The measure needs 60 votes to pass in the Senate. There is one Democratic senator against the measure, and that's Senator Ben Nelson from Nebraska. There are two Republican Senators that are for the bill, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Massachusetts.
The late Robert Byrd likely would have voted for the extension, meaning that the Senate would only need one vote in order to pass the measure.
Many are upset at Ben Nelson for crossing the party lines, but if you look at the State he comes from, his vote may make sense - although it doesn't make anyone happy.
For instance, Nebraska has a very low unemployment rate. In addition, it is the state where Warren Buffet calls home - and HR 4213 slapped some hefty taxes on investment funds and the like. Ben Nelson likely was voting with his state in mind - and what his constituents wanted.
That's of little consolation to the millions without a lifeline. This November, the Senators who voted against the bill will be remembered by the MILLIONS who don't have to take time off work to vote.
There are many who expect the benefits bill to pass once a replacement for Senator Byrd has been named. Until then, many are left waiting.
Don't give up hope. A standalone bill passed the House, and one way or another the extension will likely be passed. Hopefully the benefits will be applied retroactively so those who went months without benefits will be vindicated.
I am just so disgusted that they couldn't do something before their vacation!! That leaves me and millions of others to worry ourselves to death. No grilling and having fun with our families...be lucky to be eating!! How can they do that to the people who were working and paying taxes? I have worked for 23 years...and have been unemployed for less than a year...so I'm sure what I've paid in more than covers me! But what good is that? I pray that each of the senators that will not pass the bill...some how some day feel what I'm feeling. I believe in God...and I believe he answers prayers...and I believe in do unto others as you would have them do unto you...and I believe everything you do...comes back to you!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThey don't care . They all will have their goodtimes without having to worry where the next meal comes from. If the crime rate goes up its their fault because people have to do what they need to feed their families. The Government makes me sick!
ReplyDeleteI thought I was getting ready to go out of town to visit my sick father, and spend the 4th of July with my family, but to my surprise my unemployment benefits were no longer. Now, I will be sitting at home wondering how I'm going to make it through the week. Thanks Congress!
ReplyDeleteThis is a very sad time that we are living in.These senators are abusing their "power" and being very cold hearted.I don't care who gives in first.Someone has to be the bigger party in this.Democrats and Republicans want the other to give in.Somebody wake up,develop a heart and help these once working tax paying AMERICANS!
ReplyDeleteI thinks it's sad that america can take care or other countries but leave the people hungry. Unemployment is not welfare we all have worked hard and paid taxes.. Now that the economy is bad you hail on us and on top of that have the nerve to take a vacation and forgot that your citizens are suffering.. I see now why some people chose not to vote cause it should not even be a vote on extending unemployment, it should have been done instantly. If this is fixed I'm never voting again!
ReplyDeleteeveryone needs to do all they can to spred the word and get these senators out in november put them on the unemployment line so get the word out let our voices be heard for once!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhy is the mostly Repubican Senate refusing to help the American people by not allowing unemployment extensions for people who really need it? They ( the senate) receive checks from the hard earned tax money provided by the American people but they want their constituents to starve. Help us Lord Jesus. These republican officials, in their pride and greed and hate for the President and apparently the American people have run amuck! We need Divine intervention. Let me remind them, you reap what you sow. GOD is watching!
ReplyDeleteAnd why in the world do they need a whole week off for the fourth of july we pay these animals salary and they have more vacations than anyone in the world i bet the man or woman working out in the hot sun or in factories would love to take time off but instead we are killing ourselves so that they can have a good ole time for the holiday while the people that give them there lifestyle suffer now that because of them giving money to there buddies and now they say they cant afford to give the unemployed the money they themselves gave them but try not to pay your taxes and they will be on you like rabid dogs what happened to our great country its so sad.
ReplyDeleteI exhausted my 26 weeks it rolled by so fast and I worked all my life this is the first time I had to draw unemployment and I can't even get it because extension on hold if it wasn't for MaverickMoneyMakerBizs.com I probably be in a soup line while they enjoy their vacation we continue to struggle after we pay taxes for all the years we worked and then this bull shit. Don't take this lightly ya'll because ever check we ever got while working they took out taxes every check people. we need to put our foot on their throat and apply pressure for screwing the american people like this there not God
ReplyDeleteI cant believe this, when i cast my vote in november I will be sure and vote democrat! you bastards have a nice vacation while me & my children wonder where our next meal comes from!!
ReplyDeleteThe Senate has drawn the line in the sand...anarchy will certainly commence in our land as desperate measures are forced by our government.
ReplyDeleteThe original "Boston Tea Party" was a tax revolt by the people of the
ReplyDeleteAmerican colonies against the Crown of England, and it was a protest against "taxation without representation". It was a very bold move against an entrenched aristocracy that was used to wielding absolute power with no opposition for a very long time. Sound familiar? A national tax revolt is the only thing that this privileged club of smug, overpayed and corrupt personalities would understand. Too bad that revolutionary spirit is too cowed and controlled to ever rise again. Those founding fathers would cringe if they could see the evolution of the revolution. What a shame, the return of the aristocracy that was hard fought against.
So bad in our town they cant afford fireworks
ReplyDeleteIf you observe closely, you will see the striking similarities between the Republican Senate and the SS Officers in Nazi Germany. Cold, calculating and heartless.
ReplyDeleteIt is easy to solve this country's economic problem. Just legalize online gaming. There are hundreds of millions being sent to Costa Rica and other countries. Also legalize sports wagering in places other than Las Vegas. There can be government run Sportsbooks which would generate a lot of revenue.
ReplyDeleteI hope all of you that voted republican and going thru not knowing where your next meal is coming from, I hope y'all happy, it's partly your fault for putting them in office. After bush nobody shoulda voted republican!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe standalone has passed in the House..but what does that really mean, the original bill pass in the house 3 weeks ago and Senate shot it down, so that's no consolation at all. I am a believer in God too 5:03, and I have put it all in His hands not the senates, they've showed us who they are.I pray for everyone that is in the same position, I don't know how I'm going to pay my rent this month.
ReplyDeleteOur Government = Illuminati
ReplyDeleteThey'll see what it's like when they're out of work come November. If someone doesn't assassinate all of them first...now that would be fucking hilarious.
ReplyDeleteI agree with that posting about legalizing online gaming and sportsbooks. I do not think it will encourage gambling. Legal or not if an adult wants to bet on a baseball, basketball, or football game he will. Better that the State or Government gets the revenue than the local bookie.
ReplyDeleteTrillions in tax breaks for the wealth, weathier, & wealthiest/Trillions for the Banksters who caused the problems(& still are)/Trillions for the Transnational Corporate Wars. But not one red cent for working tax paying good ole USA Citizens who AREN'T weathy or a cooked bankster or a chicken hawk senator.
