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wow such a sad day

How they can go home for the holiday and face these people is beyond me. Sad day indeed.

How could they? Simple: most of them don't care. Stopping feeling sorry for yourself and get organized!
http://www.unionofunemployed.com/

alright President Obama override this bill, enough of the business as usual in congress. KEEP YOUR WORD AND PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH!!!! if they cant decide do it for them.

Wow. I cannot believe that our unemployment benefits are actually coming to an end. Now even the Democrats are not voting for it (in the House). Good luck to everyone.

Just mark my words we are about to see a real DEPRESSION the streets of america are about to be getting extremely dangerous!!1 Thank to those f*cking @ssholes they should have to park their lazy spolied @ss's right there until they come up with a solution not tangle people's life my a tread d@mn it!!!

Like those f*ckers deserve a vacation and time to enjoy all their f*cking money, nice cars, big houses, and happy family's for 4th of July when millions maybe packing what they can to sleep in a car in on the streets!!! Thanks to their repeated screw ups that lost so many of the american jobs!!! They utterly disgust me!!!

Enough of this crap! I will NEVER look at our government the same way again. I wonder if they'll talk about my death due to not being able to buy my meds like they did today praising a former KKK member on the House floor! If you REALLY want to know what this government is all about, just watch C-Span for an hour. It will turn your stomach!!

I have no clue why I thought Congress would pass this bill. I've never been so scared in my life. I just spent the last $5.23 to put gas in my car. I have children, that i've never had a problem to support. Now i'm beyond hope less. I have a college degree, and can't even get a job at Walmart or Subway. My utilities are 1 week away from getting turned off. What am I suppose to tell my children when we are living in my car. I can't believe are government is letting this go on. Our president could do something about this, but chooses not to. While Congress is having a nice 10 day holiday with there family, my family and others in this situation will be praying that a miracle happens. I have never been so scared in my life. I've always thought Hate was a strong word, but I can honestly say I hate the Congressmen/women doing this to us.

Yes, and in the mean time people don't eat!

My children dont even fit into their clothes anymore , we've lost our house , our car and retirement would have been in 7 years with the local out here , there isnt any work much as food to eat anymore

Demopublicans and Republicrats do not care about the unemployed. Both parties are bought and paid for by criminal banking institutions. Everyone should watch Invisible Empire for free on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO24XmP1c5E

The republicans are more than willing to eliminate the estate tax. This would give hundreds of billions of dollars to billionaires. The problem we have is simple…Republicans oppose social programs. They oppose VA hospitals, social security, disability benefits, public schools, healthcare reform, and unemployment benefits. Ironically, most conservatives believe in creationism, and oppose the theory of evolution. they reject Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, but apply a type of social darwinism to economics. As a result, they believe the weak should die off, and be replaced by those who are stronger. The current right wing Republican party will choke on Crude this November. Furthermore, Rebublicans are elected from mostly southern states. The south has the highest Unemployment rates. Republicans will suffer the wrath of 15 million unemployed, this november.

Now i won't be able 2 pay my rent…This is really sad….

Everyone take a Time out. Lets read the article again. The House tried to get a 2/3 majority to push the bill through. This would have bypassed all the bs that was going on in the Senate. Frankly I am surprised that they almost got the 2/3 vote they were looking for. Now it will go back to a simple majority which they will get, then it's back to the Senate where, well you all know how that has been going. But the bill is not dead. Not by a long shot. It's just a lot of un-needed stress that the good, and hard working people of country don't need right now. If Obama isn't going to sign an executive order to pass the UI benefits he should at least sign an executive order suspending the 4th of July weekend to all Senators and House of Reps until this is resolved. God Bless the Unemployed!!

no the situation will become serious. This is an example of how our representatives are so far out of touch. Changes must be made from today forward.

“Yes, and in the mean time people don't eat!”

Never be too ashamed to go to a local soup kitchen. I have been to a few different ones in the past and they actually have very good food. The first time, I was a little embarrassed but now it doesn't both me.

At least President Obama made sure that the CEOs of Wall Street EARNED their bonuses with the stimulus money he forwarded to them…To those people we elected we are just lazy, contemptable leeches sucking their blood and living off the fat of the land with the unemployment that we recieve.

Where can we turn to get jobs when they are overseas with the blessing and monetary assistance of the government and who can we vote for when both sides are the same?

