Unemployment Safety Net - Special comment - 06 - 30 - 10 countdown with keith olbermann

First, another Special Comment tonight on the struggle to reestablish the unemployment safety net. Senators Harry Reid and Max Baucus have introduced another bill to rescue those million two, million four as of Friday, who have prematurely lost their jobless benefits because Republicans continue to represent corporations and oppose, you know, human beings. This would be retroactive to the systems collapse at the end of May, and it would extend until November. It has yet to come to the floor. But to give you an idea of why the Republicans have fought its predecessors, there's a new wrinkle tonight. The chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management in Minnesota explains it thusly: "companies are getting higher productivity employees for the same or lower wage rate they were paying a marginal employee. You have a more productive and adaptive labor force." To you, it's unemployment. To corporations, it's cheap freelancers and temps. Better cost containment, as another analyst put it. No inflation, no leaping interest rates on Treasury bills, so all there is to invest in is corporate stocks. Hell, since March of 2009, the Standard and Poors 500 Index has risen - risen 61 percent. So you thought your unemployed cousin or friend or self merely constituted a small personal crisis. In fact, you're part of a global investment opportunity. Every dollar you don't make and every dollar that the government does not give you is another buck for the Republicans' clients, the corporations. Besides which there are plenty of jobs out there, just ask Sharron Angle, Republican candidate for the Senate from Nevada. From her first mainstream interview last night, probably her last, "they keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does. What has happened is the system of entitlement has caused us to have a spoilage with our ability to go out and get a job. There are jobs that do exist. That's what we're saying, is that there are jobs, but those are entry level jobs." See, don't worry if the latest Reid/Baucus bill gets swatted again by the political prostitutes of the corporations, the Republicans. There are plenty of entry level jobs available to you, for which no experience and evidently no intelligence is required, you know, like being the Republican Senate nominee from Nevada. Remember what the first George Bush called Ronald Reagan's financial plan, right? Voodoo economics? Welcome to the Republican's 21st version of it, Screw You Economics.