ReplyDeleteI have been like most of you out of work and can agree with most of you how can they keep doing this taking off when us as working americans need help right now,,,, again this senate makes me sick. Instead of thinking of there greed and start worring about us this new administration is the same as the last one. Now with more people out of work then before the last extension they are so crazy to just not care and the democrates with there add ons to the bill they are crazy this needs to be a stand along bill,, this didnt pass again a couple of days ago now we need to wait till the 12th or so by then i will be eating dog food..
ReplyDeleteF--- us americans who had a job at the same place for 20 years and got laid off. Now I learned that the company will not reopen it's doors at all.I take care of my sister who is disable with her two children. The 674 she gets is only half of the rent. We also have lights and gas to worry about. AMERICA THE GREAT, YEAH RIGHT!!!
ReplyDeleteTHANKS FOR NOTHING CONGRESS!!!!!!!! I HOPE YOU CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT KNOWING WHAT YOU SORRY GOOD FOR NOTHING PEOPLE HAVE DONE TO MILLIONS!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty sad when people come here illegally and get better benefits then we do. It just blows my mind that I can't get food stamps or any other benefits because I make too much! WOW Really! Lost my benefits and now I'm being audited by the IRS. Fuck them all! I only wonder how many illegals that get out of that! They should stop paying for them and start paying for the Americans who need it! We work hard and pay our taxes! Which pays for all the illegals in this country! I guess if your not illegal your not American! WOW! very veryvery sad! Happy 4 of July fuckers!
ReplyDeleteIVE WORKED FOR 33 YEARS NEVER DREW UNEMPLOYMENT TIL A YAER AGO VOTED STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN SINCE I WAS 18 AND WAS PROUD OF IT UNTIL NOW THE PEOPLE I HELPED PUT IN OFFICE HAVE THROWEN ME UNDER THE BUS THANX LINDSEY GRAHAM & JIM DEMINTT
ReplyDeleteMAY WE HAVE MORE HEROS SUCH AS TIMOTHY MCVEY
ReplyDeleteThis is outrageous!! My husband is out of work and benifits have expired...I am working fortunetly but it discusts me that millions of Americans are waiting while they are on vacation! There is no celebrating for the millions of Americans that are out of work through no fault of their own!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHow anybody can be a Republican is amazing, maybe people will start to get a clue.
ReplyDeleteI have been a school teacher for 24 years and am now laid off. I want to know why we can help EVERY OTHER country in the world during their hard times ,but we can't help OUR OWN ? I have had students that did not have food,water,or electricity.This was before the recession.Why in the world can't congress GROW UP and agree to help everyone at their GREATEST time of need! I do not know how you sleep at night knowing you are responsible for children going hungry!!!!
ReplyDeleteFuck this Country is all I can say!!!
ReplyDeleteOutrageous! SOB's in the senate. These idiots sure worry about other countrys...WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO NEED HELP IN THE USA!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou know I am out there everyday putting out applications and resumes to try and get a job so I do not have to worry about the unemployment checks that I have not gotten in a month. But I am having no luck in finding a job. I have worked for over 20 years and when I need the help they are not there. I am in the process of either paying my household bills or my mortgage. and I am going to have to go with my bills. i just wish they would make up there mind as to what they are going to do so that I can firgure out my next step weather it be lose my house or try to figure out how to keep it they just are not making this easy for the American people
ReplyDeleteTHIS IS THE VERY REASON I DON'T WORRY ABOUT VOTING;THESE RICH BASTARDS TALK A GOOD TALK WHILE TRYING TO GET ELECTED INTO OFFICE.AFTER THEY GET WHAT THEY WANT THE HELL WITH ALL AMERICANS.TO THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS NOW YOU ALL SEE HOW THE MINORITY FEEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletebill nelson burgers for all, what an asshole!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't even care about grilling or having fun. My 2 yr old was found to be disabled (she was recently diagnosed with Autism)and before this fiasco, I received a letter that though she was found to be disabled, she wouldn't qualify due to my income (unemployment benefits). Then this b.s. with the idiots in the white house started and by the grace of God, her SSI worker reopened her case and we will be paid BARELY before the property management company would start paper work to evict me! I'm still going to be short (due to earnings made in May) but also another grace of God, my brother will try to help me with the rest! I don't know WHAT THE F-CK we're going to do for food! My car company called me today wondering where my payment is and they say they're going to give me a couple of weeks to sort it out! Meanwhile, these SOB's will be off for a 10 days knockin' back brewski's and laughin' at our unfortunate out of luck asses! Only to come back, and the bill STILL needs to pass the Senate! I'm OUTRAGED!!!!! It's going to totally screw me because I need that money to get caught up on the b.s. they simply couldn't agree on, then I'll have to stop my daughter's benefits, owe SSI back for July while I finish out my 18 weeks of benefits (unless God sends a nice paying job my way during that time) I need a few repairs on my car! I need to get caught up on my payment! I need to catch up on my daughter's co-pays for all of her therapy! That's ALL CONSUMER MONEY that's being payed with benefits they act like we're abusing! You're damned right...FUCK THIS COUNTRY!
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. gave Afghanistan 30 million in 1960! Can you imagine how much they are getting now, 50 years later? A little of that would really help the unemployed millions of Americans NOW IN DESPERATE NEED! It's the people in the government, NOT AMERICA that is f----- up!
ReplyDeleteThe problem of millions of unemployed Americans is that we can't "march on Washington." WE CAN'T AFFORD TO GET THERE! And the creeps in the Senate know it and are laughing all the way to their vacation homes to celebrate the birthday of OUR COUNTRY!
ReplyDeleteHe is my hero and I am unemployed and hungry tonight
ReplyDeleteScott Brown In Mass is a hero to me. Sometimes you have to make tough decisions. This needs to be paid for or atleast partially paid for and the Republicans are willing to meet half way. The Democrats are using this for politcal gain and the Evil illegal and un-constitutional Federal Reserve Bank which is privately owned by the same people who own all network media and have contibuted to the campaigns of almost all elected officials since it began in 1913. If the American Sheeple do not wake up to what is going on than we will soon wake up with new money. Remember the golden rule. The man with the Gold..Rules. We'll have one money...one power
They are creating a bigger mess by not getting it through. They are going to have foreclosures go much higher no money from millions of us not going back into the economy. The defaults on all loans will be staggering! They weren't worried about the deficit when they passed all that money to other countries and there are simply to many instances in the last few weeks to even list! They are going to drain states because we will all be draining the welfare system. This is supposed to be unheard of in the great USA. We have hungry homeless and them going off on vacation. The biggest problem here is they are more worried about the politics not the deficit. They have no sense of the reality of it. There seems to be no connect to the people they are supposed to be representing. They are making us beg for it, we are nothing at all to these people. I would much rather be working but there simply isn't anything to apply to, the places I do apply never respond! Yes I have even applied at McDonald's and was told I am over qualified! It sure isn't for the people anymore it is for the politics for the power they have over the poor. I am not a very proud American this weekend. I am a hungry one too!