It is unbelievable how certain republican congressmen are playing politics with unemployment benefits that are the life-line for millions of Americans. I'm tiered of their talking points that the extension adds to the deficit. This is an emergency congressmen, American families are hurting out here. How can they go home on their 4th July breaks with a clear conscious? The budget for the unemployment extension fails in comparison to the bailouts given to wall street, or the 1 month cost to Bush's 2 wars. Yes, I said Bush's and not Obama's. Quit the B.S. and help the millions of unemployed Americans. I don't care if they have to pay for the extension for by cutting the aid we give other countries. It's time we take care of our own first.

Neither party is really concerned about the unemployed. If the Democrats really wanted to help, all they have to do is side with the Republicans and used the stimulus money like the Republican want. If the Dems was so concerned, they would do whatever it takes to pass this bill. Even if it means going along with the Reps. Don't let the Democrats fool you. If your child was drowning in the ocean, wouldn't you do ANYTHING, if it means saving their life. Still praying for a miracle.

MY husband and I are both on unemployment. We both look for work everyday and all day !!!! We will be homeless without unemployment

We MUST get the f**king regressive opressive Republicommunist out of the goervnment. They contiue to ruin the country with their hatred of the American people. Their attitude is “I got mine so f**k you!” And shouting HELL NO to the American people. They are treasonous traitors and do not deverse to call themselves American. We must throw then out on their rich asses in November. THAT must be the true American's revolution.

Excellent point. I agree Not sure why the Democrats don't at least offer to pay for half of the extensions with unused stimulus money. At least show a little flexiblity when it comes to the funding instead of additional taxes (which you know the Republicans are getting a lot of pressure from their voters).

Really?? This is still dragging on?? What will it take for these jacka**** to wake up and realize how bad this is. I know what it will take, some of these spoiled a** congressman to come and live in our shoes for one day. They couldn't do it. They couldn't go to the gas station to get gas and have to count out pennies to pay for it. Because they all have government credit cards to pay for it. Government credit cards that our tax money has paid for. Or have a sick son, and can't even afford to buy his medication anymore and when he looks at you with his sick eyes and asks you why he has no more medicine to make him feel better, you day son't worry son, as soon as they pass the unemployment extension we can buy your medicine again. You are right when you say that our President can do something about it, but he don't care as much as the rest of them. Good Luck to Everyone, I will be praying for you, along with praying for myself and my family.

I fully hear you sarah…i am so scared myself !!! I am in the same boat. Got 4 kids ….2 in college and my uinemployment just ended today with no notice…I got a letter saying I was going to teir 2,,,,and then today I called in and they said it was no longer payable !!!!

http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/06/29/despite-…

<Neither party is really concerned about the unemployed. If the Democrats really wanted to help, all they have to do is side with the Republicans and used the stimulus money like the Republican want. If the Dems was so concerned, they would do whatever it takes to pass this bill. Even if it means going along with the Reps.>

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Excellent point. I agree Not sure why the Democrats don't at least offer to pay for half of the extensions with unused stimulus money. At least show a little flexiblity when it comes to the funding instead of additional taxes (which you know the Republicans are getting a lot of pressure from their voters).

I say they should submit a standalone bill that gets rid of the extra $25/week, stops cobra assistances (but moves up the start date for the health insurance program that was recently passed), extended to the end of October (as say this is the last one but also make it retroactive to beginning of June), include a Tier 5 at minimum wage level instead of individual state's unemployment minimums, and so on…COMPROMISE WITH EACH OTHER!!!

I lost my job on 11-28-09. I've tried to get a job. I've applied at every local business around…nothing. I have an associates degree in criminal justice, and a perfect work record. Apparently this means nothing in a tough job market. I've lost fifteen pounds since my UI benefits ended on June 2. All i can afford to eat is bread, and green beans. I get the green beans from my aunt. Luckily she grows a large garden, and can's food. If I dont get a source of income soon, I'll be forced to start poaching dear. I'm a law abiding citizen, but i have to get food somewhere! Hopefully I wont get caught poaching the king's dear. Furthermore, Next month my car will be repossesed, my rent is unpaid, and my coumidan prescription is due. If the UI doesnt pass soon, I'll probably die due to my blood clotting disorder. At this point, i would rather pass on.

http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/06/29/despite-…

I just found this article and it staes that unemployment extension should pass by weeks end and what the loss in the house today means.

