The Republicans don't want to talk about Guns, God and Gays around here any more. Abortion either

[NNN0LHI]

They all want to know is why every state doesn't pay the same amount of unemployment benefits to their workers when they are laid off as we do in Illinois so we are all playing on a level playing field? Thats what they keep asking me anyway. Bringing this issue into the open was a good thing the Dems did. None of us had realized how the Republicans had been using unemployment benefits as a political tool all along. I think people just may begin to be smartening up.

Don

[benEzra]

1. It helps that Obama hasn't said a thing about new gun bans, and I hope that issue stays dead. (n/t)

[FudaFuda]

4. Unfortunately, that changed today

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824&page=1


not a good thing, i think.

[benEzra]

5. Holder was Janet Reno's understudy, wasn't he?

Hopefully those above Holder realize that derailing economic and health-care proposals over silly restrictions on rifle stock shape a la 1994 is fundamentally idiotic.

[gratuitous]

2. An invisible tax break begins to become visible

By holding unemployment benefits down, companies pay less in state taxes, and when the low-wage workers they've been screwing for years become too expensive, they lay them off for newer, lower-wage workers. And the laid off workers lose again when they're on smaller unemployment benefits.

Cui bono - that is, who benefits? Well, if it's not the workers, then it's . . . :think:

[SmileyRose]

3. I'm sure California would LOVE to have rural Illinois' cost of living.

As a matter of fact, I expect the good jobless folks of Chicago would love to have the same cost of living as rural Illinois. A level playing field is just not possible.