The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support held a hearing on June 10 titled: Hearing on Responding to Long-Term Unemployment. I asked readers of Rochester Unemployment Examiner to send me letters they wrote to the Committee that they also wanted to have published.*
While you can no longer submit letters to House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support hearing, you can send your letters to me at mike@layofflist.org and I’ll publish them at Rochester Unemployment Examiner or at http://layofflist.org. Your stories are important and hopefully some of the clueless ones in Congress read them to see how their actions, or inactions, are damaging Americans both personally and financially at all corners of the nation.
As you can see from the following letters, this jobless recession has affected people of varied careers, education, and backgrounds. While many Americans enjoyed summer vacations, there were millions who didn’t enjoy their summer because their congressional representatives have abandoned them at the worst possible time. Congress decided to go on recess before passing extended unemployment legislation for upwards of four million unemployment benefit exhaustees – the 99ers.
Since a few of these letters are nine weeks old, I have found out that some of these people no longer have Internet access at home and have abandoned the email addresses they supplied. As the tragedy of long-term unemployment continues to unfold more will be losing communications, healthcare and then finally their homes.
If letter writers sent recent updates, I included them as well. I will update these stories as they are received.
I want to thank all of you for including me in your letters to the Hearing. I will do my best to reply to each and every one of you.
Additional newly posted letters are also available at The Layoff List.
Here are the letters from the long-term unemployed:
RS in PA:
Good Afternoon;
I am writing to you in good faith with an extreme sense of urgency requesting you to please add a Tier V to the UCEB extensions.
I am a displaced (former) newspaper executive that was in the newspaper publishing business for over 33 years. I lost my job, through no fault of my own, on 09/28/2008 as a result of budget cuts/expense savings. In short, my position was eliminated.
I am currently 60 years old and have been unemployed since my displacement. I was informed that I may receive two more UCEB checks (I was on the Pa. UCEB mail-in program), but have not received them, as of yet.
I have very proactively conducted a nationwide search for employment, but to no avail. I fear that I am too old to be hired and too young to retire.
I have managed to pay my mortgage for June but without either gainful employment or further UCEB extensions; I fear that I will face foreclosure to my home. I have no savings, exhausted my retirement funds, sold my car and am selling personal possessions to stay current with my mortgage. I negotiated for over 15 months with my mortgage provider (Wells Fargo) in hopes of qualifying for HAMP, but was informed just recently that I did not qualify because I was unemployed. If they had acted more expediently; I would have had well over 9 months of unemployment compensation available as a guideline established by the Treasury Department last September.
I have not seen a Dr. or Dentist in almost two years and cannot afford to pay for COBRA.
I shall continue to work hard to find employment but am respectfully urging you to please make provisions to make available to all of us long term (older) unemployed Americans additional UCEB extensions, most specifically in the form of a Tier V. If our government can afford to spend money on wars and corporate (corrupt) bank bailout, then why can’t unemployed (formerly hard working tax paying) Americans be helped? We feel abandoned…PLEASE HELP US!!!
Here’s the latest from RS in PA on 8-30-10:
Thank-you, Mike. In order for me to avoid foreclosure to my beloved home; I currently have it up for sale, if it does not sell by the end of September or should no furtherer Unemployment Insurance benefits be passed; I shall be prepared to receive an Act 91. Thank-you for your kind words and pray for me and millions like me. My Best Regards; RS
From MS in CT:
I am currently unemployed and have collected 99 weeks of benefits, on and off, since October 0f 2007. I lost my job when this recession really started to take hold. I’ve worked for 27 years straight with no lapses of employment.
From 1980 to 1990, I worked in manufacturing at a plant in Pomona, NJ. From 1990 to 1996, I worked in Security at a casino in Atlantic City, NJ. From 1996 to 2007, I worked for a casino in CT.
I have been married for 22 years with two children, my daughter is 20 and currently married, her husband joined Army Infantry and they are currently stationed at Fort Drum in upstate NY. My son is 17 and currently completing his senior year in high school.
My wife is working two jobs which she has been able to hold onto for the last ten years. One full-time job and one part-time job. Her compensation along with my unemployment wasn’t even enough to pay the debt we currently have but were getting by until I can find work.
