The Senate fiddles while the unemployed get burned
For the unemployed, this past week had to be one of the most frustrating and discouraging imaginable. How could Congress, and especially the Senate, not address the issue of extending benefits to those that have yet to exhaust them? Easily, since they spent the week discussing matters of great importance such as the pitching start of Steven Strasberg, and the following matters of importance:
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National Aphasia Awareness Month: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 512, designating June 2010 as ``National Aphasia Awareness Month'' and supporting efforts to increase awareness of aphasia, and the resolution was then agreed to.
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National Health Information Technology Week: Senate agreed to S. Res. 550, designating the week beginning on June 14, 2010, and ending on June 18, 2010, as ``National Health Information Technology Week'' to recognize the value of health information technology to improving health quality.
Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act: Senate passed H.R. 3360, to amend title 46, United States Code, to establish requirements to ensure the security and safety of passengers and crew on cruise vessels.
American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at approximately 3 p.m., on Monday, June 14, 2010, Senate resume consideration of the amendment of the House of Representatives to the amendment of the Senate to H.R. 4213, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions.
As you can see from the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act--Agreement, the Senate did spend a few moments discussing legislation that concerns extending benefits to the millions of unemployed.
H.R. 4213 is now called the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act http://waysandmeans.house.gov/press/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=11185
According to Senator Schumer, the vote is not yet a certainty:
Tax-extender legislation now moving through Congress would provide New York with $1 billion in additional Medicaid money through March 31, the end of the state's fiscal year, and $1 billion more in fiscal 2012. Gov. David Paterson already has included the first $1 billion in his 2011 budget.
But Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., acknowledged that Democrats remain two votes short of the 60 needed for passage. "We are real close," Schumer said. "We are going to vote no matter what."
Democratic leaders are targeting Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Nebraska; Olympia Snowe, R-Maine: and Scott Brown, R-Mass., to provide the two votes needed for passage.
Should the measure fail, the Senate Democratic leadership is committed to another vote before Congress takes its Independence Day recess, Schumer said.
If the bill passes the Senate, it would move to the House. The House passed its version of the tax extenders bill May 28 without a provision for continuing the enhanced Medicaid formula for state aid past the current Dec. 31 expiration date.
Instead of negotiating the differences between the two bills, congressional Democratic leaders would prefer that the House pass the Senate version.
Congress is aware of how many millions will be without benefits by year end if extended benefits are ended.
Just remember, the Democrats were the ones who pushed through the $700 billion dollar Wall Street bailout for President Bush and his crony Goldman Sachs henchmen in a few days. Democrats Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank were behind giving away billions to the millionaires and now the unemployed need a bailout and many Democrats and nearly all Republicans can’t come to agreement quickly.
When Wall Street threatens the economy the Democrats and Republicans bend, but when millions of hard working people need the help nearly all Republicans and many Democrats stand firm on controlling the deficit. The title of this ongoing play could be, “Wall Street wins, and the people lose Part 2”, or “Money for the banks, not for the people”, or “Congress listens to tens of bankers and ignores millions of unemployed”. Take your pick, and I’m sure you could offer-up some additional colorful titles. (That rant was made possible after watching Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story.) My intention is to show that both parties need to be reminded of who they SHOULD be representing.
Hearing on Responding to Long-Term Unemployment
While the Senate was ignoring millions of unemployed, there was a House hearing that addressed long-term unemployment matters. I posted the links to that hearing in my previous post Long-term unemployment hearing, Tax Extenders, H.R. 4213 and the unbelievable Senate delay
I have called Rep. McDermott’s office a couple of times trying to get some additional details about what to expect next from the Committee and I have yet to receive a reply. You may want to contact Rep. McDermott’s office on occasion to find out what to expect from the Committee going forward. Here is the contact information:
Rep. McDermott’s phone numbers: (202) 225-3106 or by fax at (202) 225-6197
You can call the Committee at (202) 225-1721.
You can also email the House Ways and Means Committee by going to: http://waysandmeans.house.gov/singlepages.aspx?NewsID=10470
Your letters will be a vital addition to this hearing’s proposed solutions and recommendations. You have until the close of business on June 24 to submit your letters.
Here is one of those letters:
From D.M. in MA:
Title of Hearing: Hearing on Responding to Long-Term Unemployment
I’m writing to ask for your support in extending long-term unemployment benefits to December 31, 2010.
