Compromise on unemployment extension held up in U.S. Senate

Why is the Goverment still Compromising on which states and how much money they deserve...WE ALL NEED IT RIGHT NOW!!!!! THEY HAVE A JOB, THEY ARE NOT WORRYING ABOUT BUYING FOOD FOR THE KIDS, PAYING RENT OR MORTGAGE....PLEASE PASS THE BILL AND START SENDING MONEY OUR WAY...

G.D. Republican basterds

Everyone in our position should contact senator kyl at -http://kyl.senate.gov/

your just a lazy bum and want a free ride, go get a job at the golden arches and quit blaming the politicians. now go ram a jack handle up your buttocks.

To Conservative895,
Go suck a d!ck you fckin prick, how dare you tell comment on what the hell someone should do, there are no jobs out there, you stupid piece of crap, SOB, the golden arches do not hire people with a bachelor degree, STFU dumb fck!

the majority of the people on unemployment are trying to find work and just cannot.

I am a collage grad and I cannot even get a job at a fastfood resturant. If you any jobs for us let us know and we will go to work..

Most of us send 10-15 resumes a week and still nothing.

That is not a nice thing to say! There are thousands of people out here looking for work. You better hope and pray that you don't find yourself unemployed, you shouldn't talk unless you want to walk in their shoes.

If there were any JOBS including the golden arches I would work, they are not hiring, you sound like a real JACKASS, I pray that one day you are in the same boat as the others that are unemployed due to assholes like you. You are probably already sitting on the jackhandle and enjoying it.

It is not the Republicans that is stopping it is the Senate, your Democrats, we would have had it if they voted as fast as the repubicans

chec the republican senators vote

I agree, I am a republican but I have also run out of my unemployment and getting ready to loose everything. I don't understand why they are dragging their feet, obviously they don't care because they have their income. We elect them and when they get their election they forget how they got there.. I am afraid that me and my daughter will be on the streets in a few weeks... Thanks GOP

Perhaps you should consider voting for someone that doesn't hate government.

I think that they should publish all the names of the people that voted against it and I could bet you they will not get re-elected to another term. I surly would not vote for them. They all have big paychecks and care little about us little guys.

You got it right. They make HUGE Salaries. They don't have to worrie about feeding their kids, or making a car payment on time, paying their gas and light. It was said on the news last night that any one behind on their water will have it turned off Nov. 2 Please give me a break. I have been at my job for 11 years the most I make a month is 1500.00. thats sad...You pay your bills then have no money to buy food. or you buy food and you won't have no way to cook it....So no matter what you do we get it coming and going....And their pockets get bigger and bigger. Take their money away from them and then see what happens..You know what is really crazy I applied for food stamps...They said I make way to much money....LOL So Sad this Country is Nothing has changed at all since new President. He just wins prizes....

check with bush remember the last president, he is the one the country should be mad at not obama he cant not change the world in the short time he has been in office remember he has a 4 year term God is the judge.

Thank you, Thats what I've been saying. What about the ones whos unemployment has already ran out!!!!!!!!!!! I'm about to have Electricity, Water and Gas shut off next week, But hay they still have there job so let think on it a while longer!!!!

That's right Scorpio!!! I have 2 kids and one on the way, we need groceries and to pay our utilities. Those folks have luxaries that we don't, while they sit there and deliberate trying to decide. WE NEED IT NOW!!!!

