On Unemployment, We’ve Seen This Movie Before

Jim that is a great idea. So lets cut your pay check and down to the amount of their unemployment checks and see how you do. Why can't we take the money back from WallStreet and give it to the people who really need it. Maybe at the same time put the WallStreet scum along with the Insurance ripoffs in jail for the rest of their lifes.

bunning is a freaking moron — the guy has dementia… ever watch him on C-SPAN?

it amazes me how this doofus from a welfare state like kentucky where most folk still walk around without shoes and *shit* in an outhouse –

would kill something like extending unemployment benefits for all the unemployed in kentucky

this guy is the epitome of the GOP… *fcuck* the average citizen… yea average is below $70k or even below 100k a year… 95% of ALL household incomes in the u.s.

jim… when you pass away… NOBODY will remember you for being a hall of fame baseball player…

but every american will surely remember you as a skank GOP politician like you are..

I hope this guy has hired some protection. This move could really push someone already on edge to END his employment. Look at the guy who crashed his plane into the IRS. There are ALOT of people out there that are at a boiling point because they are playing with peoples lives. I only have 2 weeks left of UI. I don't have a clue what to do next.

Same here, about two weeks. I posted the whole situation somewhere else on this site..
I am truly afraid I'm going to lose my house. I can live w/o anything else. I own a clunker, so eff them, they can't have that!

My name is Jane and I live in Indiana. I am 55 years old and was RIF'd from ACS Affiliated Computer Services during the last quarter of 09. I have tried to find a job and even hoped to be brought back to ACS. In fact they were hoping to bring me back but you see they have this off-shore initiative and they are not hiring domestic help. I was a technical writer and a darn good one at that. The need is there, the work is there but I'm not there me and many many others who also lost their jobs this past year at ACS.

I have never collected unemployment in my life but paid into it all my life. My husband is an auto tech for a Ford Dealership. They make flat rate, not much at all despite his ASE certifications. Flat rate is flat rate and that's another subject that I wish someone would address.

I contacted Lugar's office, Congressman Buyer and representative Steuerwald and with all three office I was treated with respect and was told it would be okay most recently from Lugar's office. To read about this now has been very painful. My husband lost his job in 2007 after 29 years. The dealership he worked for closed their door with a 10 day notice. We survived that barely and now me loosing my job, at my age, it's been touch and go.

I don't know how one man, one man can affect so many and get away with it. Will this pass next week? Does anyone know for sure what will happen? If this happens I will dig in my heels, may not another dime of my bills, I've sold all the gold we have had, managed with my creditors but without unemployment for a little longer we are in huge trouble.

I have never had an extension. I think those that have not should get a least one. Those who were on their 2nd and 3rd tier that expired this week got additional benefits while those on regular UI get nothing… It's awful for all of us. What can we do?

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I feel your pain!
Have you thought about joining the new union for the unemployed? It's about a month old and they have no hidden agneda othe rthen to unite us all so we can present a unified front. UCubed-google it.

BOBBLE B CAN I ASK IF YOUVE CALLED YOUR REPS? IF YOU ONLY HAVE TWO WEEKS LEFT I SUGGEST YOU JOIN US AND ASK FOR A NEW TIER, I SAID LAST MONTH THT WE SHOULD START ASKING FOR A NEW TIER AND SOME OF US HAVE STARTED TWO MONTHS AGO, BUT WE NEED MORE HELP, MILLIONS HAVE ONLY TWO OR THREE WEEKS LEFT OF TIER 4 .THE ONLY THING THEY ARE DOING IS EXTENDING THE DEADLINE FOR TIER 4 BY A MONTH!!! THEN WHAT? I DONT KNOW WHAT STATE YOU LIVE IN , BUT YOUR SENATORS ARE LISTED , COMPLETE WITH EMAIL ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS SO, ITS REALLY EASY. ANY PROBEMS OR QUESTIONS MY EMAIL IS MOMPSLFLA@YAHOO.COM IF I BE OF ANY HELP TO YOU SIR PLEASE WRITE ME THANKS ANGIE

EVERYONE LOST JOBS HAS A SITE CALLED UCUBE ITS TO UNITE ALL UNEMPLOYED SO WE CAN A UNITED FRONT GOOLE IT AND JOIN ITS WONDERFUL!!!!

The Greeks had massive rioting when their government mentioned they might have to cut back on entitlements because the country was bankrupt. Bunning is actually right. We can't afford to keep handing out free money without making cuts somewhere else. Every economic paper ever written on the subject says the same thing: the longer we subsidize unemployment, the higher it will go. The road to hell is paved with good intentions…..

So angelatc-should the millions of middleclass unemployed lose everything? You will have riots then. We can bail out the banks and finance markets and can't help the millions who lost their jobs thru no fault of their own. Wrong answer!