I have voted republician nearly my entire life but now I truly see how heartless the party has become. They are messing with peoples lives and don't truly care. Well this November I know how I'll be voting. Get the bums out!

I AM A 49YEAR MAN AND I HAVE BEEN OUT OF WORK FOR A YEAR AND WAS GETING UNEMPLOYMENT BUT NOW THAY HAVE CUT ME OFF I WAS NOT EVEN ON STAGE 1 YET I GESS WE ALL DONE'T EVEN MATTER ANY MORE I WHIS WE COULD GET THEM ALL IN THE WHITE HOUSE TO SEE HOW MESS'ED UP OUR LIVE'S ARE THAY SAY GET A JOB WELL SHOW US WHERE ALL U ASS HOLE'S YOU'S LIVE SO F..K'N GOOD COME AND LIVE WITH US AND NIT HAVE MONEY TO EVEN HAVE ANY FOOD ALL I CAN SAY IS (GOD) HELP US!!!!!

why not give those badly , report cards , hmmmm a bad report card means you fail , so what do we do with the failures , we take away there benefits , WE VOTE THEM OUT !!!! No more rewards I lost my job , fuc- them too ! let them live with no money , i have been through every phone book , craigs list , ba jobs , monster jobs , I vist caljobs, i go to edd , there are no jobs , except bull shi- , telemarketing , news paper route and working at mcdonalds 7.5 hours a week . this country was built on mfg. , textile, farming and hard work how do we get our reward we take it in the ass !!! our corporate america has sent our jobs over seas and to mexico , bull shit !!! a cargo container comes to the U.S. full and leaves empty I say Bull Shi- !!!!! I have enough of china a COMMUNIST COUNTRY !! , India , mexico , Taiwann and all the others taking our employment because they do it cheaper so that corporate american cansave a peeny , which pays no tax because there based in hati or some other HOLE of the world … Screw the republicans and corporate america we are getting FUCKE_ !!! out of jobs that is the bottom line ……..

I am feeling pretty much as hopeless, and am in the same situation as the rest of you right now…I have a Masters Degree and can' t find a damn job!!! But, THE BILL IS NOT DEAD, it just wasn't pushed through as fast as we need it to be–I can't believe I am going to try to be the voice of reason here, but don't give up just yet–we still have a few days…hang in there everyone! That's all we can do I suppose…

The reason is you set a presedent. Unemployment has been paid for already. It is an insurance, not a hand out. It was taken out of my paycheck since I started working at age 16. Now at 33 I am unemployed and Republicans have a problem with honoring the insurance. I just say lets get them out in November and Give the Dem's a chance. We just got control of congress the house and white house… Give them a chance and let them do their jobs… this just got really bad when Dem's lost filibuster proof numbers…

AGREE LET ME PUT IT PLAIN AND SIMPLE.. DO NOT VOTE IN NOVEMBER FOR THE BASTARDS! NONE OF THE ONES WHO DENIED HELPING US. THEY FORGOT WE GOT THEM THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. EVEN RICH PEOPLE BECAME POOR WITH THIS CIRCUS. THESE SENILES SENATORS FORGET THAT WE VOTED THEM IN, THEM WE CAN BECOME SENILES AS THEM AND VOTED THEM OUT. They are a joke. WHERE IS OBAMA, I don’t here OBAMA OBJECTING!! What is going on?

AGREE LET ME PUT IT PLAIN AND SIMPLE.. DO NOT VOTE IN NOVEMBER FOR THE BASTARDS! NONE OF THE ONES WHO DENIED HELPING US. THEY FORGOT WE GOT THEM THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. EVEN RICH PEOPLE BECAME POOR WITH THIS CIRCUS. THESE SENILES SENATORS FORGET THAT WE VOTED THEM IN, THEM WE CAN BECOME SENILES AS THEM AND VOTED THEM OUT. They are a joke. WHERE IS OBAMA, I don’t here OBAMA OBJECTING!! What is going on?

I am sorry for you; it does seem like a very hopeless situation! So the bill is not dead; just need more votes for it to pass? How are these people goint to break for the 4th of July and leave us all hanging? You hang in too!

