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Congressman Decries Unemployment Extension
Posted Wed, 09/23/2009 - 11:01 by chuck
Representative Lee Terry (R-NE) has decried the unemployment extension measure that passed yesterday as symbolic of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) "arrogance."
The complaint was not about the extension of benefits per se but about the limitation of the extension to the 27 states where the official (grossly underestimated) unemployment rate is over 8.5 percent.
Tweeted the congressman:
...That excludes Nebraska. Why is an unemployed person in California more worthy of help than an unemployed person in Nebraska? I voted NO.
He has a point. The money will come from the $787 economic stimulus package which has already been passed.
Congressman Terry has represented Nebraska's Second Congressional District in the Omaha area since 1999.
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Agreed on the Pelosi point
That's over the top, and Terry did not need to bring it into the discussion to make his point. Some "playing to the home crowd" going on there, probably.
I also get that the money is designated to help those most in need of assistance and to help those areas of the country hardest hit.
8.5 percent seems like a rather arbitrary litmus test. Nobody wants to be out of work long enough to exhaust their benefits, and the unemployment rate in one's home state has little to do with the situation in one's local area nor with the demand for one's particular set of skills.
It's a rare thing that I agree in the main with a Republican, but I agree with this guy: It would have been fairer to help all those who need it, regardless of whether their states are among the worst ravaged.
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