The unemployment extension 2010 needs to be passed. The 2010 unemployment extension legislation has failed to pass, and the numbers of Americans that are unemployed continue to grow. It's bad enough that Congress failed to pass the legislation before leaving for a long Memorial Day holiday, but the close to one million Americans whose benefits expired on June 2, 2010 are still without resolution. The total jobless Americans could grow to 1.6 million relatively soon, further compounding the economic problems that surrounds unemployment. For instance, new home sales dropped to an 8 year low. The reason that many Americans have shied away from buying a home is because of fears of getting laid off. Without a potential 99 weeks of benefits, getting unemployed could be a fast track to foreclosure.
As the number of unemployed grow, benefits will be more and more important for the continued economic (and political) success in America. Of course, there are arguments for both sides of the fence.
This November, expect unemployment to be a hot issue. Those who denied the unemployment extension may have a fast track out of Washington into the job market just like their constituents. Expect Obama to get bonus points in the minds of many if he passes an extension via an executive order. The passage of this bill will be very interesting.
Those who are unemployed and need the extension should contact their state representatives to let them know you need the extension. Speaking your mind is the only way to make true "change."
The politicians do not care about the unemployed they know they will not get re-elected and it is low on their priority. I have written my state and federal representatives and all I get is the run around. I wrote to
ReplyDeletePres. Obama and his response was to look to the community for charity!
is this a nightmare i can not believe this
ReplyDeleteHow do you get in contact with your state rep? Does anyone know? They need to pass this bill soon I will lose everything I have like my car and my apt. I don't have any family to help me I only got 26 weeks and while I'm still looking for work I don't have food on the table to eat or gas in the car to drive to interviews. When will they see that we need help? I don't get it!!
ReplyDeletecommunity charity is running out though!! they might as well take all of us jobless and through us on an island!
ReplyDeleteWe really need this extentinon. I lost my job due to medical reasons and now I don't have a pot to piss in. What am I to do with three kids to feed. I didn't ask for this but my health has gotten the best of me. I have filed app after app and nothing because most companies are truning those of use who are unemployed away because they think we wont work. I will work if someone will hire me but at this moment in time I now have to worry on how I am going to keep a roof over my childrens heads and food in their mouths. The political prick don't have that problem because their pockets are full and they don't care about the small people.
ReplyDeleteMAYBE THESE POLITICIANS WILL LEARN TO LIKE THE TASTE OF "WELFARE CHEESE" LIKE THE REST OF US, SEE YOU GUYS IN THE SOUP LINE IN NOVEMBER !!!
ReplyDeleteI think at this point the rotten ass politicians not in favor of helping the American Unemployed Worker should all be shot in the street and piss right on their faces and let them drug test that!
ReplyDeleteTo the anonymous that said we should be put on an island. That my friend would be the best thing to do. We might be able to survive longer if we did. Survival is a natural instinct and that is what scares me. Watch as the crime rate increases and we are left to find those means the only way to survive.
ReplyDeleteNancy Pelosi should be ashamed of herself to turn down tier 5 Unemployment Extensions!
ReplyDeleteWhile the US government rushes to help foreign countries in need by spending MILLIONS of our TAX dollars, Nancy Pelosi & the government are still concerned about unemployment tier 5 extension. What about the help we need in our country! Millions of Americans have paid all of their lives into unemployment, and now when tier 5 unemployed Americans need it, their is no more help. Why? so you all can help foreign countries?
WE WANT NANCY PELOSI OUT AND ALL OTHERS WHO ARE OPPOSED TO TIER 5 UNEMPLOYMENT EXTENSION'S, AND THOSE WHO RATHER HELP FOREIGN COUNTRIES BEFORE HELPING THOSE HERE IN THE USA.
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION, AND THE TIER 5 PETITION, WE CAN DO THIS!!!
http://uspoverty.change.org/petitions/view/vote_nancy_pelosi_out_of_office_sign_tier_5_-_v_unemployment_extension
I am screwed....God Bless America!!! Never voted Democrat before.....I will never vote for another Republican again
ReplyDeleteif you have been watching the senate debate on this bill...you must have seen that one big problem we have is that Harry Reid simply isn't articulate enough to speak on this or any other matter....he continuously stumbles over his words...gets lost in the middle of his remarks and looks alot of times like a bumbling idiot..if only we had Sen Whitehouse or Brown ( Ohio ) as the majority leader we'd have a much better chance I think
ReplyDeleteWhy is this atrocity not being blasted on every news network? I never see anything on the news about this....the whole country needs to see what's about to happen and the people responsible for the suffering of hard working Americans and innocent children....it's a sad day in American history.
ReplyDeleteWith one stroke of the hand Obama could be looking real pretty if he demands an extension because congress refused to pass...he is definately not the leader I though he would be, but that could all be erased if he needs to step in on this!!!
ReplyDeleteI guess since Congress is getting a check they are not worried about the millions that aren't getting one. So when they recess for the Holiday AGAIN..Millions will be at home trying to figure out what to do, If they don't hurry up and pass this bill It will get crazy and you think crime is up now. Let them sit on this bill longer and it will be out of control
ReplyDeleteThis is the email I sent to Ben Nelson, Susan Collins, Scott Brown, Olympia Snowe, Joe Lieberman and I sent a slightly different version to my congresscritter who is a dumbass Republican. My Senators are Democrats, therefore they have brains and voted for it.
ReplyDeleteGoogle your senator's name and go to their website and fill out the contact form to let them know how you feel about their using us as pawns in their political game. I am freaking sick of this.
My email to the douchbag Senators:
Today I got an email from my Representative, Scott Garrett telling me how no new jobs were created. Glad to see that a Republican acknowledges that. So what do you do and your Republican colleagues in the Senate do? You filibuster the employment extension. I was due to receive my FIRST extension last week. Thanks to your newly "fiscal conservative" Republican senators, who didn't give a crap about the deficit to when Bush was in power, I have no money coming in. I will lose my home and that will be just fine with you, right? Why don't you do the right thing for a change and provide some relief to the people who really need it, not the hedge fund managers who created this mess in the first place. Playing politics with our lives is unconscionable.
I don't know if you're up for reelection but if you are, I hope the people in your state have the good sense to see where your loyalties lie. Screw the people who paid taxes for years and use them as pawns in a political fight? You really think you're going to get reelected acting like a teabagger? With my last dime, I will contribute to any candidate opposing you. Shame on you. How do you sleep at night?
we dont see anything about the WAR on the news either. It used to be sooo bad, I would not watch til 15 mins in. They never want to put anything thats bad on ,since O has been in office. Its rather disturbing. I think the BP debocule says it all about the Media.
ReplyDeletethis wont pass as long as their is GOP politicians in office. we are done for. and so is america.
ReplyDeleteIf this bill does not get passed, wouldn't it effect the employees working at the Department of Employment in ALL states...hence more people losing there jobs?
ReplyDeleteVote all of them out of office. Can new people do any worse. At least when new people start a new job they try to do their best for a few years. These people feel so secure that they will not be defeated no matter that they do. And that has been proved time and time again. The more they screw up the more votes they get.
ReplyDeleteEveryone needs to go to the following web site and sign the petition to get Obama to sign the executive order!!!
ReplyDeletechange.com
write to your senator!!!..if he is republican demand that he do whats right...if he is one of the 12 dems that continue to vote no..then write them and demand that they act like a democrat rather than another right wing nut job!!!...write them...write them...write them....it is our only hope
ReplyDeleteType your state rep's name into google and you will be given information on how to contact them.
ReplyDeleteWell maybe we should all go out and get on Welfare and Food Stamps because that is the only way that we are going to make it. I am 60 yrs old and got layed off my job. I have sent out 15 apps a week and have had three interviews since the first of the year. I am not trash. I am very professional and attractive for my age. Every position that I have applied for, they tell me they get 200 or 300 resumes. How is a 60 yr old person going to compete with a 20 year old with a degree, etc. What are we to do. I have worked since I was 15 and do not like being unemployed.
ReplyDeleteLooks like ALL of the Republicans will be ousted come November!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOur government leaders are always 'Johnnie on the Spot' when it comes to helping those in other countries, but they don't care about the American worker. They give our money freely to foreign countries but won't take care of their own. Our representatives and senators all live in the lap of luxury and take care of themselves quite well with our money. They don't know what compassion for a common man is about.
