As an unemployed journalist desperately hoping to find work in a comatose economy and dying newspaper industry, the Republican landslide (60 seats gained in the House of Representatives and 6 in the Senate ) means its likely my unemployment benefits won't be extended before I find a new job if I can ever find one. Leading Republicans have implied that people like me are deadbeats who would rather collect benefits than work as if I could survive on $276 a week.
I guess they think that I should take a minimum wage job with a name tag rather than continue to seek work as a reporter, the only thing I've ever been any good at in a profession that doesn't pay much more than minimum wage. I guess they'll force my hand soon enough.
These are the same folks whose idea of creating jobs is to call for a hiring freeze on hiring federal workers and to call for tax cuts for the rich which will lead cities and states to layoff workers. And now they're in charge of the House and will continue to frame the agenda for our spineless president and most of the Democrats.
Instead of debating the worthiness of tax cuts given the lack of federal revenue, the debate is how much taxes to cut. And instead of spending money to create jobs and prevent another Great Depression, there will be spending cuts to because of phony deficit scares. It's like conserving water when your house is on fire, but the people calling the shots never get burned.
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