Amid Unemployment Crisis, Senate Gridlock Leaves Jobs Bill in Limbo

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Its about time the US stops the borrowing and running up the debt. More unemployment benefits, wow they got 2 years already. These benefits were never intended to be years of welfare including insurance coverage. How many more times do they think they can extend the benefits. Sooner or later it has to be stoped before we can't even borrow money to run our national defense or pay are seniors the social security benefits they worked all there lives for (and paid into). Time to get off the couch and go to work, even if its for less money.

@dan, WOW, what world are you in???? do you comprehend that there are not the quantity of jobs available per the quantity of unemployed, which continues to grow….ummmm. and let our government continue to dole out our tax dollars to other countries, whilst the tax-payers are thrown under the bus, denied benefits to keep them afloat….hmmmmm you must be a repug….something I was, until my eyes have been opened to the leaders who actually care about “we the unemployed”….I def' know this Nov who I will vote for, and I know my fellow-unemployed will do the same across the nation….we will not forget those who continue to bash the hardist hit citizens-” the unemployed” and continue to turn they're backs on us like we'll disolve????

It is time for the people in DC and those like Dan to understand that until their are jobs which have gone to overseas bases or been just plain run out of the marketplace by bank lending practices, there are no jobs to go back to.

Many people cannot afford to take a job at less than they were paid before without going through bankruptcy, which has been made so impossible to protect the banking and credit industries, that they are not getting the necessary relief that they need. They cannot afford to work two or three jobs (which by the way makes less jobs available at minimum wage for others who are unemployed) in order to make up the difference because the attendant costs (child care for one) eat up the added income, thereby reducing the money available to pay bills.

And then you have people like my husband and myself who are well educated, have years of experience, and who are over 50, in my case. We cannot even get a job interview despite sending out thousands of resumes in the last two years. Most places do not even acknowledge the receipt of the resumes. I am disabled, so I am dependent on Social Security right now, and I understand that these benefits would be available if the GOP had not used the SS Trust fund as their personal piggy bank to support their wars and idiotic economic policies. Now they want the next generation to put their Social Security into the stock market!?! Their biggest problem is that no one is hiring these younger workers either.

So get a clue, Congress and Dan, until the government spends the money necessary to create new government jobs like the WPA and the TVA of the 1930s to rebuild our nation, which will put people back to work so that they can pay taxes to pay down the deficit; stop paying for useless wars to satisfy the military/industrial complex; and stop funding corporate political agendas at the expense of the American people, we will have a deficit, and it will only get worse as the years go by until someone starts thinking with their heads and hearts instead of their pocketbooks and their insane economic policies.

Dan got ur welfare that is money I work for and put into the system. You got it like that them give to the AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Do you have a job? Why dont you hire all of us unemployed who cannot find work………

Dan::: YOU COULD BE NEXT. Congress is sure to be UNEMPLOYED come November. Get off your damn high horse. Millions of people are affected.

What will people do without these benefits? I'll tell you, they will lose their homes, they will go to the doctor even less than they do now and more people will need food stamps. Does that seem like a good idea.
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I understand about the oil thing. But we need this bill passed PLEASE SIGN it Mr. President Obama. It is all about time and money. I love the t.v ads that say when a company is in the red the GOVERMENT will Bail them out. And what about the people like me who can not find a job. UE said Blam this on the President. They also said it is vacation time soon for them and it might not get the bill sined til after the 4th of July.

Dan Can the congress. Fire them they have their pay check and a chush job and a phat pay. they go home without a worry. Dan Can them

Well- in my case I have had the benefit only 6 months and because my benefit ran out after 6/01 I am out of luck. I have two preschool age children and little resources. I am college educated and never intended this be welfare. You are very cruel and clueless.

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Here is why we are screwed: Republicans want to continue to fund a war we have no business in Bush excuse me Chenney kept BILLIONS of dollars spent on the war off the books we all know this and who was that approved sending all of our jobs over seas “outsourcing” they called it oh yeah Chenney did that too didn't he thats why our kids are eating off of plates and drinking out of cups that will give them cancer and those lovely toys too another reason we are up the creek without a paddle we give benefits to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS and their anchor babies they benefit most from federally funded programs like welfare food stamps and medicaid so if we should punish anyone it should be the people over seas with their pointless wars that have been going on for year I say let them all kill each other and lets start taking some pages from Arizona's book and DEPORT illegal aliens and deny birth certificates for anchor babies that would help this country out tremendously as for DAN suck it buddy you are out of touch with reality big time

I am not one of the unemployed however see the need for Unemployment extensions… Congress needs to be held accountable for the their failure to create a jobs bill and a jobs market. This bill was so chocked full of fat that it had to fail.

