{"id":130,"date":"2010-07-20T07:36:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2010-07-20T07:36:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:36:23","slug":"give-em-hell-barry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Give &#8217;em Hell, Barry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/wire\/sns-obama-republicans,0,870945.story\">lashed out <\/a>\u00a0at Republicans for blocking the Senate&#8217;s efforts to extend unemployment benefits. The bill is likely to pass the Senate today. Many Republican Conservatives claim that giving unemployment benefits is a disincentive for people to look for work. While there might be some unemployed people who don&#8217;t want to work, the majority of unemployed\u00a0people want to work but can&#8217;t find work. Just look at the long lines of people that apply for jobs when a new casino opens. Republicans want to extend tax cuts for the rich, but they don&#8217;t want to help the\u00a0people who really need it. What say you? (photo from Reuters).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"FLESH-AND-BLOOD EXAMPLES: Denise Gibson of Queens and Jim Chukalas from Fredon Township, NJ, listen in the White House Rose Garden yesterday as President Obama urges Congress to extend unemployment benefits.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/rw\/nypost\/2010\/07\/20\/news\/photos_stories\/cropped\/president_obama--300x300.jpg\" alt=\"FLESH-AND-BLOOD EXAMPLES: Denise Gibson of Queens and Jim Chukalas from Fredon Township, NJ, listen in the White House Rose Garden yesterday as President Obama urges Congress to extend unemployment benefits.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, President Obama lashed out \u00a0at Republicans for blocking the Senate&#8217;s efforts to extend unemployment benefits. The bill is likely to pass the Senate today. Many Republican Conservatives claim that giving unemployment benefits is a disincentive for people to look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}