We needed to do a mortgage modification in order to keep our home which took over a year to complete. Now here comes my son’s graduation, prom, and family coming into town. Unemployment exhausted, bills beginning to mount.
I have sent resume after resume out, filled out online applications, drove around until the cost of gas now is a burden. The jobs are not out there yet…..I had three interviews and did not get the job as I was inexperienced for the particular position. Pretty much my entire career focused around casino security (17 years).
Talk about a double edged sword, most employers want a good credit report, most 99er’s, without an unemployment check, bills going unpaid, or going out late, are putting black marks on their credit reports.
Now the situation is even bleaker, no job to be found, no unemployment check coming in. Talk about some people needing a bail-out, we the 99er’s need a bail-out or a job. Please give us one of the two.
From CR in NY:
Dear Sirs and Madams of the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the Committee on Ways and Means:
I am one of the many Americans who will run out of unemployment benefits very soon (June 24, 2010) if there is not an unemployment benefit extension. I am discouraged to hear that there may not be a new extension pushed for by my representatives. I have never been laid-off before this. I am not lazy and I don’t like to ask for hand-outs.
During my 99 weeks of unemployment I have not only been searching diligently for a new job, but I also went back to school. I earned an Associate’s Degree, but still cannot find a job. I earned this degree in just three semesters. I graduated with distinction, was awarded the SUNY Chancellors Award, and made The All USA Academic Team Two. I still cannot find a job. I am attempting to earn my Bachelor’s Degree now in order to find a job once again. While going to school I am searching for jobs daily.
If this extension does not go through I will lose my home because I cannot find employment. I am barely treading water on my unemployment check, but will drown without it. I have been working diligently to find work and to make myself more marketable in this tough economy. We need a tier V. I have worked hard my entire life and would be now if I could find a job. Stop spending our money abroad and on pet projects from special interest groups and spend it on Americans who need it to get us through until jobs are here again, because when we have jobs to go to, we will be paying the money into the system again.
This is an emergency. This total disregard as of late for the American unemployed by those in our federal government sickens me. I vote. I have worked my entire life. Now, I need help. Please help me.
From SL in OH:
I was 61 when I was laid off from my job in December 2006 after 10 years with my employer (actually a total of 24 years since I previously worked for them with a 3 year intermission).
I have been searching for employment ever since, even for jobs that pay considerably less than what I was earning when I was laid off. I feel that my age plays a big part in not being considered for employment since I have over 40 years experience. I am now 64 and have been unemployed for 3.5 years which makes it even more difficult for someone to hire due to my age and length of time being unemployed.
I feel that something should be done by adding a Tier V to the unemployment benefits and allow those of us that are seriously looking for employment the opportunity to provide some food and shelter until the economy improves.
Thank you for considering my response.
From CM in CO:
To whom it may concern:
This letter is to implore you to please continue with Unemployment Benefits for those who have exhausted their benefits. I am here to have a voice in our great nation, and therefore I am happy to tell you our story.
I was laid off from a position, after 5 years, when the company went in a different direction. The owner of the company was spending so much money on himself, that those of us with the higher salaries needed to be cut in order for him to get his income taxes in order. That was in August of 2008. Since then, I have looked for gainful employment but started getting nowhere fast. I soon realized that many jobs out there wanted now, a college degree, of which I do not have. I have been looking ever since and nothing has become available to me.
My husband was laid off in January of 2009. The company’s owner was diagnosed with terminal cancer and the company was shut down. He didn’t even get a last paycheck for the hours he did work. He began feverishly looking for work, and has had interviews however, when it came time to hire someone, he was told that the company was not doing as well as they thought and therefore were not going to be hiring anyone. On several occasions, he was given a directive to have certain information ready for his interview, which he did do, and then after he was not hired, the information was used to change the company website with my husband’s ideas! He is a degreed professional, with a lot to offer a company, but right now, companies seem to be taking advantage of these bright, talented individuals. He was contacted by a recruiter for a company and went through 5 interviews, and then was told the same information- the division he was interviewing with was not going to be hiring at this point. My husband put a great deal of time and effort into preparing for these interviews to wind up hearing those words.
