The friendinator on 03/30/2010 at 3:01 am
I keep hearing people complaining about no extensions, and I keep hearing morons complaining about extensions making unemployeds lazy — as if they enjoy the deprivation, hunger and lack of dignity of living on less than half of their typical income. As if kissing their health, homes and car goodbye in exchange for maybe being able to afford three canned meals a day is a preferred way of life. This is what some senators think of the citizens of this country. They think Americans prefer lazy, poor life over success and happiness. If that’s so, then those senators should know, it was those lazy people who gave them the jobs they have today. The job where we pay for their expense-account lunches that, after a week, likely equal a month’s worth of unemployment benefits for a typical unemployed American. Jus’ sayin’. If the people are lazy, then be advised, it’s the lazy who employ you. It’s the lazy who feed you. It’s the lazy who find you expendable. Please try a different method of insulting your constituents. This “lazy” method just bit you in the foot. P.S. How hard are YOU working through your Easter vacation right now? Don’t eat too many eggs, your local homeless shelter can use your leftovers.
What I haven’t heard though is a REAL argument for why people are in need of additional extensions/support. Here’s a theory NO politician will spit out in Washington: The government allowed — if not, helped — jobs to leave the country, they allowed banks to take over and ruin the financial lives of many, then they gave them billions of dollars as a reward, Yet NO ONE in government has done a darn thing to seed job growth. In a sense, the government allowed jobs to be terminated, forcing people to collect long-term unemployment benefits, and has done nothing to replace the jobs they allowed to disappear. And now they call those unemployeds “lazy.” THAT’S the problem. The problem isn’t laziness or any such thing on behalf of the people, or, if I may, the victims. Rather it’s laziness and in-capabilities of government leaders (if you can actually call them “leaders”), that has left the job market so wrangled.
Until the government does something successful to bring jobs to this country, it has no choice but to support its jobless.
An extension will pass, I’m faithful of that. Not because they want the unemployed to eat. Not because they will admit they need to fix the big picture and bring jobs back. But rather because they will quickly realize that all those NOT collecting benefits will likely end up in the streets with no income at all and will therefore NOT have to fork over any tax dollars. No income = no taxes = off the radar entirely.
My votes for reps this year will be very easy to choose. Anyone in government today, will not get my vote. I don;t care if the only other candidate is a four year-old. That four year-old WILL get my vote. In paying our reps in Washington for so many years, they have become, to use a familiar word, lazy, and need to be pushed out. We need a fresh slate. All the stale minds in Washington have lowered themselves to lead the country to the gutter it is in today. I’m sorry, but I wasn’t born and raised here only to see this country turn in to a gutter. I will not allow the incapable minds in Washington today to get the respect of my vote. They can all leave Washington with cardboard boxes of desk equipment in hand and go look for work along with the millions of other Americans out there today. Based on their previous failures, I’m sure they will all remain unemployed and in need for quite a while.
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These people in Congress are the ones who created the situation of jobs leaving the country while people are displaced and can't make what they used to make.
Here is another good comment on a different link:
Arelene Nichols Mar 28, 2010, 12:39pm EDT
It is very unfortunate for many Americans that we will not be able to enjoy our Easter Holiday because we will be worrying about how to feed our families and where we will be living in a few short weeks. Millions of unemployed workers will lose any unemployment benefits they now receive sometime in April 2010. The long term unemployed, the people that have been unemployed for 6 months and everyone else in-between will lose their benefits without Congress stepping in and extending unemployment benefits. After April 5, 2010, no one will be able to move to the next tier of benefits. So, if you are on your initial state claim of benefits, your unemployment insurance will run out without being able to get any EUB (emergency unemployment benefits paid by the government) or SEB (state emergency benefits- paid by the state you live only under certain conditions).
The EUBs are the Tiers 1, 2, 3, and 4. I think many people will be surprised on the week of April 12, 2010, when there is no UI payment in their bank account or their UI check never arrives in the mail. Having been laid-off several years ago when the unemployment rate in my state was a conservative (but considered extremely high 8.7%), I was able to get extended Tier benefits. I was able to find a job long before my benefits expired, but today it is very different story. Most jobs searches are a one way correspondence to the potential employers with no return response. Myself, I am a college educated professional over 50, who has recently found out that I am in the "most unemployable" group. From reading many many posts concerning the unemployed, a majority of the 99ers and long-term unemployed are in my age group, with similar educational and job experience background.
We were hard working Americans that built current corporate America, and now we find ourselves being replaced by younger, less experienced employees that will take lower incomes and no benefits. Therefore, enabling American Corporations to increase there profit margin leaving us well-trained older workers lying by the roadside. I see the problem as two-fold: extend current unemployment benefits, add a Tier 5 for the remainder of the year, and then work on solving the problem of no jobs. Make banks lend some of their precious money to create more small business (this will help my unemployed group the best) and bring NAFTA jobs back home. Shame on your Senators and Congressman, who went home leaving all of us to sit home and worry on our spring break.
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