ReplyDeleteI simply can't believe they can sleep at night. MR. President what are you doing?
ReplyDeleteThe following news really tell the horrible situation of economy.
ReplyDeletehttp://finance.yahoo.com/news/79-million-jobs-lost-many-cnnm-1248019835.html?x=0
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/So-what-exactly-is-a-apf-718644427.html?x=0
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Job-market-not-growing-fast-apf-711965434.html?x=0
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Stocks-fall-as-jobs-report-apf-3280399968.html?x=0
And seriously people, I was thinking that economy will get more bad if "THEY" don't give us our money, and the last news is the prove. Just wait and will see that it will get more bad, and "THEY" will realize I hope.
It is not rocket science to understand that unemployed people are succumbing in problems without any fault of their own, and we need our money.
Why there should be unemployment till unemployment rate fall below 8-9% in California or in any state. I believe that unemployment should continue
ReplyDeletefor infinite time till the unemployment rate goes down:
What are the reasons for my assertion that there should be unemployment till unemployment rate goes down to 8-9%?
High unemployment rate means
> more competition for one job,
> that companies are hiring less,
> that there are less jobs,
> that few people are spending as they have less money.
And my above line justifies the "Tsunamic" situation of economy.
> Less people are spending --- means less profit on business and less tax revenue
> Less hiring from companies as banks are giving less loans as banks have less money
> companies are hiring less as they don't have work as there is less people to give them a work or project, and, also, they are not having a big loan
from the banks as banks have less money or not giving loans as the economy is bad.
How to solve this?
> Americans need to spend more, but how Americans could if they don't even have money for a roof, for food, for shampoo, for toothpaste?
If there were no unemployment, people will not buy food; as a result, grocery stores will be bankrupt as no one is buying food. More tidal waves will be
coming.... And when the tidal wave does a significant, monstrous, damage, I guess, then "THEY" will understand, but it is obvious that, by then,
there will be more damage.
Yesterday, I have posted a list about the basic expenses that is essential for unemployed. Have you read it? If not, please read, and I am 100% right about this list:
ReplyDeleteHow unemployment check gets spent?
1) Rent to have a roof over
1) Food to eat so that we can look for work and don't die
3) Internet connection: to look for job in Craigslist, monster, career builder, dice, etc, and so that recruiters can contact us
4) Phone) So that companies can call us and do a telephone interview
5) Cleaning material: soap, shampoo, laudry, etc so that at interview we look ok and not like a criminal
6) Toothpaste: to clean teeth as there is no dentist
7) Hair Cut ( i have not got a hair cut in last 5 months)
8) Other necessities: so that we can live humanly while we don't have our job.
I am also hungry now; i hope that at 4th of july my friend will give me a bar b q burger, a hot dog, and a corn on cobs.
ReplyDeletei don't know whenever i post, why no one posts any more...
ReplyDeleteam i welcome here? I am also unemployed and looking/applying for job...
Do you guys like my posting at all?
These evil bastards should be lynched. There are no words to describe what they have done to their own people. Honest, hardworking Americans that they don't give a rat's ass about. People out of work because of jerks like the one's on Wall Street that got us into this mess. And then to go on VACATION!!!! Unbelievable!!!! We must be loud and clear about this and take action against these so-called representatives of the people. VOTE them out. Period. Include the Democrats who voted no as well. And why is the President sitting on the sidelines? We need HELP NOW!!!
ReplyDeleteI am posting again as no one complained.
ReplyDeleteYes. I agree July 2, 2010 9:07 PM
We have to be strong.
We have to go through this storm
As it would make us strong
We ought to fight---for our right
As justice has to be served if it's not served
So , People, Fight for your right
Together we stand N'
together we fight
And we stand for all
As Divided We fall
So United we Stand
As
I just wrote this poem, which should give us courage:
ReplyDeleteWe have to be strong.
We have to go through this storm
As it would make us strong
We ought to fight---for our right
As justice has to be served if it's not served
So , People, Fight for your right
Together we stand N'
together we fight
And we stand for all
As Divided We fall
So United we Stand
People were posting every two minutes, but as soon as I post anything everyone stops.
ReplyDeletePlease let me know if I am welcome. I am unemployed and trying to get a job and I apply for job whenever I get something that matches my profile.
Lets all revolt and not file or pay taxes untill we get their attention
ReplyDeleteWhy do you keep saying that 9:23PM? Nobody knows that is is you posting, until you tell us, because your profile is anonymous. Stop trippin!
ReplyDeletePLEASE just pass the bill! I cant even pay my child support cause I dont have the money to. I missed the deadline by one week. This is just my luck. I dont wanna go to jail because I dont have the money to pay my child support. I know people that are on there 5th extension and I cant even get one. This is bull shit. Pass the damn bill......PLEASE!
ReplyDeleteto hell with this country !!!
ReplyDeletethe senators make around 174,000 a year-but i am curious as what the are doing to earn this amt of money-i too would be smiling if i had that job! take a week here,then take another week here,and in the meantime when i am at work,i do nothing! oh-wait,i forget,they do screw their fellow americans.
ReplyDeleteI have been out of work since 10/08 and am a cancer survivor. I have learned the hard way how to make it through the darkest times that seem futile. Please take my suggestions with heart-felt good intentions. As we go through this, please remember to take very good care of yourself - and your loved ones - in the simplest of ways. Sounds obvious, but truly the level of stress we are under at this time - and for such a long time - is beyond what any person can handle without threats to their well being - both physically and emotionally. As I am having to do, spend any pennies you have for food on highly nutritional choices. Stay hydrated as it reduces blood pressure. If you can, exercise daily to take the edge off for awhile. Cardio/strength training is best. Surround yourself, if you can, with those you love the most and avoid those who bring you additional stress at all cost. Get extra rest. If you are tired, take that nap. If you can, take hot showers/warm baths to try to rest your body and mind. Listen to your favorite music or read a good book. Schedule time each day to look at the sky, flowers, nature, etc. If you have a pet, keep them close to you. Help one other person each day in some small way - hold a door, just say hi, etc. Helping others soothes the heart. If you are religious, go to church and just sit. Take a walk. Watch kids play in the sandbox. This upcoming week will be tougher than ever. I am your fellow American and I care about you. Just as if I was a passenger on a 9/11 hijacked aircraft and you were next to me, I stand by you, care about you and the welfare of those you love. You are not alone nor foresaken. We have each other and nothing can change that fact. God Bless America -- America is you and me. Thanks for listening.