It is truly sad that we have worked very hard over the years to acquire what we have, to wind up thinking what comes next. We are 3 months behind in our house payment at this point, and our unemployment is now exhausted. We have tried for 8-10 hours a day to look for work, and we are either, unqualified, too qualified, or as mentioned above-there are no real jobs. Companies are wasting people’s time and resources, getting them to come in, with no positions to be had. The people that are doing the interviewing should really be WORKING, in order to earn their paychecks and instead they are getting ideas to grow their own company for free. In the meantime, we are broke, about homeless and we need help. We are not lazy people, but rather people wanting to use our talents to grow a company and to know we are helping to do that. Our self esteems have taken huge hits, our families have exhausted their funds trying to help us. We have relied on our faith, which although strong, is very difficult to hold onto at times. We are 48 years old, with no medical insurance, our savings depleted and now looking at homelessness. We can’t sell our VA mortgaged home, because we bought it 3 years ago, and its worth less now that what we paid for it. We cannot move into an apartment because we have no jobs to use as a source of income. So what is left for us? I see an America where people are helping people here. Many of our jobs have been outsourced to foreign countries. We have funds to pay for wars, to bail out banks, to clean up oil spill messes, but we cannot help our neighbors?
I beg you, please extend our unemployment here in Colorado. We are desperate. We are trying to hold onto our dignity, and it is getting harder and harder. This country is in sad shape if it cannot help its own people. We have worked, and we have paid our taxes as law abiding citizens. My husband served in the US Army, and this is what happens in the end? Please help us.
From SF in MS:
To: Ways and Means Committee:
I am writing in regard to running out of unemployment and have nowhere to turn. I am 60 years old and have sent in hundreds of resumes. I have applied to many jobs online. I have only had one interview. I want to work, and even the fast food places will not hire me. I tried to volunteer to no avail. I have worked for many years in the banking industry. I know the financial industry has taken a hit worse than other sectors.
I am scared that this is it for me. Congress with their wealth and benefits should come down here in the trenches and see how bad it is. I worked so hard for so many years to end up in poverty? I want a job or training for a new career. I am not shy about asking for it, as this has gone too far! If you don’t help us now I see all of us unemployed living in the streets. Believe me I saw this in Mexico. I want you to realize we are real people here who have worked hard all our lives and did the right things. Please help us.
From RP in CT:
Dear Committee Members:
I have been collecting unemployment compensation since May 17, 2009. I do not require health insurance benefits as my spouse works and I am on her work policy. Depending on the actions of Congress, if I can collect the full 99 weeks of benefits then I am currently about halfway through my full allotment.
In February 2008, I was offered and accepted an early-out package after a job I had for 23 years. I received just over a six-figure lump sum pension. The company ended up closing its doors in December 2009. After 4 months I was fortunate to find full-time work out of state but lost my job in May 2009. Since then due to commuting expenses, taxes and withdrawal penalties, I have exhausted the pension funds. I also currently owe $22,000 in credit card debt. Thankfully my wife is still working but without unemployment benefits I currently receive we would need to declare bankruptcy. We are now living benefits & paycheck to benefits & paycheck.
To maintain my weekly benefit, since November 1, 2009 I have been required by the State of Massachusetts (where my last job was located) to keep a log of jobs I have applied for. To date my log shows that I have applied for 105 jobs. And of course more before that time period.
I have had 7 in-person interviews and 3 phone interviews since last November. Some of my colleagues that I stay in contact with say that’s very good. Of the 7 in-person interviews, I was able to find out that at least 30 to 75 other people applied for 3 of those 7 jobs. So with all things being equal, the odds of me getting those jobs was slim at best. And of course I did not get any of those jobs.
I spend 14 hours a day 7 days a week searching for jobs on the internet. I have 5 recruiters and numerous network contacts in companies helping me too. I found over the months that this is the best use of my time to get a job. I look for jobs from 9am to 2pm that have accumulated on line overnight. Then I send emails to network with friends and colleagues from 2pm to 6pm. From 7pm to midnight I search and apply for jobs again that have accumulated on line during the day.
I am in contact with others that have lost their benefits. They are in desperate need and fear for their lives and family members. I am scared that I may end up like them. While it appears to me that the current job market seems to be improving with more jobs out there, it remains extremely competitive to say the least.
Please consider extending benefits beyond 99 weeks. Thank you.
