Bobby Jindal

Merc...please point to the "strings attached" language to the unemployment insurance provisions in the stimulus bil. You can find the full text of the bill on recovery.gov website.

Cite the section of the bill, please.

BTW, you can find Jindal's co-sponsorship of the bill to extend unemployment benefits for a year here. and the provision in that bill... "“The President shall make such assistance available for 52 weeks after the date of the disaster declaration”...

Extending unemployment benefits for up to 52 weeks in '05 when Bush is in the White House - good
Extending unemployment benefits for up to 20 weeks in '09 when Obama is in the White House and you might want to challenge him in '12 - bad

Now stop interacting with the audience and go find that cite in the stimulus bill and read it aloud before the close of this act of the play!

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Redux

Merc...please point to the "strings attached" language to the unemployment insurance provisions in the stimulus bil. You can find the full text of the bill on recovery.gov website.

Cite the section of the bill, please.

BTW, you can find Jindal's co-sponsorship of the bill to extend unemployment benefits for a year here. and the provision in that bill... "“The President shall make such assistance available for 52 weeks after the date of the disaster declaration”...

Extending unemployment benefits for up to 52 weeks in '05 when Bush is in the White House - good
Extending unemployment benefits for up to 20 weeks in '09 when Obama is in the White House and you might want to challenge him in '12 - bad

Now stop interacting with the audience and go find that cite in the stimulus bill and read it aloud before the close of this act of the play!

Google it. There is only a 2 year window for the funds with strings attached. Every news source is carrying it. You don't have to believe it. Facts are facts, I hope we turn it down.

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Google it. There is only a 2 year window for the funds with strings attached. Every news source is carrying it. You don't have to believe it. Facts are facts, I hope we turn it down.

SO you cant cite it. I got it.

What strings are attached?

Why is it you only believe what Republicans say and is carried in the media?

[TheMercenary]

2 years of funding only. Opens up to a larger pool.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090222/...us_republicans

http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/...ll01-15-09.pdf

So point me to the "strings"

[TheMercenary]

Keep looking you will find it. I found it after a few minutes. Your original source links are there.

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Keep looking you will find it. I found it after a few minutes. Your original source links are there.

If you found it, show me the strings...or at least give me a page number.

Or perhaps you cant find the actual language in the bill that attaches any "strings" on the states accepting the funding.

Because there are no strings?

[ZenGum]

Here's ya damn strings!



That help you any?

Cool.....musical entertainment during intermission!

Extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation. Through December 31, 2009, the bill continues the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, which provides up to 33 weeks of extended unemployment benefits to workers exhausting their regular benefits. This provision is estimated to cost $26.96 billion.

Increase in Unemployment Compensation Benefits. The bill increases unemployment weekly benefits by an additional $25 through 2009. This provision is estimated to cost $8.8 billion

No strings.

[TheMercenary]

What happens after 2009?

The states return to the current unemployment formulas.

If the need remains as great as it is today, Obama and Congress can extend it again...either nationally or a state-by-state basis as needed.

In the same manner that Bush and Jindal did in '05 for Louisiana when he was in Congress.

Still, no strings.

[classicman]

no thanks - ewwww I think I just threw up a little in my mouth

Good news, Merc.

I found the "strings" this morning....it required quite a stretch of the provision, along with the most limited thinking by those Republican governors on how to make it work.

But then I would never accuse Republicans of being broad-minded in their thinking if they can find an ideological reason not to.