So what's the direction going to be? Are we going to look after the dishonest, swindlers who have put our country at risk through hefty investments, lying, and deceiving investors and ignore the hard working tax paying honest American citizen who is the victim of the overall economic decline.
Perhaps the unemployment extension is on the minds of the congressmen and women who were voted out of office - but mainly because they, too are without jobs - as are all the people that worked for them.
However what remains uncertain is if those in office will care enough to pass the current benefits extension for the 99ers - after all, there are so many things to work out in the lame duck session.
It was not wise to extend the unemployment extension to November 30 - it should have been extended until one month after the new politicians took office, so they could get in, get settled, and then pass the emergency extensions.
Even the president is quiet about the extensions.
Hopefully Congress's freshmen and women will think about the unemployment extension and pass it because America needs it.
When do you think that the unemployment extension tier 5 and 99ers legislation will be passed.
of course Obama can't think of nothing except his re-election 2 years from now and he could care less about us or what happens to us. Well he will be out a job too then. Only difference is he will have all our hard earned money and we will have nothing still. Our country really is something!!!
ReplyDeleteIf they do it will not be until the end of December, and how very sad for the unemployed who will have to worry if they will have money for the holidays. This should have been done this week, it is a no brainer, it needs to get done, so just vote. The politicians of today are "all about them" not the people. Get back to work and stop the nonense.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right! Wake up assholes, if we fail we will take you with us one by one. go ahead and laugh,(you wont be laughing long) after christmas all the repub party is, is a bull shit party.get it together you may be working now but you may also be a victum later! good luck.
ReplyDeleteHope the tier 5 goes through cause if not if will affect me along with millions here in this country. Wheres the help from other countries??? We always help them. It is time the USA helps us not others!!!!!
ReplyDeleteShays's Rebellion, 1786–87, armed insurrection by farmers in W Massachusetts against the state government. Debt-ridden farmers, struck by the economic depression that followed the American Revolution, petitioned the state senate to issue paper money and to halt foreclosure of mortgages on their property and their own imprisonment for debt as a result of high land taxes. Sentiment was particularly high against the commercial interests who controlled the state senate in Boston, and the lawyers who hastened the farmers' bankruptcy by their exorbitant fees for litigation. When the state senate failed to undertake reform, armed insurgents in the Berkshire Hills and the Connecticut valley, under the leadership of Daniel Shays and others, began (Aug., 1786) forcibly to prevent the county courts from sitting to make judgments for debt.
ReplyDelete“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Thomas Jefferson November 13, 1787
We need a divine intervention to convince these Fascist to approve the 99ers bill. I already lost my home and i am 59 years old, with tow college degrees and 25 years experience. what a way to spend the rest of my life going from one family home to another. Is this the American dream.
ReplyDeletepresident Obama is change with voted for what a change he looks like he is going to cave in a give taxs cute to the very rich. 700 billion are
ReplyDeleteso but hungrey homeless americans can't get a tier 5 extension. This country has gone to the dogs when they have to work on the dream act to make legel people who shuld not be here in the first place. President obama is about his agenda and not about the publc, this economy needed work from the beginning, but he chose to ram a health care bill down america throat that won't kick it till 2014. How Smart was that had the focus been job intiatives and programs for job placements and expanding public works, we would be seeing some type of relief. If Obama says that he knows that american are hurting and that the economy is stll stagnet and he does not pass or force the issue of a tier 5. he is just as heartless as theGop and should be voted out, but your boots on and fight, I just thinh your full of rhetoric because you had two bills, one S3706 and you waited for the last minute to pass it thinking that you would win the midterm election.
I'm still in my 26 weeks guess I'm out of luck after that. Not fair for us that didn't even get the extension.
ReplyDeleteThis is sad day indeed for the unemployed, myself included. God Bless the homeless and people being foreclosed on this holiday season..
ReplyDeleteI'm glad we could help China by giving them our jobs! It's so nice to be such a bunch of bleeding hearts! Woooo hooooo!
ReplyDeleteThey bail out banks and then they farm out all the servicing out to people in other countries. I worked at a insurance company and
ReplyDeletegot calls all the time and one told me they were in India. I worked for insurance company for 6 yrs and I'm 56 yrs old however I was replaced with a younger person and she was paid less. He told me that the disability policy he paid for me was too high at my age. Real nice fellow so I'm in my 14th week of my 26 weeks. Hard to find a job at my age. They want the younger ones.
These assholes in the congress aren't gonna rest until riots break out and people start killing And robbing .14 million people should rise up and start acting a fool! They can jail all of us!