DEMOCRATS FAILED TO PASS UNEMPLOYMENT BILL. My people, this bill would have been passed, if only the Democrats would have sided with the Republicans and use the stimulus money: If the Democrats really care about passing this bill to help Americans in desperate need, they would have done whatever it takes(even if it means given in to the Republicans). DEMOCRATS,PLEASE UNITE FOR A CHANGE, USE THE STIMULUS FUNDS and HELP OUR PEOPLES. That's all it takes to get this bill approved!!!! People lives are at stake!!!

It looks like they were just trying to pass it with a higher majority to avoid all the bs…but they couldn't quite get there–now it should be voted on again this week (tomorrow?) and hopefully be passed with the lessor majority that is actually needed to put it through. Let's just hope–there are a lot of organizations and media trying to help, so we do have that in our favor–those people are not letting this die. I have to say–I greatly appreciate all of those people–even though I am beyond ashamed of our government :(

we cannot give up as people or as a country. the democrats are as much to blame as the republicans. they have turned it into politics. five hundred thirty some men and women controlling our lives. we know what to do in november. my wife and i are both out of work and have been over 9 months. we are both staying with family and our 16 yr old son is being shuttled baack and forth. no medical, no savings and no house. tell that to your kids. we cant even give him hope anymore. we all keep praying……….worried in missouri

the Republicans MUST be voted out of office in November or ltheir dismantling of the United States will continue until only the rich of the right wing have any say at all. It is their plan to break the working class – next, they will poison our vaccines and our food and introcude a REAL pandemic.

I agree. The almost $1 Trillion Dollar Stimulus Bill has been a complete failure. All it seems to have done is increase the unemployment rate and gone to their own personal pork project. What a waste.

Effective immediately, Congress should use all the unused stimulus money for unemployment and healthcare benefits for the people in need. They need to get rid of these Tiers and just extend these benefits out until the unused stimulus money runs out…and must approve this ASAP!!

My wife and I were both laid off last year. We've been barely getting by on unemployment while desperately searching for work. My wife was laid off one week before she gave birth to our son. I was laid off a couple months before that. Our unemployment has ended as of this week. The people we've put in office have let us down. I've heard that lots of places are intentionally skipping over applications of people that are unemployed. How is this going to fix anything? What's the fucking point of this practice? It sure explains why I've gotten nothing but “We decided to move forward with other applicants at this time” over, and over, and over again. I have a fucking degree!! What a waste of money and time. We've come to the end of our savings and have begun selling off everything we own. It's over for us, I don't know what to do anymore. I hope these politicians all burn in hell.

Don't forget what you just said there…. Republicans in govt are about big oil and big business–they always have been, always will be. I have heard a lot of people blaming the Democrats as well, but what they are not understanding is that while the Dems are the majority, the GOP as a whole can block anything–if one party or the other were “in control” as I have seen it perceived by people, the U.S. would no longer be a democracy. All Dems but 1 voted for the unemployment extension for the past several weeks–all of us in this situation right now know who to vote for in November. And even when things get better for us–DON'T FORGET ABOUT HOW SCARED YOU ARE RIGHT NOW–we don't want this happening to more Americans in the future!!

vote them all out, Democrats as well as Republicans…term limits time has come…

You are forgetting that unemployment benefits are handled at the state level, this was money to back up the states, with certain states, like SC and TX originally fighting not to take the money. The states are the ones that screwed up their unemployment insurance originally (SC gave all the money from 2006 back to the companies, figured they wouldn't need it).

If there IS a God, they will burn in hell!!!!

Yep I agree they should have to stay in session till some resolve is done and if the PRESIDENT does nothing then shame on HIM!! If he does nothing and its on the news what a wonderful 4th of July he has at one of his vacation spots then shows all of the UNITED STATES what kind of MAN we have in office!!

That is true; read this article if you are unemployed you are screwed, it is totally unfair, the people with jobs don't need a job WTF?

http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/16/news/economy/un…

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…although it does add to the deficit, so does rewarding those who betrayed and turned their back on the USA when they shipped their businesses overseas with money to help them with the move. These traitors should be taxed appropriately as greed was there only reason to leave this great and proud country.

As far as new businesses opening here, American businessmen should receive tax breaks and whatever other amenities we can give to encourage operating in the USA and hiring American workers.

