What’s in the bill?
OpenCongress.org provided an explanation of what H.R. 4213 covers. Here is a summary:
The unemployment extension 2010 bill, otherwise known as H.R. 4213, began as a $141 billion omnibus package of stimulus spending, tax measures, unemployment insurance and more. What the Senate voted on Tuesday is a revision of the bill that whittles it down to $34 billion and includes only one substantial item — an extension of unemployment insurance for people who have been out of work for 6 months or longer.
Other highlights of the bill as provided by OpenCongress.org:
The filing deadline for unemployment insurance benefits is extended until November 30, 2010, this allows unemployed individuals who have exhausted their current tier of benefits, or who have exhausted their last tier since June 2nd, to file for a move into the next tier of benefits.
The bill also provides for benefits to be paid back retroactively for people who have seen their payments cut off since the filing deadline expired on June 2.
Additionally, it includes an extension of the closing deadline for the first-time homebuyers tax credit, but that provision is redundant with a bill that was signed into law on July 2nd (H.R. 5623).
Is there a provision for Tier 5?
No. According to OpenCongress.org, “The bill would not create additional weeks of unemployment benefits. 99 weeks (Tier IV) would still be the maximum amount of a time a person could receive benefits for in states with high unemployment rates, and 86 weeks (Tier III) would still be the max in states with low unemployment rates.
Does it include the $25 per week benefits under the Federal Additional Compensation Program?
No. This stimulus program would not be extended under the bill. OpenCongress writes “That means that all retroactive payments would be for $25 less than what they were before June 2nd, as will all payments in new tiers.
Are COBRA payments covered?
No. COBRA health insurance payments for the unemployed were dropped from the bill in a previous iteration. They will not be extended in this bill and there is no plan to extend them during this session of Congress, according to OpenCongress.org.
Now, what’s in store for 99ers – the jobless Americans who will not receive additional support under the unemployment extension 2010 bill? The 99ers are those who have already expended the full 99 weeks of emergency assistance from the federal government.
Earlier we reported on the surge on online petitions for the inclusion of a Tier 5 in the unemployment extension 2010 bill. Given Tuesday’s deliberations, that appears to be unlikely now.
According to the AOL News Surge Desk, the “Supporters of a Tier 5 believe that such emergency aid keeps cash flowing into the limping economy, as recipients turn around and spend it on goods and services. Conservatives argue that extending unemployment benefits beyond the 99-week limit would not only raise the national deficit, but also act as a disincentive to actively seeking employment.”
“Realistically, given the economy, I think it would [make sense],” to add a Tier 5 to federal unemployment benefits, economist Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research told AOL News. “The economy is in bad shape — it is not these people’s fault, they didn’t do it — but given attitudes in Congress it’s really difficult to see that happening.”
AOL News also discussed that “99ers” have few options. One is the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, which some families may qualify. But, the relief provided under the program is marginal compared to that under the unemployment extension bill.
AOL News also suggested, for those who qualify, to apply for disability benefits. But adds that the approval process can take time and might also inhibit the applicant from employment opportunities later on.
How about President Obama issuing an Executive Order to create a Tier 5?
AOL News said “Although the president has the power to issue an executive order in a crisis (i.e. Lincoln and the Civil War, or Bush and military tribunals after 9/11), and although the “99ers’ plight is certainly severe, it’s not considered comparable to previous emergencies in the eyes of Congress.”
Constitutional law expert Steve Schwinn of the John Marshall School of law in Chicago told AOL News, because the legislation that passed today to extend unemployment benefits contains no mention of aid for the “99ers,” President Obama’s hands are tied.
“Just running through the menu of possible authorities, it’s not clear to me that he has any [authority here],” Schwinn told AOL News. “And given that the Congress seems to be making a deliberate decision to exclude the 99ers, I think you have a real separation of powers problem if the president tries to step in and do by executive order what he is unable to achieve through legislation.”
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Thanks to the Republicans and one lone turncoat Democrat Senator Ben Nelson(Nebraska)there will be no tier 5 if they can help it!
I have quit watching or even waiting for a Tier 5 extension. I honestly don’t believe it is ever going to happen. For the people who say get off your lazy ass and get a job already, IMO it’s easier said than done. I was an account executive for Chrysler before that company went to hell in a handbasket. I thought I am smart and had some savings and I just knew that I would get another job soon right?
Well almost two years later I am still unemployed. I have even applied for jobs at a dollar store and guess what they don’t even want to hire me. They ask in interviews what have you been doing while you were unemployed…Its like duhhhh looking for a job. No I was not one of those people who sat on their arse just because I was collecting unemployment.
Ohh I did have a job briefly teaching basic computer applications to people trying to get their GED but they lost their funding so after working there for three months the program was closed and guess who was unemployed once again. I have cut back on any and everything I can cutback on. I now currently live in a one bedroom apartment with my son. I don’t have the money to even afford internet service at home, so I walk to Starbucks and use my aunts At&t account info to be able to surf the internet for jobs.
The one good thing with my car now being broken and no money to fix it, I am in shape now and have lost alot of weight due to all my walking. I am bikini ready and will start a new job stripping to pay my bills. Wish me luck ! If you are in the area be sure to tip Luscious Layla with your great paying jobs you have. Hell even stripping has its expenses, those clear choes are NOT cheap.
I am not worrying about Senate, Congress, Obama or any type of assistance from my wonderful government anymore. They have CLEARLY shown me its everyman for himself.
Off to practice my stetches and watch Carmen Electra stripper video again. Toodles!
Loved your comment!!! I hear you loud and clear … and so should all of the dumba$$es that say “you should go look for a job”. If you went to college you’re over qualified for burger joints. If you are not college educated your underqualified for all of the jobs that ARE NOT AVAILABLE!!!!! So wear those clear heels loud and proud and kick thefat bellies of all the gross men that would rather tip you than, than spend their money helping the homeless! Good luck Luscious! ;-)
I am curious, Is congress in self destruct mode? Why are you kicking the people that carry this nation? To qualify for welfare, I have to sell my home that is paid for and risk being homeless just for 300/mo? Here’s a thought for the Congress – Hire the 99ers as congressional consultants to get this congress in tune with the America that is the country we live in today. For the congress that seems the void of awareness of the condition of American 99ers, do the honorable thing and resign!!! As I am being told I am over qualified,you are under qualified and a disgrace to this great nation. You have attended great schools, yet you lack the mental capacity to see the the consequences of your actions. I had a job for a short period after being laid off from Gmac’s business offices in Cleveland, Ohio. Most of the jobs here in medical and law and many do not qualify for these jobs. Other jobs will not call back because of my salary history. They are only paying half of what I was making. The economy can not grow under these circumstances, which means you will fall with us. Take some advice from the boss – I am your boss because I pay your salary – Do your job, serve the people or myself with many others will fire you.
I agree with you absolutely!Ok 99er’s there is somehting you can do. Election time please do not vote these non- caring pigs back in office and to me that means every Republican and some crossover Democrats!!!Trust me we know who you are!!!!!!!!!When you the senate and congress are at your 500 a plate dinners next time think of us that have nothing and can’t even feed our children!!!We would like a job being a server at one of your expensive waste of our taxpayers affairs!What would all of you do in this situation don’t you get it there are no jobs right now to be had!!!!!!!!!!!I think you get it THE BOTTOM LINE IS IT IS NOT HAPPENING TO YOU AND YOURS!!We can remedy 99er’s some of that and vote out everyone that is against helping us with an extension!YOU ARE GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
halfway thru the message i thot u’re a guy. no wonder strippers are getting hotter now, even strip clubs get to be more picky about who to hire. it must be tough, having a kid while unemployed, it’d be tough even with the unemployment benefits.
i’m a single guy so it’s prolly not an option for me. i just sold my car and after paying my debts i’ll still have 3k left. i’m packing my bags, flying to india and see if there’s anything for me there.
All i got to say is thank the congress men i am glad they got to go on vacation. Then get to come back and denied half the u.s basically funds to continue to look for work in a small town its hard to look for work as it is and i am up ever day looking. THERE IS NOTHING! i am trying to support a family of 4. Riding a bike around to look for work now cause i am out of gas and can not pay insurance. Now the need to change there slogan “come to America will make sure we push you and ur family in to a real nice CARDBOARD BOX!
He talked about the current U.S.A. economy. He said several times that he, and his Republican Party, will move to reduce government spending.
That is a sound idea! However, Mr. Graham and his “tea party”, as he likes to call it, are not mentioning spending reductions in the form of curbing blatant special interest group over spending. Or eliminating their personal “expense accounts” which amount to tens of millions of dollars annually. And that is in addition to the over the top enormous salaries they vote for themselves. Thy even receive gasoline at no cost to themselves! They also vote for themselves to receive over the top special medical insurance; the premiums of which do not come from their lucrative salaries! They also vote for themselves to receive over the top, extremely lucrative PENSION PLANS! They made them guaranteed entitlements!
There are hundreds of thousands of public servants in the U.S.A. who owe their jobs, and lucrative salaries, to nepotism and favoritism among government employees! Let us reduce government spending by seriously reducing that!
To add insult to injury, these same public servants have created unions for themselves, that make it virtually impossible to fire them or even dismiss them from these lucrative jobs. Many of these positions are created, not out of necessity, but merely to accommodate the blatant nepotism and favoritism spending in the government!
But Mr. Graham did say unabashedly that he, and his “tea party”, wants to reduce Social Security Benefits entitlements (incidentally, he and his fellows are not part of the Social Security Plan; they have made certain of that)! Mr. Graham did also say unabashedly that he wants to reduce Medicare Benefits! You may have surmised, correctly, that Mr. Graham and his fellows are not part of the Medicare Plan either!
I move that U.S. Citizens, fire (can we do that?) Mr. Graham; and any governmental official who acts toward Social Security or Medicare Benefits that will not increase them!
AUTHOR: James Madison, IV
Hey at least your fit enough to strip. Believe me if I could do it I would. I am that desperate right now. I really don’t think a tier 5 will ever get passed. I don’t see how they can say that extending unemployment for another tier would encourage people to stop looking for a job. I am one of the 99er’s and it makes me sick all that we are going though with no support at all. This is my first time collecting unemployment and believe me I would love to work. I am on the verge on losing my apartment. I dont eat so my child can. I don’t have the money to feed us both. I don’t have gas in my car and my tags are expried so if I do drive I would then lose my car. I am going tomorrow to apply for welfare. I have applied for 342 different jobs (just this month). I have applied from taco bell to Poctor and Gamble and everything in between. There was an article in my local paper that said companies where refusing to hire people who where unemployed or laid off, and posting this in their job descriptions. So I have now taking this off of my resume. Even taking this off of my resume will do little to help maybe it may get me an interview, but once they do a background check they will know that I was laid off. I cry my self to sleep everynight just wondering what I am going to do. If I become homeless they will take my child from me. I am doing everything I know to do. I know there are a lot of people feeling my pain right now. I live in Ohio and I know that in Ohio I pay into unemployment as well as all of my employer’s have. So if I have paid into unemployment for 20 years why is it that when I need it the most it is not there for me?
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My fellow 99ers, republican or democrat it’s all the same thing. By having two parties our government has divided Americans. The Government just wants your hard earned tax dollars and their cushy little government jobs.
They just want to get re-elected.
As Americans we enjoy our freedom and life style and the Gov’s want to control that by controlling the economy and throw us bread crumbs to get our vote. Please see the below link that fully exposes their Strategy… Let’s not be fooled again and take our country back! Spread this around till we break them down!
“When people fear the government – that is tyranny;
When government fears the people – that is liberty.”
– Thomas Jefferson
The Government condones and practices –
h**p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule
We need a Tier 5. Americans need assistance. How can you bail out the banks and not the American People. How could this happen?
ALL ‘Politicos’(Greedy Selfish PolitiCONS),
For the good of this Country NEED a PAYCUT!!!
Why do we have Billion$ to spend on other Countries?
What hapened to the axiom
“FAMILY FIRST!”
You are right they take care of other country and not there on. We need to keep the e-mail’s going so they can think about how important this is for all of us.
I feel terrible for these 99ers.God be with them.
Thanks for being honest you are right God will see us through. You have a heart of gold and you do think of others and not just yourself I pray other read these comment and if they are getting there checks they will think of us. Thanks God bless you,
No tier 5… Mother of two.. we are in trouble!
What we suppose to do now that they are not including the 99ers into this bill? Rob a bank or take some old person pocket book. This is bad news there is no job out here and believe me I have been looking for 2 years and the companies can not say this but, they look at my age and right away they don’t want to hire me. I pray the President can do something because this is hurting a lot of people not just me. I do not want to lose my apartment. Please explain a little more about this TANF. Would we return to the unemployment office to file for this TANF?
TANF stands for Transitional Assistance for Needy Families. It takes the form of food stamps, temporary (usually 3 months) housing assistance for people on the verge of being evicted provided that there are elderly or children involved, utility assistance if you are about to lose electric or gas, and cash aid provided that either children or elderly depend on it. Also pregnant women can get assistance as can foreign refugees. If you are a childless parent, you do not qualify for any of it except food stamps. Even singles can receive food stamps.
In order to apply you need to visit your County Social Services Office where they will provide you with applications and schedule an appointment with a Social Worker.