ReplyDeleteFUCK ARE GOVERMENT AND ALL THAT WORK IN IT
ReplyDeletethey cant bail the 99ers out of trouble and most of us havent seen a penny since april smfh when will we rise ??? its gonna happen soon if something isnt done before x-mas ...
ReplyDeleteEnvy Santoz.I hate to say it but your right about people going off the deepend.You can see that comming.
ReplyDeleteIt is so hard to believe that our government would question an extension. Though if you watch this interview with George Stephanopolis and this idiot Tea Party member Michele Buchanann, it starts to make sense!
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2010/11/michele-bachmann-supports-tax-cut-compromise-but-not-if-tied-to-unemployment-benefits-.html
AMERICA IS FINISHED! TOO MUCH CORRUPTION, LIES, FROM THE GOVERNMENT, IRS to HOME LAND SECURITY to the FDA, the FTC, BANKS, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. THIS TIER 5 UNEMPLOYMENT SAYS IT ALL. THEY RATHER TAKE A GAMBLE ON OTHER PPLS LIVES, WHILE THEY LOSE THERES HOMES, NO FOOD, NO MONEY. THAN HELP THERE OWN PEOPLE. SHAME SHAME SHAME, YOU ALL WITH ROT IN HELL...............
ReplyDeleteIt is unfortunate that the extension of unemployment will end on 11/30/2010 and I don't see that they will approve anything after that date. We had a chance to make our voices heard on 11/2/2010, and some didn't bother to go to the polls. We knew back in July that the GOP had no intention of extending unemployment benefits, but we put them back in control. If you didn't make your voices heard on election day, then there is no reason to complain now.
ReplyDeleteI too am in my 26 weeks but that will end in January and I have no rich family members to bail me out. I depleted all my savings and am facing homelessness. I do think if I go broke that I will no longer have anything to loose. I thing a revolution is in order. Thank god for our easy access to guns. Our forefathers allowed them for this very reason.
ReplyDeleteWow, maybe we all need to go back to horse and buggy days, heat by firewood, bathing in the creeks and raising our veggies/fruits. This country sucks!!!!I think we should all pick one full week, do not spend one dime at all, when shit stops in this stupid country then maybe that stupid president we have might come down outta his wonderful life to see what the heck is going on. This country really F@#!D up when we let that man in office! So now we have to take care of what we have left!
ReplyDeleteNo..We are under the 1930s Nazi regime an there not going to allow any of us to survive on a hand out from the dictatorship..this is going to go on till they build prison camps for the poor an eventually allowing us to stave to death in there death camp!
ReplyDeleteNo.. We are living in the 1930s nazi regime,There not going to allow any more hand outs from this dictatorship..they are going to build prison camps an allow the poor to starve to death in there death camps an secretly dispose of all of the neglected!
ReplyDeletethat includes you to dumb ass 10:50
ReplyDeleteThis is all way too sad and fucking pathetic, I could see if no one worked. BUT WE DID !! see that's why I say fuck helping other countries like Haiti and the rest when in need no other countries help us !! But the dumbasses in washington are the first to come to their aid and NEVER EVER think.....about the people at home. I agree fuck this fucked up government.
ReplyDeleteIf we are going third world with this country let fucking hurry the hell up.
Gays chained themselves to the front gates of the whitehouse so congress can get the message about DADT. I think we need the same attitude for 99ers.
ReplyDeleteWhens the last time you guys fed a stay cat? there are millions and millions of them. Im a hurting 99er too but..
ReplyDeleteThere has always been the poor and starving. They just where never US. Poor starving slaves that had too work 16 hours a day.
There has never been 1 second in this country or on this planet (when humans existed) that people were not starving to death.
I need tier 5 just as much as all of you. The only thing that keeps me going is the thought of those who suffered way more.
Im not putting "US" down, just facing reality. Its good we have all come together to try and get extensions but its not going to happen.
We really need to change the subject from passing extensions to how to survive or how to make being homeless not as bad.
Poor starving people has always either made it threw it or they did not. Geuss what? You will make it thew it or not. Face it, we are the bottom of the barrel, there has always been one. You just didnt care as much as you do now.
On an up note: We are the new generation of starving homeless people that still have braodband internet access at the library. WOOOHOO.
FOR ALL 99ERS IF YOU O POSTAL WRITE THE NUMBER 99 AS A CALL BACK!!! I KNOW I WILL!
ReplyDeletei think it will pass too many people out of work.i hope the pres. steps in and helps us.
ReplyDeletebut people why didn't you vote dem.i used to be rep but never again they want help the little guys.
I just got some work today over all this. Im 3 months over 99. yea. This guy has exhausted all his benifits and lost his home. He called a friend looking for a place to stay and he said he could stay with him. When he told his wife about there new roomy she said no way. He has a run down apartment that was vacant and I get some work fixing it up for him. yea.