ReplyDeletethanks congress ive been working and paying taxes for years. I hope you guys have a good vacation while i scrape up pennies to feed my kids we wont even see fireworks this year because i dont have money for gas. I wish all the people that are in my situation a great holiday and good luck and fortunes to you and your families in these times.And i big F U to congress
ReplyDeleteI hope & pray congress has a wonderful 4th of July & vacation, & me & my fam including millions of other familys, dont run thru there minds. I pray they have food on the grill, while i pass on my meal so my kids can have enough to eat. And there homes are full of fun and laughter, while I am begging and pleading for a few mores days to pay rent.May you never end up in my shoes. God Bless America!
ReplyDeleteHow heartless they can be! They will have grilled scallops and unemployed people will not have a decent meal for the independence day.
ReplyDeleteWhatever. What goes around, comes around.
Happy Fourth of July to Unemployed People. We are strong and not pussies and will fight and will win.
We will be free again. We will have Justice.
what is wrong with you people... it was the republicans who asked for a stand alone bill to begin with not the democrats... the democrats want to include all this additional pork barrel spending along side it... even with this nonsense excuse for a bill, the republicans were willing to go along as long as the money came from the stimulus funds and again the democrats refused... it is not the republicans saying no, read and stop making false statements... the republicans are not stupid... without us out there spending, the economy tanks worst... Obama and Pelosi have been lying to us... listen to how they speak, as if they are the only true Gods of the universe... they are not in touch with us... they have been spoon fed all of their lives.. check the facts... For Gods sake if you guys cant even see the real issues how are you going to be able to win this battle.... Charge the right enemy and you will win,,, attack the wrong party and everyone loses big...
ReplyDeleteGod. Please bless America...... We are in trouble. Help!
ReplyDelete7.9 million jobs lost
ReplyDeleteOR SOLD isn't that really the truth?
The news says the jobs are gone forever because these businesses won't recover..BULL...OUR JOBS WERE SOLD BY THE CRIMINALS THAT RUN OUR COUNTRY MOST OF THIS UNEMPLOYMENT IS DUE TO FACTORY RELOCATIONS TO MEXICO AND CHINA AND THE REST OF OUR JOBS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, HIGH DEFICIT TAX, AND GREED!
WE THE SHEEPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
nj unemployment told me congress called and told them to pay
ReplyDeleteThis is a serious question, does anybody know what happens to the 6.2 percent of our income that was paid into our unemployment fund? Does it just go in to a general fund, or is it supposed to be used for unemployment insurance? Is it spent for programs other than unemployment?
ReplyDeleteWe are scared and worried out here and we need this bill passed. With our 2 senators being Republican they voted against the extension. I have always been a Republican but I am going to remember this come election day. The unemployment rate in the state of GA is 10.2% higher than the nation with 9.7%.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we don’t need to increase the national debt, but there are hard working Americans from the state of GA as well as the rest of the US who helped make this country great that now need help until we the economy gets going. We can spent money on the war in Afghanistan, bail out the banks for their mistakes, how about helping the Americans in our country that have paid their taxes, worked when their was work who now are in trouble. We are hanging on by a thread.
I was amazed that a Democratic Senator, Ben Nelson from Neraska voted against the Emergency Unemployment Extension. It is interesting to know that the unemployment rate for the state of Nebreska is 4.9%. The logic here from this Democratic Senator must be My states unemployment rate is acceptable so forget the people of my state who are unemployed because the unemployment is not high enough. This is an insult to the unemployed folks of Nebraska and to the rest of the Demacrats of the United States.
Here on this great holiday of this nation, My family and I can't enjoy. Bills coming next week and am about $400.00 short. We are headed for a depression and not a recession.
Enough is enough already. Pass the damn extension. It's not a good feeling going to bed at night not knowing if you'll have enough food to feed your family. I'll work for my unemployment check. Just tell me what the hell you want me to do. I'll pick up cans etc. along the road if need be because, as hard as I try, I don't get any bites when applying for jobs. Enjoy your 4th of July break.
ReplyDeleteJust in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn't know this. It's easy to check out, if you don't believe it. Be sure and show it to your kids. They need a little history lesson on what's what and it doesn't matter whether you are Democrat o r Republican. Facts are Facts!!!
ReplyDeleteSocial Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message was removed . [9]
An old Social Security card with the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message.
Our Social Security
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social
Security (FICA) Program. He promised:
1.) That participation in the Program would be
Completely voluntary,
No longer Voluntary
2.) That the participants would only have to pay
1% of the first $1,400 of their annual
Incomes into the Program,
Now 7.65%
on the first $90,000
3.) That the money the participants elected to put
into the Program would be deductible from
their income for tax purposes each year,
No longer tax deductible
4.) That the money the participants put into the
independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the
general operating fund, and therefore, would
only be used to fund the Social Security
Retirement Program, and no other
Government program, and,
Under Johnson the money was moved to
The General Fund and Spent
5) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income
Under Clinton & Gore
Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are
now receiving a Social Security check every month --
and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of
the money we paid to the Federal government to 'put
away' -- you may be interested in the following:
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ----
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the
independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the
general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically
controlled House and Senate.
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax
deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -----
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social
Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the
'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the
Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
Q: Which Political Party decided to start
giving annuity payments to immigrants?
AND MY FAVORITE:
A: That's right!
Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.
Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65,
began to receive Social Security payments! The
Democratic Party gave these payments to them,
even though they never paid a dime into it!
------------ -- ------------ --------- ----- ------------ --------- ---------
Then, after violating the original contract (FICA),
the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
The worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it and believe that the Democats are "for the people."
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of
awareness will be planted and maybe changes will
evolve. Maybe not, some Democrats are awfully
sure of what isn't so.
But it's worth a try. How many people can YOU send this to?
Actions speak louder than bumper stickers.
AND CONGRESS GIVES THEMSELVES 100% RETIREMENT FOR ONLY SERVING ONE TERM
I was planning on visiting my parents over the 4th of July. No fancy celebration just down for a visit and perhaps a meager meal. Now I am without Unemployment benefits I can't afford the 20 dollars in gas it would cost to travel there and back. Hopefully the people who voted against this bill choke this holiday on the food they are taking out of the mouths of the unemployed.
ReplyDeleteI am very grateful to God to have my best friend. He will bar b q, and he confirmed me today at 7 pm that he will give me 1 bar b q Burger, 1 Bar B Q hot dog, and 1 grilled corn on the cob with mashed potato at 4th of July. Thanks God for giving me a friend who will feed me for 4th of July.
ReplyDeleteOh! He will also give me a Grilled chicken piece, he confirmed.
ReplyDeleteThe Senate just does not get it. People that are struggling to find work and feed their families are not concerned with the impact on the budget deficit at this very moment. More important items such as the basic necessities of life (food, electricity, water, gas etc.) take priority. Most of us that are collecting benefits are trying to find jobs and not just sitting around waiting to collect a check that equates to a little more than $10/hr. Pass the dang billion so people can rest easier at night.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans, on a whole, are not to blame here. It is the Democrats who have made people way too dependent on the government. The Democrats did this by extending the unemployment checks so far out to begin with. Had the Democrats not done this, many more people would have found jobs by now. And let's not forget who largely caused the bottom to fall out of the economy. If you are unemployed, don't be so quick to thank the liberals who are very much to blame for you being unemployed to begin with.