I PRAY FOR EVERYONE NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE THAT WE ALL FIND WORK WITH GOOD PAY AND BENEFITS SADLY MANY OF THE LARGE CORPORATIONS LIKE =AMERICA ON LINE, VERIZON, BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD, HUMANA, UNITED HEALTHCARE, ETC ENJOY THE U.S. TAX REDUCTIONS, BUT HIRE THEIR EMPLOYEES OUTSIDE OF UNITED STATES, THESE SO CALLED AMERICAN COMPANIES HAVE PEOOPLE ANSWER THE TELEPHONES IN BOMBAY INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA, MANILLA PHILLIPINES, MONTEGO BAY, ARGENTINA. NO WONDER PEOPLE CANT FIND WORK, AND UNEMPLOYMENT IS SO HIGH. WHAT ASSHOLES ALLOWED THIS? ANYONE WHO IS FORTUNATE TO KEEP THEIR JOBS CANT GET A COST OF LIVING RAISE. EXTENDIING UNEMPLOYMENT IS GREATLY NEEDED BUT WE NEED COMPANIES TO GIVE BACK JOBS TO THE AMERICANS WE SHOULD NOT BE ASKED IF WE ARE BLACK OR WHITE OR IF WE SPEAK SPANISH OR IF WE ARE HISPANIC, THOSE QUESTIONS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING QUALIFIED. PLEASE EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT AND GIVE BACK PRIDEE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE... ESTABLISH GOOD PAYING JOBS WITH NEED HEALTH BENEFITS RETIREMENT PROGRAMS........TELL THE ILLEGAL ALIENS TO GO HOME WHERE THEY CAME FROM

They have to pass this bill today. LEts go. I ran out of benefits..I live in a state that has 8.2 unemployment rate so this bill must go to every state. I have no money, barely any food. I save all my food for my kids and I starve myself. I need this money badly and I needed it last week. My Cable, phone and internet is getting shut off on tuesday. I am waiting to hear back on a job and I am afraid I am going to miss the call or email for an interview. LETS GOOOOO

please go to your local family services and get yourself some foodstamps. I had to do it and although my bills are not paid, my car may get repo'd, my credit may never get repaired... My family eats well... daily! I too am hoping and praying for an extension but in the meantime.. I eat.. please do the same..

Yes, please go.. It's hard when you work so hard for so many years providing for your family and it comes to this. I am also going to lay down my pride and try to get some help because I have a daughter to feed, They have to get this extension passed, we all are hurting.

I to had to go for help, I got the food stamps, so my children are eating.... But like us all thats not paying the bills. I applied for cash help as well, at the first of the month and they gave me an appointment for the 20th, can you believe that....... I will be with no electricity, gas, water, phone before that and possibly on the street..... The Government needs to step up and sign!!! Quit wasting time......

I have gone twice and been turned down because $387.00 per week before taxes is too high to qualify for DHS assistance. Now my unemployment has run out so I can apply again, but by the time that make a decision on government assistance, the extension will go through and i will no longer qulify before i even get the first food stamp. I would like to know who ran the numbers to tell americanss as a whole how much money is too much to qualify. Some people have rent for a few hundred, some have mtgs for a couple thousand, how can they have a set number based on income vs. cost of housing? My children have medical bills, we have utilities, car payments, food, gas, etc. etc. etc. but they looked me right in the eyes and said it does not matter because my unemployment is more than half of my housing cost. Ya, $48.00 more. I am going to lose everything and with over 15% jobless rate here in michigan, for every mcdonald's job there are 200 people applying. there are NO jobs, and there are, they can hire someone with a masters for the same rate of pay as someone with a ged, and the people with the masters are so desperate they are taking low paying jobs. I cant say i blame them, but for those of us with bachelor's or less we might as well pan handle if we are up against that kind of competition.

I totally understand what you are saying and I can relate. The only thing I can suggest is that you go down and apply for foodstamps again.. before the extension goes through. As long as you have that last stub that shows that you are no longer receiving benefits they should process you. I went in between extensions and I did not lie.. I had no job and no income. I was given $526 in foodstamps as well as medicaid for myself, my husband and most importantly my son. It does not help out my financial situation - they are still threatening to repo my car and I fight to keep the lights and water on every month but at least we are fed. Its a sad sad situation that we are all experiencing but this too shall pass. Tough times dont last. - tough people do! Lets support each other - those who are not in our situations do not understand. Look up Must ministries. I dont know if they are in your area but they are helping us with our rent this month. There are many charities and organizations that can help - its just like a full time job to find them but dont give up.. Failure is not an option. We cant just ball up and die! Push on.. I will pray for all of you

thank you, it is nice to feel that i am not alone. even though i know there are tens of thousands of us, it is just a number. having someone respond that is in the same situation makes it a reality, not a number. i will keep you and your family in my prayers as well. what is your name if you do not mind me asking?

miranda

I think one of the provisions of the new extension is that you may also receive food stamps while receiving the UI assistance

The trouble is Congress passed it and the Senate did not want to be out done so they stopped it changed it and now vote on it, send it back to Congress and they have to vote and when they quit having a pissing contest and finally agree then the president has to sign it, as long as he stays in washington for awhile for that to happen.