ReplyDeleteI just wanna thank the GOP for failing the people of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,, I thank God everyday that i have a job,,, what i don't understand is how a bunch of people who claim to be God fearing Christians can sleep at night,, doesn't there religon teach help your fellow man?? i'm now embrassed that i WAS a republican,, im embrassed that i was stupid enough to fall for all there lies and deceit, another thing i don't understand is how can they let 15 million people go hungry, and yet send billions upon billions of dollors for two wars the people of this country never wanted in the first place,, i was raised to believe that i lived in a country that was for the people by the people, but i guess i was wrong, cause what i learned now is thats it's for the rich by the rich,, and for all of you people who are lucky enough to have a job, and go on web sites to say 15 million people are just looking for a hand out you are just dumb!! Do you really think all these people wanna live like this?? All you people think your smarter then people laid off just looking for a little help, but your not cause you keep falling for republican lies,, do you really think they care about you just cause you got a job??? All they care about is who's gonna put money in there pocket.. another reason why your so stupid is even though you got a job you don't think it effects you, but your wrong, cause now the city or state you live in isn't gonna get the help it needs, and now you might be the next one laid off, and then what?? Maybe one day you will wake up and see the republicans for what they are,, i thank God i finally did!! So once again thank you GOP for failing the U.S., and thank you for showing the people what your all about
ReplyDeleteI think when they take their extended July 4th Holiday some of us should track down and make an example out of a few of those corrupted ass Senators. Anyone willing to join me? What else do we have to lose
ReplyDeleteI have no problem with drug tests. But I think everyone should be drug tested. Every elected and appointed official from the President, judges, congressmen down to the local dog catcher. If it shows positive let everyone know and boot them out of office.
ReplyDeleteRepublican won't vote for this bill because it raise taxes on the friends, the hedge fund managers. Don't let the bill must be paid for excuse fool you, if any of them care about the deficit we wouldn't have a deficit.
ReplyDeleteEverything else seems to pass w/o the GOP-I think they are just using the Reps. as a smoke screen..The Pres. has dine quite a bit on his own,think its time he did it for the betterment of his people not the foriengers!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletei wish people would stop blaming palosi, obama, ried ans soforth, these people ARE trying to get this done. I know you are bitter ,frustrated,and angry about youre party turning its back on you. You anger is misdirected.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know, who's paying for the drug test, don't these dummies know they are talking about people on unemployment? Or...are they going to use the taxpayer's dollars....again.
ReplyDeleteGovernment for the people..WHAT A JOKE!! How long do they honestly think we can survive with NO money? While they enjoy vacations....I can't even go to the grocery store, much less pay bills. They wouldn't trade places with us for one single minute!! I hope they remember when the time comes......EVERY VOTE COUNTS!!!!
ReplyDeleteDems are asking to much and republicans are being dogmatic. Just pass a bill to benefit americans. Keep it strictly for unemployment insurance, noone cares about health care whent they can't afford food or shelter.
ReplyDeletesmokescreen? make room so i can puke
ReplyDeleteI'm Republican and I will never vote for them again, I would also like to see no senator or congressman to office than two terms. Also congress and senate should not have the ability to vote their own pay rasies retirement plans,perks and etc.
ReplyDeleteStatement from New York Labor Commissioner Colleen Gardner on the UI Extension and Summer Youth Bill
ReplyDeleteAlbany, NY (June 24, 2010) -
With yet another legislative vote on the horizon that includes Unemployment Insurance (UI) and summer youth jobs, I want to remind those U.S. Senators opposing H.R. 4213 of the moral and economic impact a failed vote would have on those who need it the most.
I want to remind Congress of the heart wrenching stories I hear every day from the unemployed who have exhausted their benefits and have no money to provide the very basics for their families. Some have even lost their homes. They should be reminded that with every dollar paid in benefits to the unemployed, $1.62 goes right back into local economies.
They should be reminded that a yes vote helps some of our most vulnerable constituencies - the unemployed in their time of need, youth who are looking for their first job, and struggling small business owners in need of a lift.
The amount needed to fund this extension is a sound investment that can yield the highest return of all – our continued road to economic recovery. I urge the U.S. Senate to follow the lead of Senator Schumer and Gillibrand and vote "yes" on this important and needed bill.
Please call the following Senators and let them know that we need unemployment extended now:
ReplyDeleteThese Senators are the "swing votes" needed to get the extension passed:
Scott Brown (R-MA): (202) 224-4543
Joe Lieberman (ID-CT): (202) 224-4041
Olympia Snowe (R-Maine): (202) 224-5344
Susan Collins (R-Maine): (202) 224-2523
George Voinovich (R-Ohio): (202) 224-3353
Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska): (202) 224-6551
Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin): (202) 224-5323
HEY DONT FORGET ABOUT THE TAX BREAK THE SENATORS JUST GAVE SOME OIL TYCOONS FAMILY!SOME OIL TYCOON JUST DIED AND WHEN HE DIED HE LEFT HIS FAMILY 9 BILLION DOLLARS.THE SENATE VOTED AND DECIDED THIS FAMILY DIDNT HAVE TO PAY TAXES ON THE 9 BILLION DOLLARS.THEY SHOULD HAVE PAID 3 TO 4 BILLION BUT THE SENATORS SAID"HE WAS A FRIEND OF OURS SO NO TAXES OWED"THEY COULD HAVE USED THAT 3 OR 4 BILLION TO FUND THE UNEMPLOYED BOU OH NO!THIS IS TRUE YOU CAN GOOGLE IT AND SEE FOR YOURSELFS
ReplyDeleteI agree with everyone's comments. You have to watch C-span to find out anything or search the shit out of google to find any updates. McConnel, Nelson, Snowe, Lieberman, Bunning, Hatch can all rot in hell. The Republican's could care less about the deficit during the Bush years and now they've developed a conscience. They keep worrying about their Grand Children. I need help now for me and my own kids not kids that don't exist. Keep writing all Senator's. It's also interesting that their web-sites have drop downs on every topic except unemployment. I'll keep writing and fighting. Went to a job fair today and not one decent job or company was presented. Good luck to us all.....
ReplyDeletegod damn motherfuckers in the senate are going to rot in an eternal hell for what they are doing.
ReplyDeleteAm I missing something, or is it that I am ignorant? But, can't the President order an "Executive Order" and make the extension happen? I can't beleive that innocent people through no fault of their own has to be subjected to this. I have been commenting throughout the week and have heard some very sad stories from people and I can't beleive that our gov't is doing this to us. How do they sleep at night with soooo many children with parents that can't feed their children...How immoral of the JERKS on Capitol Hill...All of them.. "MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA"!!!!!! " Mr. President....Please help us"" Thanking you in advance bcse I have faith in you that it is a done deal!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWELL IT MUST BE NICE TO BE ABLE TO ENJOY A HOLIDAY! IT HAS BEEN 4 WEEKS WITHOUT UNEMPLOYMENT FOR ME, I AM ABOUT TO LOSE MY VEHICLE AN APT. ALL THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT ARE THEMSELVES AN OTHER COUNTRIES F**K THAT TAKE CARE OF OUR COUNTRY, WE ARE THE ONES IN NEED. I HAVE BEEN SENDING OUT RESUMES FOR ALONG TIME AN HAVE HAD 3 INTERVIEWS. IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT I CAN NOT FIND A JOB. I AM SO TO THE POINT OF TURNING MY BACK ON OUR GOVERNMENT.
ReplyDeleteIf there are any politicians reading these post, the ones that push to get this bill passed will be guarateed another term, the eyes of the country are on you and your humanity, don't let us down, this is your time to step up and do the right thing. There are people losing their homes, children going hungry, how can you not do what you know is right and sleep at night. The American people need you to do what you were elected to do, not play silly games while people starve.
ReplyDeleteThis needs to be passed period, this is going to get bad for millions. It is very hard to find jobs and even the minimum wage jobs wont hire you if you over qualified. Hunger hurts.
ReplyDeleteI emailed Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker the night before Alexander made his speech against the extension. I know he had not read it by then, even if he ever reads it, but that was sure a smack in the face. In regards to Orrin Hatch's assertion that we should drug test all of the unemployed-excellent idea. My husband is clean and so we would not mind this. I am sure if that is the requirement then Sen. Hatch will not mind if we require drug testing for Congressional retirement and benefits as well.
ReplyDeleteHey Senate!