Mike here: As you can tell, people are looking for help desperately. Congress has abandoned millions of these hard working Americans in order to hit the campaign trail. While Congress is wining and dining at the corporate trough, many benefit exhaustees are wondering if they will have the money for their next meal or rent payment. That isn't hyperbole, that's the truth. I have heard from hundreds of unemployed and many have lost the ability to pay for life's basics and others are worried sick that it will happen to them soon.
Tier 5, a jobs program or some other option is required now before the ranks of the homeless grow to a point where even Congress with their blinders can no longer ignore the carnage. With Democrats being afraid to act and Republicans being unwilling to act for the good of the unemployed and the country at large, it will be a difficult struggle to get these two parties to act responsibly and quickly. If there were again 40 bankers bankers demanding another $700 billion bailout Congress would act lightning quick, but helping four million long-term unemployed is not high on their agenda at this time.
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All letters are still posted and can be downloaded in PDF format at:
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/Hearings/hearingDetails.aspx?NewsID=11201
Thanks for the link, Bud. Just a reminder that some letters that I have posted here and at http://layofflist.org are not available at the link Bud provided . Most of the letters I received were in conjunction with the letters sent to the HWAMC and were sent to me personally. I am also receiving updates and have the contact information of all letters that I post, which is something that's not available at the HWAMC site. I am offering more information than simply what is available at HWAMC site. The HWAMC site does offer a great deal of information and should be visited on a regular basis for updates about unemployment legislation and hearings.
Great job, Mike. One of these lettes was written by someone here in CO who also reads my articles. I've been in touch with her on Facebook and her story is very moving but, sadly (as you know) is not an uncommon one.
People, we are starting to be heard by many, many different organizations. The United Way in PA is preparing for an 'Influx of 99ers'....please keep up the good work and continue telling your stories - that is the most important and productive thing you can do to help yourself and the millions of others who have (and will soon) exhausted their UI benefits .
here's the link to the United Way story:
http://witf.org/news/regi...onal-and-state/4807-nonprofit-braces-for-inf...
Even tho I am in this same boat having exhausted my 99 weeks of unemployment benefits in May 2010 these letters brought tears to my eyes. How can OUR Congress ignore our plight while bailing out the banks, the auto industry, Pakistan, Medicare doctors, hedge fund managers, teachers, police officers and seemingly ANYBODY else who has the slightest need while ignoring the what now 4 million 99ers ??
Mike, I lived in a plastic bubble for most of my life! I never knew that corparations and foreign countries were the ones really running and regulating Washington! How sad! I went to work, came home and went back to work the next day for decades, sometimes working over 70 hours a week! The people like Mcmahon running for senate in NJ using 50 million of her own money to get a job that pays only 175,000 annually, she would have to have that job for 250 years just to get her money back! Some woman in CA is using 100 million of her own money! We need to get the government to disclose where there campaign funding is coming from along with our unemployment and ending Bush tax cuts! There are more and more 99ers, foreclosures, and people on the edge and yet most are still in their plastic bubbles going on with their day to day lives!
I have been out of work since 2008. I have gone on so many interviews I have lost count. All I hear is, to much experience or you will be bored or we can not afford you, even though I NEVER mention money.
Please you must pass tier 5 ASAP. Someone needs to listen and help us.
Thanks, Michael, for the new post. So Sad that our own government is doing this to So many people, including myself. I am waiting to hear from our bank tomorrow regarding their decision whether to foreclose on our home, of which we have faithfully made payments on for the past 15 years. However, after being in real estate (management no less) for many years and people afraid to continue to buy homes because of the unstable economy, my job has now ended due to the "excesses" in Big Government. Indeed, this is a Sad Time for all of us. May God give us the Strength and Courage to endure, until He, and He Alone, changes circumstances in this Once Great Country of Ours!!
Thanks Mike.
Since moving I don't get to keep up with unemployment issues as much but I'm still trying to help those in need. Don't give up people!
Get on places like Yahoo and just post in every story asking everyone to call their Senators to support S3706. Simple and fast!
C'mon people. Start posting some names of these representatives that we need to vote out of office come November. I still don't know who I SHOULD vote for and who I SHOULD NOT vote for. We have to pass it around so we get it right. Let's start spreading the word now. I haven't heard any of them speaking about extending or adding a Tier V. If we get their names flying around our sites maybe one of them will start speaking positive things in regards to a Tier V.
