{"id":184830,"date":"2012-01-09T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/09\/just-when-thought-that-the-phants-could-not-get-any-more-repulsive-2\/"},"modified":"2012-01-09T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T01:33:00","slug":"just-when-thought-that-the-phants-could-not-get-any-more-repulsive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/09\/just-when-thought-that-the-phants-could-not-get-any-more-repulsive-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Just When Thought that the &#8216;Phants Could Not Get Any More Repulsive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They have slipped a provision into the payroll tax extension which would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offthechartsblog.org\/an-appalling-idea-even-by-washington-standards\/\">deny unemployment compensation for people who lack a high school diploma<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">For legislation to extend the payroll tax cut through the end of 2012, House Republicans are expected to push for a provision on unemployment insurance (UI) that is appalling even by current Washington standards.  Neither President Obama nor Congress should accept any payroll-tax legislation that includes it.  Here\u2019s why:<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">The provision, part of a full-year payroll-tax bill that the House passed in December, would deny UI benefits to any worker who lacks a high school diploma or GED and is not enrolled in classes to get one or the other \u2014 regardless of how long the person worked or whether he or she has access to adult education, which itself has been subject to significant budget cuts in the past few years and is heavily oversubscribed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">The proposal would deny UI benefits to hundreds of thousands of workers \u2014 many of them middle-aged \u2014 who have worked hard, played by the rules, and effectively paid UI taxes for years and who then were laid off due to no fault of their own.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">This would violate the basic compact that the UI system has embodied since its creation under President Roosevelt in 1935 \u2014 that people who have amassed a sufficient record of work, and on whose behalf UI taxes have faithfully been paid, may receive UI benefits for a temporary period if they are laid off and are searching for a new job<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img341.imageshack.us\/img341\/9929\/theylive333.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"150\" \/>Republicans need to find a way to blame the victim.  It&#8217;s in their DNA.<\/p>\n<p>Just put on the f%$#ing glasses, and look.<\/p>\n<p>Just really look, and understand that these are two sorts of people with the &#8216;Phants, the aliens, and the people who gleefully say, &#8220;I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have slipped a provision into the payroll tax extension which would deny unemployment compensation for people who lack a high school diploma: For legislation to extend the payroll tax cut through the end of 2012, House Republicans are expected to push for a provision on unemployment insurance (UI) that is appalling even by current &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,969,978,1086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-evil","category-politics","category-social-safety-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}