Comments on: Lee pushes for unemployment benefit extension

By: John W

John W — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:20:56 +0000

Cal HS Rail Authority reminds me of that Denzel Washington movie, “Unstoppable.”

By: Elwood

Elwood — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:44:47 +0000

From my experience, this would be the perfect construction crew:

‘DISADVANTAGED WORKERS’

A policy adopted by the California High-Speed Rail Authority board Thursday set definitions for “disadvantaged workers” who would be targeted for jobs building the rail line. Some qualities that would define an applicant as disadvantaged:

• Homeless

• Veteran

• Single parent who has custody of a child

• On public assistance

• Lacking a high school diploma

• Felon

• Chronically unemployed

• Apprentice with fewer than 15 percent of the necessary hours to graduate from a trade program

By: Elwood

Elwood — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:58:51 +0000

Punish the rich! Give their money to the poor!

“OAKLAND — Liberals took to Bay Area streets Monday as part of a national day of action, urging Congress to avoid the looming “fiscal cliff” by raising taxes on the rich and protecting social programs against cuts.”

http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_22163355/bay-area-activists-urge-fiscal-cliff-solution-that

By: RR, Senile Columnist

RR, Senile Columnist — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 23:43:06 +0000

I, too, have serious concerns about requiring jobless recipients to stay off dope and learn to read at a level teens would consider respectable.

By: Elwood

Elwood — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 23:26:29 +0000

Ah, good old Bobbie Lee!

Always the entitlement constituency’s best friend!