Its a joke..Tanf is assistance for needy families..and belive me it dont pay much..thats if you qualify..if you have 2 children it probably give you about 500.00 a month..thats not even rent..I was getting 796.00 every two weeks on my unemployment ..which I burly was surviving with rent and food, gas ..utilies, phone…the goverment is squeaking about assisting us with an extension for tier 5..or for that matter extend tier 4 for additional months since it would be the last tier…There is power in numbers as you see..1-4 received their benefits back…goverment was out numbered with the fact of reality..Its such a crying shame that even congress has no respect for the President request in notifying congress that the 99ers deserve help too. and now they want to make up more reasons why tier 5 should not survive.Sorry Obama they think you have no say..Please use your Presidental skills and show them whats up…..Its now fair how they say 1-4 should received benefits ,yes it is true its their turn to collect whats theirs but please understand people in reality there is not enough jobs out there !we still need help to to feed our families!!! A march in groups should be in many corners.with signs.to show our fellow americans ; this can be you too…We need to keep fighting ..what else do we got to lose..many of us already lost our homes..cars..401k..Congress has done enough damage to our lives!!! wishful thinking but I wish Obama should put the congress in the 99ers shoes for a few months with a payck of S.O.L to feed thier familes..maybe reality would hit the boneheads>
I think time will tell. There will be many more in the same situation after the holidays. The economy will feel the pinch come the new year when companies have depended on holiday sales to stay above water or to make profit. The smaller to medium companies will be affected and may cause them to close their businesses, which will cause a trickle effect. NOT GOOD!
The a–holes in congress eventually are going to screw themselves out of a paycheck when they bankrupt and run our country into the ground. We have to take back our country. Stand up and demand justice. I think “THE PEOPLE” in every major city in America should do a non violent protest. Stand up and demand that they take care of their own. WE THE PEOPLE
What really pisses me off is like comcast, Their customer service is located in another country. I would work a customer service job. Why do we send our work off to other countries when so many are needed here? Only buy American Made. That is how we solve our dilema.
We need to step In and help the people my company had to do 1 million in payroll reduction last year . So I feel very responsible for this.
It’s too bad that people have to suffer because of me.
I go to church 2 times a week I am involved in my
community, what do you want from me? No I did not take a pay decrease,
the thing that makes me mad is the bank will not pay for my
country club membership any more, that’s not fair.
Just remember I sleep good at night because I have a roof
over my head!
I know what you mean about no jobs. I have got to work thru a temporary agency a day here a day there but nothing nothing steady. I didn’t work this hard when I made $18 a hour. Now it’s min wage but I am just glad to get what I can to support my family. When you lose a job that you planned on retiring from it hits you hard. The strange thing is when I turn 65 I start drawing my pension from this company. I told them to just give it to me now. lol
The nation has been bled dry by meaningless, perpetual and detrimental wars, not to mention the hotbed of treason on Wall Street.
Anything now is only a stopgap measure, anyway. Game Over.
THE THIEVES IN WASHINGTON DO NOT WANT A TIER 5 EXTENSION BECAUSE THEY WANT EVERYONE OFF UNEMPLOYMENT. THE MORE THAT DROP OFF TIER 4 THE BETTER THEY LIKE IT. THEY CAN COME ON TV WITH THEIR BEST LYING FACE AND TELL THE NATION THAT THE ECONOMY IS GETTING BETTER BECAUSE THE UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS ARE DROPPING AND SOME WILL BELIEVE IT. I DO NOT VOTE FOR THE PARTY I VOTE FOR THE MAN AND RIGHT NOW THERE IS NO ONE THAT IS VOTE WORTHY. THE GOVT IS GOING TO PUSH US INTO A DEPRESSION, THEY DON’T CARE CAUSE LIFE WILL GO ON AS USUAL FOR THEM
HELLO EVERYONE I AM SO SAD THAT THE 99ERS DID NOT GET AN EXTENSION….THANX TO THE REPUBLICANS….PEOPLE DON’T FORGET NOVEMBER….PLEASE VOTE…THEM…OUT…THEY ARE DRUNK WITH POWER
While I am already getting Social Security benefit- at age past 70 I was still working full time to supplement my SS, however, 2 years ago I lost my job. Unemployment benefits kicks in- now I’ve lost that too, becoming a 99′er! I can’t live just with SS (of course I’m lucky I am still getting SS- thanks) to pay credit card bills, etc. SSI is a branch of SS, who supports older parents of immigrants living in the US with monthly checks of $600 to $1000 each- but here’s the clincher, SSI is giving assistance to these older parents who have not contributed a cent to our system, and they won’t extend this assistance to those who have paid their dues- the 99′ers & other true Americans should get the help- not them! I bet most of our Senators/Congress don’t even know this happens in America!
i am so sick of these.. what are they going to do when Novemevr comes and all these people arrived to 99 weeks.. they are no jobs ..please be realistic..people are in nedd of tier 5 and more. i am very suprised they di not added the tier 5. so petition sent to Obama did not help at all…
Well, according to C-Span…they will use the full 30 hours to fight over this..maybe they are supposed to ? I dont know…more delays..I am not a 99′er YET.. ban together and support the 99′ers….cause if things dont get better, we will all be 99′ers…help all of us,not just some of us…I will bet any amount of money ( you will have to take an IOU though) that the people worse off than us,people who have been living at the poverty level for years are sitting back saying welcome to our world….this is AMERICA isnt it? 1 for all, all for 1..something has to give…as a matter of fact, I am voting against EVERYONE involved in this…on BOTH sides for putting people thru this…
I agree! ! ! PLEASE everyone register to vote,,, come november, let’s vote them all out ! ! !
In order to understand our government, we must consider the powers that be. Being a 99er, I believed that President Obama would hold true to his promise. Having seen jobs being outsourced by corporate America downsizing, greed and complasive politicians.
It makes me often wonder; Give Me Liberty OR Give Me Death!!!!! My fellow 99er’s our Government has given us DEATH! As we all know our government has formally delivered propaganda of the American dream. But the 99er’s are the forsaken. Nevertheless, Our Government commanded the 99er’s to march forward into despair because there are no jobs for us to bear.
In other words by excluding the 99er’s from this bill. We are forced to leave behind the loves ones we once cherished, because as a man you feel that you can no longer support their hearts.
“A man without a Job” is like he does not exist!! And without this extension the 99er’s will not exist!!! But let me say this! The way congress thinks today. Is let’s roll the dice!!! They are not important; Now that they are in office.
The Banks and Wall Street are doing business as usual. High interest rates and foreclosure’s for the month of June 2010 was 1.5 million!! I’m a true believer in GOD. But I often pray and wonder about my future in America today, the land of equality freedom and liberty.
Again, Mr. President, Congress, Senator’s. You give the 99er’s an executive order. As forgotten bewildered and broken soldiers. We command congress to an extension to liberty justice in the name of survival!!
Rescue the 99er’s from the dephts of despair, suicide, homeless and wondering aimlessly in a barren jobless land. For it is your duty as men not leaders to obey and command your OATH! To protect serve your fellow citizen’s without discrimination or malice.
I hereby command all 99er’s to converge on Washington D.C. in the name of survival and not to sit back as peasants to your own execution. Remember your voice and vote counts. Let Washington hear us as well…. Send your voices, thoughts, concerns and hearts. Yes We Will And Yes We CAN!!!!!
Regards, R
Jr_jr32@yahoo.com
Is it possible for the 99ers to bring suit agaisnt the US Government? (Washington elite)(Serious question) They have not represented the American people, They are not for the people, they have lied, stollen, and abandoned many of us. How many signatures would it take to demand their resignations? Anyone have a clue or advice
…..and who do you think is going to buy all of our homes from the banks….
I have a friend who is a 99′er….lost everything..AND his wife….I am donating 50 dollars a week to him from my benefit check when I start getting it again….
Steve may God Bless you!
Its ok we do not need tier 5 , for the ninety niners , yeah right! , and we dont need re-elect our lousy ass repesenatives fire the sh-t heads . Let these piece of crap hang on to the end of ther milking the cow utters dry !
Dear President,
You have no other option at this time other than to order an executive order for the long term unemployed. They/I cannot wait any longer! We are losing everything we worked for by no fault of our own.I have a 6 year college degree, but I get no calls or 10 other people applying for the same job. So what if the republican party wants to put you down for it!We need it to survive, and keep looking for work! Its a national emergency! People, and children are going hungry in this country! In the US that should not be happening if we are helping other countries and not helping our own people! You have the power to look strong to the American people! Use it! The unemployed, millions of us and every minority in this country is going to vote in november! The republicans do not have a chance! Help us Mr. president. How would you be feeling if your two daughters had nothing to eat? Or no home? Please help us, we are begging!!!
ALL OF US AREN’T IDIOTS! I SEE RIGHT THRU THIS MADNESS. YOU ARE ONLY IN THE PROCESS OF SETTING THE STAGE FOR THE GRAND FINALE. YOUR AGENDA IS THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT AND YOU ARE CREATING THE PROBLEMS THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO PULL THE RUG FROM UNDER AMERICA.
EVERYONE OF YOU WHO HAD A HAND IN IT, JUST KNOW THIS “SURELY YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU OUT” YOU ARE THE IDIOTS BECAUSE YOU DON’T HAVE BRAIN ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT WHEN YOU HOLD SOMEONE DOWN OR BACK…THEY CAN’T PROGRESS, BUT NEITHER CAN YOU. MY TRUST ISN’T IN THE GOVERNMENT, I’M THE WISE ONE, ALL OF MY TRUST IS IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
YOU MAY TAKE AWAY FUNDING BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE A HEAVEN OR HELL TO PUT ME IN.
What are people suppose to do after 99 weeks? Just go live out in the streets and rot with the bums that are too lazy to work?
What a lot of people don’t realize it that we lost our jobs due to companies downsizing, outsourcing jobs, or just plain cleaning house for younger blood employees who they won’t have to pay a hefty salary or benefits to. People who are in there 50′s like me are never going to get the jobs back that we were good at and loved. Now, we are suppose to be happy taking a part time, minimum wage, no benefits job and go back to what we did when we were teenagers. They need to create good paying replacement jobs with benefits to make things right. Until they can do that, they need to keep extending unemployment benefits. I know the politicians don’t care because it’s not them that this is affecting.
Take a look at this article and see where our money is going!!!! Our government is spending more on themselves and not caring for the American people!!! HOW SAD!!! OOOO AND DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE COMPANIES BEING BAILED OUT!!!
aolnews.com/house-money/article/how-congress-spends-billions-on-itself-about-this-series/19552797
So basically we are hearing there is no hope. That’s great. I hope they let homeless people vote? Because I will be voting everyone out in November. I’m not a religious man but I will be praying for he families of America.
Mr. President,
You have already made history. I commend you! I know your trying your best to deal with everything and the attitude of the republican congress. However, you need to help your people! You need to stop the talk,I have seen on tv that states “the president is looking weak”. Dont let the republican party do that to you. I am a white female who is and always will be a Democrat. I have never voted Republican in my 46 years of life! I will not start now! Many people are very aware of who is not giving to the unemployed! The republican party is voting no on everything to make you look bad!We know it! But do the right thing Mr. President and give us long term unemployed and extension too, so we dont end up in the streets, and rioting does not start. Or what I hear others stating, they will rob and steal and fight to get what they need. Dont let it happen please! We are human beings in crisis! Please dont fail us! Screw the republicans, and show the people what you really stand for!I know you care. The mid terms are coming and it would be a shoe in for all Democrats if the unemployed have food to eat and a roof over there heads. Please help us. GOD BLESS THE HUNGRY CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY UNEMPLOYED AND THE LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED. GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
As a 99er I’m so upset that we are being ignored again. I already had a 6 -1 chance of getting a job. The last one that I applied for told me that they received over 160 applications!
With more and more people flooding the job market due to layoffs, the 99ers don’t have a chance at grabbing a new job. It’s not because we’re not looking and want to sit home all day, it’s because we’ve been out of work for two years and the newly unemployed are more current in their skills. Not to mention the fact that they have their pick of people with so many applying.
Our savings ran out and we’re now charging our bills to keep our house. We haven’t charged in over two years and had a nice, if small, cushion in the bank. Now? We’re in the negatives and trying to figure out how to keep the house.
I’m happy that the other people are going to receive benefits. I did so why shouldn’t they? However, there are at least one million of us 99ers who can’t find a job and it’s looking grimmer every day.
And I find it interesting that congress has no problem taking their time in resolving this issue but they all took their holidays. They all still received a paycheck. I’d like to control that for about six months. No paycheck for congress until I get back from vacation and even after I’m back I’ll take a week or two to get around to addressing the problem.
Oh, and then I’ll decide that the people who’ve been out of the office for seven weeks or more don’t deserve a paycheck at all. Because I want to help the economy by moving moving all those moochers off of the government payroll. They can lose their houses and their cars, health insurance, I don’t care. Too bad for them that they decided to be out of the office that extra week.
Isn’t their another country out their that I could give all the money I’m saving on the backs of other people? And thank god the government is funding the radio hall of fame instead of helping the 99ers. I hope it’s free to get in because even if I cared, I can’t afford to pay to get in.
Oh, by the way. It’s not easy getting a job at 49 either! They’re looking for the hipper, younger, newly unemployed. They don’t want to hire a person who reeks of desperation. Ew! Who wants someone like that around? Bummer.
Maybe I can get disability when the vein throbbing in my temple finally bursts from the stress of all this. Or it could be my ulcer. Heck, does TMJD count? Not to mention all of the teeth that I’ve broken from the grinding. Unfortunately, no money = no caps. I just have them filed done because that doesn’t cost any more than an office visit. I’m going to be left with stubs at this rate.
Almost forgot the migraines. You know why I just remembered now? Because yet another one is starting as I’ve been writing this. Can’t afford to have my head examined so I’d better quit writing before I can’t see anything.
