Reading The Fine Print

While this is a tiny bit of good news, this is definitely not good news at all.

And if you read the fine or buried print, you see some of the reasons that the Great Recession is being made even more painful for people than it needs to be.

For example: “I just sent in my form requesting my last unemployment check,” Jim Schmitt, 58, of Apple Valley, Calif...“I have always voted Republican, and now I'm reading the Republicans are holding up the vote to extend the benefits. I might not be voting Republican again, even though the Democrats are no better.”

Well Jim, the Democrats are better in the sense they don't despise unemployed Americans, like the stinking Republicans do.

I think the real problem for Republicans is that they have a basically Old Testament view of people's worth, which is to say that if you are a good person, God will reward you, and if you are not a good person, you will find yourself doing things like sending in your form to collect your last unemployment check. Why should the good, still employed people, have to keep helping the clearly bad people, who can't or hey probably won't find another job?

Republicans, rotten to the core with religious fanatics who would actually rather bulldoze the poor into a giant landfill, HATE helping Americans in need—especially when the idiot Republicans were largely responsible for putting those people in need in the first place. Instead the bad, unemployed, people can just go live in tents where they belong, or they could just die and stop bothering good people for handouts.

So, yeah, the Dems are pretty worthless, and actually pretty cowardly in my view. But their basic inclinations on some fundamentally important issues are wildly better than those of most Republicans.

(jk)