That's a very good point. 99ers will be a very important part of the coming election and a "Who supports 99ers" list needs to be assembled.
We have to vote the DemoRats out. They have screwed up the jobs market
DemoRats had the votes to do whatever they wanted.
They do not care about us
Hey republi-CANTS wheres Reagan when you need him and his 135 weeks of unemployment!! YOU MEMBER, MEMBER!!!!!
At least Reagan did something to clean up the Jimmy Carter mess
Remember Obama's words the stimulus will keep the unemployment rate below 8%. This guy is Jimmy Carter on Steroids who I voted for back in 1976
Thank you for making these voices heard.
Well Mike, here I am now. Officially one of the 99ers and not only that. I sustained an injury just a few months ago. I was loading most of my belongings to take them to swap meet so I can make the ends meet, but it did more harm than good. I am a 99er, something's wrong with my back pain and that puts me on another disadvantage of getting a job. I have no idea where to get any help, I have no money to see a doctor and I can't even afford some store brand aspirin or Tylenol. In case I end up dead and even if the blood are in the hands of the Senate and the House I know they will NEVER care. Because for them I am just a number and without the dollar sign in front of my number I am worthless to them. I wonder what will our Founding Fathers would say if they can have a say right now? It feels like we are on War on Terrorism, but we are blind sided that the actual terrorists are here inside our own backyard. The nay sayers and I know that our President does have a lot in his hands right now, but are those far worth it than 30 million unemployed, underemployed and 99ers combined? My father brought me up with the words for America that this is not the place where no man is taken fro granted nor deprived of his rights and humanity. But that all became a lie not because my father is a liar, but the damn Senate made his words to me a lie! My friend let me watched a movie called "Death Note" and I wish I have it in my hands right now. All you have to do is write the person's name in that note book and as long as you know their face they will die with a common heart attack. I will be a murderer, but if I kill the 30 nay sayers that's 30 million people who will have justice!
I have lower back pain also, aggravated by moving a whole house worth of stuff by myself 3 times in a year and a half! (My stupid pride got in the way of asking for help) I had a bad back to begin with and only made it worse! If you have the means, I know a way to reduce the discomfort I learned from physical therapy long ago! Take ice (I use frozen corn, it forms better) and lay on it, on the part of your back that hurts for 10 minutes (any longer can cause nerve damage, so make SURE you time it)! This will provide comfort for 2 to 3 hours, you can repeat the process but limit yourself to a maximum of 3 times a day if needed! One trick I used was that I folded a towel on top of the ice until I got more used to the cold and then unfolded it until I could bare the ice in direct contact with my skin! I hope it helps, GOD BLESS!
I have exhausted my benefits in April, it is extremely tough being without any income whatsoever. Many people are selling their belongings to stay afloat. Tier 5 needs to be addressed and passed RIGHT AWAY.
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This is from 2 years ago. i guess it came true.
Saw this post on another blog....another small business owner dismayed that Obama was elected....look what he's going to do......this is going to happen all throughout the country to the middle class:
....."It's going to hurt our company but we will survive.
We'll have to increase our prices to the consumer slightly.
But my main concern is for my 33 employees. I sadly will have to lay off 4-5 people.
We are like a family so it will be hard but I came up with a way to choose which employees to lay off.
I walked through the parking lot today and took note of which cars had Obama bumper stickers. I think this is a fair and fitting way......"
Cnbc had a story on boycotts for best buy and target for contributing campaign funds to a anti-gay republican candidate! There is a website, I will try to find it in joining the boycott so far there are 75,000 people! Even though I am not gay i'm against corparations donated money for campaigns and will boycott them as well! I live right next to a Target and plan to speak to the manager there and tell them the money would have been better served donated to food banks and shelters! Its time to jump on this cause they are dictating ellections, I'm going too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!God Bless All!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, I'll try again. They system said I encountered an error and lost my comment...
Glad to see your posts again, Mike! You make my day and I'm sure the same is true for others. I spent 4 hours one Sunday night reading the submissions to the House Committee. It was sad, but inspiring. We are not alone. We must be as active as we can. The small action I do is tell people wherever I am that 20% of the US population is unemployed or in poverty. The 80% who have jobs don't know this. We must give them our information. The mainstream media puts a happy spin on economic news to "boost confidence."