I’ll just sum up by saying: I’m SOOOOO angry and disillusioned with this president. I can’t wait to vote him out. Wonder if they can make an exception and let Bush back in for a third term…sure, I didn’t like the guy and I never thought I’d be saying this but; he’s the lesser of two evils! I find that I’ve grown nostalgic for him and it worries me.
I’m in the same situation but I’m 55 and in my state it’s more like 500 people going after one job!
BTW the last I heard there are 6.5 million 99er’s and every week that number will increase as we lose our benefits.
I’m neither for or against a 5th tier but I think that congress needs to have one thing pointed out to them. In the above article it stated that Congress didn’t want a 5th tier because it would leave the unemployed with less of an incentive to look for work. Well, if I am not mistaken, EDD already has a system for that. They check a box on your form and you have to provide proof you looked for work in order to continue receiving benefits. I have been unemployed for some time now and I always keep a list of all the jobs I have applied and interviewed for in case they check the box. Why not utilize the systems we already have. Just a thought
I have been unemployed since Dec 09….and did collect the 26 week unemployment payments.But was not able to qualify for the 1st tier of the extensions because my checks ended a week after the dead line.Luckily I have savings that get me through……as an un employed I for one believe that 99 weeks is an extremely long time to be un employed.I understand that jobs are in short supply.But during the last six months there were plenty of positions I could have taken.The reason i did not….is not as you may think,because I was collecting unemployment…but because I lived within my means prior to being layed off……I saved money from each paycheck and have always saved throughout my working career.
I felt since I was layed off…my prior employer should pay me the 1st six months…..yes I felt owed by them.I was recruited by them from a very good job with great pay and lots of promises of future promotions….but when things got bad with the economy …those making the most got layed off first.So I have no guilt at all for my former employer having to pay me un employment.
I have however no intention of collecting a single dime from any emergency extensions…..I will go back to work in a couple of weeks and will as before save for any unforeseen future needs.
Anyone not working after 6 months is in my opinion …lacking any type of skills or is just lazy.It would be very easy for me to continue collecting the 475 a week (California) as I did before…it pays all my bills and only requires a few sacrifices for me.
I understand it’s different for everyone…but one only has themselves to blame…..if you do not take any time to better yourself…increase your skills to make yourself desireable as an employee ,save your money instead of living above your means….tough luck.
I work in Human Resources and rarely do I interview more than 1-2 candidates out of 20 who apply….and it is based mainly on job history…..why would I hire anyone with half a dozen jobs in the last 12 months? Also many who show up for an interview have no clue as to how to sell themselves or present themselves.Whatever happened to wearing some clean ,ironed clothes to a job interview?
Sorry I have seen hundreds of candidates and the government owes you nothing!!! For those 99 ners…get off your ass already.
You haven’t worn any of the 99ers shoes-yet and I hope you never have to. There are valid reasons that many can’t save for a rainy, rainy day.
James I hate to say it and I feel the same way 99 weeks is a long time to get a job. Even if it’s not the job you want but its a job. My daughter girlfriend just applied for a job at McDonalds and got the job the next day. As a matter of fact, she only asked about it and they encouraged her to proceed with the application. Your right its not all about living above your means and then waiting until the last minute to recognize. I’m unemployed and still trying to pay a $2000 mortgage. I encourage the unemployment to get creative and come up with ways to make money. An I know its harder for the people who are 50 and up and my prayers go out to them. The 99ers are asking the Government for more benefits through a tier 5 but the question they need to be asking is for the creation of jobs. Because what happens when tier 5 runs out – everyone is looking to the Government again for a tier 6. WE NEED JOBS! WE NEED JOBS! WE NEED JOBS not a tier 5!
So what your saying is that I am lazy. You are also saying that anyone who has been on unemployment for 99 weeks is lazy? 12.3% is the unemployment rate in your state, I would like to question you as to how many jobs do you think there are for each person on unemployment in your state? Since the national average is 1 to 5. Also how many applications do you think most companies look at when they have an open position? You make me laugh when you you say we are all just lazy or go get some skills. Will you pay for me to goto college, pay for my daycare, pay my bills? As I see it you have failed at your job in human resources. You have just done the things that you should be trained not to do, harass and discriminate.
Pay for your own shit! You created your bills, not us.
James Stewart, I would like to caution you about making posts like that on a public board. If your former employer who you have been defrauding can match that post to you, you can be forced to repay all of the benefits that you have collected, receive a fine, and possibly spend some jail time. Also, it is posts like your’s that turn public opinion against us. You just gave justification to any troll who wants to post here. Granted, I believe that you are one of those trolls, otherwise you never would have been stupid enough to make your post since you admit to crimes.
YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF ! ! you’re not there YET, but you will be. I’D rather be working.. eating… paying my bills on time, and be able to see a doctor. WE’RE NOT SITTING ON OUR BUTTS COLLECTING UNEMPLOYMENT…
James,
Good luck when you go to find that job and through all the garbage that just came out your mind all you did was show who the real problem is…
You are the lazy one. If you could go back to work why don’t you do that instead of sitting on your butt collecting benefits that others needed? You felt owed? How entitled are you anyway? Oh and being in HR you probably think your better than everyone else but really you are just like the people in Washington causing this problem, sitting on your ass knowing your safe not caring about anyone in the world but yourself.
Good luck with that
funny thing I have done all I could do to get a job but you want to call me a lazy ass we cannot force people to give us jobs its people like you that are screwing this country up I bet you support bailing out haiti and all the other countries that we help in the BILLIONS you can go f yourself and when you get in a hard luck time I hope you rot in hell
IF WE UNITE AND VOTE THE REP OUT THIS NOVEMBER THERE WILL BE HOPE FOR TIER 5! THE REP’S DAYS ARE OVER, PLEASE TALK TO YOUR FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS TO SEND THESE INSENSITIVE A HOLES TO JION US AS UNEMPLOYED(S)
P.S. I WAS A REP NOW A DEM AFTER LAST MONTH WHEN WE HAD BEEN HELD HOSTAGE IN THIS MESS, THE REPS REALLY FLEW IT THIS TIME BIGGGG!!!!!
I have lost all faith in the congress thanks to the REPUBLICAN PARTY. I was a republican, but no more. I’m just disgusted and disheartened with the whole lot of them.
The first 4 tiers paying up to 99 weeks where created because the high UI % in many states is 9% and over 10% in many states since 08. So what has changed now? Nothing after last 2 years. UI rate still very high in CA. Thus the long term unemployed over 99 weeks are going to keep growing with so few jobs out there and millions of jobs lost since 08 not coming back this year. Last I saw it is 1 job opening for every 5 long term unemployed and worse in CA. Yet after 2 years the job market is still a double digit UI rate in many states like CA but Congress says sorry we are cutting you off. Congress still gives billions to other countries, spends billions on pork projects rather then help the long term unemployed in need. Also this idea we don’t want jobs because we get UI checks is a really evil rumor and ridiculous. Maybe 1% think like that sure. What about the honest 99% that cannot find any jobs no matter how hard they try or how willing to take lower pay etc? I am willing to work for much less and lower jobs I’ve not had in years but still no offers after 2 years? We know the job market is still very bad but we won’t help unemployed over 99 weeks? That somehow Congress are the ones who think things are better now than 2 years ago? Well maybe in fantasy world but not here in CA. Until something changes to make a better job market we cannot hang the victims of Wallstreet and Congressional greed that made most unemployed out to lose it all. We have money to send to other countries not for long term unemployed as long as UI % is so high? We continue to spend billions for so many bills and never see them saying stop we need to pay for this. Why are these not debated before spending the money we don’t have that congress tells us when it comes to tier 5? Until Congress stops wasting billions in that defense budget and all spending why are 99ers the poster child with Tier 5? We have many other areas to start with first not cutting off unemployed. Until then don’t tell the unemployed we cannot expect more help from a tier 5 and we don’t have the money. These are games and Congress knows it. Games played with worse off American victims in need. To the Congress stop the games. Use the darn stimulus money to help the Unemployed as long as UI % stays this high. That is right how long until UI rates come back to normal. That money is a stimulus better than any other. We use it to buy goods and services. That creates jobs in companies we buy from as they have better sales. Watch as consumer buying shrinks as more 99ers run out of unemployment checks with no new Tier 5 extensions. It’s going to grow to millions since jobs just not out there in the millions needed anytime soon. That will lead to more foreclosures, more drops in home values etc. It’s a snowball effect once people no longer have any money coming in.
The 99ers are not looking for handouts, this is not a paid vacation we are on, but a difficult time we are going through. We are productive citizens that have been contributing to our country’s prosperity for years.
We 99ers have been holding down steady jobs that are not there anymore. This economic bubble was not created by us, they were created by the greed of the wealthy and none supervision of the previous administration. I hope that President Obama do the right thing for his citizens and extent this lifeline.
Spanish spanish whats wrong spanish make my day earth quake the hill with all the ass holes there see how they like having nothing..Teach the spanish they will take your job and your house and put 25 people in there and live like kings…end of the world has come.. no american dream for me been out of work my whole life the spanish have taken over the usa.
you stated that you have not had a job your whole life….and you have nerves to blame it on spanish people. okay!!!! keep collecting those checks for ssi better known as checks for retarded people…you retard…grow up…get your first job….even if its at mc donalds….you have nerves blaming spanish people when the only one to blame is yourself…(no job ever in your life) are you kidding me!!
First of all, SSI is for “disabled” people both physical and mental. Second of all, using that word (Retard) by far, is a worse insult, while you may feel you are better than that original poster, you are in fact lowering yourself to his/her level..why demean a disabled soul who has never done anything to you, to justify defending a race that needs no defence..I agree, citizens of other countries, have taken jobs from American citizens, but I would never, think to insult another human being, to demean those non US citizens. You should hang your head in shame, along with the orginal poster!
That is the truth like it or not
don’t blame it on the spanish people for working hard! Whether they have 1 or 10 people living in their home that has nothing to do with the economy. Maybe they have jobs because your busy complaining online making foolish comments rather than being out there looking for work. You should be hung for making racist remarks against spanish people. Your mother should have screwed a spanish man and made you half spanish since you want to be spanish so badly.
I myself am not spanish but I have a few family members who are. Stop blaming spanish people for working hard to support their families like many of us do. nationality is not a factor in this economy. Lack of jobs is to blame. so get off your fat ass and stop complaining and putting the blame on spanish people. you arrogant s.o.b…..
Does anyone know where I can get a LISTING of WHO DID NOT VOTE for this extension in my district? I am from from NY (Queens County). I need to know WHO we will NOT vote for in November.
My heart goes out to the 99ers. Ill pray for you.
Mr. President.
I believe you have what it takes. Executive order! Executive order! Support the 99ers!!
There will be a fight, a big one, if the 99ers are not helped.
You are our leader…lip service no more!!
Of course in November vote those greedy bastards out of office but honestly do you really think that they will feel the pinch of being unemployed like us? They are rich and will go back to their companies, law firms etc at that time! They will never know the fear of being homeless and going to sleep hungry!
The problem is lack of attention to our plight because of the media! Every TV station talks about Mel Gibson & Lindsay Lohan morning, noon and night! We get a few minutes once a month if we are lucky! BTW the 99er’s number over 6.5 million but all they report on is 2.5 million that are effected by the bill! Report the truth and let everyone know that we are NOT included in the so called UI extesion! We are the true long termed unempleyed!! 30 million Americans and their families need a real UI extension of benefits!!!
Now the Repubs are playing games again to hold up the bill for another day before it goes back to the House for a vote and then on to the President to sign! Anyone hear that on the news today?! NO, of course not because it doesn’t get the ratings to go up!
We are now 2nd class citizens after working for decades and paying our taxes we no longer count!
I’m sick of this B.S.! If they don’t help us mark my words there will be riots in this country! Our living conditions will be that of a third world country and maybe then our government will come to the rescue!!!
How could they not even talk bout or mention Tier 5? We need it! Help your fellow Americans first. This country is going to shit!!
they say another tier of benefits would cost to much money
I am so sick of people saying get off your ass and find a job!! My husband has been on unemployment for almost two years. The only jobs he has been able to find were seasonal. He spends all day looking for jobs and when the day is over he comes home and starts looking online.
He has enrolled back in college in hopes of being able to find a job someday. The thing is this month is the month we get cut off of unemployment. We were hoping for a tier five but no such luck! I hope we will be able to keep him in school and still pay our bills.
To those who think that we want some kind of free ride come live in my shoes for a few weeks. When my husband lost his job we had to move from a lovely house into a trailer park because we could no longer afford the rent. Our trailer is so small we don’t even have a bedroom. My kids have those. my husband and I have been sleeping on separate couches for two years! Even with the unemployment benefits we were barely scrapping by. There are times when the bills are paid but we have no money for gas, household cleaning items and our personal hygiene products. We have to go to a local charity to get those things.
My husband is dying to find a job and he wants to support his family like he used to before all the jobs vanished. He is now working part time, 7.50hr at a public pool. This job ends next month and now we can’t even get any unemployment either. We would like to live in a house again with our own bedroom. We would like to be able to afford to by our kids anything. As of now they have went without anything nice for two years!
Also most the time my hubby was on unemployment he had to fax in a paper showing what jobs he applied for. There was never a time where we thought we would just live off that money. Before he was laid off he made between $1,000 to $2,000 a month. With unemployment he was getting around $700 a month. That is not enough to live off of. We cut our bills in half and still were not bringing in enough on unemployment. Even with that said it was better then the nothing we are going to receive now!!