I lost my job on 6/3/2009. I was devastated. I had such hard time that day telling my family (husband and three teenagers). It was also sleeping that night thinking it just wasn’t so.
I had worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA, the state’s largest insurance carrier. While the top executives continued to make what could be considered extreme salaries including ridiculous bonuses, the company simply needed to scale back on workers like me, earning less than $50,000 a year in a service oriented position.
I have a 4 year degree and lots of experience in insurance. However, there are NO jobs. The last time I was unemployed, in the summer of 2006, I had five interviews and five jobs offers within a month or two. I chose to go to BCBSMA.
This time, the economy is nowhere near as strong as it was. It is going to take time for it to recover. Meanwhile, my family can only get by with my unemployment benefits. If not for my benefits we would suffer. Please do the right thing. Do not blame the unemployed for the state of the economy. We are the effect, not the cause.
Thank you.
I am also posting letters that you have sent to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support at my other site http://layofflist.org. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am far behind that task but I’ll have more of your very respectful letters posted soon. If you would like for me to share your letters, please send a copy to mike@layofflist.org. I have received more than 200 letters to date and I thank you for your efforts to share your story.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her reaction to the long-term unemployed
A couple weeks ago I posted a link to a Nancy Pelosi news conference where she answered a reporter's question about unemployment. Her reaction was one you would not expect from the House Speaker, since she seemed to denigrate those on long-term unemployment. The link I posted from C-SPAN no longer is working, so reader Al C. found a youtube link to the news conference section where Speaker Pelosi talks about extending benefits. This video is worth watching often so you can see how the unemployed are viewed by some in Congress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPkrKJ1R0v4&feature=related
The following image was Speaker Pelosi's response to a reporter who said she received a few questions from the long-term unemployed about the possibility of additional benefits. Speaker Pelosi laughed and held up three fingers signifying how many long-term unemployed the reported heard from. This will not be a high point in the speaker's career profile.
You can contact Speaker Pelosi with your views of her response at:
http://www.speaker.gov/contact/
(202) 225-0100
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Ed Schultz and the main stream media
There have been a number of print stories about the unemployed and the problems they are increasingly facing, but there has been very little reporting from the main stream media, except for that from Ed Schultz. Many of you have been in contact with Ed Schultz either through his radio program or his TV program on MSNBC. I know that readers, Al. C and Rob have had continuous contact with Ed Schultz’s programs and remain committed to getting Ed the story. Rob sends the Ed Schultz program updates on a daily basis telling the producers what’s happening in the world of the long-term unemployed. Though slow to materialize, your efforts may be starting to pay off.
From Friday’s show http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/37649665#37649665, Ed comments about BP are similar to what is the plight of the unemployed. Ed demands that BP send the feds a check for $10 billion in order to get money to those who have and will lose their jobs in the Gulf due to BP’s lax response to the oil contamination. Well if BP is responsible for losing all those Gulf jobs, then why aren’t American corporations responsible for losing millions of American jobs? Why don’t we demand that Wall Street banks that received $700 billion in bailouts fund a jobs program or extended unemployment benefits? Why don’t we demand that corporations that have outsourced millions of jobs overseas to fund paid internships or training? Why do we demand so much from BP yet so little from corporations? While BP has environmentally destroyed large swaths of the Gulf, Wall Street financially destroyed large swaths of the mainland. Maybe it’s easier to see the destruction BP has caused, since the destruction Wall Street has caused is less visible to media helicopters.
The four states on the Gulf most affected by the BP catastrophe – LA, MS, AL, and FL – have a combined population of about 30 million and BP is going to be forced to make financially whole all who lost wages because of the oil spill. How many of those 30 million will get money from BP? I have no clue, but on the high side I would say 500,000. BP will begrudgingly have to pay those 500,000 people for lost wages, etc.
Yet throughout America there are 30 million or so unemployed/underemployed who don’t receive the same attention. How many people lost jobs due to Wall Street’s years of financial games? At last count the recession caused by Wall Street caused about 8 million jobs. Yet where is the demand for Wall Street to make people financially whole? You got it. Nowhere is there a call for Wall Street to do anything of the sort, even though their actions caused millions to lose their jobs. Where’s the demand that corporations that outsource jobs make people financially whole? Again, it’s nowhere to be found.