ReplyDeleteI am a 44 year old professional who made more than 60k a year. I lost my job because you said it was ok for my company to move production to another country. Now you only will pass a bill to pay unemployed if you can attach a bill that sends more jobs away.I think there is a place you should all go for the rest of your lives its called PRISON. And when you are finished there you can all got to 7734
if they could cut some of the foodstamps from reciptants like 40 dollars each that could pay for it. the people can well make up for it in the lost of foodstamps by clipping coupons.. i myself has turn 155 dollar food purchase and only paid 55 dollars... if i can do it.. ANYONE can. I know it sounds heartless to take from others to help us.. but i say its time to to start sharing what some have with the one who dont... US HURTING UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS wont be able to survive without it... YOU Cant get any help from the government if you dont have an address to send the paperwork to. PLEASE HELP US>> IF YOU CAN!! YOU figure.. Manufactures makes the coupons, the newspapers distributes the coupons, the stores accept the coupons, the consumers purchase food using coupon,,, hence JOBS, ECONOMY STEADY, EVERYONE SATISFIED!!!!!!!!! THINK about it..;)
ReplyDeleteLets boycott all the companies that have moved for profit and boycott all the companies that contribute to the senators and we will see who is working then!
ReplyDeleteIf the supporters of HR 4213 are serious about passing HR 4213 you are two options (if you cannot get the votes):
ReplyDelete• Make the Republicans actually filibuster! (Talk about must see TV)
• Use the unused stimulus funds to fund unemployment benefits portion of HR 4213!
Otherwise all the posturing is going to look disingenuous!
I have not heard one reasoned argument why the stimulus funds cannot be used…?
The democrats are always late to the game, they let the republicans control the argument, and then never adequately show why the argument is false.
Both major parties are in so love with their own images,that the only change we ever see is on the margins and sometimes we don't even get that!
How serious are they?
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ReplyDeletePlease call 1-877-442-6801 immediately and voice if you are for or against congress decision yesterday to deny unemployment extensions. It takes just one minute, enter your zip code, you will be directed to your local congressman and they will simply ask you if you are for or against this decision. You can also give them some comments! we have got to stand together on this and make congress do their damn jobs!
Please pass this information on to all you know facebook, twitter, myspace and any blogs, UNreal.
And one more thing when your day comes that you must face your maker, and he asks you's why did you have no problem throwing billions upon billions of dollor's on a war that killed so many, but wouldn't throw a fraction of what you spent on those's wars to save lives?? what are your answers gonna be?? so republicans sleep well,, and remember your Lord is watching, and you will be judged
ReplyDeletePlease call 1-877-442-6801 immediately and voice if you are for or against congress decision yesterday to deny unemployment extensions. It takes just one minute, enter your zip code, you will be directed to your local congressman and they will simply ask you if you are for or against this decision.
ReplyDeletePlease pass this information on, UNreal.
We the unemployed did not ask to be laid off for lack of work, we are victims of 8 years of republican leadership. We need a tier V passed. Let the hedge fund managers pay for it. They can afford it. If the senete won't help I will wager that if the President signs an executive order to help us we must remember all those who opposed the bill. So we can vote them out of office in Nov. We must act now sign the petition at change.com. If you are working presently sign it also if we the unemployed fail we all fail.
ReplyDeleteGetting unemployment is sooo much MORE FUN than my 60k job. I get to make new decisions! decisions....food or rent....food or the IRS bill....food or car payment. food or electricity.....food or insurance for a family of 5.......Now my decisions are live or die....live or die.....live or die....And I haven't been out of work even close to 99 weeks.
ReplyDeleteHOW CAN WE BOOT SENATOR HATCH OUT OF OFFICE?????? HE SHOULD NOT REPRESENT ANYONE!!! Republicans Do Not Care About Any Of Our VOTES! What they do is they have people spamming all yahoo comment section of each article and spamming youtube comments, spreading the false information like Obama is not born in US or He did not get the Nobel Price! My unemployment barely pays for rent and maybe tiny bit of food. How can they suggest that I use that money for drug testing?????? THIS IS THE BIGGEST SLAP ON THE FACE EVER!!! People EMAIL CONGRESS/EMAIL SENATE/EMAIL THE PRESIDENT CONTINUOUSLY UNTIL WE GET THIS BENEFIT NOW!
ReplyDeletewww.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html email these for congress
www.whitehouse.gov/contact for President Obama
www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm Write up a storm with the senators!!
Tea Baggers can afford to head to Washington and protest. All I want is to be able to afford my rent money!
Does anyone know of any protests going on? we need to stage on bad and make congress do their damn jobs!
ReplyDeleteOH SURE SENATORS GIVE YOUR FRIENDS FAMILY A 4 BILLION DOLLAR TAX BEAK AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GET A KICK IN THE ASS?YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWatching CSPAN make me sick, Republicans Senator John Cornyn now talking about Israel this Israel that. What about we Americans you A-Hole? We gave these people their job and non of them are representing us!
ReplyDeleteAfter 8 years under G.W.Bush's spend, baby, spend program (was handed a $1 Trillion surplus, and handed out $1.3 Trillion in tax cuts, plus started 2 wars they never had plans in place to pay for), the GOP is worried about the national debt????? Remember these guys in November... and don't you dare believe the Tea Party has you in mind either.
ReplyDeleteMr Obama shame on you. Look in our community for charity. I do not believe this. I thought you were for the people. I am so disappointed. Your children are being fed, have a roof over their head. I guess they are laughing at all the other children with holes in their shoes, passing out from hunger and sleeping on a cement street.
ReplyDeleteWe..The one's who have waited for our leaders to help us...has put us in two big buildings and said here comes two planes to resucue us...and BOOM..and the others who are about to lose their jobs are waiting in a building that is about to self collaspe....The Terriost That Attacks Americans Are On C-Span ..Check them out..What A ZOO
ReplyDeleteLet the GOP's record speak for itself. Do not vote GOP in November... across the board.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans = too much money, too much corruption, spreading too much misinformation, and absolutelly zero check and balance!
ReplyDeleteSenator Hatch can suggest drug test to all unemployed; proving he is able to get elected without any actions for the general good.
For those who don't know how to contact their representatives in congress, I'm including the address for an organization called "Vote Smart".. Go to their site, put your Zip Code in the "Zip Code" box, and it'll display for you all of your state and federal representatives..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.votesmart.org/search_zipcode.php?zip=80012-7711
we need an extension. they can spend it on foreign countries. and look how they sent social security checks to deceased people. what a waste and now unemployed people are cut off? and suppose to take a 25.00 dollar a week cut if passed? we are barely making it now. you guys in congress should have to live like the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteLiberman, rot in hell.
Why bother sending congress emails, calling them or sending them letters, I mean look one person was told by Obama to look for charity. Heck they are running out of charity. Welcome to the Great Depression of 2010, oh and yeah I will not be voting all. I am tired of hearing I am lazy though I am 55, been working since I was 15, to be told go get a low paying job, who cares if you lose your home, as long as they get the taxes out of my low wages they could care less. Well if ni unemployment is payed no taxes either.
ReplyDeleteWhat a crock, guess I will move to Haiti.
Let's do the right thing Congress for the American people. Many are in desperate need of having their unemployment benefits extended. God Bless!
ReplyDeleteObama was right we needed change, but it wont be until this election and the next that we really start to see it happen... :)
ReplyDeletePlease, I beg you HELP THE UNEMPLOYED.
Well we vote corrupt politicization out of office in November; we just get more corrupt in their place!!! They are ALL crooks and liars...
ReplyDeleteThey know nothing about Struggling....
Bush's war = each high tech fighter plane is around $30 billion; each missle is around $30 million; each tank is around $45 million.
ReplyDeleteLet's build just a bit fewer super planes and tanks and feed hungry Americans.
This is so sickening! I have no appetite and I cannot eat and I most definitely have not been getting any sleep! I’m so very sure that the Senate sleeps very well at night though. I would like to see one of these people that’s apart of the Senate that’s voted against this bill come take a walk in my shoes for a day. They would not survive one day! But yet are quick to turn their backs on us as if this is money coming out of their personal bank account’s’ their salaries could take care of a lot of us people who are suffering. I’m so unsure if the government is going to pass a bill or extend these benefits. I cannot spend any money because I DO NOT know when and where my next dollar is coming in from! All these people are worried about are the costs! But these people are not concerned of the well being of the AMERICAN people. They never once THINK twice about helping other countries or factor in the costs of that but when WE the American people are crying out for help and do not receive any progress. OH what a GREAT country we have. I’m starting to HATE my country. I’ve worked all my life to at the end of the day, my job being taken from me with no control, having my whole life taken from me, everything I’ve worked hard for and OWNED to being brought to my knees with nothing!!!!!!!! Maybe I should take my own life! I hate living like this and nobody cares about us.