To all you people with jobs and savings hating on us like we are the losers who spend a lifetime on assistance. I hope you lose your job! I hope you spend all your savings and then still can’t find a job. I hope unemployment cuts you off and you end up homeless like some many Americans are now!!!
As time goes on more and more American’s are become “99er’s”. Of course we would all rather work than collect unemployment but something has to be done to extend benefits beyond 99 weeks for those who still can not find a job. Not working is hard on us and our self esteems but I would think being homeless will be even harder.
I have a idea if there are no jobs out there how about lets make some jobs, any job lets start by fixing ever pothole in every city and town pay us and we will work. I will work I love to work and I bet 99 percent of all people without jobs want to work. Losing your job at no fault of your own and living on less than half of your wage is no fun at all let me tell you.
I want to be strong and I still love this Great Country that I have served and survived in. I want to think good thoughts but I’m not naïve to what’s going on and to what has gone on to which we face great problems among us.
What is this 999 crap this is to say it real nicely Ill leave a space you can fill in your one definition what you think.
• well just ask you this big question? Where did the MONEY GO and who got the big bonuses we don’t even know about not to count the ones that we do.780 billion and then 870 billion give or take a few billion
.I think they named it wrong it’s not bailout it was handout and that’s not what the American people are asking for is handout may be a hand up. And that’s what exactly what they deserve is what was paid in, in ones name under their SSN, for some as much as 30 to 40 years or more, and never collected a dime, and you can ask yourself the same question? Again where did the money go?
I guess when someone steels something they don’t want you to know who they are and for sure don’t ever plan on given it back even if they get caught. Ask yourself where are these crooks are they so hard to find because there right under our noses and I’m talking the handout bailout. And we ask this question? Does The Government Owe Unemployed Workers? ”
I would say about 99. Something percent, all want to work and to find a job. But they just aren’t there and lost their job at no fault of their own. I bet that if any body would like to give up there job and change places with one of the unemployed workers. You won’t see anybody.
The people with jobs beware you to could become one with out one. It’s easy to think and say things about people, but maybe if you go yourself, you will have a better insight to reality.
Ask yourself were did the money go bailouts, banks rip-offs; maid off is a small pimple on a frogs ass on a big log in a big lake, the smoke screen has cleared, we can all see now the buyoffs, payoffs the top regulators, CEO’S, de regulators, speculators, Greedy at the top present created this great problem, find them tract them hunt them down make them give back the money and we wont be worried about another little extension But you have to start at the top. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE AMERICIAN PEOPLE WITHOUT JOBS, GIVE US JOBS AND WE WILL WORK LIKE NEVER BEFORE! We shouldn’t be worried about getting help and who is really in control, ask yourself were did money go, and where is it really going. We all know it’s not hard to figure out, it’s the wealthiest,
Greediest few, and to bad this saying still is true, the man or men with gold make the rules, or maybe that was OIL! “But the power is still with the people” we want our money back the FEW stole it from us, it didn’t just disappear it’s somewhere in the world, and they’re ha ha laughing all the way to banks!
Watch out for the weasels that have turned into moles.
Treasonous Criminal Taxpayer Funded Bailouts: Just for Starters:
AIG $128,500,000,000 (B)
Freddie Mac $45,600,000,000 (B)
Citigroup $45,000.000,000 (B)
Bank of America $45,000.000,000 (B)
JPMorgan Chase $25,000.000,000 (B)
Wells Fargo $25,000.000,000 (B)
Fannie Mae $16,200,000,000 (B)
General Motors $13,400,000,000 (B)
Goldman Sachs $10,000,000,000 (B)
Morgan Stanley $10,000,000,000 (B)
Bernie Madoff is sitting in a cushy jail cell, probably smoking Cuban cigars and getting serviced by high priced call girls. His prison cell is better comfort than being unemployed with no relief in sight. His plight is endemic of our society and the way we treat thieves of the greatest magnitude. A regular petty thief probably deserves and gets a man’s beating, but steal hundreds of billions of dollars from the American people and you are too big to fail. Citigroup, AIG, and all the other dark players in this economic passionate power play don’t care
what they do nor how they do it because they have the government by the throat. We all saw how the republican pig fell all over himself to apologize to the BP CEO for the paltry twenty billion they coffed up to help the gulf coast residents; this is the main stream mentality of these monsters. They are wholly owned by the corporations they are supposed to regulate; many are on revolving doors from those very same industries, stopping in government just to make sure the engines of power only work for them. You could take these guys and their corporations and put them on an island somewhere and call it a separate government, guess what there are over two hundred of such islands including the Caymans, the isle of Mann, Cook Island, Luxemborg, Switzerland and the list goes on. These places allow the kind of chicanery that went on at ENRON, off Shore Corporation’s sheatherd by off shore trusts, inside banks that differentiate between the actual corporations and the label on the account. This means that even if they kill a bus load of nuns and orphans, they cannot be touched legally. We are the American people, they are the sharks and piranhas that have been brought here by the greediest among us to feed off our collective economic carcass; they will continue to do this until we either stop them by force or we are consumed. I do not advocate violent change but if they take everything away, there is nothing to lose but your life. I agree that organizing into a cohesive political force will help, but be aware that the powers that control everything will do everything to marginalize that movement. George Orwell predicted that life in these United States would change for the worse in his book 1984, he unfortunately was correct. The tea party has one thing and only one thing correct, we need change, we need to take back our government. We don’t need howling racist morons, but we do need change. I suggest that to really effect that change we vote, don’t leave it up to someone else…VOTE for those that truly represent us. There is a revolution every four years in this country, and we need to realize this and step up to the plate and hit a homerun. VOTE, VOTE VOTE, turn the bastards out.
It’s funny how they treat the unemployed while they enjoy fat pockets, life time health care and a sweet pension…. We get short handed but what Congress Bought Itself with $1 Billion of tax payer money!!!!!!!!!!!
aolnews.com/house-money/article/the-other-congressional-spending-how-the-house-spent-1-billion-on-itself/19522761
The republicans don’t mind borrowing trillions of dollars for military purposes (Haliburton, weapons manufacturers, etc) in order to fight bogus wars. But when it comes to unemployment, they pretend to be fiscal conservatives. They talk about lower taxes, but for years, they borrowed money from China to fund the tax breaks. That’s not lower taxes, that’s simply borrowing money and spending it that you can’t afford to borrow.
We as a country have got to stop feeling entitled to the point where we borrow ourselves into bankruptcy. People with this mentality have destroyed the U.S. economy and the future health of our great country.
I see 99% of the posts here are over outrage that their unemployment benefits have been cut off. Now ask yourselfs, in all honesty, when we first declared war on Iraq, did you support that decision? Where was your proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction?
Many of you are acting like brainwashed pawns on a chess board. You vote for costly policies that benefit the rich, and then when it comes to your own selves, there is no money left over to put food on your tables and clothes on your children’s backs. If you voted Democrat or Republican, then you are nothing more than a brainwashed pawn being force fed whatever the political machine wants you to believe.
It is imperative that you stop this Democrat vs. Republican rigged two-party election brainwashing and start voting for those who are not mouth-pieces for corporate America. Otherwise, you are voting against your own well-being.
1960 to 1975 Slogan by the ” Patriots ”
Kill for freedom
Kill for peace
Kill Vietnamese [ now Iraqis, Afghanis, etc]
Kill , Kill , Kill
Vietnam
58,000 young innocent U.S. troops died in vain
not counting the million + + + innocent Vietnamese men , women and children who died under our Weapons of Mass Destruction .
We still have not learned from our mistakes probably because the tightly controlled mass media lies, distorts facts and stirs up hate . The hate mongers such as Bill Kristol , Norman Podhoretz , Richard Pearl , Douglas Feith , Paul Wolfowitz, Henry Kissenger , Dick Cheny ,
[ all draft dodgers ] these people are the power behind the throne , the Anti Christ who have an agenda that is not in our countries interest.
Watch time be their comings to the evil ones that created great problems among us they will pay in the end, time is running out for them no where to hide from the most powerful of all they will fall.
In nations where there is inequality and specious access to little or no resources, there is more violent crime, obesity, higher teen pregnancy rates, more instances of mental illness, an increase in the prison population and higher school drop out rates. (Pickett & Wilkinson) Where does America rank as far as these stats are concerned? No. 1! According to their research, “the United States has the greatest inequality of income in any developed country, except Singapore.” (Pickett & Wilkinson) This is not good news for us, and for all the ballyhooing that American politicians do about the democratic process and how wonderful American’s have it better than anyone else in the world, we’d better reexamine that myth. It isn’t much good when people in other industrialized nations out live us, and have better job related and health care benefits than we do. That says a lot about how great this nation is not.
who are we really fighting and look back at the past few wars that’s a little insight to reality inadvertently its still to sides and who funds which side with weapons and money it hasn’t really changed from the inside out Its not to hard to see control power and greed.The few and the many and what is a penny.
If all of the special interest groups, lobbyists, greedy people in this world didn’t get bills and laws passed for themselves to proliferate our government we wouldn’t have all these problems like we have today. Maybe we all don’t know that since the beginning of time, as we know it. Money, power and greed have brought down the most powerful and strongest of nations of this world. I think its time for we the people to awaken and take back this great country that are forefathers founded so many moons ago.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Thomas Jefferson
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
You people seriously have no problem asking for more money after 99effin weeks of “looking” Who do you think your kidding? Listen to me– YOUR LAZY—- I have never qualified for unemployment, Im self employed, have been for 18 years. I pay my own insurance, and find my own work. Too long have you broom pushers been living the fat life in factory’s, In unions making $80 per hour, TIME TO SWALLOW THE PILL and take an $8 an hour job. If you lose your house it was YOUR FAULT! 2 years and you cant find a job? yeah right, more like you cant find a job making $80 an hour anymore. Losers.
Well kudos to you it must be nice to have a job where you can afford to brag on yourself..tell you what YOU try to pay a bill of $1600 a month (total monthly bills not counting food and gas) on $8 a week working 40 hours a week if I’m lucky…I was making $15 an hour not $80 moron…make your stupid comments only AFTER you walk in my shoes..until then BITE ME!
I want to amend my post I meant to say $8 an hour not $8 a week..unemployment in Florida pays $275 a week..that’s $550 every two weeks or $1100 a month yea buddy I can afford to live on that..but only if I don’t go anywhere or eat, or bathe or well, you get the idea..I am NOT living on easy street any employed or retired person who thinks I am is a moron!
President Obama,
Help the 99ers. We did not ask to be unemployed. Executive order is needed.
Please help
This is my thought on this situation. Firstly is an absolute atrocity that people are not being looked after in our own country. I’m SICK to my eyes of seeing “Feed the Children” in some forsaken land I’ve never seen or care to see to be honest. I’m tired of OUR money being spent on people that hate us in countries that are part of organizations that want to kill us. I’m TIRED of fighting a war that has NO END and for no freaking logical reason we are STILL THERE.
The politicHO’s whine and cry about money….money???? Why are they acting like it’s theirs and not OURS, the American people??? We NEED it here, not feeding kids in some foreign land, not fighting a war no one wants, not lining the pockets of some coporation that isn’t giving anything back by not hiring people.
It’s flat out unacceptable in any and every way that every single person in this country isn’t taken care of by the others that can. Socialist? SO WHAT?! If it keeps people off the streets, keeps them fed, keeps them healthy with medical care, keeps them educated and keeps them free to make their own choices for life then I say LET’S DO IT! The way of life we have going here now is not working for the big picture and it needs to change. It’s unimaginable that people can be so callous, cold hearted and just flat out mean spirited to other people that need help. They are always touting about charity…look what they are doing in the middle east, or the new aids hospitals being built in South Africa…paid for by YOU and me. Yet we don’t count and do not amount to more than a number. It’s a gross error on the part of the so called “leaders” to think that anyone other than a US citizen is more important in a crisis like this.
They are afraid of change, they are afraid that someone “will get over on them”, they are afraid that they will no longer be on the top of the pile but rather mixed in with everyone else. Just like the constitution is written….ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL. There are no conditions to that statement, it means what it says and how it says it. The people of this country get no respect from their government as a whole. That needs to change.
Well I have to say that I am glad to hear that we will finally be getting our unemployment cks. back I don’t know how they plan on getting our back pay to us but my bill collectors will thank you congress for approving this. I however am very remorseful for the 99ers who need help as much as we do. I can’t understand why we can’t help all who are unemployed at this time. I understand that we can’t stay on unemployment “forever” and none of us expect to but I think that until we are out of this mess we are in unemployment should be avaliable.
I will be one of those 99ers come Nov. and I know I will be feeling the way you all guys feel right now. I pray that something will give and you will get the help you need. Come on Obama step in and do something stand out be a man and use some of the power you have to help these people.
I pray for each of us daily and I know that this passage of benefit was a gift from GOD and noone else!!! Maybe we will be able to pay our elec. bill soon and I pray that they will hold on until I get may ck. before they turn them off!!
I am unfortunate to be one of the 99?er, it has be a gloomy outlook in Tampa considering this is my first time ever collecting unemployment compensarion.I have a 4yr degree and years of experience in my field. I am now forced to apply for public assistance having 2 kids and after working for over 20 years and having honorably served my county in the USMC. I am on verge of losing everything with my car on verge of repo and our house in forclosure. I can now see how some people do desperate things to survive. I would take a job 100x more than a unemployment check. But currently I have neither choice and thing only continue to get worst. We have been forgotten and the tragic fallout will not affect those who were elected to represent the voice of the people.
Need tier 5 and $25 extension. Chairman Ben Bernanke said high unemployment won’t end soon.
