While Our Congresspeople Enjoy

their five-week vacation, when they return for two or three weeks before going on ANOTHER month-long vacation to get re-elected or whatever, more and more people are falling into the economic abysss.

And our fucking Congress, which created the mess in the first place, doesn't even care if people are thrown out into the streets.

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It is a moniker that no one wants. It refers to the 99 weeks of benefits that the jobless can qualify for in America. Government cash helps those laid off keep a tenuous grip on a normal life. It keeps a roof over their heads, pays a phone bill, puts food on a table and petrol in a car. But once the 99 weeks are up the payments stop – as is happening now for millions of people – and they are 99ers.

For many, that moment, which America's politicians have refused to extend, represents the moment of destitution; a sort of modern American version of the old Victorian trip to the workhouse. There are now more than a million 99ers and the number gets bigger each week.