On May 12, the Senate finance committee voted and unanimously approved changes to legislation which will extend benefits to unemployed New Yorkers. There are approximately 120,000 unemployed people in New York currently receiving benefits which will run out before the end of May. These changes will extend the benefits by 13 weeks which result in a total of 72 weeks.
New York was given $645 million in federal stimulus package money to spend on unemployment benefits and administration – so far New York along with several other states has been very slow to institute changes to accomodate the federal aid. The main delay in New York was a desire to change the whole unemployment system to increase the maximum weekly benefit (currently $430) which is the lowest in the area.
These changes have not been finalized yet since the legislation now has to go the Senate floor for a full vote. Once it is passed by the legislature it has to be approved by Governor Paterson. It is expected that this will take place by the end of next week so that there will be no disruption in any unemployment insurance benefits.
Here is a quote from Senator Onorato who sponsored the bill:
“I could not be more pleased that this vital legislation, which will provide an additional 13 weeks of unemployment benefits for New York’s jobless, is now moving swiftly towards becoming law,” said Senator Onorato. “Unemployment benefits for some 56,000 jobless New York residents are slated to begin running out next week, with at least 5,000 more a week after that. Passage of this legislation will provide unemployed New Yorkers with critically needed financial assistance during very difficult economic times. This is a win-win for unemployed workers in need of aid, as well as for local economies that will benefit from the money these New Yorkers will spend on food, rent and other basic needs in their communities.”
Unemployment benefit information for other states
Florida unemployment benefits extension - 20 more weeks.
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New York extends unemployment benefits by 13 weeks
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Ohio unemployment benefits extension - 13 more weeks
Texas Unemployment Benefits Extension - 13 more weeks
Unemployment benefits extended in 2009 stimulus package.
Bill H3548 - 13 week extension for high unemployment states.
Kentucky Unemployment Benefits Extension - 20 more weeks.
Illinois Unemployment Benefits Extension - 20 more weeks.
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Thanks Pauline for sticking to the common concern, which is an additional UI extension for the 99′ers, and for providing info that not everybody on here receives regarding what we can do to to fight for the Stabenow bill before it’s too late, rather than posting articles telling us what most of us who read newspapers and who are part of this terrible economic landslide already know. You’ve been one of the most helpful in providing pertinent info and less opinion, which I am guilty of at times.
“Protracted unemployment is eating away at millions of people. And the economy’s failure to create enough jobs for them is part of a vicious circle that could keep turning for years to come.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/business/29view.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=The%20case%20for%20reviving%20revenue%20sharing&st=cse
One of the great things about this blog or any blog is that we are each capable of picking and chosing which posts/articles we care to read – or not. For example, I tend to skim thru lengthy posts and not read them when they go on and on and on or repeat themselves over and over or I simply find that they are draining me just by reading them. I may read the first sentence or so but generally skip them. I also dont read every article that is posted – but I read a lot of them. I particularly like it when someone posts an article and highlights the main point. Altho, I dont do that myself b/c I am always in a hurry. Anyway, I think we all try to post opinions (Many that I personally value very much) and articles on this site that are related to the main topic – jobs/more benefits.
tjs,
I totally agree. A thread is basically an open forum where ideas are pooled. Whether we choose to read or accept every post is our own decision. It does get rather draining when people resort to publishing mini tomes in an effort to parse every sentence of someones else’s efforts.