As I read previous comments, I must agree That congress is lliving in their own world. Even if they gave us 300 weeks of extensions Guess What? It still would not be enough! Do they not realize people have famlies to take care of? Even the basic Food Shelter and Clothing expensis are hard to afford. Do they think that we take the little nothing unemployment check people (were) getting and going on lavish trips, shopping sprees? WELL WERE DAMN SURE NOT!!!! we are using every last penny just to try to feed our children!, Sometimes even going without eating so your children can eat and not have to worry about sleeping on the street! Well they may have to worry now since the job market is terrible, IM NOT HOME WATCHING DAYS OF OUR LIVES, Im busting my ass looking for a JOB. WAKE THE HELL UP CONGRESS you have real Americans who have worked almost their whole life and have NOTHING to show for it but a struggle that we did not CAUSE. WE NEED A TIER NOW BEFORE WERE SLEEPING ON THE LAWNS IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!!!
Nancy Polesi allready said at one of her new’s conferences about 6 weeks ago that there is not any plan’s right now for another tier of benefits. she said the reason is the concern over the growing defcit
“And given that the Congress seems to be making a deliberate decision to exclude the 99ers, I think you have a real separation of powers problem if the president tries to step in and do by executive order what he is unable to achieve through legislation.”’
Right, and the man can’t speak up specifically on their behalf either, I guess.
UI benefits are for those who lost their job through no fault of their own. So the people were working, likely productively, when I our greed induced financial tsunami hit and now floods the job market with applicants.
No fault of their own they’re out of work. No fault of their own the job market is horrific. No fault of their own their elected officials turn their back on them.
But the responsibility to feed their kids, pay their bills, etc., is all their own.
What kind of society re-invests in the people who caused such a crisis, while dis-investing in the workforce – its own people, that suffers b/c of a crisis they had no real hand in?
Oh, ours does.
Things are bad but, at their core, they are even worse than they seem.
Amazing that us 99 er’s are loosing everything that we once worked hard for! I myself will have to start packing to move into a friends house and put my stuff in storage which I have no clue how I will be paying for it! I have been out of work since September 2008 working a part time job 2 days a week in which my boss had to start collecting unemployment because we are doing so badly the I cannot give him a paycheck.
I will now have to drive over an hour each way to get to this job that I get very little money from 2 days a week. And continue to look for work go on interviews in which 200 people apply for-you go through an interview and think that he has gone well just to be crushed when you do not get the job. Again as others have said with the age me being 42 they are hiring younger people who they can pay a lot less money and skills are just out of college/high school.
I do not think they are being fair with this Tier 5 with excluding the 99 er’s we need the help, as this is not our fault that we were laid off and not our fault we cannot get a job!!!!! The money is there help us!!
I will pray for all those in my position-it hurts to have to give up my home-my monthly payment is $1,100.00 a month which does not include util. and other misc bills car insurance, credit card, etc. This has me so stressed that I have not slept and have stomach issues!
The funny thing is that my boyfriend says it will be ok- ahhahahahahaha he works for the STATE of NJ!!! They have no clue what we go through!
Hiring Manager: how can you be unemployed for almost 2 yrs??? there must be some problem with you!!!
Larry: If this 2 yr gap has done anything to me, it has only made me realize that a job offer doesn’t come easily. and if i’m hired i’m only going to work extra hard to contribute to the company.
Next Day in Larry’s email: we regret to inform you… blah blah
Larry thinking: biach wait and see your bs back office job being shipped to india and we see if u have problems of ur own
I don’t understand how you can give emergency benefits to one group but not another. If there are few jobs then the fact is the fact no matter how long you have been receiving benefits. If the situation is emergency than it is across the line. Employers are not taking in consideration to hire those who have been without jobs the longest first. We have a emergency. Some of us have no where to turn. No one to pay the basic bills just to keep a roof over our heads. Either force employers to hire us first or add us to the emergency benefit package. Stop sending us to the streets homeless with nothing left of our lives. WAKE UP THATS WHAT IS HAPPENING PEOPLE! We lost our jobs. No fault of our own. We have been applying and interviewing like crazy! WE NEED HELP TOO! I keep reading opinions on how adding a tier 5 will effect the economy. An emergency is an emergency. The effect on the return of helping those in need has nothing to do with helping the people. If it has good effect because they all spend every dollar or has no effect. That is not relative to Emergency benefits. Should we stop providing health care to those who have been ill long term. Should we only call their situation an emergency if it is good for our economy. Your all playing games and this is peoples lives you are playing. I hope you all go to HELL. You’ve sure put our country and it’s people there!
at this point. I think 99% of my applications have been screened out by some computers becuz of the gap on my resume. at least that woman bothered to interview me.
that’s the only interview i’ve had since mid 09. and i have sent out at least 5,000 applications ever since i was laid off.
i’m a decent applicant too. I had about a dozen interviews thru fall 08. some of the positions were later cancelled, some of them I didn’t get cuz there’re just so many more qualified ppl out there who are also unemployed.
but starting from summer 09, despite the economy was supposed to have become better, i never get any response from hiring managers anymore. as i said, i think my applications are automatically screened out by computers due to the gap on my resume. i am so fu#ked.
and guess what, I think govt agencies, like the ones under the state of california, screens out the long term unemployed too. as i have applied to over 100 public service positions, including ones at call centers, never an interview. i graduated from UC berkeley btw.
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My fellow 99ers, republican or democrat it’s all the same thing. By having two parties our government has divided Americans. The Government just wants your hard earned tax dollars and their cushy little government jobs.
They just want to get re-elected.
As Americans we enjoy our freedom and life style and the Gov’s want to control that by controlling the economy and throw us bread crumbs to get our vote. Please see the below link that fully exposes their Strategy… Let’s not be fooled again and take our country back! Spread this around till we break them down!
“When people fear the government – that is tyranny;
When government fears the people – that is liberty.”
– Thomas Jefferson
The Government condones and practices
h**p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule
the hiring managers are prolly all thinking, “why do i give a $hit about the unemployment problem. I dun wanna risk having to deal with a dumb@ss who hasn’t been working for over a yr.”
so, we don’t only need a tier V, i think the govt should give employers some incentive to hire a long-term unemployed. weren’t they talking about it? is that ever gonna happen?
OBAMA HANDS ARE NOT REALLY TIED, AND HE COULD ISSUE AN IMMEDIATE EXECUTIVE ORDER TO PROVIDE UNEMPLOYMENT TO THE 99′ERS…
…I take exception to the opinion put forth by Constitutional law expert Steve Schwinn of the John Marshall School of law in Chicago, reporting to AOL News that President Obama’s hands are tied, concerning President Obama issuing an Executive Order to create an additional Tier 5 of additional weeks of unemployment for those who have exhausted their maximum allowed
weeks of unemployment, which is 99 in the hardest hit states right now.
What Mr. Schwinn has conveniently left out is that every presidential executive order issued, always has their naysayers, such as Mr. Schwinn, and Mr. Obama’s hands are NOT really tied, and he COULD issue that executive order, at anytime, as he is the president right now, and that executive order would become law IMMEDIATELY — and unemployed folks out there would get those additional weeks of unemployment, just as fast as the state unemployment offices can implement them.
Also, it was also appalling to see President Obama do his photo opp on Monday with those 3 unemployed workers, all the while bashing the minority political party in Washington D.C. for holding up unemployment benefits. In truth, the majority political party had the votes all the time to get this through and did not have to make the unemployed people wait, and we as viewers, would not have had to suffer though yet another politically-motivated photo opp by Obama. All Obama and his
congressional cohorts had to do, was to ram the unemployment bill through like they did previously with the un-wanted and un-constitutional health care bill (I’d be very interested to hear a so-called Constitutional law experts’s opinon on that health care bill, also). Beyond that, as Obama stood with those 3 unemployed people, all the while Obama could have
spared us all this politically-motivated photo opp and did two presidential executive orders, the first to extend the expiration date for current unemployment from June 2, to the end of November, or even the end of the year. And then, the second presidential executive order, to extend actual, additional weeks of unemployment beyond the maximum of 99.
Further, I do value Mr. Schwinn’s opinion, but he should have researched his opinion a little more and looked up from the desk, from the politically-worded legislation to see what the real buzz is concerning the emergency need for unemployment benefits beyond the maximum of 99 week. It would be interesting for AOL News or other News agencies to hear from other so-called Constitutional law experts, those that were more truly in tune and more sympathetic to the plight of the 99ers.
Lastly, people who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, should not be punished, and should definitely get further unemployment funds, so that they can keep their houses, pay bills and put food on the table. Maybe Congress and the Senate will one day hopefully soon, get off their doffs and stop helping out the bankers and catering to the financial institutions, especially those giving them campaign money, including that AIG outfit. Then, Congress and the Senate can
finally do something to create new jobs so that the unemployed can go back to work, and to also bring back those lost jobs, especially those going to foreign workers now doing u.s. jobs.
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I’m one those 99′s when looking for work, I have come across some temp staffing companies. that are requiring one currant calender year of work history,if you had work experience five to ten years ago,that does not count towards the job their are trying to fill. what this means is if you have work history older than one year, they might considered you for any job they may have to fill. most of my work history is five to thirty years old,so puts me in a place i need a job,but what they are requiring puts me in a disadvantage in looking for work. some staffing agency’s are want someone of a $ 100,000. income of talent, but they only want to pay them nine an hour for that talent. they are raising the requirements so that the ones who really need a job, may not even get a chance for employment. how high do you raise the bar? dealing with job requirements?
This is what’s gonna happen. There will be another extension for a tier 5 but at the best opportune time…november. It will make THEM look like saviors. By that time a lot of us would have taken actions into the streets and will be in a full Survival Mode. The future reaction to this recent decision to nix tier 5 will be scary but interesting. We will become roll models for tier 4. Get ready its gonna be a rocky ride.
if tier 5 is no passed soon im going to end up with a criminal i have to do what i have to do to survive now i been out of work nowfor almost 3yrs i be dam if my kids have another christmas like last yr so god forgive me now if tier 5 is not passed
When over 1 million lives are destroyed we call it genocide. For Congress and yes Obama to turn their backs on the 99ers who have sunk from middle class to poverty, these innocent victims of a corrupt and greedy system supported by our elected officials are the walking dead. How can this happen in America??? The previous contributors to this blog have expressed rage, and how can you blame them. Losing everything you honestly worked for, and knowing you have become a helpless pawn in a rich mans game will evoke acts we neverr thought possible of ourselves. I am educated,skilled and capable of contributing to our society. but now my wife and I will become virtual slaves to the few rich, but controlling segment who are in with the political dirt bags who enjoy seeing us squirm as they have their way with us. Folks, this is just the beginning. If you want to sit back and pray for a miracle in a few monthsm forget it!!! Your possessions, and spirit will be reduced to a shell of what you were. So…what are YOU going to do?
u said it best daniel! i too will end up doing unlawfull things too very soon along with the rest of us 99ers who refuse to give up and die off which i aspect the republicans want by sweeping us under the rug and thinking nothing of it…
or is it that they want all of us on welfare or human assistance? “oh wait i know”! they probobly only want half of us that are qualified to get assistance and the other half dead or locked up in these over packed jails and prisons we have… THANKS REPUBLICANS UR THE BEST!
Go ahead, keep making payments on your credit cards. After all, we cannot let our credit score drop, can we?
“oh ya”! wasen’t it their party that got us in this mess in the 1st place… so why do i see them talking so much crap about they dont want 2 add to the deficit so thats why they dont want 2 help the unemployed or us 99ers out! so what really going on? they ” the republicans” created this huge mess or had alot to do with it when they had the house, then they block any assistance to create new jobs and help the unemployed every time they have a chance too and now they have the nerve to say their takeing the house back or want too! i mean i can’t be the only one that see’s this… so if im not dead or in jail by this november i will definitely be voting againts them any way possible which i would advise every one to do the same!
I am completely out of food, not one cracker crumb…Nada.
I have no idea when there will be food, But all I know is that God will provide. I have a daughter and she’s coping with this pretty good, I’m glad of that. My concern at this moment is for all that are in need. But my heart goes out for the children who have been put in this deadly game of politics, rape, and deception.
Way to save everyone sport. If you had any smarts you would have left the number up there for people to make their own decisions.
All the people on here are complaining about no jobs?????DUH!!
The guy holding the sign “WILL WORK FOR FOOD” will become commonplace in the very near future. And sadly, desperate families will do desperate things they never imagined they would be capable of. Losing it all, and watching our loved ones suffer will create a dangerous uprising, puncuated by a crime wave, and violence born of a hopless situation. This can be stopped by our legislators before it is too late. In the meantime, hold off on paying unsecured debts, and do everything to keep your house, and feed your loved ones. Form local protest groups which will combine with others until a deafening voice of dissent is heard, and canot be ignored. This country was founded by enough oppressed people that would not TAKE ANY MORE. Stand up, unite, or die in Pottters Field. Do you agree?
I do agree. Crime will raise substancially more, and like Steve mentioned earlier sooner or later we may all be 99ers. This problem facing all of us in America is tremendous. Unification is needed but how hard that is.
Do you remember the movie John Doe. Most of us barely know or for that matter desire to know their neighbor.
Most people are frightened and with good reason. The times have changed and the minds of most have become corrupted. This problem isn’t going to get any better.
What can we do Willie?