ReplyDeleteThe only bad thing is I might be needing that "favor" soon and it has been filled.
Oh well. Got work for a short bit.
this hope the mayan calendar is correct then in 2 years we will have jobs again they will be tons of work after the day 12-21-12
ReplyDeleteWe may or may not get an extension.. but it really doesn't matter, if it's now or six months down the road, they, the real government and elite in control want a new world order, and Americas economy and social structure must be collapsed first along with the American dollar.. Prepare yourselves best you can, don't wait for anyone to take care of you, at some point, for sure it is not going to happen.. They sure are some cold blooded reptiles doing this just before the Holidays, it's all coming to a head and if you can't see it, just dig a hole, jump in, and pull the dirt back in over yourself.. There is going to be chaos, and also an organized rebellion.. they will fill those plastic coffins and fema camps, pray we win in the long run cause the alternative is not a pretty picture.. Wake up people, it's not coming, it's HERE..!!
ReplyDeleteIt's a sad and scary time. I will be one week shy of the deadline and basically out of luck unless an extension is given. I have been on 3 interviews in the last two weeks and each employer has said they will not be making a decision until the first of the year. I have almost exhausted my saving trying to keep my home and I am a divorced mother of two. Some Christmas for my little ones. God help us all.
ReplyDeleteyes..God help us the goverment will not step in to help its people, even the shelters are full i might as will commit a crime go to jail and get free room and food, light are going to get cut off cant pay rent no one will hire, what is the world comming to obama needs to step up and do something quick..
ReplyDeletefuck republicans they all for the rich there the one botching about spending and not passing extensions and we game them back control
ReplyDeleteHere is something to ponder, I know the unemployment rate is higher than reported. Unemployment rate is calculated by the number of people receiving UI benefits, what about the millions of people who were fired because they deserved it for one reason or the other, they are also in the hunt for the jobs that are available!! Of course these people never filed for UI benefits, because they didn't qualify. However, they are still competing for the few jobs that are available.
ReplyDeleteOther people think that the Government counts every unemployed person each month. To do this, every home in the country would have to be contacted—just as in the population census every 10 years. This procedure would cost way too much and take far too long. Besides, people would soon grow tired of having a census taker come to their homes every month, year after year, to ask about job-related activities.
ReplyDeleteBecause of these and other limitations, statistics on insured unemployment cannot be used as a count of total unemployment in the United States. Indeed, during 2009, only 26 percent of the total unemployed received UI benefits.
ReplyDeleteWhy in the hell is this clown wanting to run for re-election when he knows he will not win?! The country has gone to hell and he sits at the damn White House writing a damn children's book! This man has cause more problems by not doing nothing! I AM NOT A FAN OF GEORGE W. BUSH, but, I did have two jobs under his administration! I don't have shit under this idiot! And, YES, they only care for themselves! Look at Bella Pelosi! She just won't give up on trying to run things! It is just laughable this man is trying to run for president again. Most people don't want him! Only 26% of people outside of Washington think he will win! Get a damn clue obama!
ReplyDeleteAnd they threw a shoe at George W. Bush!
ReplyDeleteI think Obama needs to grow a set of balls! He has access to a freaking pen..make these extensions a law! I know extensions can not go on forever but it's not really fair for some to collect 99 weeks and others to only get 26 weeks. I think everyone should at least be able to collect the same amount and get a fighting chance the same as others!
ReplyDeleteI really don't understand why these tax cuts are so important right now they don't expire until the end of Dec but the unemployment extension is due to expire on Nov 30th as far as I can remember Nov comes before Dec so shouldn't they be working on the unemployment extensions before the Bush tax cuts????? What happened to common sense??
ReplyDeleteThe comment starting with stray cats. There have always been rich and poor in every country. This country was built on battles, rights and strengths. Our founding fathers paved a way for us. Why do we have to go backwards. We paid our dues and we learned how not to be less and we expect more from our country. Concentrate on us not someone else. People need just as much here. We have poor, disabled and look at our soldiers coming home in bad shape. We can't solve the entire world's problems. We have to take care of our own. Yes, they owe us Tier 5. Keep the pride. When you're rich you can possibly feel that way, when your not, we don't have that privilege. Feel for your own country. Our Country gives to other countries constantly to help them. We have paid for that dearly.
ReplyDeleteim out of money and i cant find a job with-out this Tier5 before hollaidays my kids wont have a X-Mass why because i dont have a income.i sent letters to presitdent and govener asking for food to feed my kids and i never heard back from anyone. thats so fucking sad i have to put my kids to bed with-out something to eat to hold them over.i cri every day because im white and cant get help from the state.