Thanks Paul, your posts are very much appreciated as well. ☺
I enjoy the NY side because everyone shares their thoughts and post comments, links to NEWS that is helpful and educational to us all. Well here’s more talk about a 2nd Stimulus package because the present one that is paying for SO VERY much and keeping social service programs going and states from going bankrupt, will be ending in 2010 and 2011. The Republicans kept yelling take it from the Stimulus Package when all along they knew the package was a money lifeline to over 30 states and further gives ANOTHER reason for voting Democratic and Independent on 11/3rd. Obama and Congress must do something or we’re looking at a DEPRESSION so its not going to be called 2nd Stimulus package but maybe a SPENDING BILL or some other name but more SPENDING is needed and they must be upfront & honest with the American people!!! HELL Blame it on Bush but tell the people the truth that America is in a holy mess and this is what I have to do! Republicans be damned! Conservatives be damned! Tea Party be damned! Let him write it on the palm of his hands so he doesn’t forget but he’s got to be upfront and he’s got to SPEND to get out of this economic quicksand, we’re been wiggling in it since Dec 2007. – http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29tyson.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/27/AR2010082702155.html?tid=nn_twitter
“Bernanke acknowledged the economy is fragile, especially after the government just reported the weakest quarterly growth in a year. And he said high unemployment poses a serious threat.”
Gee ya think…
thanks everyone !!
I hope that we all find jobs real soon …. remember never to give up!
Senate Republicans fall way short on Unemployment Insurance extension votes~
http://www.examiner.com/unemployment-in-san-diego/senate-republicans-fall-way-short-on-unemployment-insurance-extension-votes
“The Obama administration has had an unending stream of emergency situations to deal since January 2009. Most of these are a direct result of the failed Bush policies, deregulation and 2 unfunded wars raging overseas. Meanwhile, the country has been falling apart, anger is mounting and most states are in severe financial trouble.”
“Americans are angry and anger often goes against the party in power at the polls. It is easy to blame those in power for the problems in America, but the Democrats simply must educate the American voters about the truth of the matter of who is really to blame for the mess in America today. The four letter, one word answer: Bush. It is impossible to correct in less than 2 years, what took 8 years to break.”
Help The 99ers – 3 Easy Steps:
1. Print (2 versions to choose from)
2. Personalize.
3. Fax. http://bit.ly/bnVFtF #p2 #tcot
http://helpthe99ers.blogspot.com/2010/08/one-pager.html
http://helpthe99ers.blogspot.com/
Help The 99ers – 3 Easy Steps:
1. Print (2 versions to choose from)
2. Personalize.
3. Fax. http://bit.ly/bnVFtF #p2 #tcot
http://helpthe99ers.blogspot.com/2010/08/one-pager.html
When someone embraces a challenging job the employer grants them X amount of time to fix the problem that they stated they can handle during their interview. If within a given time, the walk doesn’t match the talk, the employer may opt to seek other options.
If the employee opts to address other peripheral issues instead of taking the bull by the horns, the employer may harbor resentment. The employer doesn’t want to hear about the past, they hired you to create a better future.
This may help clarify why some voters are experiencing anti-incumbent fever.
“Mr. Bernanke has told Congress that some additional fiscal stimulus could be helpful in supporting the recovery, as long as it was accompanied by a credible plan to gradually bring deficits under control and stabilize the ratio of debt to gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic output.
He has not weighed in on specifics — like the Obama administration’s proposal to spur lending to small businesses, or the call by some Republicans to extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts — but has instead expressed hope that a bipartisan fiscal commission appointed by Mr. Obama will deliver specific and meaningful proposals.
But the commission is not scheduled to deliver its report until December, and the likelihood of additional Congressional action to support the economy before the midterm elections in November seems to be shrinking by the day.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/business/economy/30fed.html?_r=1&ref=business
The Folly of Subsidizing Unemployment
My calculations suggest the jobless rate could be as low as 6.8%, instead of 9.5%, if jobless benefits hadn’t been extended to 99 weeks.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703959704575454431457720188.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop#articleTabs%3Darticle
I have to wonder what color the sky is in this guys world. Be sure to read the comments
“Let me add, I am very much looking forward to Krugman’s (likely tommorow morning) dissection of Barro with this display of a new higher level of being out-of-touch.”
Pauline: Thanks for the information per #27 & 28 but what is: 3. Fax. http://bit.ly/bnVFtF #p2 #tcot. You have it as a fax but then list FREE #’s below. I intent to post on other sites but need to know if that should be rephrased or deleted.
Sherrie, re post 27 & 28, the “FAX link” is correct, a list of free fax numbers.
