Congress

needs to get off its ass--NOW--and extend UI benefits, which should be much longer than the House version.

I mean, people are hurting out here in Realityland, and Congress fiddles around with dumb things like health care "reform," which is totally useless if millions of people aren't working and can't pay for medical care.

McDermott told his colleagues his office is getting calls from "decent, hardworking Americans from North Carolina to California," who still cannot find work a year after losing their jobs, and need help keeping their heads above water.

The National Employment Law Project reports a record 50.7 percent of the unemployed cannot find work six months after receiving benefits.

Reconciling what the Senate may or may not do with what has passed the House will consume time as families try to reconcile their budgets with grocery and medical bills. Get a move on.

Opponents of UI are morons, pure and simple. UI hardly makes a dent in anything; the money is spent as fast as it comes in. These idiots repeat the mantra of the late and not great Milton Friedman, who thought desperate people shouldn't have any help at all and thus it would drive pay and benefits into third world status.

A few years ago in Reno, the local paper would have page upon page of "help wanted" ads; now there might be a single page or two, and single ads take up a lot of space to cover up for the fact there are few jobs to be had. Even Craigslist doesn't have much, and many of those ads are fakes.