ReplyDeleteDon't you get it!!!!This is part of obamas plan. This is what he wants. He wants the people to depend on the goverment. He wants total control over the people. You were told long before you media brain washed idiot run out and voted him in. If you lost your job and are about to be homeless and you voted for obama you are getting what you deserve. All the top economist told you this would happen but you would rather listen to so dumbass liberal news media rather then smartest people in the counrty.obama is nothing more than a used car salesmen.Open your eyes people, we are letting the news media destroy this counrty. They have us divide into two partys that HATE each other. if the news said the sky would turn green in three week 60% of the country would believe it with out any question because the news said so.Just look at the shape our counry is in. The people are about ready to goto war. Can you really sit there and say it not obamas fault. You damn right it's his fault.Stop letting the liberal medai twist your minds.
ReplyDeleteHwo much more can this country take under this spineless idiot? Before the next two years are up, this country will be in a damn mess under this ass hole! This man need to go! NOW!!! Please take over Bieden! No more of this shit! Stupid SOB don't even see McConnell and that orange guy don't even want to meet with his ass to discuss anything but he is STILL begging! Weak ass fool! We as a country just can't stomach more of this joke of a president! And, I was a Democrat now independent! And, as far as the media goes, you are so right! They want to control what is being heard! Turn them off! I damn sure did!
ReplyDeleteTimes are going to get real bad out here. Christmas is around the corner and I'm just trying to figure out how to put gas in my car to get to the grocery store to use my foodstamp card, since there are no jobs!!!!I lost my unemployment back in July. Now it's the end of the month, I don't have money to pay rent, utility bills, car insurance or anything else. I had to scrape $10 just to be able to send my son on a field trip! Meanwhile, our government just sits around and does nothing for 99'ers. Now that the republicans are in, we can look forward to even worse times! I can say that Obama tried to get the extension passed back in the summer so that would not be going without. But where the hell is he now?
ReplyDeleteThe country was already split after the 8 year reign of that idIIIIIot Bush! Blaming Obama for this mess is ridiculous! Is he doing everything right? NO! But, he at least was in favor of doing the extensions when the GOP was stalling it back in the summer. Obama does not want people dependent on the government. He was an idealist that thought he could make a change, but the traditions in washington are too deep to change what needs to be changed so quickly. We need an extension for 99ers. We need it now! But for those of you that think Obama is to blame, check the voting stats of your elected officials in the house and senate. They are running this game, NOT OBAMA. Don't you all remember Obama on tv back in the summer saying that he was getting tired of the stalling tactics of the republicans? He said that the extension needed to be passed asap. Why stick it all on him? Blaming him for all this is just a distraction. The real issue is nobody in washington, understands what it is like to not be able to put gas in your car, or have $5 to last you 2 weeks!
ReplyDeleteThe GOP blocked the extension because they didn't want to spent more money we don't have.They are for an extension but they want the money to come from a cut somewhere else besides going into more debt.That make them the bad guys thats ridiculous. If you can't see that then your just a brainwasher liberal to stupid to think for your self. Get the whole truth. Obama just spent 200 million a day on his trip overseas and all your dumbass liberals didn't say a word.His trip could have paid for the extension 6x over. He is too stupid to fix this counrty. You think bush was an idiot Them obama is a full blown retard.Worst president in history!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteFuck all you so called whites your all muts!!! bitches
ReplyDeleterepublicans ! for the white stupid fucks !!! yea bitch you suck your white! racist bitches Obama wanted to take care of us but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hes black!!!! so fuck you !!!!
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FUCK YOU 6:57pm dumb white fuck
ReplyDeleteSounds like your the racist and an ingorant at that.You are the one who can't see past his color. White, balck red or green he is a terbile leader and should have never been elected.So why don't you go sit in the corner and let the adults talk.
ReplyDeleteWhat is wrong with you people? Yes we're hurting, but that doesn't justify being stupid or breaking the law. This situation doesn't justify one ounce of vulgarity, racisim, or vengence. You're picking fights with each other and setting yourselves up to commit anarchy, all in the name of "My government won't help me." I've been poor before. I'm poor now. But I won't act like a fool because times are hard. I'll take each day as it comes and use the brains God gave me and the lessons my mother taught me to get through this with dignity. Good Lord!
ReplyDeletehow is it that a person can collect unemployment for 99 weeks and some of us only get 26 weeks and thats it. sounds stupid to me. if you been unemployed for 2 years and find a jod or go back to school thats your problem. i been laid off for 5 months i am in school getting training and my unjemployment runs out next month and i dont get any extensions sound unfair to me
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