Proudly & Loudly Supporting Barack Hussein Obama!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=119290791455111
How many frigging times are you going to ask the same dam ?… focus! Many people have answered several times, including me.
Re: Post#29, talk about standing on a pedestal! The President of the United States is not a regular employee like you or I. Even in sports, a Manager may be hired to turn a bad team into a Championship team. It hardly ever takes 0ne year to turn around 8 years of failure. At REGULAR jobs, your point might hold true, but IMHO it looks like you are reaching as you so often do in you negative comments about this President. If you choose to vote for Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Huckleberry Finn or Rocky and Bullwinkle to try and save us in 2012, that’s on you and your fellow amnesiacs. Besides, I don’t think I’ve heard this President go around blaming Bush as much as he should, to be quite honest. It’s because he chose to try and work with The Party Of No, and to seldom engage in the politics of fear and division which you seem to fall for, that you and others who think like you see him as having failed in some respect. There are many other issues other than Unemployment Insurance. It can’t be ignored though just how many jobs were lost while George W was in office. In fact, most everybody who writes on this forun owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Bush for “turning the economy around,” and also for catching Osama Bin Ladin and “reigning in the evil-doers,” which he promised to do, come hell or high water, notwithstanding the start of two unpaid for wars! No matter what you write or how many articles you can find from however many economists, there is nobody who if they had been elected instead, could have changed what George W Bush’s 8 years(2 terms) of failed policies did to this country after one term. If you disagree, you’re entitled, but personally, I thnk your tea pot is whistiling dixie.
In most cases, people who don’t march in lockstep with any particular party line MAKE an election. Good communication skills and strong campaigning can often create a victim of elevated expectations. It is what it is.
Post38 (G), It’s obvious from your shallow insults that you do not know me or anything about me and quite obvious that you lack effective basic communication skills based on your redundant ? which has been answered several times.
Is this still an unemployment board? Jeez….
Anyway in 2009 the Fortune 500 companies shed over 800,000 American jobs yet they TRIPLED their combined profits to almost $400 billion!!!
The Corporations are making more money with less people and revenues. And 2010 looks like the same story, they will be making more money with less employees.. Don’t expect the jobs situation to get any better anytime soon people..
Well I missed something, I don’t even see a post 38 but what the hell! Anyway I HOPE because I don’t see it yet, that the DNC will mass a campaign for the 11/3 elections along with President Obama and show the “MULTITUDE of MESSES” including a $12 TRILLION national debt! that President Bush accumulated and left behind for him to clean up including over a TRILLION dollars spent up thru 2008 in the IRAQ war! All I have is the GOP talking heads bitching about the DEBT-SPENDING! but fail to mention it is left over from their tenure in the White House and both Houses of Congress. Enough has not be said as a reminder to the American people who seem to be in a fog, letting them know 8 yrs of this AND this AND this AND this AND this etc etc etc! cannot be cleared away in less than 2 years in office. Also they need to explain the Stimulus Package and what those BILLIONS of dollars have & are doing as a lifeline to so many states that are in a financial crisis such as CALIF. They need to get their messages OUT to Mainstream USA before its too late. The GOP has MONEY for funding and for blogging on the Internet and I see them all over.
Organization AND Mobilizing are key. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/labor-seeks-to-mobilize-j_b_688024.html
I don’t want to argue anymore about politics. Please let’s agree to disagree(Post#39). I don’t think either of our opinions or articles that we post are going to get us an extension any faster. My intention is not to get personal with anybody who I have a major thing in common with. We ALL want the same thing. A job or an additional UI extension. I’m very stressed due to financial matters as we all are, but added to that is a family health issue which makes the stress worse, as I’ve been educated a little more about the current health care system, particularly for seniors, which some people want to keep and not reform.(That’s another issue which we disagree on). Either way, please let’s stop the back and forth and concentrate on Unemployment Insurance matters and not give political speeches or bash a President who the Majority elected despite him not yet delivering all the promises he made in a little over a year when the last Pres had 8 years. You can blame Obama if you want, but I choose not to forget how the numerous problems started and how long it took to get to this mess, and under who I lost my job, health insurance, and how much the premiums skyrocketed when I did have. You should know that in the workplace discussing politics or religion is a no-no. Let’s TRY and practice that same thing here. You’re opinions and articles which everybody might not agree with(or mine) will only invite replies to the contrary. Please let’s stop? Good comment Bill(post#23), and I think you’re quite right. Thanks Sherri for keeping on topic, whatever is left of it, as we’re running out of time fast.