We need Ed Schultz to see that the unemployment problem throughout this country deserves some of the attention given to the BP catastrophe. Ed has been the only TV media person to take unemployment to the airwaves on a regular basis and we need his passion on the unemployment front to continue. I urge you all to write Ed Schultz and thank him for his unemployment coverage and to ask him to continue that work on a regular basis.
Petition Congress to Add Tier 5 UI Benefits
Reader Kelly pointed out that there’s a new unemployment petition circulating that may be worth your time to sign. I know many of you have signed all the petitions you care to, but each petition may gain the attention of the right person who can make a difference. The petition is sponsored by NoJobSurvivor http://www.nojobsurvivor.com/ and it’s located at: Petition Congress to Add Tier 5 UI Benefits http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/petition-president-obama-and-congress-to-address-the-expiration-of-unemployment-benefits.
Paladintte's Phase III campaign
Paladintte is conducting a Phase III campaign http://joblessunite.yolasite.com/phase-iii.php to get the attention of President Obama. Please join her in her efforts. Here’s a partial description:
The new approach will mirror the successful strategy of our M-A-Y-D-A-Y SOS campaign, only instead of contacting the congressional leaders, we will focus our attention solely to President Obama. We want Mr. Obama to speak with us long term unemployed without benefits in a 90 minute Web based Town Hall Meeting PLEASE!
Here’s the daily list:
Congress.org has a great media contact list:http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/
Another media contact list is located at:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x1903
Keeping the Tier 5 and extended unemployment issues alive is going to be up to you, so be sure to contact your congressional representatives as often as you can. You need to continue to pressure Congress to act responsibly and to extend benefits for those unable to find work. Send your representative a fax using FaxZero.com. As has been mentioned in the comments section, you can send up to two free faxes a day.
Here's a great site where you can find both state and federal contact information: http://conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm
Please send your comments and questions to mike@layofflist.org.
I’ll post updates as they are made available. You can also view my updates and new posts at Twitter: http://twitter.com/layofflist
You can also follow numerous unemployment issues on Facebook. My profile is located at Rochester Unemployment-Examiner (dash between Unemployment and Examiner). There are some great groups that support the long term unemployed, so check it out.
Comments
TIER 5 to SURVIVE!!
Let's get all the bad and incompetent polititians fired! I think that sometimes they forget that it's our tax money (including that from unemployment checks) that pays their salary. So, they should at least be more considerative to the humble tax payer and do their job properly!
After reading a little reported letter that the President sent to Congress, I have changed my mind a bit on if the President actually understand the needs of the long-term employed.
His quote in the letter that is most striking to me, “While this is good news for those who have found work and for businesses large and small that are once again beginning to expand and add more workers, it is cold comfort for the millions of others who want to get back to work."
He gets it but he does not pass the laws...Congress does. IMHO, their recesses have been more important than returning people back to work.
The entire article is here
www.examiner.com/x-48896-Detroit-Job-Search-Examiner~y2010m6d13-President-Obama-urge-Congress-to-avoid-Double-Dip-US-recession
Let's hope that Obama's letter will pump some blood in the hearts of some in Congress, because it seems many in the chamber are "ice cold" to the efforts of job seekers and the unemployed.
About three weeks ago, I called The Washington Post and talked to reporter Lori Montgomery about the plight of the 99ers. She seemed to be interested and asked several questions. Towards the end of our conversation, she said she was putting in a request to her editor to write a story about the 99ers. When the story hadn't appeared a few days later, I called her again and she said the story would probably run the next week. Here it is three weeks later and no story. I just called her and she said she had no plans to write the story anytime soon and that her editor wasn't particularly interested in it. I mentioned how much a front page story in a major newspaper would help our cause and she answered: "How much will that story help you if it also mentions how much it would cost?" I mentioned the articles by Paul Krugman and Robert Reich saying how much worse the recession will get if the longterm unemployed aren't helped and she said something to the effect that they have their own agenda
Some interesting comments that occurred on CNN State of the Union (June 13th..) It seems long term unemployed concerns are started to be discussed on Sunday morning.
But the most interesting point from the transcript stated by "experts":
>HOLTZ-EAKIN: I think one of the real concerns in this >recession is that a lot of those long-term unemployed are >young people. The age group 21 to 35 has been hurt >disproportionately hard in this recession. They've been out >of work for a long time. They took the bulk of the pay hits. >And they report, many of them, that their job's gone >forever. What we do for that group will dictate our >abilities going forward to a great extent. We're not doing >enough, in my view.
