{"id":189079,"date":"2010-05-28T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/28\/just-fing-marvelous\/"},"modified":"2010-05-28T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T16:44:00","slug":"just-fing-marvelous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/28\/just-fing-marvelous\/","title":{"rendered":"Just F%$#ing Marvelous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like my extended unemployment benefits , as well as those of a few million wanting-to-be-working Americans, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\/id\/37399268\">will expire as Congress rushes out the door to take their <del>vacation<\/del> recess<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The House of Representatives Friday was to vote on a reduced package of safety-net spending and tax measures that would raise taxes on fund managers, but it likely was too late to avoid disrupting jobless benefits for hundreds of thousands of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, who say the bill would lower the country&#8217;s 9.9 percent unemployment rate, had hoped it would clear Congress this week to ensure that jobless benefits and other safety-net provisions do not expire. But the Senate was set to leave town for a week-long break without taking action.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, hundreds of thousands of jobless Americans will probably lose the weekly payments that help them cover their bills as they look for work in a sluggish economy.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional wrangling has delayed such benefits at least four times in the past year. Democrats say they will restore the benefits when they return in early June.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To whoever is slow walking this, and to whoever is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">letting<\/span> them slow walk this, &#8220;Go Cheney Yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like my extended unemployment benefits , as well as those of a few million wanting-to-be-working Americans, will expire as Congress rushes out the door to take their vacation recess: The House of Representatives Friday was to vote on a reduced package of safety-net spending and tax measures that would raise taxes on fund &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,975,1020,1086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-employment","category-legislation","category-social-safety-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189079"}],"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=189079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}