ReplyDeleteMany people stopped looking for jobs when it appeared that they would be collecting checks until the economy returns to normal. Then the government cut them off. And fact is, even if the government does extend unemployment checks again, sooner or later, it is going to end. It will end, or America will go full blown socialist/communist, and the government will then tell everyone who is on unemployment what job they will be required to do. Socialism is socialism, for any reason. This has gone beyond, that which unemployment insurance is supposed to be. This has turned into one more way for the government to cause citizens to be dependent on the government. Unemployment insurance was never meant to be that.
But before that happens, the Republicans are going to be made out to be the bad-guys in this, so that the Democrats keep both houses again. This is all a ploy to get votes in November. I had wondered how the Democrats were going to get votes after what they did with the health care bill. Democrats are buying votes with extending unemployment checks.
Welfare With A New Name
To those who are on unemployment; don't let the liberals in our government use you all this way. Be careful of the one who comes bearing free money. Remember it is a job that you should be wanting, not a government check. Keep looking. The government will keep you poor on unemployment checks, just as it keeps people poor on welfare checks. It stopped being unemployment insurance, once it passed the original amount of time to receive checks. Don't trust the government. While you are reaching for extended unemployment checks, the liberals in the government are reaching for your mind, body and soul and and your everlasting loyalty. --Please ask yourself, "Now that it is no longer true unemployment insurance checks, but rather a new government program, where is the money actually coming from?" Then ask yourself why you are getting it. And remember, America's government is not actually paying you those extended checks; America's children are. Let's hope they don't pay with their freedom. Let's get out and get work and tell the government you don't want the newest form of welfare.
Debra J.M. Smith - © 07-03-10
The above was taken from:
www.InformingChristians.com
Debra,
ReplyDeleteWhat about "there are no AVAILABLE jobs" do you not understand? If the unemployment insurance extensions were cut off earlier, you state that people would have been forced to find jobs earlier. WRONG! They'd be DEAD!
About 40,000 jobs were created in the last month. 450,000 temporary census jobs were created, but they're expiring, and that means 450,000 people back look for work. Meanwhile, there is another million people who got laid off.
Are you not looking at the hard facts? Do some research. You're listening to party lines, not actually looking at the numbers.
Of course there is a percentage of people taking advantage of a free check, but the vast majority are hard working Americans, some of which you know personally whether you know it or not that they're on unemployment, and they want to work. People still have hope in the American Dream, even when America fails them repeatedly (long hours, little vacation, rising expenses, and now no jobs). But they still love America.
When you mess with millions of innocent Americans, be prepared for the onslaught.
Debra,
ReplyDeleteWake up! The Democrats might be Socialist,however, the Republicans are Nazis. You choose.
JUST REMEMBER THAT NOVEMBER IS ONLY 3 MONTHS AWAY ONE THIRD OF THE SENATE IS ELECTED EVERY 2 YEARS. LET THE 10 PERCENT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE VOTE THE NO VOTERS OUT OF OFFICE. WE NEED TO VOTE FOR AMERICANS FOR THE SENATE, MAKE NO MISTAKE THESE NO VOTING REPUBLICANS ARE NOT TRUE AMERICANS.ITS TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE VOTE THEM OUT.
ReplyDeleteThe Republican, not unlike the Taliban are patient, the quote from zfacts.com below shows they have been working for decades to give the rich tax breaks so they can use the $1.6 trillion in the Social Security fund to cover their asses. When "W" was ask about this he said Social Security was just pieces of paper, not really money. And instead of taxing the people they have made richer, they want to cut your unemployment to balance the budget.
ReplyDeleteThese people think the public is dumb, show them they are wrong.
"The first year, under Reagan, it was an accident, but it soon became a plan. That's why it has gone on for 16 years under Republicans. The national debt is aimed at Social Security, and if left unchecked it will help kill it. So far the federal deficit has borrowed more than $1.6 trillion from the Social Security Trust Fund, and Republicans are warning that it's going to be hard or impossible to pay it back."
This post is for Debra. There might be some jobs out there but that does not mean just anybody can get them. The few job interviews that I have been lucky enough to go on have been a bunch of crap. They call me and I drive 70+ miles round trip and at the end of the interview they look at me and tell me “well you’re really over qualified for this position”. Their reason for not hire someone who they feel is over qualified is they feel if something better comes along we will leave and they have wasted the time and money training us. That’s only their assumption and it’s not necessarily true…maybe they should give us a chance and not be so quick to assume. These people knew my qualifications before calling me and having me spend gas money I really don’t have to waste. Are they not reading my resume before calling me…maybe they are under qualified for their position.
ReplyDeleteAs for your comment about people stopped looking for jobs because the unemployment was extended, are you one of those people? If not, maybe you shouldn’t be so quick to assume either. Until you walk a mile in our shoes you need to need to keep your mouth shut. Who are you to judge? As far as I know there is only one person to judge…and each one of us will meet him one day…and that person isn’t you! I have drawn unemployment for 26 weeks and then I was cut off. I have worked hard all my life and paid my taxes. I pay property taxes for schools and don’t I have children…why I am paying for schools? Am I paying for your kid? I might be but I damn sure am not sitting around bitching about it…nope because that’s the way the ball bounces and I pay my taxes and go on…it’s the American way.
Don’t be so confident your job will be there next week…it could go at anytime. But don’t worry we will welcome you to Team Unemployed…without judgment or criticism.
America is great, if your not American.
ReplyDeleteTo Debra Smith - I assume no global warming, bravo for the rewriting of history in Texas, Jefferson did really want Religion mixed in with the government, etc? To anyone else who thinks Debra and her group on the right are trying to steer this country down a humane path that will secure our place as leaders in the future, take a look at history. Take a look at what the Democrats have managed, against all Republican opposition, to accomplish....civil rights and social security to name a couple...If you don't want us to sink back into "the good old days" of the right's hero McCarthy and people working for slave wages......and slavery for that matter.....don't only vote Democratic, get out there and talk to your neighbors about how they intend to vote. Go through your history and go out there "well"armed" (just a little Democratic humor there)and make a difference for the country you want to leave to your grandchildren.
