Republican Stimulus Hypocrisy Should Enrage Every Struggling American
http://www.politicususa.com/republican-stimulus-hypocrisy-enrage-struggling-american.htmlRepublican Stimulus Hypocrisy Should Enrage Every Struggling American
By: Rmuse
August 23rd, 2012
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The truth of the matter is that in the three previous recessions in 1981, 1990, and 2001, public sector jobs increased while the economy was contracting because the government was spending money. In each recession, public sector jobs grew by 1% in 2001, 3% in 1990, and 3% in 1981 when the “socialist” Ronald Reagan was president. In the current recession, with Republicans obstructing any spending and enacting austerity measures, the public sector has lost over 750,000 jobs. Republicans are well-aware that economically, it is better for a school teacher, police officer, or fire fighter to earn and spend $50,000 annually than not working to put money into the economy, increase tax revenue, and create more private sector jobs, and no-one knows or promoted it more than the courageous budget-slashing economic guru Paul Ryan.
Ryan’s informed and impassioned plea for more stimulus to foster recovery in 2001 mirrors President Obama’s pitch for his jobs plans and more economic stimulus over the past couple of years. He said, “We have a lot of laid off workers, and more layoffs are occurring, and we know, as a historical fact, that even if our economy begins to slowly recover, unemployment is going to linger on and on well after that recovery takes place. What we have to do now is to try and get people back to work. The things we’re trying to pass in this bill are the time-tested, proven, bipartisan solutions to get businesses to stop laying off people, to hire people back, and to help those people who have lost their jobs, and it’s more than just giving someone an unemployment check. It’s also helping those people with their health insurance while they’ve lost their jobs and more important than just that unemployment check, it’s to do what we can to give people a paycheck.” Since President Obama has been in office, Ryan voted against extending unemployment benefits, against helping laid-off workers pay for health insurance by subsidizing COBRA payments, against job programs, and any stimulus despite he begged for money after condemning it as a monstrosity.
There is more to Ryan and his Republican cohort’s hypocrisy and lying that should enrage every American struggling in the Bush-recession. Consider that every Republican who opposed infusing federal money into the economy, or obstructed President Obama’s jobs plans, knew they were stunting the economy and killing jobs and yet they dug in their heels and lied to the American people that stimulus does not work. There has been a concerted Republican effort to deliberately sabotage economic growth, jobs, and the welfare of the American people and it has been accompanied with rank hypocrisy and lies. The Republicans cannot claim ignorance or contend they are concerned over the rising national deficit because as Ryan said, economic stimulus is “time tested and proven” to get businesses to stop laying off workers and “hire people back.” It is also important to remember that throughout the Bush administration the Republican mantra was, as Dick Cheney said, “deficits don’t matter;” unless there is a Democrat in the White House who also happens to be an African American.
Republicans have argued from day one of President Obama’s term that there is no way government spending helps the economy or creates jobs and yet, John McCain decried cutting $1.2 trillion that adversely affects the economy and kills over a million jobs and Paul Ryan gave an impassioned appeal for stimulus to create jobs and grow the economy. Willard Romney has lied and asserted for over a year that President Obama has not created any new jobs, and promises to kill even more public sector jobs like teachers, police officers, and fire fighters that he considers “outside the real economy” if he is elected president, and it belies his assertion that his self-acclaimed business acumen gives him “special insight” into how to create jobs.
Republicans are despicable liars and hypocrites for knowing what it takes to spur economic growth and create jobs and deliberately obstructing every one of President Obama’s efforts to get America’s economy running again. They fought against the President’s stimulus and then hurried in line to beg for federal money for their districts while they lied that the stimulus did not create one job. Paul Ryan may be the biggest hypocrite of all for making a passionate speech and citing benefits of federal money to create jobs and spur economic growth in a down economy with no regard for the nation’s deficit, and then campaigning that President Obama’s stimulus was a monstrosity that is adding to the “unsustainable national debt.” Speaking of the deficit, in 2008 George W. Bush passed two stimulus bills, and the second was for fiscal 2009 that Republicans like to pin on President Obama in another example of lying hypocrisy. Americans should be outraged that for three-and-a-half years, Republicans knew exactly what it took to grow the economy and create jobs, and instead of working with the President to help the American people, they lied, obstructed, and complained about the rising debt that would be on its way down if they had followed Paul Ryan’s “time-tested, proven” solution to get Americans working again like the President has been saying since his first day in office.
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The Obama Administration is hiding a dirty secret that I have exposed...
Who is to blame for this mess? (from both sides of the aisle)
29,748,954 Emergency Unemployment Compensation Claims (for all tiers)
663,688,610 weeks of benefits
$97,433,246,688 for EUC08 benefits to present day.
Serious problems with Determinations, Payments and Adjudications due to an implementation error that the Department of Labor has made and refuses to admit.
MY California appeal case CUIAB case no A0-265448, won on 10/20/11,
proves and exposes the errors that the Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration published over four years ago in the EUC08 guidelines issued to all states.
In UIPL 23-08 Change 1 Q&A sections they published an error ("multiple EUC claims"
.
This error is non-compliant with the federal regulations for Federal-State Extended Benefits found at Title 20 Chapter V Part 615 (615.5(2) specifically, that also affects 615.2(c)(2) and 615.2(h)(1)(2)).