A good start for those unemployed right now is to boycott any goods from China and other countries. Walmart, to my way of thinking, is one of the most unAmerican stores in the nation. Boycotting them as well wouldn't hurt my feelings, either. Just a start,I guess, but a good one…

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I am sitting here reading all this with knots in my stomach just like all of you… here is something from another article I just found:
“Congressional Democrats have been trying for weeks to pass the extension as part of a larger tax and spending package, but the larger bill stalled in the Senate. On Tuesday, House Democrats brought up a standalone bill on unemployment benefits.

Democrats brought up the bill under a special procedure in which no amendments were allowed and debate was limited. Under the procedure, the bill needed a two-thirds majority to pass. The vote was 261-155, short of the two-thirds needed.

House Democrats now plan to bring up the bill again under regular business, in which the bill would need only a simple majority to pass, said Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Levin said he expects the House to vote on the bill again Wednesday. In Tuesday's vote, nearly all Democrats voted in favor of the bill, while most Republicans opposed it.”

I think there is still hope for the stand-alone extension bill to be passed this week…LET'S HOPE!

What are we to do here my husband has been it of work for over 6months and he has applied for everything from paper boy and still nothing. We can't afford simple things ( tissue, soap, water) and these people won't extend my husband never had an extension he had his 26 weeks, and he still haven't found employment and now the holiday. We will be homeless soon and I don't know what to do.

…I'm there as well, and that's after working 31 years for the same company. But now we are an anathema to the Democratic and Republican parties.

We are being slapped around and used as bait by both sides. This November, Democrat or Republican, a good option would be to vote the incumbent out!

Obviuosly our Democratic President does not have the clout he needs to fight the GOP. Not when it comes to the tax-payers plight of unemployment right now. He DID manage to get the Healthcare Reform bill through now didn't he! Nobody even knows what the hell that even entails! And guess what! Now the Repub's want to raise the SSI age to 70! Even though anyone who is 45 and older and has lost their job through NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN cannot find a NEW JOB because of the unbelievable age discrimination going on in the WORK FORCE right now! Our 401k's were grossly rifled! Now they want our SSI! UNBELIEVABLE!

RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Democrats are too weak to roar with indignation while the Republicans can make them cry uncle with a minority.

God forbid if the Democrats start cussing the Republicans out! They act so squeamish in front or them…I guess that's the politically correct response.

Let's face it, when the Republicans had the advantage, all they had to do was squeeze the Dems collective “nerts” and they wept, just like they are doing today. They have no spirit to fight, I'm afraid, which is why I see voting ALL incumbents out as a good thing.

Oh Please, like they Care? OUR GOVERNMENT DOES NOT CARE ABOUT OUR PLIGHT!!! My God, doesn't anybody see this yet? They are teasing us (by playing with our LIVES) and they are playing politics with our lives. The voting does not happen until November and they will
play this game until then! GOD BLESS AMERICA and the idiots we all voted in to RUIN OUR LIVES!

Wow, your story is our story what are we to do these people don't care if we aren't eating, buying our medication, becoming homeless.

I know how you feel–so many people do–it sucks!! But those rare moments I am thinking logically…I have to remind myself–both parties may be playing politics, but how good will it look or BE for either party when they head off to celebrate INDEPENDENCE DAY with their families while the very families that put them in office are starting to be put out on the streets??? It is so hard, but I really want to believe that even if just for the sake of their political careers, they will do SOMETHING this week…. any thoughts??

Here is something from another article just posted:
“Democrats in both chambers of Congress are scrambling to pass legislation to reauthorize expired unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless before a looming July 4 recess. One such measure failed in a 261-155 House vote on Tuesday.

Bill cosponsor Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) said Democrats will return to the measure on Wednesday, when it will face a much lower simple-majority 219-vote threshold. “It will pass,” said Levin, who added that he is coordinating with his counterparts in the Senate. (The House bill required a two-thirds majority on Tuesday because it was brought to the floor under a suspension of the rules.)

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has been shuttling back and forth between Democrats and Republicans in the upper chamber in hopes of winning 60 votes for the Senate's own version of a standalone unemployment benefits bill.

“Sen. Reid has had some conversations with Republicans to see what we can do to get UI on the floor and passed,” said Reid spokesman Jim Manley.”

