Unemployment Benefits Still Not Passed Due To Crazy Harry Reid

Reid shows what he thinks of the unemployed

From the LVRJ: Days from their next weeklong recess, senators reported Tuesday they remain apart over extending unemployment benefits to Americans who have been out of work for longer than six months.
Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said the Senate remains one Republican vote short of the 60 needed to pass a Democratic plan to extend emergency jobless payments for six months, retroactive to when the federal program expired on Dec. 28.
“If we get that one vote we can move on it fairly quickly but we do need that vote and at this stage we don’t have that assurance,” Reid said in a meeting with reporters.
But a Republican senator delivered a pessimistic note, saying sides are no closer to a deal even though both Democrats and Republicans introduced fresh plans last week.
“We are so far apart,” said Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev. Heller and a half-dozen other Republicans have introduced a competing unemployment bill, and he maintained Democrats have shown little interest in meeting GOP senators halfway, or any way.
Republicans are proposing a five-month retroactive bill. Its $10 billion cost would be paid by extending certain customs user fees, changing a pension accounting rule, and by prohibiting people collecting Social Security disability from getting unemployment checks at the same time.
The Democrats propose to pay for their $12 billion-$13 billion bill by applying long-term savings from a recently passed farm bill.  http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/us-senate-still-impasse-over-jobless-benefits-recess-looms
Reid doesn't want the unemployed to receive their extended benefits.  If he did, he would compromise with the GOP and pass the bill.
But Senile/Liar/Coward Reid doesn't want to compromise, so he just gives the long term unemployed the finger.