This forces claimants for EUC08 to be paid any older and reaming balance from any older EUC08 claim no matter what the weekly benefit amount rate is. This occurs as soon as any claimant works enough to qualify for a state regular unemployment compensation claim (while being paid EUC08). When they go back to work the EUC08 claim and and should have no entitlement to any remaining balance (this is what 20 CFR 615.5(2) says clearly and is how regular UI and the last 20 weeks of extended benefits works nationwide). This pays the claimant less money for a shorter period of time, but is usually long enough for them to lose eligibility to the EUC08 claim they should have been paid if not for these errors.
They should have never been paid any remaining balance form any older EUC08 claim from the past. They should have been paid based on the regular compensation they were getting after they became unemployed again. When they exhausted these regular state funds again (for the second time during the recession) they should have been eligible for a NEW EUC08 claim based on this most recent benefit year. These Department of Labor errors have wasted billions, by denying and overpaying claimants (EUC08 Fraud and Overpayments UIPL 23-08 Attachment A).
These funds are part of the Recovery Act (ARRA):
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009’’.
DIVISION B—TAX, UNEMPLOYMENT, HEALTH, STATE FISCAL RELIEF, AND
OTHER PROVISIONS
SEC. 3. PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES.
(a) STATEMENT OF PURPOSES .—The purposes of this Act include the following:
(1) To preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery.
(2) To assist those most impacted by the recession.
SEC. 5. EMERGENCY DESIGNATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each amount in this Act is designated as
an emergency requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs
pursuant to section 204(a) of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress)
and section 301(b)(2) of S. Con. Res. 70 (110th Congress), the
concurrent resolutions on the budget for fiscal years 2008 and
2009.
Division B
TITLE II—ASSISTANCE FOR UNEMPLOYED WORKERS AND STRUGGLING FAMILIES
Subtitle A—Unemployment Insurance
Sec. 2001. Extension of emergency unemployment compensation program.
NO EMERGENCY RESPONSE HAS COME TO EVIDENCE EXPOSING SERIOUS ERRORS IN DETERMINATIONS, PAYMENT AND ADJUDICATION FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS.
Even worse, my evidence shows that the state and federal government have tried to cover this up.
I discovered via FOIA that the Department of Labor ignored my evidence, oversight requests and public concerns while going behind my back this Feb 2012 and trying to squash the precedent request I had made for my CUIAB Appeal Case No A0-265448. They have no authority to get involved in state determination matters, but on 2/7 Todd Yamamota from the DOL ETA made threats over a state precedent request to the state of California EDD and CUIAB and Labor & Workforce agency in letters I obtained via FOIA.
These are illegal and improper threats to take away the emergency EUC08 benefits for ALL CLAIMANTS IN CALIFORNIA if my CUIAB case was made precedent. The Department of Labor is grossly violating rights, laws and regulations and nobody is doing anything but trying to cover this up. The White House was notified about me and my CUIAB case and efforts from Dale Zeigler at the DOL ETA on 10/18 and 10/21/11. My CUIAb appeal victory notice was mailed to me on 10/20/11. I was the subject and Mr. Obama was the addressee Coincidence?
I have exposed a COVER UP, that may invvole Mr. Obama and his Administration at the highest levels, right before THE GENERAL ELECTION and the Feds still refuse to respond one way or another. What about the the people who were affected as part of the 29,748,954 EUC08 Claims for EUC08 over the past four years? Do they have to wait until after the election? Why do problems with billions of dollars in ARRA funds that are designated as emergency requirements to meet emergency needs, get ignored for over one year?
Abuse of Authority and Malfeasance in Office is the answer.
Here is the evidence:
Read First:
Mr. President, there is a serious problem with the EUC08 program
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/09/1118321/-Mr-President-there-is-a-serious-problem-with-the-EUC08-program
Part One:
If Regulations are Broken in the Forest, and "Nobody" Sees and Hears them get broken...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/21/1112290/-If-Regulations-are-Broken-in-the-Forest-and-Nobody-Sees-and-Hears-them-get-broken
Part Two:
ARRA Fraud in the Emergency Unemployment Insurance Program
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/04/1116763/-ARRA-Fraud-in-the-Emergency-Unemployment-Insurance-Program
Part Three:
Mr. President, I hear FOIA calling...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/05/1116884/-Mr-President-I-hear-FOIA-calling
Part Four:
a Recovery Fraud Complaint Ignored
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/17/1121274/-a-Recovery-Fraud-Complaint-ignored
Part Five:
An ARRA Implementation Error Exposed
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/18/1121545/-An-ARRA-Implementation-Error-Exposed
The Recovery Fraud Complaint and CUIAB Case:
a Recovery Fraud Complaint ignored...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/17/1121274/-a-Recovery-Fraud-Complaint-ignored
FOIA discovery: letters between the Department of Labor ETA and California EDD/CUIAB that expose the cover-up (scroll to the end)
If Regulations are Broken in the Forest, and "Nobody" Sees and Hears them get broken...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/21/1112290/-If-Regulations-are-Broken-in-the-Forest-and-Nobody-Sees-and-Hears-them-get-broken