Ony problem is, Walmart is the only place most of us can afford to shop. And I mean with our Food Stamps. Now Congress is talking about upping the SSI age to 70! UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!! THERE WILL BE AN UPRISING WHEN THEY DO THIS!!!!!!!!!

they don't care because they have jobs,and if it was a bill to give there self raises it would have passed in no time what so ever

And now they want our SSI too. They're hoping we die before we turn 70 (which they are trying to up it to)and won't have to pay it at all!

This is complete and utter BS, that these elected officals can't get there head out of there butt and pass to releve so many Americans of money woes. Gee they want the economy to get better but all the are doing is dragging it down even farther basic math nobody getting money equals no money being spent. I feel so sorry for people out there that are losing there help along with my wife while theses people get nothing taken from them. What agreat country here is are change we were promised.

I read an article where a republican senator stated today “the reckless spending must stop.” He was referring to the unemployment extension, referring to American's lives, referring to hard working honest people with families to feed that did not quit or get fired or refuse to even work but wanted to work, have worked for years and years, and lost our jobs through no fault of our own. I have been unemployed for just under 1 year. I have worked for 40 years, paid taxes, voted, been an honest patriotic upstanding American. And very proud of it. but now I am disappointed and hurt and let down and scared and do not know what I am going to do if this bill does not pass. I will be worrying and trying to figure out how to pay my bills and buy food and take care of my family over the 4th of July. I am sure the senators and Mr. Obama will have a much better day than the 1.2 million Americans who have lost their benefits. Happy 4th of July Mr President!!!

Just so you all know, even if they pass this bill, it will not affect the long-termed unemployed. Those of us who are 50 and older and have been out of work for 1 year or more, are out of it completely now. AND…….. The Work Force does not want us because we “ARE OLD!”
Who is going to regulate the businesses out there that will not even LOOK at anyone 50 or older! And then we can wait till age 70 to collect our SSI!

Harry Reid has the power to keep them over the recess,but he doesn't have the balls to do so.

I have e-mailed President Obama a few times in the past. The real funny thing now is, when I tried to e-mail him last week I got a message saying his e-mail is being repaired or some such crap! (http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact)
I guess he did not like what I was asking him for (or whoever it is that actually reads his e-mails). I tried e-mailing him again today when I heard on FOX NEWS how they want to raise the SSI age to 70 now, and got the same message. Sooooooooooooooooooooooo it looks like NOW he just does not want to hear it! I hope HE KNOWS that he is a ONE TERM PRESIDENT! All the CHANGE he talked about so eloquently was just POLITICAL BULLSHIT! And now we all know it. They are playing political games with our lives, with our childrens' lives
and they don't give a s*%&! You all know this right? Please make sure you vote (vote them all out!) Anyone whose in (repubs, dems, etc.,)must be voted out. They are not doing the jobs “We The People” need from them. It's all about their own agenda's. Always has been. We need to take away their power. We can never take away their money (and trust me, they ALL HAVE MONEY). That's why they don't care! It doesn't affect them! We don't need to see their faces or listen to their lies anymore! They have robbed our retirement funds, stolen our jobs, and now want to take our social security (by hoping maybe we'll die before we turn 70). MY REAL CONCERN HERE IS THE CHILDREN WHO WILL SUFFER BECAUSE OF ALL THIS. AND THE FAT CATS ON THE HILL SAY THEY ARE DOING THIS FOR OUR CHILDRENS' FUTURE! What they are really talking about is THEIR CHILDREN'S future. The children of the people who have been affected by this economic crash have to suffer right along with their parents! And we are just all collateral damage to them!

I've been reading all these comments about the unemployment extension issue, but none chilled me more than your last sentence “At this point, I would rather pass on.” OMG! We've come to this? I wish I could reach out to you and make everything better, but this is resting in the hands of our elected officials who obviously have NO CLUE as to what we're all going through right now. I've been unemployed since Aug. 9, 2009…worked almost 30 years for the same company…and now…they are going to take away the help that I contributed to all those years? Damn, I wish it were the 60's again, and we'd all hop on buses to Washington….don't these people see anything else but the luxurious life they've come to know (through our votes in electing them to represent us?

Shame on our government, and how sad to say that I'm watching our country disintegrate right before my eyes!!!

So tired of both parties , its all a game to them . We the people of the UNITED STATES need to come up with a way to fight back with this politician B.S !!!!