ReplyDeleteIt has been big business (IBM in particular)and the Chamber of Commerce that have lobbied against passage of HR 4213, let's see how business likes things now that nearly 1 million people will not pay rent and utilities this next month. I called my insurance company and told them why I am unable to pay for my car insurance, they said I would be driving illegally, I suggested they contact their Chamber of Commerce and stop the negative lobbying so the bill can be passed. I am going to do the same with every one of my creditors.
ReplyDeleteI JUST CALLED THAT 877 NUMBER TO GIVE THE SENATOR FROM TEXAS HELL BUT HE WASNT IN AND THE GIRL WHO ANSWERED THE PHONE DIDNT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT A POLL?
ReplyDeleteThanks to the Gov me and my family got to move this year to a nice apt. It is an AWESOME attick apt on main street in the center of an OLD town in a 100 year old house. It's not quite the same thing as the house I had for a decade that was swindled from me "foreclosed" They didn't even try to work with me. It was tough for the kids having to give up the house friends the family dog. But it is really getting harder to ask them to keep giving thing's up. So how do I tell them we are now giving up food. The GAS STATION AND THE SUPERMARKET AND MCDONALDS ALL SAID...NO! THEY WOULD NOT HIRE ME BECAUSE I WOULD LEAVE THEM FOR A BETTER JOB IN MY FIELD.
ReplyDeleteSO NO FOOD TONIGHT KIDS! MAIN STREETS GOING HUNGRY.
I scared and i can't sleep, eat or barely function as I will face eviction at the end of the month. I have been unemployed since 2008 due to no fault of my own, used this time wisely while looking for work to go back to school as Obama urged us to do and graduated Salutatorian as a Paralegal but have been unable to secure a job as of yet & will take anything. I thought I would still be covered until October and then to find out I getting no more is devastating. I cannot even function right now to go on an interview as I am terrified
ReplyDeletewhen these politicians go to break during the 4th of july one senator gets enough money during that week to pay for my bills for a month if not more and I am stuck with no way take care of my wife kids and pay my house or get food etc. what are they thinking because these assholes can't figure economics maybe they will figure it out when the forclosure rate matches that of 2008 then where will we be tell the truth is the US broke beyond it's point of no return or are you in a pisssing match
ReplyDeletesign United States Veteran
ILL ASK THE JUDGE TO ASK THE SENATORS WHY I HAD TO STEAL TO FEED MYSELF AND MY FAMILY IF I GET CAUGHT.I DONT KNOW ABOUT THE REST OF YOU BUT IF THEY DENY THE EXTENSIONS IM ONE MORE PERSON JOINING THE CRIMINAL WAY OF LIFE!
ReplyDeleteMr. Obama, take down these walls !!!
ReplyDeleteThe republican party is on a suicide mission. Just when it looked like they could gain ground in Nov. they do this. HELP US who are seeking work and nearly out of money. PASS THE BILL TO EXTEND unemployment benefits. Stop foreign aid and pass domestic aid. WE WILL REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER and for the first time I may not vote republican.
ReplyDeleteHOW CAN WE BOOT SENATOR HATCH OUT OF OFFICE??????
ReplyDeleteHE SHOULD NOT REPRESENT ANYONE!!!
Republicans Do Not Care About Any Of Our VOTES!
What they do is they have people spamming all yahoo comment section of each article and spamming youtube comments, spreading the false information like Obama is not born in US or He did not get the Nobel Price! My unemployment barely pays for rent and maybe tiny bit of food. How can they suggest that I use that money for drug testing?????? THIS IS THE BIGGEST SLAP ON THE FACE EVER!!! People EMAIL CONGRESS/EMAIL SENATE/EMAIL THE PRESIDENT CONTINUOUSLY UNTIL WE GET THIS BENEFIT NOW!
www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html email these for congress
www.whitehouse.gov/contact for President Obama
www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm Write up a storm with the senators!!
Tea Baggers can afford to head to Washington and protest. All I want is to be able to afford my rent money!
We are not going to be heard until we make our voices heard!
ReplyDeleteThis is a start...join the site below
http://uiunite.createforum.net/index.php
Brainstorm with us ideas on what we can do to help ourselves as well as to make them listen to our voices.
TO ALL THE NUTBALLS WHO THINK ITS A DNC problem. Its people like you who have voted these people in office. The (GOP) go ahead and flame, youre pissed 'cause youre party has turned its back on you. and you refuse to belive it to be true. how many times do you need to get punched in the face to wake up. "help us obewan kanoobee youre our only hope"
ReplyDeleteHOW CAN WE BOOT SENATOR HATCH OUT OF OFFICE??????
ReplyDeleteHE SHOULD NOT REPRESENT ANYONE!!!
Republicans Do Not Care About Any Of Our VOTES!
What they do is they have people spamming all yahoo comment section of each article and spamming youtube comments, spreading the false information like Obama is not born in US or He did not get the Nobel Price! My unemployment barely pays for rent and maybe tiny bit of food. How can they suggest that I use that money for drug testing?????? THIS IS THE BIGGEST SLAP ON THE FACE EVER!!! People EMAIL CONGRESS/EMAIL SENATE/EMAIL THE PRESIDENT CONTINUOUSLY UNTIL WE GET THIS BENEFIT NOW!
www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html
email these for congress
www.whitehouse.gov/contact
for President Obama
www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Write up a storm with the senators!!
Tea Baggers can afford to head to Washington and protest. All I want is to be able to afford my rent money!
Contact your Senators and send them Emails regarding this issue, they know they have to act quickly...why are they complaining abut the deficit right now? Where they were when the deficit hit 1 trillion dollars ???
ReplyDeleteI lost my job in December of 2009 right before Christmas, I did not ask to loose my job! I have worked since age 12 my father started his own business and I had to work every holiday & summer break to earn money for my future, my parents taught me really good values, here I am at age 47 I have paid my taxes and have even worked two jobs at times while raising my daughter all by myself. Now I can't find a job I have had close to 80 interviews over the past six months with companies sending me nice letters that I am over qualified for the minimum wage jobs I have been applying to I have busted my ass out there over the past six months to find anything I keep track of every company & resume I submit and its now close to 875, but now I can't pay my rent and utilities because congress won't pass the extension now I am facing having to live in my car and my cell phone will be turned off because there is no money to pay the bill how will these companies contact me now about a possible job opportunity?
ReplyDeleteDamn It Pass the extension because I even owe the federal government because the company I worked for got rid of its payroll person and never replaced her and now because of the company I use to work for not taking anough taxes out on its employees I can't even pay my tax bill !!!!
I am from Maine and a registered Republican and been calling and calling, sending email after email to urge these two senators to vote for the unemployment extension. I find it amazing that all of a sudden the two most liberal republicans Collins and Snowe, have decided to ban with the rest of their clan and vote NO on this. I am thoroughly disgusted and will not be voting republican in November for the first time. It angers me so much that our tax payer money pays for them to make decisions for us and yet they could careless what matters in America. The Republicans didn't seem to care about the defecit when it put money into the big businesses hands who in turned screwed the rest of us. How dare they say we do care about Americans!! Just wait the economy is only going to get worse!!
ReplyDeleteIf we lived Haiti we would at least get a new grass hut
ReplyDeleteI lost my job and can not find one to save my life. the unemployment was helping me pay my rent and my bills and I had a little food on my table but today I have nothing I do not have a dollar to my name I am going to die of hunger pretty soon because I have no money I drink water all day long oh and my internet service will be cut off by the 27 of June
ReplyDeleteHOW CAN WE BOOT SENATOR HATCH OUT OF OFFICE??????
ReplyDeleteHE SHOULD NOT REPRESENT ANYONE!!!
Republicans Do Not Care About Any Of Our VOTES!
What they do is they have people spamming all yahoo comment section of each article and spamming youtube comments, spreading the false information like Obama is not born in US or He did not get the Nobel Price! My unemployment barely pays for rent and maybe tiny bit of food. How can they suggest that I use that money for drug testing?????? THIS IS THE BIGGEST SLAP ON THE FACE EVER!!! People EMAIL Your CONGRESS representatives; EMAIL all SENATE members; and EMAIL THE PRESIDENT CONTINUOUSLY UNTIL WE GET THIS BENEFIT NOW!
www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html email these for congress
www.whitehouse.gov/contact for President Obama
www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm Write up a storm with the senators!!