Hi to "stillhurtin"! I like your comments and glad to see you're still writing. I think you are in MI, where I was born.
In high-cost San Diego, where I've lived for the last 36 years, two congressmen who voted AGAINST unemployment extensions are Darryl Issa and Duncan Hunter Jr. PLEASE VOTE THEM OUT!!!!!!!
They voted no on the jobs bills because Obama had another bailout of 30 billion for the banks again
Yeah I'm a Michigander, I used to be proud of that fact, not to much anymore! Its nice to see more comments on this new excuse for a format! GOD BLESS "MJB" and ALL!!
Yeah I'm a Michigander, I used to be proud of that fact, not to much anymore! Its nice to see more comments on this new excuse for a format! GOD BLESS "MJB" and ALL!!
India's economy races 8.8%...
Russian economy grows 4.0%...
German unemployment rate 7.6%...
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US Auto Sales May Hit 28-Year Low as Discounts Flop...
another who cares zero for the unemployed
Kerry tops wealthiest lawmakers at $188.6 million...
Wealthy lawmakers increased their riches as economy sputtered in '09
Top 50, including Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I
Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), who saw her net wealth leap to $152.3 million, a jump of more than $40 million from a year ago.
The rest of the top 10 are Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), McCaul, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) is certainly one of the wealthiest lawmakers on Capitol Hill. As owner of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, Kohl has a $254 million asset on his hands, according to Forbes magazine
We need to garnish all their illgotten assets and hold all the government at guantonimo bay for crimes against humanity! Maybe a little water-boarding could help get the truth :-)
14.6 MILLION PEOPLE ARE OUT OF WORK IN THE U.S.
AND 14.6 MILLION PEOPLE CANNOT BE WRONG. WE ARE MILLIONS AND IT'S TIME FOR US TO SHOW THE PEOPLE IN OFFICE WHO HIRED THEM. IT'S TIME FOR THE UNEMPLOYED TO STAND UP FOR THEIR RIGHTS. THE PEOPLE IN OFFICE HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT THEY MAY GET PAY CUTS THEMSELVES IF THEY DON'T DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS ECONOMY. WHY SHOULD THEY GET PAY INCREASES? WHY SHOULD THEY EVEN GET PAID? THEY ARE NOT EVEN DOING A GOOD JOB. THE REPUBLICANS ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOB. IF THE REPUBLICANS DID THEIR JOB THEY WOULD KNOW THAT THERE ARE NO JOBS FOR SKILLED WORKERS. A SIMPLE QUESTION. DO THE UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS IN THIS COUNTRY WANT TO LOSE THEIR HOMES? SILLY QUESTION...THE ANSWER IS COMMON SENSE...OF COURSE NOT...WE WANT TO WORK...WE WANT THE THINGS WE USE TO HAVE AND WE ARE LOSING IT ALL JUST BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS AND OTHER PEOPLE IN OFFICE DON'T CARE. THEY DON'T CARE BECAUSE THEIR ON VACATION AND LIVING IT UP IN THEIR MANSIONS, ON EXOTIC VACATIONS...DRIVING IN THEIR NICE CARS. IT DOESN'T EFFECT THEIR LIFE THAT WE are suffering. we need to make a change.....we are millions....remember we are millions...we can make a difference.
I see a leader being "born" for these 14.6 million betrayed people. A real leader, to make a real change...I can see such a leader coming. It's in the make. A true leader, for the people. God bless America.
that seems to be a huge problem I know I am having a hard time keeping electric on and staying in touch dont think i can hang on much longer and i dont know what to do i cant find any work in NJ God Bless You and everyone.
I wanted to point out as well someone told me a story of one of our military guys served 3 rd tour in Iraq wife lost her job and benefits and by the time he came home the banks already took their home.
Not telling anyone to break the law, but with all these empty houses, wouldnt it be a shame if people stole the plug in meter globes and used them off and on, on their own homes! Oh, them lock-out tags they put on their meters can be baught pretty cheap also.