For years my boss would make unwelcome advances, but I needed the job as a young single mom. Last May I was told that he receives tons of applications for my position, and my review is coming up. Without a job, and no savings I am one paycheck from being homeless. As ashamed and disgusted I am with wanting to keep my family intact, I submitted to him. He has routinely taken advantage of me, and I dont know what to.I fear if I tell his wife he will have someone hurt me. It would take money to hire a good lawyer, and I cannot prove to the police that I am being raped to keep my job. Any suggestions. I do not have the courage to reveal my situation even to my closest friends.
Janet,
If you can establish even a small amount of proof for your story, I encourage you to go tell your story — not to the police, but to the news. If your story is run on television, your boss won’t dare hurt you, because the entire community will know he has to be the one responsible for it.
Don’t suffer. Tell the entire world what that SOB is doing to you, and put him where he belongs: behind bars.
A good lawyer will usually handle that kind of case on a contingency, so you won’t need to pay anything up front. You will have to be able to prove it and convince the attourney that it can be proven. Good Luck!
Hey Janet, What you are doing is wrong. Stop hurting yourself and others. Get it together. Be careful about confronting him or his wife as the situation may become violent. You need to speak with a counselor/ police. No amount of money a job can bring will take away the damage that is being done. Speak the truth and be free.
Wow nice of the senate to leave out the 99ers nice how a country that’s suposed to be for the american pepole turned there backs on there own pepole. well looks like tent citites and roits will be in order.
YOU ARE EXACTLY RITE TENT CITY IS COMING SOON ! MAYBE THEY WILL GIVE US ARMY RATIONS , IF WE BEG LIKE DOGS !!!!!!!!!! WTF IS GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I hate to bring race into this but I’m glad I’ve been trained to be resourceful. You see being black in America well not getting a job worth its weight and being turned down for credit not having a good clean neighborhood to raise your kids and having a rather bleek future sort of seems the usual. Trust me there’s no room down here for more people. What’s given free or for little to nothing is running thin. Take it to the streets people. There’s no room down here for more poverty
I’m sorry…but I really don’t even understand your comment and what it has to do with race. I am glad you were taught to be resourceful but were you taught some manners because you are just rude. What do you mean by there is no more room down here? Down where…hell? I am going to pray that you get some empathy for these people, I work with unemployed people that are truly looking for work and can not find it, we are in a very difficult time. I hope and pray that you never go through half of what some of these people are having to go through. Lighten UP!!
Now you see Wendy as you sit at your JOB helping people like me you still find time to critisize. You don’t know what my life is like. You don’t know what down here means until you get here. So while you push us through the system and wait for your check you just stay focus on not making mistakes on paperwork so that people like me get what they need. And oh by the way, being down here is not hell. I’ve been a witness to tiny glimpses of hell. Down here ain’t it.
I am a 99er and a mother of 4 kids. I was laid off in November 2008 and have been looking for work ever since. My house went into forecloser last year and we were forced to move to another state. This left me to start my job search all over again. Now congress has passed this unemployment extension. However, they have excluded the 99ers. Then I read that they suggest we go apply for TANF (welfare). That is so backwards to me. TANF is tax dollars!!!!!! Why not just give us the extension along with everyone else. I really do not know what we are going to do. My money is exhausted and we are sure to be evicted if I miss August 1st rent. 4 kids, homeless and no money is a terrible thing. Come on Government….you can’t be serious!!!!!
this is unfrickenblevable!!!!! 2012 is coming sooner than you think obama !!!!!!!!! take charge damnit !!! NOW. and do something for our country NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!
to the lady who is being raped by your boss, please go to the police station and have this guy stopped , then you can sue him , but most important if you dont seek police assistance your story will be more unbelivable i have two adult children and that is what i would tell them to do , i dont care how hard the economy is stand up for your self , tell your parents , tell your polic e tell his wive to hell with that job for now if your have brothers or a husband tell them!!!!i will pray for u
I agree we are also in desperate need of help to. We didn’t ask for any of this. If the 99ers don’t get help look out when it comes election time, you won’t be getting my vote. Shame on me once shame on me twice the 3rd time around I say f**k you maybe someone else who cares about us will get my vote. Or maybe i should run for president, cause i am real american who knows how it is cause i been through it.
I was so excited when I heard the extension was passed. BUT I learned its not for me cause I went up to tier 4 65 weeks mind you not 99….. I’m very very happy for the others but what do I do now?????? I have no income at all. Took out enormous loans to go back to school for my MBA. Been out since December 2008. Look everyday mind you. Ill take anything trust me but now im cut off like a damn dog. YET as soon as I do get back to work they will surely tax me to death right. I am so ashamed to be an american. Florida is 11.2% unemployment…. Are they for real????????????????????/
I’ve been unemployed for close to 3 years. It started with having to go on temporary disability and when my doctors said I could go back, there was no room in the inn. I had that job for 5 years, never missed a day, and excelled at their production standards. The only thing I didn’t do was kiss up which my boss wanted all of her employees to do. Since then I have filed hundreds of applications and resumes, I check at least once per week on the Caljobs website, and I get daily e-mail alerts from Monster and Thingamajob (similar to Monster). I also check out Craigslist at least once per week. These have netted me a couple of dozen interviews and no job offers.
Most of the interviews have only lasted 5-10 minutes. Once they see me and see that I am both in my 50′s and overweight, I get the cold shoulder. I don’t even receive the promised courtesy call back telling me that I wasn’t getting hired. I even went on an interview through a temp agency one time, but while on my way to it was given a call telling me that the job was no longer available. It just so happens that 5 minutes earlier, the recruter met me so I really don’t know what else to think.
As for the Tier 5 extension, I don’t forsee it happening until afterthere are no people left in Tiers 1-4. At that time 20% of the country will be unemployedand the government will be paying for food lines like they had back in the 1930s. It will not be too far in the future.
Unemployment benefits are not FREE MONEY. We contributed to it, and our taxes paid for the extentions. The multi billions given to the banks was “necessary” to save our economy. The one million plus 99ers are looked upon as pathetic lambs being led to the slaughter house. They are too weak to find jobs after 99 weeks of charitable goverenment “handouts” The congressmen who turned their backs on the 99ers are pigs, and should be looked upon as criminals abusing their sworn commitment to the people they represent. The trail of ruined lives is the fault of a dispassionate and incompetant congress, and a charming but lying President. Boy did we miss the mark when we trusted his phony promises. We know what to do, but ask yourself….are you ready to rumble???
Take a look at your check stub any and all, I’ll kiss your butt if you can find one unemployment insurance deduction ANYWHERE! YOU did NOT pay one cent to unemployment benefits, unless you are an employer..you are right it is NOT free money our employers paid that money in by law..it should be already in a fund waiting on us when needed, however the GOV arses felt they needed it more then we did..they voted themselves pay raises and helped themselves to that money!
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Please Everyone don’t lose the faith and keep fighting for Tier 5. We can’t let them get away with sticking their middle finger up at us again. Keep calling and emaiing the Senators and the President. Keep complaining. If you are lucky enough to still be receiving unemployment don’t let yourself get complacent we must stick together and insist that Congress does not go on vacation without passing a Tier 5 and the Cobra benefits. It’s unconscienable what they are doing. They are dooming all of us to a very insecure future and when the economy does finally turn around it’s not going to do much good if we are all living on the streets while they live in their ivory tower. Screw them. We need to be assertive and not let them get away with this BS. Who cares about November even if they get voted out these S.O.B.’s still get their salary for the rest of their lives it will be like giving their lazy butts a vacation. We must keep fighting. Don’t accept anything less from them. The Force is with Us.
I thought I was setting myself up to succeed. I took advantage of the training, set out to obtain a degree, pushed myself all the way thru to get awesome grades to stand out from everyone else and through it all my daughter and I went without to try to make it. Well after 2 years of wasted time I can’t even get an employer to let me “work for free”?! to get my time for an externship. If I can’t even volunteer how am I supposed to find a job that pays?
I still have 10 more weeks of schooling to go to finish my degree but with no income and savings tapped out, I will have to give up on my degree because I can’t afford to travel 49 miles to school (one way).
I get so pissed when I read people posting “if the unemployed would get off their a#@$s and get a job…” if they only knew, I wish they would look for work for just 2 weeks and pretend that their lives depended on what they found, then and only then they might understand what all unemployed Americas are up against and we aren’t chosing to sit back for the free ride!?
AND if we asked them (government officals) to live on 60% of their income just to get America thru this situation – not one of them would be able to figure out how to survive. I feel that when their term is up, so is their compensation. What job in the real world will pay for your benefits, retirement, ect AFTER you are no longer working for them?! Also, if the company is in trouble/not making a profit they cut your wage or at least freeze raises – why should it be any different for the people in our government?! How are we supposed to support their incomes/lifestyle when almost everyone in America is earning $8/hr? And don’t get me started on the debt that we are passing on to our children, yes some of it is generated from paying unemployment but we need to remember everything else that contributed to the debt prior to this mess that the Free Trade Agreement made.
To everyone that is unemployed, good luck because your going to need it! And they (the government) wonder why the general public doesn’t trust them?! REALLY?!?!?!?!?
I’ve read that a significant percentage of these 99 er’s are over 55. This means they are getting a double whammy with unemployment and age discrimination. It also means that they have probably been working for over 25 years, paying their unemployment insurance for all those years. And now they are being told that they cannot collect benefits because they have been unemployed too long. Of course they have been unemployed too long. That’s another reason that they aren’t being hired. Its tough to find a job in good times when you have been out of work for 2 years.
HERE WE GO AGAIN: Employees do NOT pay into their own unemployment insurance benefits, their former employers do..however, the rest of your comment is dead on!
I live in Reno , Nevada and we have the highest unemployment rate in the country, 14.7%. There are NO JOBS.
So don’t call us lazy. We want to work but with out enough of jobs to go around, and because of our age us 99ers are finding it tough. I’ve lost everything through BANKRUPTCY in April 2010, and at 61 yrs. old it’s hard to start over. Until jobs
are plentiful we need TIERS 5-6 7-8 what ever it takes to get us going again. It’s hard enough just worring about our day to day living.
Yesterday in our NEWS BROADCAST a 45 year old man shot his 82 year old Mother, set their house on fire and then killed himself. They lost their home in BANKRUPTCY.
Is this what it is comming too. It’s terrible to think that people will take their own lifes because they see no way out.
We need help and now befor any one else does such terrible things.
God Bless Us All
There is no word that can describe how I feel.
There is no American who knows how I feel, Except my fellow 99′ers.
I feel as if all of america has turned thier back after they pushed us and stomped us to the ground.
NO PERSON SHALL TELL ME TO GO WORK AT MCDONALDS!!!
If you have the balls to say that to anyone who is unemployed, Give me your job and you go work at mcdonalds
The unemployment rate for the united states is slightly under 10%, This statistic is created from the back of the ones who have loss their jobs at no fault of their own,
This Statistic doesn’t Count All the new individuals who have never, had a job ever, Given with this statistic the unemployment rate is roughly 23% in any state…
That Means for you DUMBA$$3$ out there who dont understand, their is 20 application for every job opening, I recently went to fill out an application
that had 6 job openings with in this buisness, This job was posted at 9:42 am at 12:30 when I arrived at the company there had been 497 application submitted for review and the crowd kept coming as i was leaving…
In conclusion congress is smart that they didnt give us this 5 tier of un employment, Cause my first priorty is to march on the capitol,although now i have no money its just to damn far away…
Although I have had an idea WE should just go stand in the middle of the roads all over america and disrubt the flow of the economy, And show congress that we control this mother F’R not them its for the people not against them, It’s Stand side by side not on my F’ing back,
Its Save the poor and F the rich where in the hell is Robin hood…
It is time america make your stand, For they have pushed and pushed and pushed us into the corner and destroyed our lives through their faulty laws, and loop holes, and the bail outs… Why now do they worry about deficit.
they want seperation a greater seperation and much divided nation than ever before…
Welcome To America where you still get F’D after being F’D over and o ya theres another F’ing around the corner
STAND AND STOP THIS not for I but for yourself!
I hate the jerks that say, “how many years are enough?” like they HATE the unemployed. My response is, if you think they have it so good then why don’t you trade in your job for the pink slip. Unbelievable. The unemployed by definition are people who once had a job. People who were not happy to lose it. These people did not say, “yay, I get to collect half my usual paycheck while I subject myself to humiliation after humiliation being turned down for jobs that once were beneath me”. Many of these people have worked their entire adult lives and have NEVER been unemployed or collected a “handout” before in their lives.
And that brings me to my other rant…this term “handout” is highly inaccurate. It is a payout from an insurance policy, of which the premium has been paid by every employer you ever worked for since you started your first job.
I am taking a few days to be depressed, then Next week I will go to look for welfare.
I got a job when I was 17, for two months, then it became a job for 30 years.
I always improved my position until the Electronic Medical Records deal began to show up. I lost my job to that movement…The worst part? I read that the Admin is pumping another 875 million dollars into that sector and the people affected will become tomorrow’s unemployed.
I have about two months of prepaid utilities left and then? I think I have 380 dollars to my name.
LOL, Because I didn’t have the money to register my car?
The state froze my bank account, so make that 200 dollars for the next two months.
Thanks alot congress and senate.
If I do have a mailing address come November, you will see my vote…..
I’m glad the extension was passed, but don’t forget the 99?ers, don’t disappear, keep supporting the 99?ers
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I am a 60 year old, college educated 99er. The serious jobs won’t hire me because I am too old to be a long term hire and they think I will retire soon. I am too young to collect social security and the lower level jobs say I am overqualified. So I have been eating into my savings at an alarming rate and will most likely have to take early retirement as soon as I qualify for social security, which means the lowest return for all the years I did work, starting as a teenager. So, explain to me, as those politicians say, that I will become lazy and take advantage of the system if there is a tier 5. I worked my whole life, never collected one dime of public assistance until this current downturn. To now see everything that I worked for slowly melt away with no help from a government that I supported my whole life. This country doesn’t have to worry so much about an enemy coming from a foreign country, the enemy is US!