If we get it before the end of october.

Yes, our benefits ran out last month and we have a double electric bill we can't pay, and 4 kids! I work full time but it is just not enough without my husband working like he was!

I'm a Florida resident,in a county where unemployment is 15 percent. I'm going on 60 years old, spent my life in residential construction, which has become a dinosaur, and my benefits ended on Sept. 8th. I tried to apply for a grant, in which the State of Florida is dragging it's feet, to help me meet the start date of the class I need to attend to retrain myself.
Everyone has bills, maybe the government would just prefer for people like myself to die, so that benefits wouldn't have to be paid. I'm doing everything possible to get a job, but at 60, descrimination does exist, only very quietly. Come on congress, you work for us!

I have worked continously for over 40 years until this "recession". My husband is a Vietnam vet with a purple heart. I have sought employment daily since I was laid off without success. We cannot pay our bills. We are in dire need of this extension.

Once again, Congress has demonstrated how out of touch they are. Stop dragging your feet and remember the people that have elected you.

DO YOU THINK THEY CARE ABOUT US NO AS LONG AS THER RED WHITE AND BLUE ASS IS HAPPY THAT IS FINE. BUT THINK ABOUT IT THERE JUST TROYING TO SEE HOW FAR THEY CAN PUSH SOMEBODY WITH STRESS. LIKE STARVATION OR HOMLESS BEFORE THEY GO OVER THE EDGE. IF YOU TRID TO LOOK AT THINGS FROM THERE POINT OF VIEW PLEASE FOR GOD SAKE DON'T BREAK YOUR NECK TRYING TO GET YOUR HEADTHAT FAR UP YOUR ASS.

Good On!!!! It is all about them. I see now that I am older that they try everything else first. Like health insurance I have great Health insurance that is why I stay at my job that only pays me 1500.00 a month. I have been in Pain for 3 years all they do is try different things on me before they do the right thing and thats only because they want the other places in the Medical world to make money first. Well I beat them to the punch I stopped every thing they were doing to me all the meds all the appointments and I actually feel better They are not making no more money off of me.

what i dont understand is they keep saying people will run out of there benefits by the end of the year. Dont they realize that a lot of us have already exhausted our benefits. Maybe they think everyone is still collecting benefits and they have until the end of the year. My benefits ran out early september.

Thank you.

I too ran out of benifits in early Sep. Here in IL our rate is at 10%.So tipical for them to take too long and have a big debate before actually DOING ANYTHING.They knew this was gonna happen and they see the numbers,yet they wait till it's too late.So by the time we actually get the extention and get back on our feet we'll run out of benifits again.SAD

Jon Kyl looks at us like we are live stock on his ranch. Do I move them(out of work people) to the south 40 where the grass is greener or do I let them go hungry for a little longer and save the good grass for my classier stock(bank buddies). If the people in Arizona vote him back into office they deserve what the get.

How amazing it would have been if the stimulus would have been to the people. Give every adult over 18 $100,000..this would have REALLY stimulated the economy. Bills paid, home purchased, fewer foreclosures (maybe none), employment waaaaaaaay down. Everything would have continued to MOVE. Maybe regulating some of the "loan sharks" would have stopped the practice of the current successful crooks in current business and government.
I guess the problem with that thought is the crooks, wall street and financial "wizards," would have missed out on bonuses, salary increases and their continued unearned security and health benefits. They may have lost their jobs due to indecency, illegal practice and poor performance or they may have thrived due to everyone having a way to continue living like a human. How little common sense it takes to run a country, a business, a home; how pathetic it is that WE continue to let the government, the lobbyist, the crooks, the corrupt decide how we will live. Thank GOD I am old enough I do not have to continue watching this nightmare for much longer. Old age does have it's plusses.

actually I came up with a simular plan..I pasted it below for your review...This would greatly help people and the economy. Let me know what you think.

