Hey GOP, I've found the way to pay for extended unemployment benefits....

[sinkingfeeling]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Oh, perfect!

[progressoid]

2. But but but without those tax breaks they can't be job creators!!1!1

[christx30]

7. And with those tax breaks

they haven't been job creators. Wait... nevermind. They've created 100's of thousands of jobs in India, Mexico, China, and Taiwan. None here for the people that actually pay for those tax breaks.

[tecelote]

3. Hey - if you take away tax breaks the 1% get grumpy. And, you know...

unhappy rich people don't want to invest and end up downsizing and just firing people in general.

This will cause more unemployment just making matters worse.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. That's OK. We have a $4B cushion in this scheme.

However, better use of it could be made by buying out the 1% and turning our richest corporations into democratically organized cooperatives, and then the real producers can decide among themselves who should make decisions about what kind of product to market.

Can you imagine auto workers determining what kind of car they're going to build? I've always had this idea that if auto workers were tasked with designing a car they'd want to drive to work, it wouldn't look a thing like an SUV. To paraphrase my favorite quote from Churchill, the SUV was idea of an automobile so stupid only an ivy league educated corporate executive could have thought of it.

[spanone]

5. cost of republican government shutdown $24,000,000,000.00.....24 BILLION DOLLARS

[Beartracks]

6. Job Creator Math: Pay $10.4 bil to lose another $6.5 bil = Good for U.S.! n/t