I haven’t been here in months, and I see nothing has changed..
It’s the Republicans fault, no it’s the Democrats fault.. No it’s the Republicans fault, no it’s the Democrats fault. And on and on. Wake up people, it’s BOTH parties fault. It has been for 15+ years now.
No wonder we can’t get anything done in this country.
Bill – you are correct. Both parties are at fault that we are in the mess we are in. Altho I do think there are a handful that really do try to do the right thing for the right reasons and for the right people, but the majority rules and the majority are *ssholes.. (of both parties).
I asked sincerely to stop the political comments but some people just can’t help themselves, and I must respond in kind. Bill, you always were a voice of reason when you posted some time ago regarding economics, but to come back out of nowhere and say the forum hasn’t changed and then go right into your opinion which of course you think is right, that BOTH parties are at fault is in of itself an example of why this forum doesn’t change. Comments like your most recent one cry out for a retort. How is President Obama and/or the Democratic Party at fault for the loss of 8 million jobs during the two-term Presidency of George W. Bush? If memory serves me correct, there was JOB GROWTH when Bill Clinton was President, not to mention the surplus he left for George W to screw up! Now, if you’re talking about other issues, you may have some points, but being this forum is supposed to be about unemployment extensions, jobs, or lack of, I can’t see how the Democratic Party can be blamed for the highest job loss since Herbert Hoover. I also don’t see the Democrats unanimously voting NO on bills that would help people who are unemployed due to the 8 years of failed economic polices, which included tax cuts for the wealthy which were supposed to create more jobs but instead, look where WE are here on this forum? I still have yet to see a Republican idea on how to create jobs, or a sponsored bill to help the unemployed or ANYBODY in need, as they have always been the party for the wealthy. You might say both parties have been, but that is just not true. There are lobbyists on both sides, but the Democratic Party has been responsible for nearly every social program(ie: Social Security, Medicare) that helps working people and senior citizens. True, some of the programs are flawed, but the Republicans don’t give a damn about the middle class, and that my friend has been historically proven to be a fact, going back to Ronald Reagan who also thought the unemployed were lazy and would rather stay on extended benefits than work. Why won’t the Republicans let us know THEIR plan to fix the economy and create jobs BEFORE the November elections? I’ll tell you. They have no plan.
Sherrie (post 23) – post 38 among others were deleted by the moderator because it was inappropriate… some troll.
Paul: A couple of problems with Americans is we have short memories AND we are a very ‘what have you done for me lately’ people.
And with all due respect you are exhibiting both when you say things like there was a surplus under Clinton and things were rosy under Clinton. DON’T get me wrong, I like Bill Clinton.. Always did, even voted for him. But that ‘surplus’ was pretty much smoke and mirrors , AND some, not all of , of the blame for Wall Street’s meltdown was because of people like Larry Summers, and Robert Rubin, and Clinton signing the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999. BTW that act was a REPUBLICAN sponsored bill, but a Democrat signed it into law.. One of the many, MANY reasons I constantly blame BOTH parties for this mess.
And Democrats like Summers and Rubin pushed to get it passed.. BTW you may want to Google those 2 names and see what their doing now, I’m sure it will surprise you..
Then you add in other things BOTH parties pushed for, like artificially low interest rates, pushing for people who in NO way could afford a house to buy a house, easy credit and easy money..After we add it all up it means there was going to be another bubble, and then of course when you have a bubble you have a crash. Which is what we had in 2007/2008..