Tea Baggers can afford to head to Washington and protest. All I want is to be able to afford my rent money!
Americans need to research before voting. We need to know what companies paid these guys campaigns and for what reasons. We need to let Washington know by using our votes the way they were suppose to. We can't let Big Buisness and Big Banks And BIg Oil control the electoral process by making it a system where the man with the most ads wins. We as Americans need to buy American products and force companies to produce here to sell here. The government does not control it's people. The people agree and elect the right honest people we regain our country one election at a time. We end the ILLEGAL AND EVIL SYNDICATE Called "fed" you know that huge trillion dollar allience that is set out for world domination. By making tillions and trillions of dollars apear from thin air for our government to throw around and giving us the bill. Lets lock em up and throw away the keys for trying to enslave the human race!
ReplyDeleteSO PATHETICCCC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHarry Reid may no be articulate and a quite weak when it comes to public speaking. But, he is fighting for the unemployed. So is the female senator from Michigan.
ReplyDeleteHow do we connect to President O'Bama to encourage an executive order? I called the 877 number and was put through to one of my Senator's from Illinois. There was not a survey but my opinion was noted. We need to keep fighting. I've paid into unemployment for over 30 years. It's insurance and not a handout....
The bottem line is this. At this point after you use up the orginal claim for 26 weeks you can jump out a window for all they care in the Senate. The extensions should have been done before Memorial day. To watch these assholes on CSPAN2 with their charts and graphs while people are twisting in the wind is horrible. They have no sence of urgency. They shouldn't be trying to convince each other to pass or not pass this with their stupid, joke, farce graphs and charts. Just get it done. They are creating a new class of homeless people. In the end that will cost more than this bill ever would. People don't have gas to get to an interview. no jobs in the newspaper. Monster.com is a monster joke. There are 1,000's of jobs on the websites, but the whole mechanism and process of hiring is so bad, horrible, that by the time you get hired, you're either homeless or just to worn out to work because of what looking for a job has done to you. You can apply to all these jobs on the website. You have a better chance of hitting the powerball lotto than anyone getting back to you. They find money for other countries when there is an earthquake. They should realize the U.S.A has been hit by an earthquake. The senate is creating many aftershocks!! Michelle Obama is on TV talking about the horrible image of Haiti after the earthquake. We should send them money. Enough! Michelle, you should be talking about the horrible image of this county turning into a bunch of homeless beggers because the animals in the senate are dumbass bastards who are afraid that if they pass this to the end of the year, at the end of the year they will have to pass something again. In their minds this will never end, people will collect for years and years so they are trying to end it now.
ReplyDeleteI'm tired of the "Great Value" brand, and having to go to the "used bread store" I want a piece of the pie like everyone else, how can I get that if my benefits run out? The little I get, gets me by (barely) so I can keep looking for a decent job with health benefits. And I'm tired of "smeet" and flavor aide.
ReplyDeleteYou know what is really disturbing? Criminals that have done nothing but rob, steal, and / or kill, are actually living a life of luxury in jail as opposed to us, the unemployed. They have a roof over their heads, they know when they will be fed. We, who most of us have worked from a very young age, have never done any wrong, are the ones that are about to lose, if haven't already, everything we have! It's just so wrong.
ReplyDeleteI think the person who asked where is the news coverage on this is right, I have been looking for some news coverage of this everywhere yet I have struck out when it comes to televised news coverage. Think about this for a moment if you would.....rather than calling your district reps, senators or congressmen, CALL your local news station and demand they cover this story. It is not being covered because it it time for primary elections setting the stage for November elections. If this got out,. and it should, it would be a disaster for the republican party and some democrats as well. This is the biggest story out there aside of the gulf coast disaster, yet stories like "the longest tennis match ever " or the " making a difference " stories at the end of the NBC Nightly News take priority. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, news coverage of this on television would be the best way to get this thing passed and your voice being heard.SO!!! GO TO THE PHONES AND START CALLING YOUR LOCAL NEWS STATIONS, CALL NPR RADIO, AND ASK WHY THERE HAS BEEN NO COVERAGE OF THE UNEMPLOYMENT EXTENSION 2010. CALL! CALL!CALL! CELL PHONES, LANDLINES, INTERNET, EVERY MEANS POSSIBLE. DON'T WAIT! GET UP AND DO IT NOW!
ReplyDeletePLEASE!! IF YOU HAVEN'T, GO TO CHANGE.ORG AND SIGN THE PETITION DEMANDING THE EXTENSION BE PASSED! DON'T BE A VICTIM, AT LEAST SIGN IT. GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS TO YOU ALL!
ReplyDeleteI JUST TRIED TO CALL THE PIECE OF SHIT SENATORS IN TEXAS USING THAT 877 NUMBER AND THE WOMAN WHO ANSWERED DOENT KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT AND NOONE ELSE HAS CALLED?I KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE FROM TEXAS ON HERE START CALLING THE FUCKING SENATOR!
ReplyDeleteI’ve only been laid off for 30 weeks and just missed the 1st tier of benefits. I support extensions across the board for anyone unemployed, 99 weeks or more. Most United States citizens never benefited from the excesses of the credit boom, i.e. million dollar bonuses, golden parachutes, etc., therefore, in this country’s late hour, why should I be punished for their excesses????? We are being punished for what the top 1/10 of 1% richest people on this planet did!!!!!!!!! It sure is nice they don’t have to suffer. BTW, I am a republican and I WILL NEVER vote republican again. The rich and powerful are as demented as anyone in an insane asylum, just in a different way.
ReplyDeleteI will never vote again
ReplyDeleteI cant Believe This? I just spent, 34g in Taxes I have never applied for Unemployment before February(of This Year)!! My company appealed It, and I won hands down!! But that lost me a ton of time, on my Hearing, Lawyer fees, child care costs while Fighting for my claim!!Now They Tell Me Even though I have 5g left on my INITIAL claim..My 20 weeks is up? What is going on..What did I just campaign for Scott Brown to Do? Take my 34g and Buy a New Truck? This is wrong on SOOO Many Levels..!!!
ReplyDeleteWe are the consumers that help build this economy with the little money we have after paying for food, gas, mortgage, schooling, clothes, cars, home, car, medical and dental insurance for ourselves and kids, electric bill, water bill, telephone bill, gas/oil bill. No wonder why the consumer report says Americans aren't spending because we have other problems like trying to get through everyday UNEMPLOYED!!!! I've been working ever since I was 16, and now about ten years later I get unemployed and all the tax money and unemployment insurance that I accumulated comes to question when I ...no when my family needs it the most. This is not right what the government is doing to us its our money to help us iin time of need. Get some real people in the government and get these snobs that never seen poverty out and experience how we live these days!!!!
ReplyDeletejust google "contact my senator" there are several web sites where you can choose your state, once you do that, rest your mouse on the links until you see contact.
ReplyDeleteIts is important we do this daily, and since these rats only seems to answer to lobbyist we should all ban together an also hit corporations an maybe ban some products an services due to lack of money.
Maybe there own lobbyists will start fighting for us too since senators only listen to the people that BRIBE them.
Forget the "they will feel it november" an make them feel it now, many of us wont live until november like this. I dont know where alot of you are from but the streets will eat you up in NYC.
We have to organize!
There will NEVER be another republican see a vote from me after this.
ReplyDeleteEven the Media is ignoring the Unemployment issue, We need to take this to the Street People!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHOW CAN THESE ANIMALS SLEEP AT NIGHT KNOWING WE ARE OUT HERE SUFFERING!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????? HOW CAN THEY ACTUALLY BE ALLOWED TO TAKE VACATIONS AND HOLIDAY BREAKS AND PUT US ON HOLD FOR NEARLY A MONTH AFTER!!!!!!! I HATE LIVING LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou know what else. I'm sick of all these job counslers who think they know it all. Oh, your resume is hurting you, do this. Or employers listen to your voice inflection. Interviewers look at you this way, you need to have your arms this way or your hair that way or you're sitting in that chair wrong. Or sine you have been unemployed your credit hs gone from great to bad. NO JOB FOR YOU. THEY CAN SHOVE IT UP THEIR HUMAN RESOURCE ASSES!!
ReplyDeleteim not unemployed but im a police officer is saddening to see children on the streets now . because their parents lost thei checks . i hear that the senate is voting on the new proposal today for extensions.
ReplyDeleteAPOLOGY TO ALL
ReplyDeleteto whom it may concern,
I "state your name" am sincerely sorry for waisting my vote on Scott Brown of Massachusettes. I PROMISE so help me god, I will not make that mistake in the next election and will FOREVER be more careful with my vote!