I hear you Mad, I feel the same way. I thought it would pass for sure as a Stand Alone piece of legislation and was completely shocked that the Republicans stood in the way.

I am a lifelong Conservative and the actions of the Republicans on this lone issue is disgusting and now has me questioning why I choose to associate with the Conservative movement.

TM I know I never thought this would happen I knew that it would pass because there aren't any jobs people are still losing jobs the unemployment rate over 9%. Never did I think our government would let us down like this.

Yep. And now they are talking about raising the SSI age to 70! YOU GO CONGRESS!!!!

Ya, don't hold your breath! This is not about us. It has always been about them! Not our Children, Their Children. Our future has been killed by our Political Leaders and their Gross Mistakes with the running of our Government. And I mean ALL OF THEM. The Bush Administration, and now the Obama Administration, as it has become clear that he can DO NOTHING FOR “WE THE PEOPLE”. The GOP blocks him at every level!

I've worked in IT for 30 years and lost my job when a prominent wall street firm went under. Unable to find steady work in the industry, I bought a Restoration business and recently started marketing the services. While I'm sure I can get work in the near future, I need to maintain insurances, fees and keep the lights on. I can't believe that in such a dire emergency the congress and president won't extend unemployment benefits. I've already put my house up for sale. Am I supposed to lose my business too???? I'm not lazy, just need a little time selling……Funny how the banks and other industries were funded to stay afloat, but the hard working American people can suck wind and visit soup kitchens to feed their families. May I remind our wonderful government, the unemployment rate is not going to dip below 7% while this recession looms and more jobs are lost……

Oh don't worry. We will see all the concerts and parties the President attends and how much fun he and Michelle and the girls had while “We The People” keep on keeping on (and starving). Don't worry! Our Media does not care about our plight, but they just LOVE IT when the President is having fun or golfing somewhere. They Must! It's always on the news! And we always get to share!

I have been phoning Senators offices for the past week explaining my situation.
I was laid off last November, and have just expired my FIRST 6 months of UI.
I have 3 really good job prospects, one is actually a 6 figure salary, but none of them start until late July or early August.
But, if this bill doesn't pass, I will not have the money to pay my rent in July.
I am driving without the legally required car insurance and with expired licence tags.
So, I would like to propose a few things:
First, if anybody gets evicted starting July 1st, let's start taking over the Senator's offices….use them to sleep in, send faxes, use the phones and their computers to find work.
Second, when we do find work, claim 99 exemptions. I REFUSE to pay any more taxes!! Remember the old saying 'No taxation without representation'?? Well, it is VERY obvious that Americans have no representation!! “Taxation without representation is TYRANNY!!”
Third, if this bill does not pass, let's make sure that this 4th of July is the SECOND one that NO AMERICAN will EVER FORGET!!
Everybody get your guns ready….and let BLOOD RUN IN THE STREETS!!!
We can afford to GIVE Pakistan $7.5 BILLION to arm and train Taliban to kill AMERICAN soldiers…..we can afford to GIVE Egypt $7 Billion, we can afford to GIVE Haitian earthquake victims over $2 BILLION dollars, we can afford to GIVE $30 MILLION to Palestinian refugees…
We CAN AFFORD to keep the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent of the country at a cost of $1.8 TRILLION.
We CAN AFFORD to bail out Wall Street to the tune of $700 BILLION and buy GM, even though a huge majority told Congress NOT TO!!
But we CAN'T AFFORD to take care of middle class AMERICANS who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own???
And this is being decided by people that 'We the People' are paying!!!
'We the People' are ALLOWING these people to GIVE our tax dollars away to others, but they won't help us??? With OUR OWN MONEY????
I am absolutely ASHAMED of the Senators and to be called an American!!!
And Senators…..you should be ASHAMED of YOURSELVES!!!
Even more so if you consider yourself a 'christian'!!!
Would jesus ALLOW people to be thrown out of their homes and apartments??
Would he ALLOW them to go hungry???
And yet FUND a 9 YEAR war, in which thousands of innocents have been killed??

OK SENATORS YOU WANT TO PLAT HARDBALL?YOU WANT TO DESTROY LIFES AND FAMILYS?I HOPE YOUR WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE.YOU WERE WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE WERENT YOU?