So where does all the tax money go that I have paid in for 42 years go. If I knew this would happen I would have gotten a job paying cash and would not have paid any money in.
LOL WHAT?? You did not pay into anything except ss that was/is being used by the generation before you..your tax dollars was NOT paid into unemployment insurance benefits…your former employers paid that money as required by law!
Once again the 99er’s have no recourse. I finally saw a report on the plight of the us 99er’s on PBS’s nightly business report on tuesday 7/20/10. We are left out in the cold and no one in government cares. I fear that the number of people and families living on the street will increase. SHAME ON YOU AMERICA.
Bernie Madoff is sitting in a cushy jail cell, probably smoking Cuban cigars and getting serviced by high priced call girls. His prison cell is better comfort than being unemployed with no relief in sight. His plight is endemic of our society and the way we treat thieves of the greatest magnitude. A regular petty thief probably deserves and gets a man’s beating, but steal hundreds of billions of dollars from the American people and you are too big to fail. Citigroup, AIG, and all the other dark players in this economic passionate power play don’t care
what they do nor how they do it because they have the government by the throat. We all saw how the republican pig fell all over himself to apologize to the BP CEO for the paltry twenty billion they coffed up to help the gulf coast residents; this is the main stream mentality of these monsters. They are wholly owned by the corporations they are supposed to regulate; many are on revolving doors from those very same industries, stopping in government just to make sure the engines of power only work for them. You could take these guys and their corporations and put them on an island somewhere and call it a separate government, guess what there are over two hundred of such islands including the Caymans, the isle of Mann, Cook Island, Luxemborg, Switzerland and the list goes on. These places allow the kind of chicanery that went on at ENRON, off Shore Corporation’s sheatherd by off shore trusts, inside banks that differentiate between the actual corporations and the label on the account. This means that even if they kill a bus load of nuns and orphans, they cannot be touched legally. We are the American people, they are the sharks and piranhas that have been brought here by the greediest among us to feed off our collective economic carcass; they will continue to do this until we either stop them by force or we are consumed. I do not advocate violent change but if they take everything away, there is nothing to lose but your life. I agree that organizing into a cohesive political force will help, but be aware that the powers that control everything will do everything to marginalize that movement. George Orwell predicted that life in these United States would change for the worse in his book 1984, he unfortunately was correct. The tea party has one thing and only one thing correct, we need change, we need to take back our government. We don’t need howling racist morons, but we do need change. I suggest that to really effect that change we vote, don’t leave it up to someone else…VOTE for those that truly represent us. There is a revolution every four years in this country, and we need to realize this and step up to the plate and hit a homerun. VOTE, VOTE VOTE, turn the bastards out.
The republicans don’t mind borrowing trillions of dollars for military purposes (Haliburton, weapons manufacturers, etc) in order to fight bogus wars. But when it comes to unemployment, they pretend to be fiscal conservatives. They talk about lower taxes, but for years, they borrowed money from China to fund the tax breaks. That’s not lower taxes, that’s simply borrowing money and spending it that you can’t afford to borrow.
We as a country have got to stop feeling entitled to the point where we borrow ourselves into bankruptcy. People with this mentality have destroyed the U.S. economy and the future health of our great country.
I see 99% of the posts here are over outrage that their unemployment benefits have been cut off. Now ask yourselfs, in all honesty, when we first declared war on Iraq, did you support that decision? Where was your proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction?
Many of you are acting like brainwashed pawns on a chess board. You vote for costly policies that benefit the rich, and then when it comes to your own selves, there is no money left over to put food on your tables and clothes on your children’s backs. If you voted Democrat or Republican, then you are nothing more than a brainwashed pawn being force fed whatever the political machine wants you to believe.
It is imperative that you stop this Democrat vs. Republican rigged two-party election brainwashing and start voting for those who are not mouth-pieces for corporate America. Otherwise, you are voting against your own well-being.
I have a idea if there are no jobs out there how about lets make some jobs, any job lets start by fixing ever pothole in every city and town pay us and we will work. I will work I love to work and I bet 99 percent of all people without jobs want to work. Losing your job at no fault of your own and living on less than half of your wage is no fun at all let me tell you.
I want to be strong and I still love this Great Country that I have served and survived in. I want to think good thoughts but I’m not naïve to what’s going on and to what has gone on to which we face great problems among us.
What is this 999 crap this is to say it real nicely Ill leave a space you can fill in your one definition what you think.
• well just ask you this big question? Where did the MONEY GO and who got the big bonuses we don’t even know about not to count the ones that we do.780 billion and then 870 billion give or take a few billion
.I think they named it wrong it’s not bailout it was handout and that’s not what the American people are asking for is handout may be a hand up. And that’s what exactly what they deserve is what was paid in, in ones name under their SSN, for some as much as 30 to 40 years or more, and never collected a dime, and you can ask yourself the same question? Again where did the money go?
I guess when someone steels something they don’t want you to know who they are and for sure don’t ever plan on given it back even if they get caught. Ask yourself where are these crooks are they so hard to find because there right under our noses and I’m talking the handout bailout. And we ask this question? Does The Government Owe Unemployed Workers? ”
I would say about 99. Something percent, all want to work and to find a job. But they just aren’t there and lost their job at no fault of their own. I bet that if any body would like to give up there job and change places with one of the unemployed workers. You won’t see anybody.
The people with jobs beware you to could become one with out one. It’s easy to think and say things about people, but maybe if you go yourself, you will have a better insight to reality.
Ask yourself were did the money go bailouts, banks rip-offs; maid off is a small pimple on a frogs ass on a big log in a big lake, the smoke screen has cleared, we can all see now the buyoffs, payoffs the top regulators, CEO’S, de regulators, speculators, Greedy at the top present created this great problem, find them tract them hunt them down make them give back the money and we wont be worried about another little extension But you have to start at the top. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE AMERICIAN PEOPLE WITHOUT JOBS, GIVE US JOBS AND WE WILL WORK LIKE NEVER BEFORE! We shouldn’t be worried about getting help and who is really in control, ask yourself were did money go, and where is it really going. We all know it’s not hard to figure out, it’s the wealthiest,
Greediest few, and to bad this saying still is true, the man or men with gold make the rules, or maybe that was OIL! “But the power is still with the people” we want our money back the FEW stole it from us, it didn’t just disappear it’s somewhere in the world, and they’re ha ha laughing all the way to banks!
Watch out for the weasels that have turned into moles.
Treasonous Criminal Taxpayer Funded Bailouts: Just for Starters:
AIG $128,500,000,000 (B)
Freddie Mac $45,600,000,000 (B)
Citigroup $45,000.000,000 (B)
Bank of America $45,000.000,000 (B)
JPMorgan Chase $25,000.000,000 (B)
Wells Fargo $25,000.000,000 (B)
Fannie Mae $16,200,000,000 (B)
General Motors $13,400,000,000 (B)
Goldman Sachs $10,000,000,000 (B)
Morgan Stanley $10,000,000,000 (B)
Some people do have the balls and guts to get the job done you will see it soon enough, and the news media loves dirty Landry then it will be finally exposed and unstoppable. You wont be able to keep your eyes closed anymore just like a slap in the face. End the wars we will get them later they can’t hide untie there hands get job done and get out haste makes waste that includes human lives and think of the money you’ll save + lives too. But maybe we all don’t no who makes all the money off war. No tax breaks or loop holes for big banks and corporations keep the money here that’s at least 870 Billion a year. I know some of you peoples… can come up with some more billions wasted or stolen. The unemployed will give there money back and you can see it.
There are thousands of high tech jobs in US that are not available to US citizens. Big companies are allowed by our government to bring foreign technical people to the USA from overseas, pay them less and eliminate jobs for American.. This is possible via the h1b1 visa program. These foreigners come over on this work visa and replace an American worker. After they are here they bring in their friends and family and get them hired where they are working.
Ask you Congressman to explain why this exists.
That’s not counting all of the other foreigners from far away lands that come to this country that the government subsidizes and every thing is free and every body can see it, all bet some of you Out there … can tell some real story’s. The government also subsidizes and will pay one half of wages to some corporations as kick backs for foreigners to take Americans jobs, kick in the face. Not to count all the jobs outsourced over seas that we can see, we all no that but what are we to-do. Come out Fighting Fists of Fury one dammed nation under god take back this nation with Might and Fight, Unite and Fight!!!
“WE THE PEOPLE “ I know I m not the only one.
They are moving now into place I see them far off the face without no grace beyond our lands with our hands water, air, and land. Becoming Ancient prophets predictions coming true, stop what evil lies in wait they will take the bait.
Beyond the walls and bunkers nowhere to hide look inside rattle the cage with rage to bad for all the ball will fall though it all. Open your hearts and men’s souls all have goals. The telekinesis move the stone with levitation. We will see through walls passing time warp the fifth dimension faster than light we will fight the star people will awaken and take back what was taken look for signs they are their in the land, sea, and air… more to come…
The will the power make Imagination be knowledge to wisdom.
Diviness understanding of all gods matter. Matter what to see will be spoken down upon us all …The years and the gears and the timing change, Apostle mist goes between all things …Keep books with gold is old, and oil is rich, and power is strong …Unlimited resources exist with the Imagination…Will and Wells are deep subjects… Wisdom is from Heavens (a^bove)… It’s predestined that man will live in space with ever moving grace laser love shoots star beams of ever florescent light, and Crystal glows open closed… Kings are born and free again good hearts in men’s souls’ Peace Among All Men will be seen af*ter threaten battles of seeming great conflict… The New Falcon will soar High Above the Sky…Ships Will Meet With Man Once Again…Lots Will be Transverse and Unlimited stars will be seen … More to come…
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Thomas Jefferson
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In nations where there is inequality and specious access to little or no resources, there is more violent crime, obesity, higher teen pregnancy rates, more instances of mental illness, an increase in the prison population and higher school drop out rates. (Pickett & Wilkinson) Where does America rank as far as these stats are concerned? No. 1! According to their research, “the United States has the greatest inequality of income in any developed country, except Singapore.” (Pickett & Wilkinson) This is not good news for us, and for all the ballyhooing that American politicians do about the democratic process and how wonderful American’s have it better than anyone else in the world, we’d better reexamine that myth. It isn’t much good when people in other industrialized nations out live us, and have better job related and healthcare benefits than we do. That says a lot about how great this nation is not.
You must be kidding me!!!! We are going to send $500 million dollars to Pakistan…..non-military aid….and we can’t even take care of our OWN? Citizens of the US out or work for well over two years, and we don’t have the money to provide them with a tier v? families living in tents, cities waiting to be rebuilt after disasters and we are sending $500 million dollars to Pakistan? On what planet is this right??? Wake up Americans…..we need to take a stand NOW!!!
Friends, we need to DO SOMETHING besides share our feelings. Call and/or write your Senators daily, primarily the ones who are voting against unemployment. I am doing this. If we do it in numbers, we have to be heard. FYI, I am also contacting 60 Minutes because it is true that the media is also hurting us by not reporting the truth. People and employers have a false impression of the long-term unemployed.
And, yes, we all can vote. Register.
Well our government just sucks plain and simple. Obama having 3 unemployed people standing behind him in his news thing the other day was a joke. I for one will never pay taxes when I work, the government wants to screw me I will screw right back and claim 10 dependants on my tax form just so nothing is taken out of my paychecks. When the irs wants their money I will send the letter to white house or tell them to get it from afghanistan. I will be voting my senate out this year and everyone else who I don’t think did a damn thing for their people.
This will happen again only this time they will be 99ers and we will be out of luck! There is no win here for the millions of 99ers!
MY FELLOW 99ERS!!! Please contact you local news stations!! All you have to do it call…I’ve contact news 8, kvue, and fox 7 in austin and they were not aware of the 99ers situations…they have been broadcasting about the extension yet they did not know how bad the 99ers are suffering…the media is the only way to get Congress’ attenion!!! Please call them and let them know how important it is for us to be heard right now!! WE HAVE 7 DAYS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!
Yes, we need to ask the news agency in this country to stand by us. What is so perplexing to me is that no politician as been put on the spot about tier 5 (at least not to my knowledge). Please abc, cbs, nbc, cable news, and internet news please HELP US put these politicians on the spot regarding a tier 5 PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING AND LOSING EVERYTHING.
I’m a 99er too, i submit my resume at least 3 times a day im running out of places to apply too, i like a lot of 99ers were hoping that the new extension included us as well unfortunately it does not include a Tier 5, if they worry for the people that the money stopped for now what about us (the 99ers) our checks stopped many mounts ago i have worked for more than 8 years without collecting and i know many people that have worked much longer and ,now that we need the help our years of payment in to the unemployment insurance means nothing 99 weeks max to collect but no max on how much we pay in after every year it is washed out all we want is what we paid in how can we be forgotten
We are the people that worked hard all our lives just to have the people in office to turn their backs on us. We are the people where all those taxes came from to bail out th millionaires on Wall Street.We are the people just to be put down and forgotten about. We need a continuous TIER 5 until this economy gets better. Billions WERE given to the rich so they could continue to buy theier mansions and yachts while we can’t even pay our morgage or rent OR EVEN GIVEN A BITE TO EAT. We need TIER 5 NOW!