ReplyDeletethis is the evil empire
ReplyDeleteinvestigate the senete
ReplyDeleteWHAT THE HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!I HAD TO LISTEN TO MY WIFE ALL DAY YESTERDAY TELLING ME SHE WAS GOING TO LEAVE ME BECAUSE I HAVENT HAD ANY MONEY COMING IN FOR 2 MONTHS,MY KIDS WHINING EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY BECAUSE "IM HUNGRY,WE HAVE NO MONEY,WE CANT DO ANYTHING FOR THE 4TH,DADDY YOU DONT HAVE A JOB,DADDY ARE YOU A LOSER,DADDY MOMMYS GOING TO MOVE AND TAKE US WITH HER"I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!I AM GOING TO GET IN MY CAR ON THE FOURTH AND END IT ALL AND LEAVE A NOTE TELLING THE WORLD WHY I DID IT!!LIFE SUCKS I HAVE TO GO!I HOPE THE STATE AND MY WIFE HAVE FUN RAISING MY 4 KIDS!
ReplyDeleteInstead of crying and be frustrated go and demonstrate and let Washington understand that you have a problem. The banks have stronger lobby than you have but you have numbers that they don't have so used it and make a change!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe American Sheeple Are Blind and vote for the one with the best and prettiest adds. the only way to fix this is either by education or by revolution...I prefer to teach! Dear Criminals(SENATORS) Please leave office and return this country to the people. It is an outrage that you have been allowed to continue to destroy this great country by enabling a group of rich investors "Federal Reserve Bank" to even exist. Americans should NOT pay back the deficit created from thin air by a system that was illegal to begin with. It is the intention of this elite(federal reserve bank) to create a debt so high our dollar fails and our country falls. WAKE UP PEOPLE GOOGLE THIS..."Who Owns The Federal Reserve Bank" GOOGLE THIS ..."US DOLLAR TO BE REPLACED" Please wake up before we end up a nation of slaves!!!!
ReplyDeleteAt Debra Smith, your right the republicans are not to be fully blamed, but they are to be blamed for the most part. First, they talk shit about Obama using all this money to stimulate the economy. Most of the Republicans received the money to help stimulate the jobs, what they end up doing was pocketing it and yet still there are no jobs. All these banks and business whom received money, should have to return every dollar if they can't put out the jobs they promised. If it wasn't for the Republicans (Mr. Bush) writing out these blank checks to go kill innocent people in other countries, we wouldn't be in this situation we are in today. And as for the idiot democrats who are sitting on stimulus money, they need to put it towards the unemployment. No body ask to be unemployed. Just like nobody ask for all these illegal aliens in the country to be receiving welfare for kids they have in America just to get government aid. That's bullshit! We taxpayers whom are no unemployed can't even get those benefits. Every year you have thousands of illegal aliens come to America, already PREGNANT, talking about they don't know who breed them!!!!!! Yet still they have a new baby every year, that's more foodstamps, more WIC, cash assistance, and bigger housing! It's just like America to be in everybody's business except our own. Fuck other countries, you look out for the poeple that help put your nasty republicans, and democrats asses into office. And Bullshit Obama isn't any different! Obama you need to grow some fucking balls! I didn't care for Bush, but Mad man Bush turned out to be a better President After all!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOMG.... i wake up praying i have one more day where to sleep....if tomarrow i will still have light water and food on table...sucks so much stress is bad and what if something happens to me because of all this ....stress cause heart attacks.....where will my kids end up...please dnt do this to us....its so hard to get a job and if y i am on unemployment ....its to help pay utilities n food and so on....i am scared of what will happen dont want to end up on street....
ReplyDeleteDoesn't our Government realize that every penny of our extensions will go directly into the economy? How stupid, how cruel, how short sighted, how unAmerican.
ReplyDeletewe just have to leave it in God's hand...He will not put no more on us then we can bare..he knows our troubles every hour of the day and night..we ask a special prayers for the ones of us who have kids that are starving due to the fact of no type of funds...we pray for those who think we just sit and wait on a check to come to us and all along we are searching and looking day after day..God has the last say so and I know my master will not make us continue to pay..so let them have there fun vacating and not caring about the Americans but know that God is watching and watch who will have the last laugh...Let us all who are suffering and who aren't suffering come together and pray for a speedy passinng on the bill..I believe I have the faith and I don't doubt my God. He told me he will not let his children suffer so pray a little harder and release the hate. I know some of us just have anger built inside but let God enter inside and watch the change God make when they return..COME ON PRAY PRAY PRAY PRAY
ReplyDeleteI hope the SENATORS choke on their fat steaks this weekend. I will for sure this year not vote for a republican. Here we are spending TRILLIONS of dollars to support this war in the middle east and helping other countries in there disasters, BUT WHEN IT comes to the POOR USA PEOPLE they abandend us. FOR EXAMPLE during hurrican KATRINA. OBAMA too HAS FAILED US. WHERE was he this week to support US!
ReplyDeleteMaybe if CEO's in America dipped into their multimillion dollar paychecks they wouldn't have to lay off so many people! Maybe, if the corporations in this country hadn't shipped jobs overseas in order not to pay their fellow American's a living wage we would be doing ok. Is it really ok for American families to send their sons, daughters, husbands & wives into combat, to die or become permanently injured to protect these same CEO's freedom to conduct their form capitalism that has left people homeless -- including vets! We bailed out the banks and they turned around and used that money to lobby congress against financial regulations -- oh yes and to give themselves huge bonuses. I believe the theory for the bonuses was the fear the banks would loose talented people -- these are the same talented people that got us into this mess! The wealthiest 1% in this country own this country and they have bought and paid for their politicians -- they have sold us out! The argument should no longer be about Dem's or Republicans but the unequal distribution of wealth in this country that has created a monarchy of elitist!
ReplyDeleteDidn’t Bin Laden tell the American people that he would destroy us economically? Well, the banks, corporations and politicians have helped him do that.
This measure is a "drop in the bucket" compared to some of the shit on their desks! What is wrong with our leaders? The Senate is only driving the economic dagger deeper into America's heart the longer they stall. Seems to me that they are trying to eliminate the poor. Thing are never going to get better. Experts are calling this, "The Lost Decade".
ReplyDeleteThese are all the Senators who voted against the Unemployment Benefits Insurance Extension before the 4th of July Senate recess.
ReplyDeleteAlexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY) Bennett (R-UT) Brown (R-MA) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Kyl (R-AZ) LeMieux (R-FL) Lugar (R-IN) McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Murkowski (R-AK) Nelson (D-NE) Reid (D-NV) Risch (R-ID) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Voinovich (R-OH) Wicker (R-MS)
They have lost all credibility with me.
Let's vote these snakes out!
*** The dems knew that the repubs were going to pull this, yet decided to go home for 10 days anyways instead of getting the quick votes to pass it through... and it will pass.
ReplyDeletePure politics is what did this, the dems are getting a bump in the ratings at the little man's expense.
If Ben Nelson (D-NE) had voted YES then the unemployment benefits would have been automatically extended.
How am I supposed to make my home and new car payments without my unemployment check?
ReplyDeleteObama needs to intervene and put his boot on someones' neck... I want my money now!!