[Recession Fix]
There is roughly 307,648,896 people in the US. We have already spent around 800 million or close to a billion dollars and the recession is still going on. Instead of spending money on programs…give the money to the people and let them spend it.

Let’s look at the population as 400 million for simplicity. (rounded up). If we were to give money for those residence in the USA that are 35 years or older I am sure the 400 million people would be a lot less but let’s stick with 400 million for argument sake. Realistically the population of 35 and older probably is more around 250,000 making this program cost around 500 million.

Give everyone 35 years or older 2 million dollars. (married couples still only get 2 million regardless of how many kids). You have just 2 million dollars I spent 800 million tax payers dollars this recession and consumer spending is way down. If you give people will tell you the 1st thing they will do. Buy a new car, a new home, new cloths etc. This saves the car manufacturers, home sales increase, retail sales go way up etc. Those people that are older will retire from their positions opening many new jobs for those that are under 35. This empowers the people to take their younger children and now they can afford to send them to college to get an education for the future of the USA.

[ghettos]
For argument sake let’s say there are 100K people living in the ghetto and cannot get out. This removes all of them. Out of those 100,000 people, 200 will spend wisely and send their children to college and never return. Many others will blow all the money and in a matter of time will end up right back where they left however, you just saved 200 out of 1K and gave everyone a fair shot to do the right thing. If they chose not to do the right thing and blow the money…well right back you go.

[Money to the government for recovery to pay for this]
Since many people will be placing the money in government grants, bank accounts money will continue to flow back to the government. There is tax on any purchase and trust me….people will be buying a lot of things so the tax dollars will flow. (flat tax maybe best suited here). More money will flood the stock market which in turn will translate into a lot of tax dollars in capital gains alone. Companies like Citicorp stocks will rise and saving these companies from disaster.
Since everyone over 35 will have money…unemployment claims and welfare claims will be nonexistent for at least a year or 2. This alone would save the government about 500 million dollars. This program just paid for itself with money to spare.

[Job market]
Since many individuals will retire there will be more jobs than people looking for jobs so unemployment should be nonexistent for a while. There will be plenty of jobs for those that are under 35 years old. Since many of these “under 35” individuals will have parents and family members that received the 2 million dollars…I am sure they will help them out whether it’s through education or letting them catch up on bills while they get a good job since so many jobs will be available. For those people who handle their money correctly they can create trust funds etc for the younger generation of their family.

Healthcare will still need some reform but the money saved from welfare/unemployment/tax dollars from spending will almost pay for a healthcare reform itself. All the spending will clearly add tax dollars to plan for the future for the people who ran out of money and didn’t plan properly.

This will give all Americans a fair chance at financial security. CNN should run specials on “how to manage your money” and “trust funds” for those who never had money before. Also they should utilize a “financial planner” or an accountant to assist. Most people will have plenty of money to hire someone to help them out if needed. There will be those who blow the money and will end up right back but that will be there fault and the government gave them the opportunity to do the right thing and they failed. Others should prosper very well and live a financially secured life not just for themselves but plan ahead for future generations.

Personally I like the idea

You really need help with your math. 800 BILLION, close to a TRILLION. You are off by three orders of magnitude, or 1000X.

As far as passing out this much money, do you have any idea what kind of inflation this would cause? You think the housing bubble was bad? That was caused by making it too easy to get huge sums of money. Doing something even remotely close to this would permanently collapse the economy. You might as well start spending money from monopoly, because it would be worth more that dollars at that point.


YOU are responsible for your OWN DESTINY. Stop being a slave to the system and thinking that someone is just going to hand you things on a silver platter. Become a master of your own destiny. Find a need and fill it. Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Many very successful people have started with nothing. Many have failed, but they kept trying.

This is from the Oct. 1950 Reader’s Digest on page 32"

“In our friendly neighbor city of St. Augustine great flocks of sea gulls are starving amid plenty. Fishing is still good, but the gulls don’t know how to fish. For generations they have depended on the shrimp fleet to toss them scraps from the nets. Now the fleet has moved. …

“The shrimpers had created a Welfare State for the … sea gulls. The big birds never bothered to learn how to fish for themselves and they never taught their children to fish. Instead they led their little ones to the shrimp nets.