JUST RUNNING SCARED
Dems seek separation from Pelosi
Some of the Democratic Party’s most endangered lawmakers are taking steps to distance themselves from Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an attempt to inoculate themselves from charges that they are beholden to the unpopular House leader and supportive of the ambitious national Democratic agenda.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41608.html#ixzz0yD2qWCa4
Time to send some e-mails out! A thanks to Ed, a few comments to our leaders, I agree with those that say they should be fired, cause what they do IS NOT WORK! For every one you could pay 3 to 8 people a nice annual salary on what they make! I still never found out how much that cloaksman for the house was making when he retired several months ago, bet it paid good and had good benefits! I wonder if their still excepting applications for that job or if they outsourced it to India?
Talking about out-sourcing, those criminals politicians who allowed and are still allowing today (!) our jobs to be outsourced so that they can get a bit wealthier at our cost (blood money!) should be all out-sourced to Cuba if not somewhere else where they would be made fun of and be made slaves and forced to brush floors and urinols or do jobs of the sort.
Support for Israel comes to $1.8 trillion, including special trade advantages, preferential contracts, or aid buried in other accounts. In addition to the financial outlay, U.S. aid to Israel costs some 275,000 American jobs each year." The trade-aid imbalance alone with Israel of between $6-10 billion costs about 125,000 American jobs every year.MOTHER FUCKERS ,THEY GIVE OUR MONEY TO ISRAEL WHILE WE ARE HOMELESS AND HUNGRY !!! I am not proud of being an American anymore !
Where did you get these stats, Im not doubting it, I would just like to read the entire piece!
how did you get the swear word, i wanta try FUCKIN ASSHOLE LAZY FAGGOT REPUBLICANS
We would get more help from our government if we werent its citizens! Capitalism and greed go hand in hand, how much is to much or enough for these richest lawmakers! Greed is not Godly and our founding fathers would be ashamed as am I in what has become of our/their country! We must pray for them for they are the truly lost sheep, I am right where I need to be, though I walk in the valley of death I know I am safe! Thank you my lord God for humbling me and bringing me closer! Amen!
LONDON—The euro-zone unemployment rate remained at 10% for a fifth straight month in July, indicating that despite strong economic growth in the second quarter, the recovery has yet to result in the creation of a significant number of new jobs.
The European Union official statistics agency Eurostat said Tuesday t hat 15.833 million people were without jobs across the 16 nations that use the euro. That is more than the combined populations of Greece and Ireland, two of the euro zone's most troubled members
In Ireland, the youth unemployment rate rose to 28.9% from 27.6% in June, the highest level since records began in 1984. In Spain, the youth unemployment rate rose to 41.5% from 41.2% in June, the highest rate since December 1994. By contrast, the youth unemployment rate was 18.6% in the U.S., and 9.2% in Germany
SHAME on ALL the people with the ability to help the long-term unemployed who cannot get the jobs they need to support their families and yet are not, shame on our government that does not care about the American people in severe crisis. SHAME, SHAME on all of them! Ignoring the American people who lost their jobs with no fault of their own and have not been able to find another job, is cruel and UN-American! No, it's not the unemployed people needing help that is un-American like Glenn Beck says, but yes, those in power who are doing nothing to rescue the Americans and their families in this serious disaster are the ones who are in fact UN-American and ANTI-Americans! SHAME on you politicians and all those with the power of decision to save or allow to die, as they chose to allowi those in need to die, shame on all of you! How can you sit around your dining table and have your daily meal when so many are going hungry? How can you look in the eyes of your children and spouses and kiss them good-night as it's time to sleep when so many families are not even having where to safely sleep? SHAME all of you! Every dog has its day, and you will certainly have yours. May God Bless America and the good American people, and punish all the heartless crooks!
10 Bailed-Out Banks Spent $16.3M Lobbying in First Half of 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — The 10 banks that received the most bailout aid during the financial crisis spent over $16 million on lobbying efforts in the first half of 2010, as the debate over financial regulatory reform reached its height.
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DEMOCRATS CONGRESS AGAIN
7 Jobs Companies Are Desperate to Fill
by Claire Bradley
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 This article lists machinist as #3 on the list, that would be me, this article fails to list the company names looking to hire! I would like to know so I could send them a resume if they are in my area! If someone writes that the government is going to hire 600 presidents it doesn't make it true, SO CLAIRE BRADLEY CAN GO TAKE HER REPUBLICAN RUN PROPAGANDA MACHINE AND GO SCREW HERSELF!!!!
