44-year-old man crying while watching TV," he said. He had watched the vote on C-SPAN 2. A day later, his cable provider cut him off because he hadn't paid the bill.
Holton is one of the 1.7 million long-term unemployed people missing out on federal benefits because Congress stopped providing them in December. Six years ago, he was making $85,000 per year at his job in tech sales. Today, the seams of his life are fraying.
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A registered Republican who says he votes "libertarian," Holton has found the experience "maddening." After being laid off in June 2013, Holton, who lives in Mason, Ohio, exhausted his six months' worth of state unemployment benefits, and only received a few weeks of federal insurance before it expired on Dec. 28.
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"I just want someone to have a freaking heart," he said, referring to members of Congress. "They are going home to a house where all the utilities are paid for, and we are here struggling."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/12/unemployment-benefits_n_4769558.html
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HuffPo: Unemployed Republican who votes libertarian cries when GOPers block unemployment aid [View all]
Cali_Democrat
Feb 2014
OP
You nailed it. And he didn't know the Libertarian Party platform well, did he?
freshwest
Feb 2014
#19
It is hard to feel compassion for him. He was happy with screwing the poor until HE became poor.
FSogol
Feb 2014
#3
Unemployment Insuarance and Libertarianism are most often mutually exclusive.
Agnosticsherbet
Feb 2014
#5
Liberterian = "Just a Republican who wants to smoke dope & get laid". Ignorant lot, they are. n/t
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2014
#8
Libertarians are also Republicans who are ashamed to admit they voted for Bush...TWICE. nt
Cali_Democrat
Feb 2014
#14
I must say I am rapidly coming to your position on this. It's gotten so OLD it creaks.
CTyankee
Feb 2014
#67
Yes, I love all those "independents" who vote straight-ticket GOP every single time.
NYC Liberal
Feb 2014
#68
It would probably be different if you and I lived in one of the solid red states. But here in the NE
CTyankee
Feb 2014
#69
Yeah, I think it should read, "Unemployed ("Independent") Republican Who Votes Republican..."
kysrsoze
Feb 2014
#26
"I just want someone to have a freaking heart"? Well then, dear Mr. Holton, WHY
calimary
Feb 2014
#15
That's almost all I think about anymore. It's become a kind of automatic default position for me.
calimary
Feb 2014
#36
It was my theory that they thought they would be rich one day, so if they voted like rich people
CTyankee
Feb 2014
#47
$85 K. My MA+ teacher husband, after 30+ yrs, never made $70K, nor did I. Let this bastard CRY HARD.
WinkyDink
Feb 2014
#27
probably has a microwave, refrigerator, mobile device, and a big screen TV as well..
frylock
Feb 2014
#45
we have a cheap shit big screen TV (smallest they offer), and old microwave and refrigerator...what?
CTyankee
Feb 2014
#54
boo hoo. he was and is cool with government being heartless to everyone else.
geek tragedy
Feb 2014
#42
The "Libertarian" movement is comprised of Republicans who want no government
Dawson Leery
Feb 2014
#52
I'm done giving a shit about these self centered crybabies…Get a job you lazy bum!!!!!
W T F
Feb 2014
#61
Live by the GOP sword, die by the GOP sword. No pity for the willingly blind.
blkmusclmachine
Feb 2014
#62