Yes trickle down no longer works and the Republicans are idiots to continually push for it, it’s time has passed.. And they are being obstructionists, all they are worried about is the Nov. 2010 and Nov. 2012 elections. They don’t have a plan to fix things, until the Nov. elections they don’t want things to get fixed.
But don’t kid yourself thinking the Dem are looking out for the middle class.. Their love affair with Wall Street and big corporations prove the Dems don’t care about the middle class.. WS and the Corps are killing the MC.. The Dems are looking out for themselves, WS, their money and their lobbyists!!
And on that note I’ll bid you Adieu..
Why a Civil Society Extends Unemployment Benefits
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/why-a-civil-society-exten_b_701131.html
“Harvard Professor Robert Barro, who opined in today’s Wall Street Journal that America’s high rate of long-term unemployment is the consequence rather than the cause of today’s extended unemployment insurance benefits.”
“Yet moral hazard lurks in every conservative brain. It’s also true that if we got rid of lifeguards and let more swimmers drown, fewer people would venture into the water. And if we got rid of fire departments and more houses burnt to the ground, fewer people would use stoves. A civil society is not based on the principle of tough love.”
Here’s a imperational article and if it doesn’t serve as a motivator for folks to get off their butts then nothing will. We can do this but everybody needs to participate. S3706 very soon AND Rally in D.C. on 10/2.. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/31/99er-goes-to-washington-u_n_700651.html
IMO: I don’t think ANYONE is giving kudos to one political side or the other because they BOTH have dirty hands as we know and I saw it repeatedly said which I totally agree on is: “Lesser of TWO evils = the Democrats”. I have and will vote but as a registered Independent it will NOT be for a Republican after the way they spent when they were the majority in both houses under Bush & the Bush tenure itself was a disaster PLUS we have for 2 years seen the Republicans make light of the blight of the unemployed in this country as if it were a GAME and this is our lives i.e. GW in IL who died of a stroke AND AL (Alex) who shot himself! Any 99er should remember the fiasco with HR 3548 when the last straw was the Republican Senators throwing in a amendment to HR 3548 to stop funding to ACORN???? This had absolutely nothing to do with unemployment but just another of many tactics to delay HR 3548. So while we can bicker about the Dems and the Repubs, I will NOT vote Republican who have said to our face they care less than a damn about us. We all saw how hard they WORK for the Insurance companies last year because of the MILLIONS & MILLIONS of dollars that were paid to lobbyists and funneled down to them to stop the HC Bill at all cost. The Stimulus package is keeping many states from going bankrupt and holding on to Jobs that would have been eliminated and again the Republicans know that but their CASH-COW is gone and they want it back! Middle-Class?? What the hell is that!
According to the Senate’s Calendar, they will be back on Monday, September 13th.
However, the Senate’s Calendar also states they are going to tentatively recess from Monday, October 10th to Friday, November 12th.
http://democrats.senate.gov/calendar/2010-10.html
“Big money-and the politicians who are swayed by it-play both parties against each other, using false battle to distract most of us from the real war, which is a war against the American family.”
Pg. 3 Killer Politics by Ed Schultz
I don’t think there is a ‘war’ against the American family.
But the little guy is on the back burner. Big money has taken over politics, and the little guy just doesn’t have big money to influence the politicians.. So we lose out.
From what I understand, the voters in Nevada can officially document “no candidate” on the upcoming Senate race featuring Reid and Angle. Imagine if that was allowable on a national level.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/us/01jobs.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=Michael%20Luo&st=cse
“After suffering through the worst economic disaster most have ever experienced,” Van Horn said in a statement, “American workers have diminished expectations about America’s economic future and do not have much faith that the nation’s political leaders can move the country forward.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/01/poll-joblessness-affects-_n_702031.html
Good article in the Economist.. Worth the read..
Joblessness in America
A stickier problem
America’s jobs woes cannot be cured just by waiting for economic recovery..