Sounds fishy compared to the graphs and data seen on this most excellent blog..
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Tell the Washington Post what you think of their opposition to HR 4213
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They say you can'tfight city hall but you can. I say let's sue the government and the businesses that put us here. There are 6 million of us. We sure have lost alot and our families have suffered enough. All we need would be an attorney to do a class action for all of us. Could take years but would be nice to recovery some of what we lost. After all they are asking BP to make the people on the gulf coast whole again what about us we are not whole.
CP, you got a point there! I'm with you!
Jack I'm not as bad off as some as my husband does have a job. I thank god for that everyday. I do however only have 200.00 a month left for food and medicine. I don't have health insurance, my husband does but my blood pressure pills cost about 80 a month. I'm almost out and cannot go to the doc to get more. That's a 100.00 per visit. My benefits stops in March without notice. That messed me up. I feel for everyone losing everything we all worked so hard for. I pray everyday god will help us all. No fun getting old and employers no longer won't you.
My husband also had to take his SS income early for us to be able to live. Now we all know he took a reduce benefit. Not thrill to know if anything were to happen to him that's all I would have to take care of him and myself.
tier 5 when pigs fly.
It's just a matter of time before someone goes out and does something crazy.
The unenployed should their bills to Washington. They are not creating jobs or extending benefits,but are certainly getting paid and going on vacations with our money! When we can no longer work and pay taxes, where will their income come from? They have not thought this thru very well. These people are a JOKE....Vote or Impeach them out of office. We hired them...We can fire them, without benefits,...No more FREE rides for Congress.
tier 5 when pigs fly.
Well I would have to say that the 99ers have been burned, ashed and blown away, you know like soot swept under the carpet.
Mr. Schultz, thank you for this wonderful blog and highlighting this government waste. It might just be me, but if I showed up for work and instead of working talked about baseball for nearly 10 minutes while important matters await, I would probably not be employed long. I hope that will be the case with our congressional idiots.
While I am fortunate to have a job, I feel for the millions who do not. HR 4213 also contains incentives for the biodiesel industry, which will directly support tens of thousands of new jobs in a still emerging green industry, if this bill does not pass (or takes an excessive time to pass) then I as well as tens of thousands of others in this industry will be joining the ranks of the unemployed.
While I am a conservative-this should be one issue where conservatives and liberals agree. We need to put Americans to work, first and foremost. We need to create American jobs. Ask the survivors of the Great Depression how well "jobless recovery" works.
I THINK IT'S ABOUT TIME TO STOP COMPLAINING AND HELP OURSELVES,BY SENDING CONGRESS A CLEAR CUT MESSAGE THAT THEY WORK FOR THE PEOPLE .THE PEOPLE HAS SPOKEN ,EXTENDED BENIFITS OR YOU'RE FIRED AND WE WILL HIRE SOMEONE IN THEIR PLACES.EVERYONE UNEMPLOYED IS CONNECTED TO SOMEONE,THE REAL POWER IS IN THE VOTE NOT THE CONGRESS.IT IS UNAMERICAN TO BAIL OUT WALLSREET,AUTO INDUSTRIES,AIG ETC.,THEN EXPECT TAXPAYERS TO FOOT THE BILL,BUT WHEN IT COMES TO HARD WORKING AMERICANS THEY PLACE LIMITS ON US NO MORE ,NO MORE.
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Doug Krentzlin - Can you email me the whole story or your account of what happened with the reporter in detail with dates. I would like to forward this to the Ed Schultz producers I am working with. We need to expose the passive cover. Email me at inkedhoudini2006@yahoo.com Thanks,Rob
Amazing how the congress (Dem, Rep} work against "We the people". There are million of Americans that don't have a job because of corrupt and immoral congress that allowed many companies to move over sees and let us without a chance to get a job,and now that we need unemployment extension "tier 5" they are concern for economical deficit. This mess was created for Clinton and Bush families, the congress, and the Supreme Curt. Now we need answers,not excuses.
