Americans, what is your priority, war in Afghanistan or benefits to the unemployed?
August 21st, 2011 | 
Author: Question by M Javed Iqbal: Americans, what is your priority, war in Afghanistan or benefits to the unemployed?
Yahoo have reported today that job benefits to millions of jobless will
come to an end soon:
CINCINNATI (Reuters) – Deborah Coleman lost her unemployment benefits
in April, and now fears for millions of others if the Senate does not extend
aid for the jobless.”It’s too late for me now,” she said, fighting back tears at
the Freestore Foodbank in the low-income Over-the-Rhine district near
downtown Cincinnati. “But it will be terrible for the people who’ll lose their
benefits if Congress does nothing.”
For nearly two years, Coleman says she has filed an average of 30 job
applications a day, but remains jobless. “People keep telling me there
are jobs out there, but I haven’t been able to find them.”
It is becoming increasingly apparent that US Admin will soon have to decide
between waging a war in a far flung country or giving unemployment benefits
to country’s jobless.
What is your priority ?
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war, forget the unemployed
Benefits to the unemployed. I don’t think we have any business trying to solve anyone’s problems but our own. Not that I believe for a second that’s what this war is really about, anyway…
It’s not feasible to pull out of Afghanistan at the present time so I think that has to take precedence over unemployment if a choice is necessary, but I don’t think it is.
what ahorrible choice either carry on letting the soldiers die for no good reason or let their citizens starve to death
I’m not very interested in either one. I think both belong WAY down on our list of priorities.
We provide plenty of benefits to the unemployed; if you’re at the point where your unemployment benefits are running out, then you’ve had plenty of time to get an education, learn a trade, develop your own small business, etc.
As far as the war in Afghanistan, if they had told me w
Waging War. OOH RAH! If we cut unemployment benifits more people will sign up for Military service.
so what`s changed….war on the unemployed and benefits to Afghanistan
SIRIUS : I hope you lose your job someday and end up on the streets starving to death. How dare you! Obviously you are incredibly naive and downright heartless. I have a job but anyone and I mean ANYONE can lose their job at any time. Have you been living under a rock? We are currently in a WORLD WIDE RECESSION! You are incredibly pathetic and I hope you end up destitute without a penny to your name.
two war5s that could have been avoided caused this financial nightmare!
i say the american worker needs help more at this stage of america!
these two wars are unwinable!
Both are the result of policies by the party that doesn’t care either way. Bush started a war he couldn’t finish and his policies led to many of these people being laid off. Obama for now must deal with both of these Bush problems, but if it came to a choice I’d hope he’d help the poor, because the republicans are not.
Both are a waste of money. The government could use the same amount of money creating public works jobs and chasing after 50 or 100 al Quaeda is a useless pursuit in Afghanistan. That would be cheaper to pay off the Taliban instead of spending money killing them and paying private contractors instead of drafting cheaper voluntary soldiers.
I think a priority should be taking care of senior citizens who have little money to live on. The “greatest generation” contributed most to the U.S. than any other and should be cared for, not discarded.
There are ways to get jobs if you are young but not if you are over 50. The problem is that the UI benefits are too high so people don’t try hard enough to chase a job they have not done before. They are too comfortable collecting benefits and scream because they ended.
What about the Tea Party and Republicans who don’t want to pay out government benefits. It has been more than a year already and we cannot afford to support these people.
To submit 30 online job applications does not equal pounding the pavement. She has to get out there and make phone calls and network to get a job. We are competing with China.
The ground war has to stop that’s for sure. We’re not a land power, we’re an air and sea power. And even if we were a land power there’s no way, even the most ruthless land power, to make a bit of difference in Afghanistan. We can hold governments responsible for allowing US threatening organizations from assembling in any country, and we can enforce that responsibility on them by destruction of their infrastructure. This may result in an untidy and ongoing situation, but at a far lower level of hurt to us than a forever ground war under the restrictive rules of engagement we enforce on ourselves. On the economic side, a market economy requires cash and credit or the economy will reduce itself to a point of equilibrium where cash, credit and production balance. Without ongoing unemployment insurance the economy will once again contract, this time into a deep decades long depression. As we can’t afford to to continue borrowing money for the war in Afghanistan and keep the wolf from the door for millions of American citizens, it seems reasonable to quit the war and prop up our economy. Doing nothing as suggested by Glen Beck on his show last week on how the recession of 1920 was ‘won’ by doing nothing isn’t an answer to the situation in 2010, though a lot of ‘true believers’ in the economic dreamworld of the GOP/Trashbag party seem to think so. Fighting a no-win war with borrowed money just adds to this ongoing horror story!
Unemployed – most definitely.
We need to bring manufacturing back to United States, heavily tax outsourced jobs and give incentives to foreign companies to bring their jobs here.
Picture the global economy as a plane in distress and the passengers are countries. When on a plane in distress you are told to put on your airmask first to save yourself, then you will be able to help others. The US must save its jobs first!
Buy American! Take a look at what you’re wearing – is anything US made? Take a look around your home, car and workplace (if you’re lucky enough to have a job). How many American made items do you see? This should be an eye opening exercise.
Hey Flower – “Pound the Pavement” to where? I’ll make you a bet that woman has probably applied to every company within walking distance. I just wish it was as easy as that to just pound the pavement and you will have a job. When is it going to get thru people’s heads THE JOBS JUST AREN’T THERE or unemployed keep getting turned down for the available jobs because employers want to hold out for the “perfect ideal” candidate?
The US government would much rather spend billions of dollars killing foreigners for no reason other than to expropriate their oil resources, instread of supporting americans to get employment. They have twisted priorities.
Stop the wars. Stop the space program. Stop all foreign aid. Send all the illegal workers home to free up 12 million jobs for Americans. Repeal the health care take over. Forget cap and trade. Pass large tax reductions to stimulate the economy.
Good luck getting anything worthwhile done with Obama and the radical left in charge.
I’m Canadian, thankfully not American. The way I see it is that the American government cares more about oil, the profits of the world bank and technological advances that the military black-budget pays for then they will ever care about their citizens. Look up Holmsburg prison, just like Hitler and the japanese the Americans were testing biological warfare on their own citizens. Only difference…the Americans were doing this in the 1970′s and most likely still are. In the last 100 years the US has fought Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Japan, Germany…I mean the list goes on and on and on. I’m sure they have killed more people in the world then all accidental deaths combined. Unfortunately it will take a major tragedy and likely the end of the american empire before the citizens wake up out of their brainwashed trance of supporting crooked politicians and extreme parties.