YOU SENATORS ARE THE KINGS AND THIS IS THE HELL YOU HAVE CREATED FOR YOURSELFS

IM AFRAID YOU CAN NOT RUN AWAY FROM YOUR PASTS FOREVER SENATORS,EVENTUALLY IT CATCHES UP AND YOU MUST ATONE

I work for a Walmart supplier and we manage, market and manufacture in the USA. Many of the small independant shop in our industry sell nothing but overpriced crap from French or German companies who manufacture in Asia. Check your facts and stop being a jerk. People like you are putting Americans out of jobs.

are you guys forgetting, that even if the house passes this new bill that it still has to go through the senate. yeah we all know how that goes. Hummmmmm I wonder where they are going to get the “money” to feed all the homeless, hungry people.

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There is a GOD and believe me they will burn in hell if they don't help the needed.

Keep faith until the end, God will prevail. Evil never wins!

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If history truly repeats itself, the powers that be will simply say…”Let them eat cake!”

I wonder how close we can establish soup kitchen to the Senators home who voted “No”. Oh wait, they are rich..there are no soup kitchens in their neighborhoods…

I hope while you all sit in your homes us tax payers paid for you think of the families out on the street with no food and remember you got what you have because of us and with out us making money yours will surely run out as well sleep tight

do you think the senators really hear us? they are stalling and will not pass anything before July 4th if at all? Our voices need to be heard and the media is not doing a lot to help us right now. We are getting more news on the new supreme justice and the new general for Afghanistan. We are spending all the money over there where we should not be in the first place. We wil eventually pull out like the Russians and all that money spend by the US will be for nothing will its citizens are in dire straights.

There will be a day when we can voice our anger, elections coming up and I will not forget. I have always been a Republican but after this I am going to let the Senators in my state know my concern with my vote. The middle class needs a helping hand until the economy picks up.

im so sorry for your family mine is in the same shape god bless and good luck

u have said everything that the one million of us out here that got cut from our 6 month unemployment has been needing to say. They dont care about us at all. As long as they are receive a pay check. Congress should have to be made to pass this no mater what. We will not have a place to live, nothing to eat. They dont care about us. It is a ASHAMED of the way the treat their own PEOPLE. Try TAKING CARE OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE FIRST AMERICA.

people…we voted for these people that are stabbing us in the back and while we are forsed to do without everyday as washington plays politics with our lives,we can do something come november.we can show all these crooks that we as americans deseve the same respect as they give these third world countries.lets not let them go hungry but screw america.we have to vote them out people or next time,we have no right to complain

I agree with the comments of others. The media and our elected officials just dont get it. We need to be heard and that usually happends in the media. Hello…. CNN, Fox, NBC, CBS and all other media outlets. Ask the questions, push the issues and demand the answers. Why havent we done better in creating jobs, why do these crook CEO's continue to get million dollar bonus checks while so many Americans cant even collect a weekly unemployment check. Why are people being put on the streets and their home foreclosed on? All that stimulus money and none of it did what is should have done. People are still losing their homes and out of work. We must be heard.

I am a single mom with three children. I had my last job for ten years and was laid off. I have been searching for work, and have employers telling me that there looking at about 700-1000 resumes for every one job position. I do no not know what I am going to do when I run out of the last few dollars in my pocket.

I think we will make sure not to vote for any of the people that are making this so hard. Thye do not know how sick it feels to tell your children there is no money!

I think you have it all wrong. If it wasnt for obama we would not even have what we have gotten already, so why would you say a one term president. It sounds like to me you think republicans will help you out and you are so mistaken,get more republicans in there and you will have nothing. I wonder why people want to blame the president when truth be known he cant do hardly anything just like with the oil spill people expect him to put on a diving suit and go down and plug the hole. I do beleive if posible he should make an executive order for our benefits. What we all need to do is get rid of the REPUBLICANS they are out to screw the middle class like us. VOTE OUT REPUBLICAN ASSHOLES THEY SCREW ALL OF US IN THE LONG RUN and the economy it then takes democrats to fix it and help the middle class.

older Americans and the unemployerd as they cut off our benefits that we have worked some 40 years only to have our jobs go oversea the goverment has divised a way not to pay us cut off our medical so we cant get our meds to stay alive we die no benifits to pay Soilent Green the new way to balance the budget I hope their Prents go along with the new class of people (ohh I forgot there wealthy

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