Von'Victor Valentino Rosenchild
I am certain when I state the following that I am not alone. I have have been unemployed since mid-2008 due to all of the White Collar Crime on Wall Street and Main Street. I have applied for what must be in the thousands of jobs since that time, but I have not gotten one as of yet. I do not blame President Obama nor the Obama Administration for this. But, I have to state this: I have been working since I was 13 years old and always maintained a job, a
FED GAVE Banks Access to 23.7 TRILLION DOLLARS NOT $700 Billion! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDJc0PZV-Bk&feature=related
Thanks to Ed Shultz for keeping us in the news!
Please, everyone, attend the Chicago rally:
Monday June 21st 10:00 A.M. 2444 W. Lawrence Ave (Western & Lawrence) We will be demanding that Congressman Dan Lipinski (D-IL 3) sign on to the Local Jobs for America Act, (H.R. 4812) and the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010, (H.R. 4213).
AND fax the President and demand a Town Hall Meeting re Long Term Unemployment! (faxzero dot c om)
Bernie Madoff has a roof over his head, a bed, 3 hot meals, free health and dental care, free cable, choice of college courses, and more. The 99ers have been forgotten. Something is wrong here !!!
i never wanted to go global/ 2 of my last 3 jobs were from German owned companies/ every company in the world has a plant here now so now we need the WHOLE WORLD TO DO BETTER!!!!!!!! They (US) just discovered a trillion dollars worth of mineral resources in afghanistan, how about them paying us back!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hopefully the extension will be passed by tomorrow....of course they want to take away the extra $25 per week. What more can they take from us!!!
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I hope everyone remembers this when it comes time to vote!! Vote them all out!! Obama should not serve a second term. Out with the lot of them!!
Everyone should send their overdue bills, eviction slips, repossession notices, and bank account statements, to the White House. If it's good enough for Wall Street then it's good enough for My Street too! ! ! This is ridiculousness. The deficit should not matter when American livelihood is at stake. There will be no working class to buy and consume, which is what drives financial recovery. When they bailed out Wall Street, Democrats bitched and moaned but at the end of the day they did what they thought was right to salvage our economy and it still went down the tubes. They bailed out Wall Street only to have their execs turn around and still receive bonuses on the tax payers dime. The automotive execs flew to Washington in private lear jets to beg, "Please sir can I have some more?" Yet, the pleas of millions of once hard-working Americans now fall on deaf ears who say the economy is getting better. They know job growth is only crawling and ignore that fact and the need for a tier V
We don't need tax cuts - we need income. No income, you don't owe any taxes! And, who knows where we will be at election time in November. All of the 99ers will be homeless and probably won't have any way to get to the polls. That will all be too late for us. We are in the final swirl of the flush down the toilet.
I am one of the 99ers long term unemployed it is a shame that our President will not over turn the decision congress has made to allow many to survive and I voted for you. I have not received a UI check in 4 weeks so you know what that means no income for me. I did not live lavish off of UI but it did allow me to eat and buy basic things I needed as a women and in the house. I have still been receiving rejection after rejection from employers. If there are available
jobs ask someone you know to give me a chance I have income im decaying oover here. I have looked for work for 2 yearts now and I still receive rejections to this date. Those who go by numbers can not clearly understand until they have travel the unemployed road for as long as many of us have. I never thought this could happen to me.
I AM ONE OF THE 99ERS, 67 YEARS OLD CANNOT FIND A JOB CANNOT LIVE ON 1000.00 A MONTH SOCIAL SECURITY - WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND. THEIR DAY WILL COME, I HOPE SOON!!! WISH THEY COULD LIVE IN OUR SHOES FOR A WHILE!!!
I lost my job May 2008, within 6 months had to file foreclosure, so now my CREDIT REPORT is bad. I was "DENIED" a job in May 2010 due to a bad credit score.
Our legislators need to get on the ball, HELP us!!!!!
Using the stimulus to keep giving raises to our teachers, and letting the unemployed get ZERO IS A CRIME
Currently there are over 1,300,000 (That's over ONE MILLION) people just in the state of Florida unemployed, When is our Congress going to get the problem in their heads, WE NEED JOBS NOW, someone please tell me, do you think there will be over ONE MILLION jobs available in FLORIDA anytime soon???