I DONT UNDERSTAND????????I JUST WENT TO CHANGE.ORG TO SIGN THE THING FOR THE PRESIDENT AND SO FAR ONLY 1000 PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED IT?THERE ARE 30 MILLION UNEMPLOYED IN THIS COUNTRY START F UCKING SIGNING!
ReplyDeletePatty Murray from Washington just delivered a great speech to try to get this bill passed...Waiting to hear from the other side now. You can watch it on C-Span2.
ReplyDeletePlease help us, we have no option, only we have to kill by self! no money no house, no phone.
ReplyDeletemo nore nothing, please help us. don't help foreign country, help us!
if they could cut some of the foodstamps from reciptants like 40 dollars each that could pay for it. the people can well make up for it in the lost of foodstamps by clipping coupons.. i myself has turn 155 dollar food purchase and only paid 55 dollars... if i can do it.. ANYONE can. I know it sounds heartless to take from others to help us.. but i say its time to to start sharing what some have with the one who dont... US HURTING UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS wont be able to survive without it... YOU Cant get any help from the government if you dont have an address to send the paperwork to. PLEASE HELP US>> IF YOU CAN!! YOU figure.. Manufactures makes the coupons, the newspapers distributes the coupons, the stores accept the coupons, the consumers purchase food using coupon,,, hence JOBS, ECONOMY STEADY, EVERYONE SATISFIED!!!!!!!!! THINK about it..;)
ReplyDeleteYou know what else. I'm sick of all these job counselors who think they know it all. Oh, your resume is hurting you, do this. Or employers listen to your voice inflection. Interviewers look at you this way, you need to have your arms this way or your hair that way or you're sitting in that chair wrong. Or since you have been unemployed your credit has gone from great to bad. NO JOB FOR YOU. THEY CAN SHOVE IT UP THEIR HUMAN RESOURCE ASSES!!
ReplyDeleteEVERYONE NEEDS TO SIGN THIS PETITION! PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU & GODBLESS!!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.change.org/petitions/view/we_demand_an_immediate_passage_of_bill_hr_4213_extension_of_unemployment_benefits
There is no way in Hell that they won't pass this bill. Do these politicians not know what desperate people do in times of need. This is exactly why I am a Democrat! For the love of all that's Holy, Just pass the Damn bill!
ReplyDeletethere are other websites to inform about change.org
ReplyDeletehere for example
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5502162/unemployment_extension_2010_is_shot.html?cat=31
and all the link on the right top side.
Has anyone out there heard any news on when they are going to vote on the extension. I heard it was supposed to be this week but it is thursday already and I keep watching the news but nothing is being reported on the subject at all.
ReplyDeleteEVERYONE THAT IS POSTING A COMMENT ON HERE NEEDS TO SIGN THE PETITION ON CHANGE.ORG
ReplyDeletePLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SIGN! DO YOUR PART!! PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU ALL..THERE ARE 117 COMMENTS ON HERE AND IM PRETTY SURE NOT EVERYONE OF YOU HAVE SIGNED THE PETITION ON CHANGE.ORG...FOR HEAVENS SAKE THE "Tell President Obama: Stop Offshore Drilling and Demand a Clean Energy Future" HAS THOUSANDS MORE SIGNATURES!!!!!!! PLEASE SIGN- IT ONLY TAKES SECONDS!
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/we_demand_an_immediate_passage_of_bill_hr_4213_extension_of_unemployment_benefits
Senator Hatch say all receiving UI benefits should take a drug test before receiving benefits. I say all Senator's and Congressmen/women take drug test to stay in office. Hatch is an idiot!! Imagine to cost of testing everyone who gets benefit. That alone would probably pay for the majority of UI benefits. I though the Repub's didn't more government. Hypocrite's all!!!
ReplyDeleteEvery single week they are saying they are going to vote on this and vote on that, but they have yet to do anything but let us down! We are all crying out for help. The Senate doesn't care about US....OBAMA needs to step up and take control of this situation!
ReplyDeleteTHESE BASTARDS BETTER WAKEUP BECAUSE THE PRISONS ARE GOING TO BE OVER LOADED!
ReplyDeleteIt seems that our governement has turned their backs on the American people that are continuing to suffer through no fault of our own. This is a nightmare with no end in sight. Everything we have worked for is slipping through our fingers and can't stop it. I can't imagine what one day to the next will bring..why won't they help us, they should be ashamed for allowing this to continue.
ReplyDeleteI will take a darn drug test! Let's drug test these heartless fools! Their actions are what make people lead to taking and/or sell drugs!!!!!!!! Wake up and smell the coffee..
ReplyDeleteI'm in shock! We can send millions to Haiti and other countries for aid to help out those without homes, food, shelter, the basics, yet we can not help out our own country in this time of need. Because without unemployment benefits, 100's of thousands of men women and children will be without homes, food, shelter, the basics just to get by until the job market gets better and we, the unemployed who want to work and are not on drugs can get jobs so that we can provide for our families for ourselves!!!!!!!! I pray that Obama will sign an executive order and pass this bill for the Americans that he made all of his promises to. To get us back to work quickly, to repair the economy! Come on Obama make good on your promise to the American people that voted you into office!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSIGN THE FRIGGING PETICION AT CHANGE.ORG WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!
ReplyDeleteThis Government of ours has failed us all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI have FAITH in OBAMA!!!!!!! LORD PLEASE HELP US ALL!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI HOPE HIJACKER GET A CARGO PLANE AND DRIVE STRAIGHT INTO CONGRESS WHILE THERE HAVING SESSION
ReplyDeleteI am from central Illinois and been out of work since 10/08. I just wanted to let you know if you live in Illinois there is NO payments going to be made on EB as of 6/5/2010 till they pass this bill. The food pantries in the area in which I live are bare and it thats weeks to get aproved for a Linkcard the DHS has been hit hard with applications since the 1st of June. I am sick of only eating one meal a day. I have No family to turn to and my firend lost their jobs as well . God Please Help Us. Obama you need to step in and pass this bill or are you going to wait 3 months?????? Tell we all are so sick from not having anything to eat.
ReplyDeleteI just find it amazing that these guys are willing to hold their own constituents hostage in order to forward their own agendas.The lack of foresight they've shown is staggering.What do they think is going to happen when a million people lose everything and end up on the streets pissed off feeling like they've got nothing left to lose? I personally am tired of the implication that collecting unemployment INSURANCE is some kind of welfare that I find preferable to going to work everyday.I can't speak for the rest of you but it doesn't even come close to what my income was before I was laid off. And though I'm sure there is a small percentage of people that have been milking it out I firmly believe that the vast majority of us just want to go back to WORK! Isn't it sad that these senators pave the way for their multi-millionaire buddies to cash in their Golden Parachutes while they hand the rest of us Lead Parachutes and tell us to have a nice day.If your not going to help create jobs or assist us in our time of most dire need the WTF good are you?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: the best way to make contact is find where they live and see how they do with there hands tied and nothing to eat then put them outside exposed to the weather with no shelter and force them to beg for food.
ReplyDeleteEVERYONE PLEASE GO TO WWW.CHANGE.ORG AND SIGN THE PETITION IT ONLY TAKES SECONDS AND THIS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU AND GODBLESS YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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SOON AS ONE OF THE OLD SCUMBAGS GET SHOT, ALL THEIR ATTITUDES WILL CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI just finished my 26 weeks of unemployment. I am disabled. I am 30 years old. I do not have a dime to my name and have no food and cannot pay my rent or my health insurance premium. This was my only lifeline. Why can't Obama overturn this with an executive order? He is the President after all. If this does not go through in about a week, I don't think I will have much choice but to end things because I do not have anywhere to go, and if this is way things are going to be it can't be much worse than this situation.
ReplyDeleteSen. Olympia Stone is currently delivering a speech to try and pass this bill.
ReplyDeleteThese people act like being on unemployment you can live the lavish life...I'm just trying to get buy before I lose everything I have and once that happens life becomes pointless....These Republican Senators have children that are well taken care of where as mine are suffering at no fault of my own!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteObama is a worthless piece of sh*t. He hasn't accomplished a goddamned thing while in office...just a continuation of doing nothing like the Bush Administration. If he cared about the American people, he would have already extended unemployment AND added a Tier 5 extension by Executive Order. Guess he's too busy bailing out Wall Street and having Beer Summits to do any actual work.