If you cut off unemployment, then entire families will have no choice but to go on the public assistance which includes welfare, food stamps, and medicaid. So now, instead of a single person struggling getting unemployment, the whole family will now have to be supported by the government. Has any papers been written on this?

Now let's add basic economic principle. If there are less people spending money, more foreclosures, less consumer confidence, then wouldn't that cause more layoffs as businesses are forced to let go of employees simply because people aren't shopping or able to pay bills?

Unemployment is taxable, welfare is not. Previous economists have said that the continued unemployment benefits allow people to stay on longer and only find work as their benefits run out. Now in the 80's and 90's that might have well be true, but however these are not those times. There are no jobs here, we can thank the companies and the government that sent them overseas and the constant influx of immigration that has sapped not only the job market but education and health care as the goverment supports illegal immigrants to the point of bankruptcy. Look at how bad California is, as it can take care of immigrants but doesn't not collect revenue from the federal government or in taxes.

I've been unemployed since Feb '08 and I rather have a job than another extension. But there are none, no Burger King's, Wal-mart, Target, Home Depot, toiliet scrubbing, nothing. As a white collar worker I have gone to even less than minimum wage just to work and still nothing. It's depressing that I've never had a problem finding a job or 2, now I feel like I have to beg the government for help with what they caused in the first place.

Bunning is scum. As of earlier, it was made public that he is holding this up also because the republicans want their Estate Tax bill added. So yes, they are more concerned with the rich and the children of the rich. I don't think anyone is surprised here.

So what will happen?

Your newspaper has always been great about covering the jobless and Washington. This article is another case in point. The Reps are the worst in this situation, but the Dems aren't so hot, either. I wish they'd just go ahead with their plans for the public's welfare and ignore the naysayers. When the Reps realize the only way they can be heard is by cooperating, then they might actually do so. I'm an Obama supporter, but he's got to start using his Executive power more. It never stopped Bush from getting what he wanted.

I like many others here are experiencing the depression we are in, but the time now is to make our voice be heard. Call or write your senators. If we all group together we can be heard. Most will lose UI without the extension and many others will be homeless with an additional tier.

Miss Jane,
I too am a technical writer. I also may just have a lead for you. I don't know which part of Indiana you are in, but I do know that Wyndham Worldwide in Indianapolis is looking for a technical writer. I've done writing for hospitality, and it isn't as exciting as computers, but it's a lead if you already haven't found it. Bank of America may also begin hiring corporate support soon in the same field. I know B of A is a the “evil bank/corporation”, but they also have a huge initiative for people to work from home. Less spending on office space for them.

I also know that Radio Shack is looking for a tech writer, but they are in Ft. Worth. I'm not sure if they are willing to look for a remote person, but it's worth a shot.

That's the most pathetic part. Bunning is getting death threats and bomb threats while the rest of his party duck into the shadows as if they are helpless in stopping Bunning's move. I guess John Kyl R.Arizona who played the “Object to UI Benefits” poster boy last November preferred to play a backup role this time around. No doubt Kyl is poised to step in with his roadblock in case Bunning were to, God forbid, have a heart attack or something. Though Kyl's objection being progress in making sure that no estate worth less than 100 million be taxed. His legislation will cost 100 billion over the next 10 years per some estimates I've read. While it would not do the Republicans any favors in terms of their image, emergency funding for millions of Americans to put food on their table versus a huge tax break for multi-millionaires, I guess no other Republicans have the balls to obstruct UI benefits using any other issue. Senator Bunning and Kyl seem to actually find enjoyment out of kicking people when they are down but at least they aren't cowering in the shadows like all the other pathetic Republican Senators.

take away the benefits will create chaos all around the globe like the bible states you think the crime is bad now wait and see what happens next

take away the senators job and let him suffer like everyone without benefits use his millions to help us PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT

Unbelievable and evil of this Senator to with hold unemployment to people . He is not for the people or looking out for the poor. If he is so worried about how the jobs bill will get paid then he should of thought of that when Bush was in office. No one cared about how to pay for a war that has taken away tons of money and has distroyed so much and so many people. You are a selfish person and old and live on a nice fat income that people help pay for. I pray you will see hard times one way or the other, and someone turns the other cheek.

Unbelievable and evil of this Senator to with hold unemployment to people . He is not for the people or looking out for the poor. If he is so worried about how the jobs bill will get paid then he should of thought of that when Bush was in office. No one cared about how to pay for a war that has taken away tons of money and has distroyed so much and so many people. You are a selfish person and old and live on a nice fat income that people help pay for. I pray you will see hard times one way or the other, and someone turns the other cheek.

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I have never collected unemployment in my life but paid into it all my life. My husband is an auto tech for a Ford Dealership. They make flat rate, not much at all despite his ASE certifications. Flat rate is flat rate and that's another subject that I wish someone would address.