Unemployment Extension Bill HR 4213 Not Tier 5: Why people are opposed to it

Unemployment Extension Bill HR 4213 Not Tier 5: Why some people are opposed to it despite its great benefits for hundreds of thousands of people

For a large number of Americans whose number is in really really large, Obama must be looking like an angel in the darkness of life. Notwithstanding all the battering he has got in the last few months for faults that were not of his making, he continues to develop as an administrator and statesman.

Though words of praise have diminished, as have eulogies that he attracted being the first black President of the US, he has shown to ordinary Americans that he indeed cares for them.

Notwithstanding what Tea party activists rant or what GOP parrots day and night he is a man on a mission and he continues to excel.

We cannot say that he is able to fulfill all his promises, nonetheless he has done wonderfully well on some fronts and that include putting the economy almost back on the tracks.

His major failings include Iraq and Afghanistan where he is still struggling to bring a sense of normalcy and Iran where he has failed to make any headway despite his famous words that he would like to shake hands with Ahmadi Nejad, the Iranian president.

Meanwhile many people are critical of Obama on his insistence on unemployment benefit extension. a reader says, “TRICKLE DOWN DOES NOT WORK! It doesn’t work and we need to stop trying to do that. Start actually doing what Public Health Departments are supposed to do which is provide health care for the public, which will cut costs to business. It would eliminate health care costs. End these two unneeded wars. Tax cuts do add to the deficit also. That is a lie that it does not. Tax cuts did not lead to more people being employed. Stop trying to twist this as something that’s misunderstood. Americans are not that dumb to believe that you can cut tax revenues, not do anything to recover those cuts, and expect us to have more tax revenues. I worked at one of the rapist of our financial system, CITI. If you look at the Annual Reports for them for the past five years they have on their section for losses NM (Not Meaningful), but yet those same NM losses took them from profits to losses. Then, the CEO left with a $20,000,000 bonus while my job alone with 52,999 others either went overseas or were just cut altogether. Stop thinking that these tax cuts are used properly by people who only believe in short-term gains. Stop being that naïve.”

Another reader says, “I can understand people objecting to being forced to share the money they earned with their hard work. Perhaps what we need is not “wealth redistribution” but rather “OPPORTUNITY redistribution”! The way I see it, there is only so much profitable work that needs to be done here in the U.S., and many of the people currently employed are “hogging” the opportunities. If we simply lowered the standard work week to 35 hours a week, and required that ANY and ALL people who work overtime (>35hr/wk) must be paid FIVE TIMES (500%) their normal wage, businesses would very quickly STOP paying ANY overtime, and hire new workers to do the work that that used to be done via overworked salaried employees (i.e. for FREE) or by workers being paid a paltry 1.5X rate for their overtime. It is much HARDER to make the argument that “I deserve to KEEP all my hours on my job, and the next guy in line does not deserve to work at all”.