Problem Spending Hundreds News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Cut taxes, it is nonsense. it's magic. it's well -- >> what i call a voodoo economic policy. >> thank you, sir. today at the white house, no one said the word voodoo but president obama turned criticism of republicans blocking unemployment benefits into an attack on the way republicans do like the spend money. >> i have to say, after years of championing policy that's turned a record surplus into a massive deficit, the same people who didn't have any problem spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest americans are now saying we shouldn't offer relief to middle-cl...

Unemployment benefits into an attack on the way republicans do like the spend money. >> i have to say, after years of championing policy that's turned a record surplus into a massive deficit, the same people who didn't have any problem spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest americans are now saying we shouldn't offer releave the middle class americans. >> president obama obviously wants unemployment benefits extended to help ease the pain on the million of americans out of work right now but he is also making a larger argument about how republicans govern. wh...

More than six months. the senate is going to vote on wednesday on whether or not to extend their unemployment benefits. they're running out of benefits because you don't get unemployment benefits forever. you get them for a set period of time. 2.5 million americans have already exhausted all of their federal benefits and their state benefits. in fact, they don't qualify for anything else except food stamps and maybe subsidized housing but not things that pay the bills. the labor department estimated another 3.2 million people stand to lose their benefits by the end of the month if congress doe...

Millions who are about to fall off the rolls. well, the issue is that in june when they went to renew this, it didn't happen. they didn't get the votes to extend this because there are some legitimate concerns about how we're paying for all these benefit s and whether they do a good job, whether they actually help people or cause people to stay home. president obama in preparation for tomorrow's vote went out at the rose garden flanked by two unemployed people and took a pretty strong stand against those who would vote against extending unemployment benefits. listen to what the president had t...