Aug 26th 2010
http://www.economist.com/node/16888999
Paul – post #25 and #28 – You are a little off your rocker if you think nobody is going to talk politics on this site. The entire unemployment crises is ALL about politics!! Lets just all agree to disagree and KEEP THE PEACE. Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion – nobody HAS to agree with each other but at least give one the respect of having their own opinion. Until the Reps and Dems get their *sses back to work, we should be free to discuss whatever we want on this site (within reason) since everything is pretty much at a standstill until the BIGWIGS are back in town! Politics, upcoming elections, economy, monthly reports, the guy next door who just lost his job, car sales, housing, bankruptcies, foreclosures, etc…. its ALL relevant.
tjs(Post#3 & Post#41), I guess after reading your Post#3 and seeing you write that you don’t read past the first sentence on a longer than two sentence comment, I figured you were referring to me. Maybe I was wrong, as I see other comments on here that are fairly long as well, and I still read them. I know I’m off my rocker to even entertain a debate that questions whether the Democratic Party has always been the party of the Middle Class. With all due respect to Bill and dare I say Otto, I don’t need to google everything to be able to make a statement which is fairly factual. This is not an economics class. I’ve lived long enough to see the fundamental difference between the two major parties, and I didn’t ever imply that I thought the Dems were never without fault or perfect in any way. I did write several times that most every piece of legislation favoring the middle class as opposed to the wealthiest Americans, had been proposed and passed by Democrats. As far as Unemployment Insurance, which this forum is supposed to be about, the bottom line, is the Republican Party as a whole votes against extensions, and the Democratic Party sponsors every single bill pertaining to extensions. I don’t mind writing about politics tjs, but I think I used the perfect analogy when I wrote that disussing politics and religion in the workplace and in real life can only lead to arguments and division. Since we are all united in trying to get a job, or at the very least, an additional extension of UI benefits, I just thought it would be more constructive and save space on each page of this forum if we stuck to what we all have most in common. Yes, it’s informative to read articles posted from major new sources regarding our economy, and I’ve posted links to the great Ed Show myself, but I’m trying so hard to stay as close on topic as possible. The same person who quotes Ed Schultz’s book constantly posts negative material about the current President, which makes me wonder. I wonder if that person ever watches the nightly Ed Show or listens to Ed’s radio show. Ed Schultz is a Progressive, and though he might criticize the Democratic Party for being spine-less and Obama for being weak, he clearly favors the Democratic Party out of the two, and every night speaks of how the Republican Party policies have already or continue to destroy the Middle Class. I’ve never heard him say that about the Democratic Party. Only that they should show some guts and should have rammed the policies through that the people elected Obama to enact, including real Health Care Reform, and not the watered down version, though it’s a start. Obama should have done just as George W did, who despite much opposition on various issues, went ahead and got his agenda signed, sealed and delivered, including convincing the Congress and American people that Iraq was involved in 9/11 and had WMD’s, which was the reason it was necessary for thousands of Americans to go over there to get killed, while billions of dollars were spent that might have been spent to build up our own failing economy. I also don’t remember hearing that Osama Bin Ladin was captured or killed, though I thought I saw him driving a cab in the city the other day. That was a major promise that was never kept, yet Bush somehow got elected twice! To me, Obama was naive in thinking he could work with the Republican Minority on ANYTHING, and now they might become the Majority in November, God help us. Maybe then people who have very short memories will take their Aricept and possibly remember what just happened and who was in charge when we all lost our jobs, without having to google it. I comment on the basis of what I’ve seen happen in my fairly long lifetime, and I don’t always need to google it, unless I’m being tested for a grade or a job. I’m not an expert like some on this board who think they are, but I know what I’ve seen. As far as an UI extension, I’m sure if it never happens, it will be because of Republican obstuctionism and philosophy which even leaks into a the Conservative portion of the Democratic Party. Hope you were able or willing to read past the first sentence. Or just skipped over it. As you say, we should all be entitled to our opinion, but all I wrote was that we should use what we have in common and try to do something about it, or at least help each other instead of arguing who’s fault everything is. Even though many of us know it’s always been the Republican’s.