This has already ruined my 4th July plans... no beer money, no walking around money.... its shameful
To those who posted to me:
ReplyDeleteFrom what I understand, 26 weeks is the normal cut off for unemployment checks, via unemployment insurance and your last long-term employer. No one should count on more than 26 weeks, as that is all anyone is truly "entitled" to. Anything longer is taking money from those who earn it and redistributing it to those who didn't earn it.
There are other answers, which are not as burdensome on the whole of society. Go bankrupt on your unsecured loans (your charge cards.) And then get any kind of job that you can, in order to keep your home and feed your family, even if it means working at Walmart.
Don't be afraid to have your teens get a job and help out with the cost of living. Work opposite shifts as your spouse, so that you don't have to hire a baby sitter for your younger children. If you have older children, let them baby sit your younger children.
Fact is, there are far more people working, than not working. And with that comes people who are willing to spend money. So find out what they are spending money on and look for a way to earn money on it. (Capitalize on it!) THAT is what capitalism is all about, "earning" money from those who have money.
In the days of Noah, people were very proud. They felt that they were entitled to this, that and the other thing. They did not believe that they should have to work hard, either, especially if others seemed to have things come easily. Things got very bad. We are there today.
The jobs are out there. The illegal Mexican immigrants would go home if there were no jobs to be had here. Maybe you might need to change your way of looking for a job or what you say in interviews and or relocate. But fact is, there are jobs out there.
We took a bad hit to our income, as well. We lost a third of our income. And we have always lived very tightly, in a small home. I don't even have a dishwasher. So please don't think that I am made of money, talking like this.
To the person who said something about paying for public schools and questioning my kids schooling. I schooled my daughters at home. They never went a day to public schools. They are both now in the sciences.
Debra...
InformingChristians.com
PS... The Republicans actually would have passed this last extension, had the Democrats not put other things that had nothing to do with unemployment checks in the package that was being voted on. --So again, it is not the Republicans that did this. It was the Democrats who held your extension hostage, to get other things included. And please don't think that I think the Republicans do no wrong, because that is just not the case. Though I feel that there are more honest people in the Republican party, I know that that party is far from perfect. I am not the average conservative. I don't just blindly follow anything and anyone who calls him/herself "conservative."
I am hoping someone from MA can answer this question. How did you learn that your benefits were TOTALLY expired? I went on to file today and it said my claim for yesterday was "complete" and that I had no more certifications, but based on the tier system, I only went thru the regular 26 weeks and then tier I and II so shouldn't I be able to apply for the next tier? Also, I didn't get a letter either...did you?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lisa
Debra....
ReplyDeleteInformingChristians.com,
You're giving us Christians a bad name. Wake-up. It's a full blown recession. People are depending on this. Their job search is only going to get tougher now. Passing these emergency extensions is the right thing to do. You come-across as being jealous of my super low-income.
LISA,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you have done everything right. If you try to continue your certifications, either by phone or internet, the system will not allow it. From what I understand, you will recieve a letter from your state that will include information on what to do if/when the bill gets passed (I was on hold for 45 min just to find this out). Until then, you will have to figure out how you are going to get by during your job search. I will continue to pray for you and others who are going through this difficult situation.
These are all the Senators who voted against the Unemployment Benefits Insurance Extension before the 4th of July Senate recess.
ReplyDeleteAlexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY) Bennett (R-UT) Brown (R-MA) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Kyl (R-AZ) LeMieux (R-FL) Lugar (R-IN) McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Murkowski (R-AK) Nelson (D-NE) Reid (D-NV) Risch (R-ID) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Voinovich (R-OH) Wicker (R-MS)
For starters FUCK THE REPUBLICANS!!!!!!!!! What are the american people suppose to do about food, utilities,rent? Cant answer the phone to get a job interview.cant afford a phone. And dont have gas to put in the car to look for a job.
ReplyDeleteEMERGENCY EXTENDED BENEFITS has been CUT OFF from Working Americans..American people are becoming HOMELESS, are going WITHOUT FOOD, NO MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, NO EDUCATION ASSISTANCE, and receive NO GOVERNMENT SUPPORT OF ANY KIND!.. ILLEGALS from other countries have PROTESTS in almost EVERY CITY, DO NOT PAY ANY TAXES, OR VOTE, RECEIVE FUNDING FOR HOUSING, FOOD, FREE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, JOBS FROM EMPLOYERS, AND EDUCATION BENEFITS!.. WHAT MORE DOES IT TAKE FOR TAX PAYING, VOTING CITIZENS TO HAVE A PROTEST AGAINST THIS GOVERNMENT TO RECEIVE EMERGENCY BENEFITS?
ReplyDeleteCorrect me if i am wrong but i don't think the employee pays into the UI tax. Even so ....i got blind sited by my states layoffs..Thinking i was going to retire in 5 years with a nice pension...Getting cut off from the UI extension really got me scrambling..There are alot of people out there who need errands done for them . i am concentrating on creative ways to bring in $. So ....the whining is over for me.........
ReplyDeleteGod, we need for you to turn back around. I know that you are turning your back on this world for the transgressions that are being done, abortion, rape, murder, alultery...cheating, ect.
ReplyDeleteThe word of God says to trust NO MAN!!!! Don't put your trust in this or any other government...put your full trust in God...we're being tried in the fire...He wants to know who is giong to sit there and burn or come out victorious with their faith in Him. Keep your eyes and mind on Him...each time you start getting nerveous and upset...turn your mind to Him.
I lost my job of 22 yrs. due to outsourcing to China...I have lost my benfits too, and if I sit here and dwell on everything that I am about to loose long enough, I see how I could go completely nuts. Jesus holds me up....if God brings you to it...He will bring you through it!!!
I am sick and tired of individuals who can't possibly understand how it is living from one paycheck to the next making decisions which affect taxpayer lives. This is like children telling the parent what to do. Maybe if their children start missing meals, or have to be taken out of their fancy private schools it will hit home. My hope is that you are visited by the same fate which has befallen all of us. Wondering how to pay for healthcare, having your personal items on the street because you've lost your home, crying at night because your child is hungry and there's no way to feed them. A good dose of your own self-involved, self-serving medicine will do you a world of good. I pray you are punished swiftly for crimes against the people while you sit on the front row of the church pew basking in false religion. Remember, Marie Antoinette in her ignorance met with a ghastly end. Beware of your heads for they may soon be served up on a silver platter.
ReplyDeleteThe stress we are all under due to not having job, getting turned down so many times, and for those who think we the people are setting on our butt, think again, it is more work looking for a job...Maybe I should go on a street corner and hold up a sign I want a Job, wonders if that would work..Congress please pass this, and then work on getting jobs again, give places money to hire us, also stop the credit check for a job, cause most of us cannot pay credit cards and etc, and our credit is going down quickly unless we get a break we need.
