Morning Roundup: Goodbye, Abe Edition
Vegetate to Close at the End of the Month
D.C. Police Seek Suspect in Series of Bank Robberies
Suspect in 9-Year-Old's Murder Found Dead in D.C. Jail
Wizards Owner Abe Pollin Dies at 85
- Bummed out about D.C.'s skyrocketing unemployment rate? Mayor Fenty announced his plan today that would extend unemployment benefits for residents.
- Adam Tuss reports that Metro's Board is still arguing about how to handle the agency's impending budget shortfall, with no action taken again today, after putting the discussion off for several weeks already.
- A grand jury has handed down an indictment against newly signed Redskins defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth, with charges of reckless driving and having an expired vehicle registration.
- Southeastern University is now facing the loss of its accreditation.
- Some light snow is possible overnight, but probably nothing much to get excited about.
- Looks like the The 48th Annual Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game is set for June 17.
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You gotta love politicians. I understand the benefit of unemployment, but extending it in times of crisis is basically saying No job? No Problem! Free money, at the expense of those who are still working. I swear we creep closer to communism with every passing day. Whatever happened to personal responsibility and saving money for the down times? I guess that all got lost in the push for bigger houses, more gadgets and electronics, and larger credit card limits. Any program that provides incentives for not working is inherently dangerous, at least in my opinion.
Ah, the magnanamous self-righteousness of a the person who has never been unemployed.
No doubt you'd be whining and complaining if these extensions weren't implemented and thousands of unemployed lost their homes and began sleeping on the sidewalks all over town, creating tent cities in every square (as they did in the Great Depression, when we didn't have any of these social safety nets).
For chrissakes, we've lost what, four million jobs in the last year? You think all these laid off people have incentive to not work? Maybe they're not working because there are FEWER JOBS THAN THERE ARE JOB-SEEKERS.
And it's not "free money." It's unemployment insurance that you've paid into through payroll taxes.
Great. I look forward to being able to 'opt out' of my job insurance so I can save money on my tax bill. And never said that people were choosing not to work, but that if people expect the government to bail them out every time they lose their job, then there is no incentive to plan for down times and actually save money. So then you get what you have now, with people maxing out their incomes on rent/mortgage and expenses, and saving nothing. And then in a touch economic environment, we pay people to do nothing. Can we at least pay them to do some kind of actual labor? Seriously, I've got some paperwork I could use some help with. Let's create jobs instead of expanding the welfare state.
If you pay taxes, you pay into unemployment. You're only getting out what you've already put in. The "extention" is a measly extra $25 a week, and that's coming from the Fed's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. All Fenty's adding is some phone lines and call takers to help people make claims. It's only like "communism" in that both are half-assed measures designed to keep incumbents in office.
And I want to see the "after" picture when that car goes in reverse. Take that, you bucktoothed git!
wow! Haynesworth is such a bad driver that the result is Southeastern losing it's accreditation?! Crazy...
Live by the acorn, die by the Acura.
That's the Squirrel-thug life man.
Hate the game, not the playa, yo.
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta,
A real gangsta-ass squirrel plays his cards right,
A real gangsta-ass squirrel never runs his fu**in mouth
Cuz real gangsta-ass squirrels don't start fights.
And squirrel's always gotta high cap
Showin' all his boys how he shot em,
But real gangsta-ass squirrels don't flex nuts
Cuz real gangsta-ass squirrels know they got 'em.
Oh hell yeah.
Acorn on tha one, Oak-town on tha two!
You kill one squirrel. Another one takes its place.
You crash a car. It goes to the junkyard.
Squirrels win! Yay!
Squirrels are nothing but trouble. Take it from a Moose - we know.