If you dont pass a tie5 v this american government is going to kill more good hard working americans than any war!!!!!!!!!!
its the economy of the unites staes and responsibility of the government to provide or create jobs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
open your eyes you idiot congress and do something
Pass Tier 5
Reason for the Present Condition of the U.S.A. Economy
The top U.S. politicians in Washington, D.C. decided, under the direction of the billion dollar defense contractors and their professional lobbyists, to engage in yet another (Viet Nam style) illegal war campaign. This time in the Middle East Region.
There is no conscription policy currently being used (by the top U.S. politicians in Washington, D.C.).
To achieve the goals of the billion dollar defense industry therefore, it is necessary to orchestrate a 15% layoff policy of the Non-Affluent Working Class Citizens in the U.S.A.
In that manner the military quota for boots is met. If there are no good jobs available to the Non-Affluent Working Class Citizens , they will “volunteer” to join the army.
The Non-Affluent Working Class Citizens are the people who are used, by the top U.S. politicians in Washington, D.C. to actually fight such illegal wars. The wealthiest citizens don’t get their own boots, or those of their sons and daughters, muddy. It could prove to be hazardous to their health. Simple history research will easily bear out the fact that money is often used by the affluent to keep ones boots clean. Simple research early as the Viet Nam Era U.S. history, will prove that to be accurate. Ever heard the terminology “School Deferment”? Look it up.
The senior (over 55 years of age) Non-Affluent Working Class Citizens are residual subjects. By them being laid off from their employment, the top U.S. politicians in Washington, D.C. are assuring that less money will be spent on the entitlement programs in the near future, and beyond. Simple research will easily prove that to be accurate. I shall expose the details for that in my next article.
Author: James Madison, IV
12/22/2010 A.D.
Thank god the Democrats didn’t give up. It doesn’t affect me because i am a 99er but it helps my wife and our family. In 20 years i have never been unemployed and now after hundreds of applications for 6 dollar jobs and up i would appreciate unemployment help. I surely don’t want help but i need it. I have four teenagers that wonder when this will get better. I don’t know what to say anymore. I keep saying it will get better. 2 years and 1 month later i am starting to feel like a liar. Why not tier 5. The financial people are right the moment i get a check it would be spent on food or school clothes and supplies, not one dollar would go in the bank. I don’t do drugs or drink rarely. Don’t give up on us Democrats. We know you still care.
the laim stream media would rather report about mel gibson or lebron james. people who have millions , but they wont report on the people that are hurting. i hardly go on yahoo home page after reading about justin beiber buying a 200 thousand dollar car. this country is only about the rich.
Why does everyone think that the American people got themselves into this mess? Yet, we’re suppose
to dig our way out of it and keep going on our own…
No one wanted to be in this situation of hopeless despair and unemployment with no end in sight
—no matter what I do, I can’t get out of it…
I lost a job $60,000-80,000 per year. Now I live
in the back seat of my old car in 100 degree heat and humidity–and with the windows rolled down at night with no protection from the streets. I struggled on unemployment (which is not your previous salary)(and now gone). I don’t qualify for Welfare. And, community resources here are exhausted. No shelter space available. No job responses after 2 years of trying—everywhere with
everything including McDonalds.
Any suggestions?
Times change. What was appropriate for past unemployment is not good for today’s situations. The old ways of granting extensions and tiers are outdated and need to be alter for present conditions. Why can’t congress see that many are really hurting and on verger if not already in financial ruin. People are not hiring out there and we can’t find jobs. What are we suppose to do? What does one do if they do not qualify for any welfare or food stamps. We can’t get loans or any help from anyone. We have no money , no savings and no 401k’s and nobody for calling us back for interviews for any kind of job. We are all qualified workers who are being forced by our government to be in financial ruins. There will be more and more mortgage foreclosures and credit cards unpaid and school loans and the list goes on and on. We have no way to recover from our situations now and just sit and wait till what little we have left is gone.How sad our country and moral has become. Until the media keeps talking about this we will all just be forgotten about.
WE need to KILL everyone in Washington!
Fantastic for the passing of the Unemployment Extended Benefits bill. However, this does not extend benefits for all of the unemployed. What is the Government going to do for their constituents, to extend the unemployment benefits for All of the millions unemployed? When is the Tier 5 extension going to be passed? As well as, how are all the unemployed going to feed their families, house their families? If the Government can find money to bail out the banks and Wall Street and send to foreign countries to help them. Then there is no excuse for any Government official not to ensure all of the unemployed have their benefits income in order to survive until the job market picks up. Not doing so is just as President Obama said, “It’s Criminal Politics!” Pass the Tier 5 and 6 or however many Tiers it takes of extensions until all American citizens get back to work. It’s time everyone starts flooding the White House, and their Senators and Congressmen with emails, mail, and phone calls daily and Demand Action Now!
If America wants to to stay American, we must stand up and take on the government there turning there backs on us and liveing on the ritch pepole they don’t care about the poor and suffering, the FEDS. when there out of office, they have it made after that with a big retirement plan, health plan, they won’t suffer America lost it’s body now trying to save it’s soul America is not like it was it’s become a ritch mans game that it. We have to do something or the FEDS will own us. Go to collage run a Fed loan to over 30grand or more to get an education to get a good job to have the American dream, can’t find a job on that alone, then you have to pay the loan back in interest?. While the ilegalspay back less? on a loan the FEDS are turning there backs on the American pepole WAKE UP SHEEPLE OR SUFFER.
I’ve been homeless for months even before the unemployment ran out. Couldn’t make ends meet.
My area in Pennsylvania has exceeded it’s limits on
funding – everywhere.
Two shelters have swelled so bad that they can only accept
families with children and can’t even house them anymore.
One shelter has only a 1 month stay and always full–then it’s hit the streets again. Even people there suffered from mental illness and disability, not just unemployment and homelessness. I called for action in our community for a refugee camp or tent-city
to be built somewhere here, but got ignored. Things are only going to get worse!! There is no place to go….
Don’t believe anyone can just go on monetary Welfare.
These are the criteria:
Must have dependents or,
Must be disabled or,
Must be victimized in Domestic Violence or,
Must be pregnant
If you do not fit one of these criteria, you may
not receive monetary Welfare. You may, however,
qualify for food stamps.
And, what difference does it make anyway if
unemployment gets drained or Welfare gets drained?
This makes no sense to me even if the average person
could receive Welfare..
I’ve tried for 2 1/2 years to get employed. Blue-collar
or white-collar. They don’t respond 98-99% of the time.
Those that do, complain they have 300-500 applicants, don’t
want someone who has been out of work for a long time,
don’t have the experience-even for a mediocre job like
fast-food and retailing. They have hundreds of “internal” candidates to choose from, but legally have to post the job. Jobs have been cancelled even after interviewing. I know at age 59, I already have a strike against me.
Homeless women I met out on the street have been thrown out by their own families or spouses. So, you can’t count
on family and even less on friends to take care of you.
All our community resources have complained that they are
bankrupt and exceeded their monetary resource limits….
Thanks to the Bush Administration and our government for getting us into this mess. We went to war and took care of the world when the job slow-down started all the way back with 911–and they continued to say the economy was fine. Bull!! Jobs even then were getting harder and harder to find and land, growing worse all these years. Plus they ignored Economists. People were already
cashing in 401Ks, not because they were scared of banks
collapsing, but because they already needed the money!
Your next step, hit the streets or live in your car and eat in soup kitchens..Like me (with a college degree)
RECESSION to DEPRESSION…..
HAS ANYONE SEEN THIS ARTICLE???
Yahoo 6/17/10
Out-of-work job applicants told unemployed need not apply
Buzz up! 5662
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Chris Isidore, senior writer, On Wednesday June 16, 2010, 4:26 am EDT
The last thing someone who is unemployed needs to be told is that they shouldn’t even apply for the limited number of job openings that are available. But some companies and recruiters are doing just that.
Employment experts say they believe companies are increasingly interested only in applicants who already have a job.
“I think it is more prevalent than it used to be,” said Rich Thompson, vice president of learning and performance for Adecco Group North America, the world’s largest staffing firm. “I don’t have hard numbers, but three out of the last four conversations I’ve had about openings, this requirement was brought up.”
Some job postings include restrictions such as “unemployed candidates will not be considered” or “must be currently employed.” Those explicit limitations have occasionally been removed from listings when an employer or recruiter is questioned by the media though.
That’s what happened with numerous listings for grocery store managers throughout the Southeast posted by a South Carolina recruiter, Latro Consulting.
We’re lazy workers cough cough come to Detroit and see all great ghosttown for a city and come see all the fatorys that all left for china. BRING BACK THE JOBS
Praise God, because of the efforts of the NRA (National Riflemans Association) we still have our weapons. When pushed up against a wall,use them and push back. I believe our fore fathers knew how corrupt the government could get. Hence, the 3rd. amendment.
I think its just like the movie terminator where we all will soon be attacked and killed, even when the tier 1 – 4 is done. The plan is that we all must die while they lie and eat heavenly and awake the next day and say “at least we don’t have to deal with them anymore… next project.”
I worry about this country weakening. It opens the door for harm to be done to America. As a parent who has lived through a lot of hard times, it hurts to watch my child go through this.
They lose their smiles, their hope and see a harshness of a reality I have never seen before in my lifetime.
Our kids are smart and ready to contribute to this country, but it looks as if it isn’t wanted. Something has to be done to stop these Republicans from a stupid and ignorant thinking that is hurting everyone. They have done enough to us and our children. It has to stop. Also, Nancy Pelosi is a big loser in my book. She should be out of office. She is dead wood. Tier 5 is needed. Stop paying her and people like her a fat salary to do nothing but mock people who are in need. People who write in supporting the Republicans obviously their remarks are fake about being 99ers. You can’t be that dumb.
CREATE THE JOBS THAT WE NEED TO SURVIVE OR PASS AN EXTENSION CREATING TIER 5
Le me know when the real revolution starts and real people are on the real streets with real voices in the goverments faces showing them we mean real buisness instead of all this sissy blog bs.
I just mean we are as bad as congress and talk, talk, talk instead of doing something, “real”, like organizing and marching on Washington to show them and the media this is real and not going away.
Well the real talkers are out there doing something as few as there may be, revolution is just around the cornner and it will not start becasue they want to change things it will start because pepole will run out of food and water and from cina takeing over this country. The real pepole are to cowardly and to comfy in there greedy little useless world, and brainwashed to make a differance. The American way is dead.
There is a new bill to help the 99′ers and add a Tier 5 currently called, Americans Want to Work Act, check it out on Opencongress.org
Unbelievable!
I have been laid off since March and am deemed unhireable because of my past achievements – people are afraid they would lose their job if they hired me, because I have high aspirations and accomplish my goals! Had it not been for the very, very small amount of unemployment checks I would not be able to pay my rent!!!
I did not ask to get laid off and am unable to find work – yet I read articles here where people think that a person on unemployment benefits is a person on Welfare who has no desire or intention to work. This is NOT the case. I am an out of work manager with limited – and I DO mean limited – opportunities to even get a job. Most places aren’t even hiring at minimum wage here. It is vicious out there!
For now, all I have is the small amount I receive from UE, which is not all that regular. If not for that small amount I could not survive.
To those of you who are so pious, heartless and dilusional in your opinions – walk a mile in my shoes. Someday without rhyme or reason, you or someone you know will be in my position and quite possibly without a roof over their head or a friend to help. Everyone for themselves? We will never survive as a nation – a family – a person, should we take on this attitude as our MOTTO!
True Reality has a HEART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JANUARY 2011 Current Events:
The U.S. economy for the working class poor continues to nose dive. That means precious little work available at a household supporting salary level. Why, you may ask? Simple; greed. Greed on the part of the top 20% in the U.S. who literally control the U.S. economy. I speak of those who hardly give a second thought to purchasing a single piece rare pottery for $10 million. But don’t want to utilize such monies on paying their fair share of income tax!
The End
AUTHOR: James Madison, IV
The current U.S.A. situation, year 2011 : The elite continue to get much wealthier, and the working class poor continue to get poorer.
The Root Problem: Corporate Corruption and below board politics.
Fact: Corporate Dollars buy a lot of legislation.
The Remedy: There is a famous phrase in the U.S.A., a government of the People by the People, for the People. Therefore, The People need to take to the streets in peaceful well organized protest. Without relenting, and demand their rights to an above board and direct ordinary language policy of Governmental Officials. The time is at hand for Constitutional Amendment.
The Rights of The People (U.S. Citizens) should and must include these six articles:
1) No Business nor Corporation domestic or foreign shall spend money for the purpose of electing any U.S. Governmental Official. Furthermore unlawful to accept such money.
2) Professional Lobbyists shall be prohibited.
3) All sources of election campaign money, and total amount, shall be published and made readily available to the public.
4) Term of Office time limits shall be set for all Governmental Officials. None of which shall exceed ten years.
5) On the topic of the Judicial Branch. Concerning Common Law, criminal, and civil, and the practice thereof, all Latin phrases and terminology, as well as any language other than English, shall be translated to, and replaced with proper American English effective immediately. The use of Latin phrases and terminology in the U.S. Judicial System shall be prohibited. In addition to that, courts of law shall refrain from using languages other than American English. Non-English languages may only be used in the U.S. Judicial System when necessary to accommodate Non-English Speaking Plaintiffs and Defendants.
6) No Governmental Official, nor civil servant, shall appoint nor hire, their kin, by marriage or blood, to any public office, position, or civil service employment.
The enactment of these six articles will assure control of the democratic process by The American People (Private U.S. Citizens).
Signed, we the people.
AUTHOR: James Madison, IV