ReplyDeleteIts really sad that during this recession, the ones that arent suffering are making it harder for the ones that are. I have been waiting for my check and still have not recieved one when i was told that congress has put a hold on extensions, my only form of income. My rent was due couldnt pay it thank god i had someone to help me which only resulted in stress for me... i had to pull my daughter out of school because i could no longer afford the tuition. Im hoping i can get her into some kind of program so that she is not sitting at home with nothing to do.....I just hope they show us justice....
ReplyDeleteGod knows what they are doing ! they are so hateful. the greedy rich will hide in bunkers to protect themselves and leave us to suffer. we cannot afford their so called protection! but we have a higher power on our side our lord Jesus Christ.
ReplyDeletemy family is struggling to pay our mortgage pay bills and food! we worked hard to have a home for our kids. how can they ignore us this way!
we do not qualify for aid ! i have tried ! let me keep trying to find a job please! don't take our food money away ! my husband is the only one working we need two incomes! to afford our home and basic necessities! we have no more savings to fall back on! we sold my husbands motorcycle to pay our mortgage.but what are we to do by the fifteenth when its due again! my husbands tells me not to cry! he tells me not to stress so much. I see him stressed and working 7 days a week he is tired I hate this ! God help us he tells me no one will take what we have earned our home let them come and try to take our home let them! I'm scared !
I think it's time to start a Riot!
ReplyDeleteARE WE NOT HEARD HERE? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE WE CAN BE HEARD !!! BESIDES THE FLOODED E MAILS WE ARE SENDING THESE GREEDY BASTARDS!
ReplyDeleteI AM IN CALIFORNIA . WHAT DO WE DO PLAN A DAY TO BE HEARD ! LIKE ON THE 11TH OF JULY! WHAT !
Hello to everyone here and let me first say "God bless and hold on!" Dear Debra . . . where can one start with you? Because of our "GREAT" nation, you can say what you want and, of course, are entitled to your opinion. However, let me tell you a little story (obviously, just one of many in our country today). I have worked since I was 17 years old. Paid every tax there is, never broke a law and prayed my whole life. I worked overtime, holidays, volunteered and raised my children the same way. I gave 200% to every job and assignment because I appreciated my employer allowing me to contribute and providing me with a paycheck (irregardless of how large or small) to aid in feeding my family and providing a roof over our heads. On 9/11/2001, I was one of the unfortunate people runnning through the dust wondering who and what attacked our wonderful country and why. I watched innocent taxpaying people jump to their deaths from the burning, crumblling TWIN TOWERS (they are probably all turning in their graves to see this country today). I returned to work days after that horrible day because my job pleaded for people to come back and for us to not "let them win, our country needs us now more than ever!). I've donated (even now when I can) and always remembered that I was blessed to be an American. However, after, unfortunately, having a heart attack and other medical issues, could no longer return to the work I so did every day. Unfortunately, for me, was informed that I did not qualify for any S.S. nor did I qualify for Welfare. I, do agree, that government assistance is not meant to be a lifelong dependency, however, when the government partakes with the crooks who put these wonderful hardworking taxpaying citizens in these unimaginable positions, they should more than opt to lend an arm and a leg until they fix what they broke. The last time I checked, you were held accountable for a crime "YOU" committed . . . not every other citizens around you. I am now known as one of the "99ers" and I must say, even with my medical conditions, I continue and have during my unemployment check days, looked for work, however, to no avail. You say "well work different shifts, have your older kids babysit, etc." do you honestly think you are the only one to come up with those ideas/suggestions? I have a newsflash for you, people collecting unemployment are not making out better than those working so I wish folks like you would stop insinuating same. As far as applying to Walmart, have you tried? You say Walmart as if it is a low-paying disgrace of a place/last minute job. Well, last time I checked, Walmart was still a billion-dollar industry and I wish I could get in. I've applied to every position possible, I've applied for ALL SHIFTS, ALL DAYS, ALL HOURS. I've applied in-state and out-of-state not only willing to leave the older kids/husband with the younger kids but to leave them for weeks at a time. Again, however, to no avail. So, please, before you make suggestions, take a minute to think perhaps these poor folks literallyy have been trying everything and the government simply just has hung us out to dry. I never would have imagined being out of work, hungry, homeless, I made lots of money. However, it canhappen to anyone! If it has not been your story, then, God bless you and your family. I wouldn't wish this on ANYONE. Just stop for a minute and think. People live in different states, have different personal situations. The majority of the unemployed REALLY do not wish to be. To all of you, again, God bless, keep your hope and faith going (I KNOW it's hard) and good luck. Good night all.
ReplyDeleteIVE LOST EVERYTHING WHAT ELSE IS THERE? I WAS RAISED THAT IF YOU VOTE YOU HAVE A VOICE IN WHAT HAPPENS BUT I NOW SEE THAT THIS IS NOT THE CASE. I VOTED AND MADE WISE DECISIONS AND HAD EVERYONE I CAME ACROSS VOTE AND LOOK WHERE IT GOT US.... NO WHERE. I NEEDED AND STILL NEED THIS EXTENSION BUT I GUESS IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT I OR THE REST OF AMERICA NEEDS. SENATE IS SITTING IN THEIR LUXURIOUS HOMES ENTERTAINING WHILE I NOW LIVE IN MY CAR WONDERING IF TOMORROW WILL COME FOR ME. LIKE I SAID WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO LOSE..... SOOMEBODY TELL ME CAUSE I DONT KNOW.
ReplyDeleteI am 60 years old, have worked 42 years of my life. Both my husband and I made a decent income for many years, so we have both paid in substantial amounts in taxes. I was layed off after working 25 years with one company because "I made too much money and had too many benefits". Seniority, loyalty, and work experience didn't mean a thing. Fortunately my husband found a job last November earning far less income than what he had earned prior to being layed off in Nov., 2006. He is 62 years old. We watch every penney we spend.
ReplyDeleteI have the perfect solution on how to decrease the deficit and pay for the unemployment bill. Cut salaries 20% of every government and state employee and official, increase tax on large corporations that bury their profits in foreign banks, and, increase tax on small business that hide their profits with tax loopholes. The American middle class has carried the burden many years. Unions were created to protect the working class. Where have the Unions gone? Now it's time for the government to make personal sacrifices to get this country back to what it used to be!!
If this whole situation has caused you any distress then you NEED TO VOTE AGAINST these Senators. They are the cause of this. They obviously don't know how to do their jobs.
ReplyDeleteThese are all the Senators who voted against the Unemployment Benefits Insurance Extension before the 4th of July Senate recess.
Alexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY) Bennett (R-UT) Brown (R-MA) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Kyl (R-AZ) LeMieux (R-FL) Lugar (R-IN) McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Murkowski (R-AK) Nelson (D-NE) Reid (D-NV) Risch (R-ID) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Voinovich (R-OH) Wicker (R-MS)