“Now the sea gulls, the fine free birds that almost symbolize liberty itself, are starving to death because they gave in to the ‘something for nothing’ lure! They sacrificed their independence for a handout.

“A lot of people are like that, too. They see nothing wrong in picking delectable scraps from the tax nets of the U.S. Government’s ‘shrimp fleet.’ But what will happen when the Government runs out of goods? What about our children of generations to come?

STOP FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF AND DO SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF! I'm sorry if this sounds insensitive, but we are turning into a slave nation.

nana.. at $100k per adult your 'solution' would cost over 25 TRIILLION dollars. Where, pray tell, would this money come from? This idea is not new - every second grade child thinks of it on the way to maturity. And that is where the idea remains.

I ran out of unemployment the 1st week of September over a month ago.
I am out of funds have a wife and 3 kid's to worry about and 1 person can determine how
long we have to wait to get food on are table.When it does past after all the politics that were
involved we will have to still wait 2 3 week's before seeing a check.GET IT PASSED PLEASE

my husbands unemployment ran out early september. I am on disablity and thats not enough to live off from. My husband has been out of work since august of 06 when his company moved out the U.S. He has been putting in resume after resume and still nothing! When is it all going to end? The congress doesnt care about any of it they dont realize that their are families who have lost all their benefits and are ready to lose their houses. I wonder how the hell these people can sleep at night! PASS THE DAMN BILL SO WE CAN KEEP OUR HOMES AND FEED OUR KIDS!

My patience is wearing thin, much like my bank account. I have been unemployed for 22 monthes and I am not receiving any benefits. We are a family of four and I have going to the local food bank to try and help keep food on the table. This was the first time in my life that I had collected unemployment. Politicians who continue to drag their feet on this extension should try walking in our shoes. Being challenged on providing basic needs for one's family is not something that needs some "additional time" to look the Bill over so we can add amendments to it. We need it now! Have a little compassion and do something for your fellow Americans. Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.

You can send Senator Kyle a personal message:

http://kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm

I lost my job Mar 08 I was a VP of Commercial Lending, I have 5 children and a single mom, I have lost my home, my car was repossessed and I just received my last unemployment benefit. I can barely pay the electric and gas payments and have enough for food. This is ridiculous. I payed taxes my whole working life, I have applied to about 80 jobs since the summer of 08, nothing, nada. I have done everything the right way my whole life, raised my children put them in good schools and all the hard work for what!!! to be hungry at 47 yrs old. I am facing homelessness in a very short period of time. The citizens of this country that are unemployed need direct help from the government. The gap is only going to get larger, this crisis is only going to get worse. Something must be done NOW

Well, I do think it requires SOME time. Not saying that it should, but just think if they'd rushed it thru the first time, only about half our states would be receiving anything.

What they should've done is looked at a couple numbers, realized instantly it's still a dire situation, and given as much as they can to everyone up front so that there wouldn't appear to be a need for amendments.

Almost a trillion dollar bailout and people are still getting 6 and 7 figure salaries and bonuses, and they're spending time trying to figure out a way to include certain states and certain time-frames that only help out a percentage to keep food on their table. Sometimes socialism sounds pretty good, lol.

Dear Sir,

I am writing out of frustration. I am a 44 year old man with almost 20 year's experience in retail auto management. In July 2007 I was cut loose from the dealership where I was working due to a drastic slowdown in sales. I qualified for a retraining program sponsored by my state, and attended (and graduated) college with an Associates degree. My unemployment benefits are currently exhausted. I have applied at well over 200 places this summer alone, only to find I am either overqualified, unqualified, or the prospective employer doesn't believe the experience I gained in the auto business counts for anything in the "real world". (Don't tell me there are jobs everywhere: I applied at a gas station to be a cashier - just to earn SOMETHING - was told by the regional manager that he wouldn't hire me because I was too "high end" for him, and after him spending the time and effort to train me, I would just leave soon anyway.)