We need jobs now! Fraud, forgery, burglaries, thefts, stolen cars and crime is now at it’s highest! This is the beginning of the end if someone doesn’t do something about it now! Why are we regressing after so many years of evolvement? I’ve never, ever seen things this bad! I’ve worked consistently from the 60's to 2008 and that should tell you something right there. I and so many others are the hard working people WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THIS COUNTRY and now America wants to turn their backs on us. The Democrats AND THE Republicans should get together in America’s time of need and start doing something about this economy. All you politicians might be comfortable in your mansions, but millions of American people who voted FOR you are starving! Unfortunately the people who run this country make sure they take care of themselves and their family FROM OUR HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS, but these people keep on forgetting who voted them in there. The people who run this country should
The Democrats AND THE Republicans should get together in America’s time of need and start doing something about this economy. All you politicians might be comfortable in your mansions, but millions of American people who voted FOR you are starving! Unfortunately the people who run this country make sure they take care of themselves and their family FROM OUR HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS, but these people keep on forgetting who voted them in there. The people who run this country should get a very big cut in pay. In fact they should volunteer their time and not get paid at all. The time is now for us to be heard! Give us jobs or give us TIER 5 AND OR A CONTINUOS UNEMPLOYMENT UNTIL THE POLITICIANS FIX THIS ECONOMY WHICH THEY DESTROYED!!!! WE NEED JOBS NOW!!!
Stop playing Russian Roulette to my family, Please sign that dumb bill for all the American people unemployed. HEY POLITICIANS HAVE YOU BEEN UNEMPLOYED??? I work hard for 40 years all my life & with this high health insurance premium just for my self how can you survive? I'm paying $400.00 a month for my self & I don't get sick for 2 years now!!! Shame on you health care provider My health card insurance just keep on rising. SO, POLITICIANS extend & sign that dumb bill get it over with. Oh by the way my job went to another country, In INDIA...
LETS FIND OUT WHICH SENATORS VOTED NO AND VOTE THEM OUT IN NOVEMBER!!! MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT.
I'm a 99'er that has not recieved any type of income since my UI ran out beginning if April, it is now June, 23. I'm going to lose my internet and phone which will making looking for a job nearly impossible. I'm behind with rent and electric too so those will be lost soon too. We desparatly need Tier V to be be passed by those well-fed and housed elected officials on Capitalhill. Our elected officials need to learn what it means to be hungry and in fear of losing your home and everything that you have worked for. Lets put them out on the streets homeless and see how long they survive.
I also agree,sign that bill. NO JOBS ARE OUT THERE...IF THERE IS ONE THEN THIRTY PEOPLE SIGN UP TO TO INTERVIEW WITH ONE SPOT OPEN...
Dear Congress, HELP! The new 50 (years of age) is now 40, how do us sixty year old folks surrive? The monies we receive from unemploymnet goes back into the economy. Passing the bill helps everyone. Let me ask this questions Congress is it we the people, or we the party?
I just will receive my last check tomorrow. That is for my rent. Bought some groceries two days ago. That's it for me.
I'm shattered by this. For the people who haven't collected 99 and are on the lower Tiers should realize we went through the same ordeal and nothing was resolved. Very painful. This is making me very sick and very tired.
I say everyone who lives close enough to the DC area should march to show the Republiwonts and the lone idiot democrat [from Nebraska] that we mean business. I say we do it on the 12th of July unless the senate will still be on their vacations at the summer homes we the taxpayers paid for. Enough is enough We the people need to take back our country and elect citizens who will look out for the good of all not just certain sectors. We the people cannot let this recession get any worse which is exactly what the Republicans want so the can blame the dems. Too bad we couldnt get Clinton back in office to try and fix what the Bushes started, yeah Bushes as we all know Daddy was still in charge ultimatly. Let this be the beggining of a new America that will be run as our founding fathers wanted. Anyone who is interested in marching let me know at jdlenz2003@yahoo.com so I could get the permits to march. Sincerly Jeff Lenz
What jobs,r u guys nuts. Ive been looking 4 over a yr.and there is nothing out there except in big cities.I live in a small town, i m used 2 making $16.00 an hr. i cant afford 2 work 4 walmart making $7.00 an hr.My bills were made around my wages unfortunately and now what little I get $366.00 a wk. u want 2 take that away,wake up u fools, we help the immigrants that invade our country how about helping the people who actually pay our taxes in this messed up world we live in.Y don t u republicans try living on $366.00 a week,c how far u would get.PLEASE DON T DO THIS,its not our fault we lost our jobs and the economy is the way it is.If our u.i. stops believe me things will only get worse.
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