Tools you can use to urge Congress to help the 99ers
http://helpthe99ers.blogspot.com/p/act.html
Paul: I asked you to Google Summers and Rubin because a) most people do not know who they are and…b) you kept writing over and over the Democrats had nothing to do with the crash and loss of jobs.. So I thought you didn’t know who Summers and Rubin were and their role in the crash.
Wall Street and the big Corporations rule BOTH parties now. Yes the Republicans don’t hide the fact they are hookers for big business. Anyone who’s been paying attention knows the Republican party isn’t anything resembling the party of Eisenhower. I can’t think of a single Republican now a days that I would want to be POTUS..
But don’t give the Democrats a pass either.. They are bought and paid for too. They just try to hide that fact more than the Republicans do.
Paul – Yes, I was referring to you on the lengthy posts but I did not say that I do not read ALL lengthy posts – what I said was that I do not read the ones that go on and on and on and repeat themselves over and over and over like post #42 – It is just too time consuming and I do not need to drain my brain on your every word. I can easily give it a quick skim to get the idea of what you are trying to say – I will try to set an example and practice what I preach and agree to disagree with some of what you say – altho not all. For what its worth, I happen to agree with your take on the Republican party – and I also like and support Obama altho the Dems certainly do not deserve a pat on the back – they could and should be doing much more for the middle class. Just a suggestion, but I would not waste any more of your time trying to make others see things thru your eyes. That was my point in post #41 which I think you missed. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.. beating your head against the wall trying to make others see things as you do is a full time job that doesnt pay very well……….
Regardless, have a nice day.
http://www.examiner.com/unemployment-in-rochester/99ers-hoping-for-tier-5-will-choose-between-maybe-and-no-november-99er-connie-kaplan-stands-tall
According to today’s NY Times, Bush and Clinton are golf partners. Last week the NY Times had a photo of Obama and Bloomberg in a golf cart during Barack’s vacation where he rented a home owned by a Republican donor. In my neighborhood the local Dems are throwing daggers at each other in pursuit of party nomination. Let’s face it, it’s all about $$$ and power. Politics has evolved into a big spectator sport. No wonder Linda McMahon of wresting fame wants to enter politics. Let’s stop sipping their kool-aid. It’s time to smell the coffee!!!
Otto – you are correct. Its all about $ and power and who is in whos pocket. Sad but true.
I will be glad when I get used to this new CAPTCHA Code so I dont have to keep retyping my comments.. grrr.
I am going to the hospital to visit my mother who has to deal with the current health care system, which IMHO is F-d up! Bill, you’re probably right that the Wall Street crash involved both major parties. All I’m saying is that for the purpose of moving forward and praying for an additional UI extension, is that our only hope is the Democatic Party. I never meant to imply that both parties are without blame for the meltdown. This forum is supposed to be about UI extensions, and in that regard, it’s the Republican Party who thinks we’re lazy and who votes NO on everything related to our common cause. I totally respect your knowledge about the past, though I have little time to research. Please accept my willingness to stop the debate on who was to blame for the meltdown. I am focusing on either a Jobs Bill, which would enable small busineses to get loans, and could create jobs, but has been delayed/obstructed by the Republican Party, and an addiional UI extension, where Republicans will vote NO on. As far as golf partners, are Bush and Obama golf partners? I don’t thinl so. And, what significance is it? Clinton and Bush also work together on advocating on help for AIDS in Africa. People can play golf together, but that doesn’t mean they disagree on policies. Dan Carville and Mary Matalin are MARRIED, yet they can agree to disagree so why can’t we stop this? UI EXTENSION – TIER V TO SURVIVE! I will not be back until late tonight, so please keep the peace.
We live in a pluralistic society that spills over to the unemployed population as well.We have those that are party loyalists and those that like their politics a la carte. In order to make our lives more user friendly we should just agree to disagree. If you don’t conur with a posting, you are not obligated to read it or even respond to it. It makes more sense to focus on our personal and family obligations than to try and change other’s view on things that most likely are a culmination of their life’s experiences. That said, we all need jobs!!
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