ReplyDeleteAccording to a news item, the state of Pennsylvania has a current unemployment rate of 5% so therefore it appears all is well. Of course that statistic does not reflect the thousands of persons who fell off the books at the end of May due to the end of one extension program. June's stats should be even more amazing when they are calculated next month because it will probably show an unemployment rate of 1% after another bulk of the unemployed lose their jobless benefits.
ReplyDeleteI am a 49 yr old female living in NJ with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 25 years experience in the I.T. industry including systems design, support and project management. I went for the hottest certifications as added insurance for marketability. I sought positions abroad and spent 4 years working in Asia and the UK to further increase my marketability. I can even converse and conduct business in another language, albeit not fluently. I plodded and did as much as I could to increase my value in the job market. And now I wonder why I bothered. After all the I.T. industry is still considered in the upper ranks of one of the fastest growing careers in the 21st century and beyond.
I was laid off from a consultant position in March 2009 and the only work I have found is a recent part-time retail job. My benefits will most likely end next week.
While this type of work will not cover my no-frills monthly expenses (car payment, car insurance, food) I'm grateful to this employer because they are the ONLY one that actually followed up with me and offered me work. They didn't ignore my application. I wasn't told I was "over-qualified", "would get bored with the work" or immediately discounted because I've had involuntary lengthy unemployment. I find it interesting that these excuses were not used to exclude me as a retail job candidate in which I have less than 1 year's experience but they are the TOP excuses used to disqualify me from any private-sector administrative or I.T. corporate position. I have no problem with working 2 or 3 jobs, even newspaper delivery, because I have done so before - in fact, just several years ago during hard times.
There are no "full-time, permanent" jobs out there that enable Americans to meet their basic needs (food, shelter). The Congressional parties persons opposed to the extension know this and don't really care. They claim they are worried about what future generations will have to pay in taxes to offset an extension of short-term jobless benefits. In my opinion, this is false. Since those opposed are wealthy, the future generation of their own family will inherit such wealth. Ignorance is bliss!
I believe they are deliberately stalling a resolution on this bill until they go on another cushy, paid week-long holiday as of the July 4th weekend. By that time millions of us will have fallen off the unemployment collections book and this will just add to their delusions that unemployment continues to fall and the economy is improving. Therefore, in their minds, there will be no justification to re-introduce the jobless extension bill.
I have friends in other countries who are in disbelief that the U.S. is treating their own citizens like this. The U.S. has spent so many years shoving in the faces of other countries statements about our democracy, value of diversity, no bias re age, race, ethnicity, gender... the Land of Opportunity. What propoganda will they spew when foreign news medias see and start to report the increase in tent cities, foreclosures, crime, welfare requests, suicides etc. due to the millions of unemployed who were tossed aside by the government?
Wait till election.....B.S. How in the hell do i take care of my family with no means of transportation or food...Have you ever spent night after night with the damn mosquitoes biting the hell out you all night? At least in the day time i can see them. "Election" hell no time to show them now.
ReplyDeleteSIGN THE THING AT CHANGE.ORG YOU DUMBASSES!
ReplyDeleteWhenever there is a natural disaster or man-made disater in another country, AMERICA always goes running to help to make it SEEM like we are such a loving country. BULLSH*T!!!!!! Thats just a cover-up and false presentation!!!!!! They put jars out and collection areas for everything but THEIR OWN PEOPLE! HELLO!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE CRYING FOR HELP!!!!!! WE NEED IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a man-made disaster that can be fixed!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteput on c span Rep Snowe is giving a great speech
ReplyDeleteWow look at the smart one why did they not elect you then you could fix everything.
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This is a disater, the unemplyment office in ca if intentionally filing claims late as to not meet the may 30 deadline, this is happening to me right now! Contact your state rep and speak your mind, if this is also your case dont let it go, file an appeal and fight it! GOD bless all of you who are suffering in this time of need, i wil pray for all and hope that this will get passed SOON! GOD bless all !!!
ReplyDeleteIM WATCHING HER SHES TRYING!
ReplyDeleteeveryone that has time to comment on here needs to sign the petition on www.change.org please it will make a big difference..
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ReplyDeleteWe as Citizens Of the United States Have Had Enough Of Politics as Usual in Washington. We are now Taking Back our Power as The People For The People. We Will No longer Be Held Hostage By The Senate And Congress. We Demand Our Voices Be Heard! The Time To Act Is NOW!!
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COPY AND PASTE THE LINK AND PLEASE PASTE IT TO WHERE EVER YOU CAN WE ARE TRYING TO GET AS MANY SIGNATURES AS POSSIBLE WHERE AS THE TOP ONE NOW IS ABOUT OBAMA STOPPING OFF SHORE DRILLING...
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WE ARE AT 1,600 ON THE PETITION LETS REACH OUR GOAL OF 2,000 TODAY! SIGN THE PETITION AT WWW.CHANGE.ORG ...DIRECT LINK IS:
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THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
A Republican on our side? Sen. Olympia Snowe...
ReplyDeleteEveryone please continue to PRAY! We can move and create this positive energy around us and make this happen! Believe in the higher power, it makes a difference! God Bless You ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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1,611 and counting come on people... let's make this happen...SUFFER NO MORE!!!!!!
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Thank you John Kyl Max Baucus and Olympia Snowe! We will remember you names when it's time to vote!!! Ppppleeease pass this bill!
ReplyDeleteOBAMA PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThey need to seperate the unemployment extension from the tax extenders bill. The tax extenders bill is quite fucked up. Why do they have to lump these bills together? If they were seperate, the unemployment extension would be passed by niw.
ReplyDeleteThese very cruel people trying to stand in the way of this bill, they've got it made with the security of their jobs so they dont have a worry in the world.
ReplyDelete-----DEAR GOD, PLEASE HELP!!!
Signed the suffering American!
sign the petition please..
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I have been on unemployment for 12 months. Half the time of many other recipients. I live in an ecomonically depressed area where business are closing every day. They can't make it. I have done everything possible to gain employment.
ReplyDeleteMy unemployment was cut off on June 5th.
A few days ago, while watching c-span2 hoping for some positive news, I experienced a visual disturbance. Little golden lights flickering in my proliferal vision. It last for over 12 hours. It wasn't a stoke, it was an ocular migrain brought on by stress. At 56 I was lucky. BUT what of those that are not so lucky? Stress can KILL! Obvious conditions like stoke and heart attack and even cancer are very real possibilities. But what about the not so obvious? What about depression? Could lead to suicide, yep. The father that can't support his family and can't see a way out of the suffering? Use your imagination. It's too horrible to contemplate.
How about the desperation, moves a parent to rob and loot and yes, even murder?
I'm telling you, if something isn't done - and very soon - we could be looking at civil war the likes of which we can't even imagen. The haves against the have nots. The rich won't be safe and that includes our lawmakers in Washington, drawing huge wages. This could literally be the end of our country.
It's time to stop incuring debt sending money to other countries. We need to take care of our own first.
400 votes left and the max number will be met. Change.org. You can't change things by sitting here and typing in all your problems. Write your senators, sign the petitions, join all of us who are unemployed. I have called my local government, sent letters, signed the petitions. Don't give up! Change.org!
ReplyDeleteI look at myself a year ago before now and I was working! Now I look at myself and see the train wreck I've become. Thoughts of suicide. I'm so very depressed and stressed out from all of this, when I CAN sleep and I wake up this is the first thing on my mind, I cannot even live my life the way I used to and it's effecting the people around me.. :-(
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to caring about all human beings? oh thats right, money.
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Regarding the current activities and actions of Congress --- Cruel, just plain ole Cruel!
ReplyDeleteIf money and spending is the real issue, why don't the US end the Iraq and Afghan wars? Never going to win, losing untold lifes, needlessly while spending billions of dollars to keep not one, but two wars going.
1,640 signatures...come on people lets reach 2,000!!!!!!!!!!
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Please tell me all of you people have signed the petition on www.CHANGE.org.. If not please do..
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im watching c spann2 anf there voting on limit of debate of unemployment extension, everyone should compile a list of all the senators who said no and write them and let them know that you dont have there vote in the up coming election..
ReplyDeleteWe have to do somthing!!!
thank you for posting that. i just signed it and emailed it to my family and friends :)
ReplyDeleteGOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVEN THE SENATORS TRYING TO BLOCK THIS BILL...GOD BLESS YOU EVEN MORE!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for signing it. God Bless You !!!!!!