WHERE IS OBAMA’S COLLEGE GRADES ?
WHERE IS OBAMA’S LAW LICENCE ?
WHERE IS OBAMA’S BIRTH CERT. ?
WHERE WAS OBAMA DURING DESERT STORM ?
WHERE IS OBAMA’S PAST GIRLFRIENDS ?
WHO’S YOUR DADDY OBAMA ?
FIRST TIME IN FIFTY YEARS NO RAISE FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, DISABLED VETS, AND RETIRED MILITARY.
everyone got paycuts except wallstreet and washington!!!!
Again, I would like to request a list be made in regards to WHO to vote for and WHO NOT to vote for. In the recent Primary, I voted for the only Governor who had the ability to create jobs in his history, and was a self-made millionaire because of this (Rick Scott). I live in Florida. No one else was commenting on creating jobs for the people, but he was using this as one of his attributes in his TV adds for Governor. The only other gentleman who had the ability to create jobs and was using this attribute in his TV adds was Jeff Greene and he also was a self-made billionaire who was running for the Senate seat, but he was running for a different party from mine and I couldn't vote for him. I wanted him to win, however, so I didn't cast a vote for the Senate seat. He didn't win and the guy I didn't want to win got it. (Meeks). Absolutely NO ONE has said a thing about the unemployed people or adding Tier V for the long-termed unemployed. A list needs to be composed for each state so that the people have time to change their party if they have to before the elections in November. We need names to begin to show up on these sites for each state and get things down in black and white so that we can make our votes REALLY count and get the unnecessary people out of our public office and let them join the unemployed themselves; let them try and find a new job themselves after we smear their names real good on the sites where we post.
Gas prices should have been down at least 30 cents a gallon over a month ago, They (the middle east and investors) continue to suck the resources out of the US and now petroleum companies are running ads not to increase taxes on them! HELLO, WHO IS STILL CONTINUING TO MAKE BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS IN PROFITS (BUSH) I MEAN OIL COMPANIES! I SAY TAX THEM AND DONT LET THEM PASS IT ON TO THE CONSUMERS LIKE USUAL! TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE US SUMMER NEEDS TO END, PERIOD!!!!!! Not raising prices before memorial day and lowering them after labor day, THIS SCAM HAS BEEN GOING ON TO LONG! OBAMA NEEDS TO COPY CLINTONS OIL PLAN AND GET OUT OF THE BUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So far the millions of unemployed people have been taking it on the chin. In other words we have been waiting and tolerating these so called people in office who don’t give a dam about us. The people in office these days pretty much care about themselves and the money they make, their vacations, their big cars and their mansions. We vote them in and they tune us out. The thing these people in office are forgetting this is America. We work and lots of money is taken out of our paychecks each week so America survives. My fellow unemployed, if you remember paychecks your net income is nowhere near your gross income. That’s right for years and years they have been cutting our paychecks in half. One of the reductions of course is unemployment insurance. That’s right we all have unemployment insurance, though the unemployment insurance we get runs out when we are still unemployed. Now 14.5 million people are unemployed..are we all lazy? No! Do we all want to work? Yes! Do we want the American dream? Yes! Can 14.5 million people be wrong? No! We are without a doubt being used by the republicans to make President Obama look bad. The republicans want President Obama to look bad so they don’t give us Tier 5. We all have to know that this is very cruel politics. People are losing their homes, their marriages, their cars, and their children are not having the lives they should be having just because the republicans want Obama to look bad so we elect a republican...well don’t let them fool you.
You write to your republicans and tell them we will not vote for a republican unless you help us now and forever with Tiers that will last until this economy gets back on it’s feet. We should come first. It only took one vote and they bailed out Wall Street with billions of our dollars. Wall street are happy now with their yachts, their big bonuses, their mansions and fancy cars...while we suffer! WE ARE THE PEOPLE, WE ARE MILLIONS...IT’S TIME WE STAND UP FOR WHAT'S RIGHT AND TELL THESE PEOPLE WHAT WE BELIEVE IN. IT’S TIME TO MAKE A REAL CHANGE!
THAT'S RIGHT! WE ARE MILLIONS!
You are a democrat here using this forum for your crap, get loss moron
The Dems own the House of Reps and have 60 votes in the Senate. STOP trying to blame someone else like Obama is always doing
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