Extending Unemployment is not the answer however it what is needed due to the many Failures of COngress pirior. The Answer is to create jobs, which will take Congress to place hire taxes on any company that out sources jobs over seas, higher taxes on any funds leaving the US and higher tariffs on imports.Until then we have to pay out unemployment for the failure of our leaders.Support unemployment here, it is one of Change.org highest all time petitions.http://www.change.org/petitions/view/the_99ers_need_ a_tier_v_added_ to_unemployment _benefits

Face it…Obama and Biden have put the unemployed on the back burner while they focused on other matters. Now Obama calls unemployment a “crisis”? It's 16 mos. into his administration…

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This bill will make the student who is trying to better themselfs be forced to quit school. I anly have 2 months left before I finish. If they don't pass the extention, I will be forced to quit and find a job.

it just sucks! i know people that have been on unemployment for years. my husband has only had 1 extension and now can not get anymore… what in the world? it is bad for us. i just started a job and wont get a check for a month and we have 4 kids, bills and house payments…. this is really hurting us…how about they stop the people that have had it for YEARS and give it to people that have not had it long.

Umm there are people that have been on it for over a year and cannot find a job so to say to cut them off and keep on the ones that have recently become unemployed is just plain out selfish!!!!! My husband has been laid off since Feb 09 & still hasn't found a job. I have been laidoff since April 09 and still haven't found anything. Without unemployment, we will be forced to go on to welfare until we find something. We have never been on government aid before and hope that we will not have to but we have a family to feed and provide shelter. Well I hope that there will be a answer to all of this for all of us that are going thru this difficult time.

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What the government have failed to understand, over the years they never used the knowledge that we all have,”commonsense” What did they think would happen to this economy when they decided to outsource all our jobs???? Greed is what the U.S was built on and greed is our downfall. Everything in this world is interconnected. The working class is what made the economy go around. Now the thing is get a education, an education is good, however; it wasn't intended for everyone to go to school. The people that worked in the factories making good money was able to live comfortable and send their kids to school to get a good education. The government is so screwed up, it's sad……

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With all due respect, has any one read the bill HR 4213?? Yes, it includes extending the emergency unemployment filing deadline. Believe me, I am biting my nails as this affects me,as I’ve just exausted the second tier two weeks ago and have nothing else comming! That being said, let me mention also that HR 4213 is a 100 page bill FULL of earmarks for democratic pet projects costing BILLIONS more than just extending EUC. THAT is why this bill did not pass. They USED the unemployment extension as a teaser to pass their own hidden agenda with in the bill. Why is everyone so angry about the repubilcans saying no to frivilous spending adding to the deficit??? (BTW I am a democrat)The democrats should have presented emergency unemployment extension as a stand alone bill from the beginning and not toyed with it to get what they want allowing our benefits to expire!!!! They tried to also use the medicare fix bill as a teaser in the HR 4213 and when they realized it wasnt going to work, they presented as a standalone bill and the house and senate passed it with no problem! Obama just signed it in as law!POOF a 2.2% increase payout to doctors! Now the republicans are the “bad guys” because they let our benefits expire???? NO NO NO!!! I read that congress is now considering a stand alone euc extension bill and Pelosi supports it (we all know she said “no” to tier 5). This is POLITICS folks, the very word basically means self serving and not selfless! If you ask me the Democrats are very much to blame as the Republicans. I believe I will be voting out every encumbant I can until I can no longer make it to the polls from being homeless and having no district because I live under a bridge! Lets all be better informed and not just REACT!

ALSO, be aware that President Obama is no fool! He will NOT exert his executive authority to the whole bill HR 4213 because of all the crookedness within the bill, He will just as soon let the republican take the fall for the non passage than be criticized later for all the frivilous billions DEM agenda within the bill!! He is currently pressuring congress to reconsider but dont be fooled that he will sign any executive order that will come back to bite him later!!!!

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People, don't sit and wait for congress to care and give it to us. Demand it. The money belongs to the people.People,unite and write to the congress and demand the extension for unemployment. They act as if the money and the decision is theirs to give. No, they work for the people. We pay them and right now is the time to remind them of that fact. They took our money and paid their bills and feed their families. Demand your part. Don't wait for them to give it, DEMAND IT.

for the good of all ui people we need president obama to over ride congress to pass this bill—–somehow—people are out of work and need help. what happened to take care of us at home first and then help others last . people who are on medicade didnt ask to be on it they were forced into it to feed their familes. help is needed–how about it /wi needs your push for the vote -helpus

And then you have people like my husband and myself who are well educated, have years of experience, and who are over 50, in my case. We cannot even get a job interview despite sending out thousands of resumes in the last two years. Most places do not even acknowledge the receipt of the resumes. I am disabled, so I am dependent on Social Security right now, and I understand that these benefits would be available if the GOP had not used the SS Trust fund as their personal piggy bank to support their wars and idiotic economic policies. Now they want the next generation to put their Social Security into the stock market!?! Their biggest problem is that no one is hiring these younger workers either.

They tried to also use the medicare fix bill as a teaser in the HR 4213 and when they realized it wasnt going to work, they presented as a standalone bill and the house and senate passed it with no problem!

I was reading something else about this on another blog. Interesting. Your position on it is diametrically contradicted to what I read earlier. I am still contemplating over the opposite points of view, but I'm tipped heavily toward yours. And no matter, that's what is so great about modernized democracy and the marketplace of thoughts on-line.

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