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what a disappointment that republicans are heartless. Why didnt they care about the budget spending when Bush was in office. I am not l azy and was laid off because my company went back to their country. Shame on the Gop for not passing this bill Get rid of the 25.00 a week and put some money in to the pockets that need it now. What happened to compassion for american people.
ReplyDeleteIt is totally unbelievable this bill has not been passed. I hope everyone sees the truth about congress now. If you are unemployed, on welfare,or a smoker, you are screwed. Why? Because your voting numbers are just not large enough for you to matter. That's right, you are a number only, period. I hope Mr. Hatch profits from the medical special interest who no doubt urged him to introduce the drug testing amendment. That will make them millions. I wonder what Mr. Hatches cut will be? Don't you...Can't wait till November.
ReplyDeleteand it didnt pass 57-41 this is so ridiculous, use the stimulous, raise the deficit, lessen the money on this war most dont favor, stop pork spending, stop giving us unemployment for just 30 days... this need to be long term till we can get business to begin hiring again.
ReplyDeleteReid is asking for just 30 days now, for temp help...but if it passes what happens? we have to do this all over again, worry? wait? this is not leadership, this is childish and high school behavior!
GOD FORGIVE ME BUT THESE OLD A$$ WHITE FOLKS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ITS LIKE TO STRUGGLE OR WANT FOR SH*T...LAST YEAR AROUND THIS TIME I DIDNT HAVE TO WANT OR NEED FOR ANYTHING!!!! BUT BECAUSE MY JOB WAS TAKEN FROM ME AT NO FAULT OF MY OWN THIS IS WHAT I DESERVE?!
ReplyDeleteif they could cut some of the foodstamps from reciptants like 40 dollars each that could pay for it. the people can well make up for it in the lost of foodstamps by clipping coupons.. i myself has turn 155 dollar food purchase and only paid 55 dollars... if i can do it.. ANYONE can. I know it sounds heartless to take from others to help us.. but i say its time to to start sharing what some have with the one who dont... US HURTING UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS wont be able to survive without it... YOU Cant get any help from the government if you dont have an address to send the paperwork to. PLEASE HELP US>> IF YOU CAN!! YOU figure.. Manufactures makes the coupons, the newspapers distributes the coupons, the stores accept the coupons, the consumers purchase food using coupon,,, hence JOBS, ECONOMY STEADY, EVERYONE SATISFIED!!!!!!!!! THINK about it..;)
ReplyDeleteWhat insanity exists in the minds,of the would be dictatorship,presently governing our current administration.We the people,are starving;losing everything,homeless;because the regulators,our goverment, let run amuck,instead of doing their jobs,so wall street and big banks,could write bad loans ,for bad mortgages,knowingly duping international investment firms,and nearly collapsing the world freemarket,for what amounts to fraud,and no one is held accountable.What little red book,or manifesto,are they a party to.Tax paying americans,who have paid into unemployment, in excess of 20 plus years,and never collected any benefit from,aren't entitled to what amounts, to less than one percent of what they paid in, before interest.And Bernie Madoff,is guilty of what crime.What hipocrasy is ruling our country;should not all laws, apply equally to all.Especially,members of congress.AMERICANS INTERESTS,are of no consequence.Why not have the banks repay the bailout funds sitting idly by,to bailout the citizens, who have committed no crimes;but are victims of their own goverments inability to do what they swore oaths to do.Or better yet pay full restitution,plus interest,to all the unemployed, who essentially,are losing everything they worked their whole lives for.The amounts paid to them all,would still pale in comparison,to what congress is paid collectively,over their life times.Equality dose not exist anywhere in our democracy.All that matters are getting into office,and all bets are off.Perhaps a little change is in order.
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ReplyDeleteCOULD U PEOPLE PLEASE JUST SIGN THE PETITION PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
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Sometimes I just go to sleep and hope I dont wake up to this living nightmare again!
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they wont be satified until something happen to one of them or there loved ones considering extension..becasue people will soon be on the street I have rent light bill and need food. what happens when someone gets evicted from this....pissed.com
ReplyDeleteDemocracy and "We the People..." is now a bunch of hypocrecy and trash my friends. This is the new era of big interests and big corporations. Big corporations, Wall Street and others of the same school now tell Congress what they ought to do and vote for, if they want to keep their seat. If we ever find a job, we must keep working to keep big corporations and rich Senators living the good life. By the way, those in Welfare have been living on the system for decades, and they don't run into these kind of problems! The problem comes when you work! The good news is: AIG, the banks, all top executives, Wall Street, they all got the billions they needed, all in due time. By the way, we must continue financing with deficit a war nobody even knows for what purpose! This is the new America. Looks like corruption to me, but that's a problem in 3rd world countries, of course, not here.
ReplyDeleteI posted earilier today at 5:17pm. I'd like to add 1 more item to my dismal commentary. If unemployment goes, what do you suppose is next?
ReplyDeleteMedicare and Medicade? Welfare and food stamps? Disability? Social security has been running in the red for years. How many millions of people have to suffer?
Unemployment alone is at 1.6 million by the end of the month. The prospects are dire.
As Mr. Burns says, "Exxxxxcellent".
ReplyDeleteKeep begging your Corporate Gov't for help, but be careful what you wish for... and make sure to check your history books to see what happens next.
The Post office alone is in the red 8-9 billion a yr. The waste is rampid, legitimate and large cuts could be made virtually from A to Z and this is how Congress deals with it's citizenry. They should all be fired !!
ReplyDeleteCOME ON PEOPLE THE PETITION IS NOW IN THE NUMBER ONE SPOT!!!!!!!WE ARE AT 1,926 SIGNATURES...LET'S GET IT!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletePLEASE SIGN THE PETITION IF YOU HAVE NOT AND SEND TO ALL OF YOUR RELATIVES AND FRIENDS!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH........
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Change.org...less than 100 signatures needed! Don't give up now. We pay them to work for us!!
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ReplyDeleteI hope everyone is taking the time to sign the petition.
JUNE 24, 2010
ReplyDelete"The unemployment extension again failed to make it past a vote to limit debate in the U.S. Senate on Thursday evening.
The revised version included tax cuts sought by business groups and other provisions sought by both parties failed to advance to a vote. No Republican voted to end debate, which would have advanced the bill. Florida's senators votes were split: Nelson voted for debate to end on the measure, LeMieux did not.
If no other bill is proposed, more than 200,000 people a week will lose their jobless benefits. In Florida, more than 34,000 residents a week are losing their benefits since federal emergency benefits expired on June 2. The Senate has been debating various versions and amendments to the bill for eight weeks, with Republicans arguing the unemployment payments would add to the federal deficit.
Is this the end of the unemployment extension? "I hope not. The stakes are too high," said Judy Conti,lobbyist for the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group for the nation's 15 million unemployed."
GO FIGURE...PEOPLE PLEASE!!!!!! IM BEGGING YOU PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION!!!!!!!!!!!
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Checking the history books is fine, but really isn't the writting already on the wall with blinding illumination. We are not looking at just an economic depression. It's much worse. I posted eariler at 5:17pm and again at 7:13pm.
ReplyDeleteI truely believe this is an accurate depiction of the future of our homeland. Ever seen "Mad Max"? Our senaters love quoting actors and movies. Maybe they should go to the video store and rent this one. This isn't science fiction, it is the future unless they pull their heads out of their collective asses, take a look at the reality and act quickly to correct their failures. They are responsible for this mess. They tell B.P. to take responsibility and clean up their mess, it's time for them to look in the mirror and act like grown ups and clean up their own mess.
Democracy is over my friends. Big corporations and big money controls government, certainly Congress and the Media. Not much is said on TV about the Unemployed, Yahoo says nothing either. Our hope are these posts and our prayers. Whatever bog corporations or banks dictate, that will be done. Period.
ReplyDeletewow I can't belive this , I got laid off and then lost my home , got a job got laid off from it, now no more help from out gov, now i will be kick out of my apt, there is no JOB's IN PHOENIX AZ.
ReplyDeletechange.org please sign the petition and pass it around to friends and family. last time I looked it was just over 2,000 - goal is 5,000
ReplyDeleteI tried to send an email to the President on the Whitehouse site. But, conveniently it is undergoing maintenance.
ReplyDeleteEveryone: change.org to sign petitions & unemployed-friends.com------- useful info and support; also any immediate news of what is going on............
GOVERNMENT- is giving us the shaft. They save the banks, but give us the shaft. If I miss 3 payments on my house, yes it's in goes into foreclosure. They are sucking the oil out of Iraq at the cost of Americans.
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