Fortunately, due to some sound financial planning by my parents, I do have a place to live. I don't however, have any means to fulfill my meager financial obligations unless this extension passes. My only hope for the near future was the proposed extension. That has now been delayed further.

I know I am not one of your constituents, and this will probably fall on deaf ears. I just wanted to thank you personally.

Me

Kyl is my Senator, along with John McCain. I've written to both of them repeatedly about this, begging that they make it a priority to pass it immediately. Not only have they not done so, neither of them has had the decency to even respond to my continued contacts.

Same thing here in Vermont. I have written to my representatives many times in the last few months. They never respond. My unemployment benefits run out in one week and I have been looking for work for over a year.

I live in Flint MI, have a family 2 kids 9 and 12 and my benefits ran out 1st week of Sept. I am trying to do everything to stop my house from being foreclosed on, but there doesn't seem to be any programs that I qualify for because my mortgage isn't backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie mac. I am still waiting to get food stamps that I applied for over a month ago, but they are just as slow as our government. I have an idea for all governments Local, State, and Federal. Lets put all of them on unemployment and food stamps and let it run out on them. And then we can balk and debate for a month to see if we will extend their benefits. Let their homes get foreclosed on and let them starve and not be able to sleep at night because of stress. We are all sick of the way government runs and I think if things don't change soon we will see another Civil War happen. People aren't going to take much more, millions of people have already lost everything what else do they have to lose. We have seen this kind of thing happen in other countries where the people are sick of corrupt govt. and they overthrow their govt. We are close to doing the same if things keep going the way they are. Govt officials not paying taxes, eating well getting fat while we struggle and starve, and a lot of them breaking every law that we're supposed to follow and they don't get in trouble or maybe they get a slap on the hand. People I know you hear me and agree with me; so lets stand up to the government, lets stand up for what's right. Not what the government says is right but what WE THE PEOPLE know is right. We can do this, we can make them do what they are supposed to do and that is work for us. There is more of us than them. We put them there and we can remove them to. Lets clean house and get them all out and start fresh.

I have been thinking the same thing all along. I thought people just didn't care, but the internet is a great way to connect to the community of people that think the same.

You are 100% Correct. We all should start a Movement to Recall of these FAT Cats that call themselves Representatives of Ours. If they Can Send 7.5 Billion Dollars to Pakistan over the Next 5 years, which are our Tax Dollars; why Can't they Pass a Bill to extend Benefits to Americans that will be far less Costly than the Money sent to Pakistan. These are Our hard earned Taxed Dollars. Voters Wake Up!!

Please Please Help Us....I am so afraid for my family. By God's grace we are barley getting by....but how long before it will be too late.

republcan policy got us into this economic mess,and they still don't get the message. Pass the bill w/o them.Who cares if they cry foul.They made alot of good people cry.

30 years of government intervention in the money supply caused by deficit spending and artificially low interest rates, IS WHAT GOT US HERE ! Bubble after bubble, like wave after wave.. until the last wave (RE Bubble) went out a mile and came back as a tsunami. Both Democrats and republicans have spent us silly; including Clinton, who used SS surplusses to cover it up. Our current party systen is a two-headed monster that doesn't know whether to chit or go blind. So they will do both.

I was employed with my employer for 9 years until they decided to downsize. I have never been out of work and only collected unemployment the few weeks out of the year that the plants closed down. Now I can't find a job no matter how hard I try. They keep taking their sweet time making a decision. It's funny to me how their friends in Wall Street didn't have to wait. No one even questioned passing that but this situation where hard-working people are losing their homes and can't support themselves this has to be thought out a little longer. You know they don't wanna throw away our tax money. Isn't that ironic? When it's actually to go to the people it belongs too.

What can Kyl achieve? Looks like Arizona has elected somebody with not much intelligence to represent them in the Senator. What is the unemployment rate in Arizona? Zero? Stupid!

He is a DUMB Jackass!

Sen Kyle is clearly an idiot and has never been hungry or on his last leg before...Come on people, this is horrible..Who elected people like him? He cried foul? bullshit! That guys family is living pretty nice right now so he dosnt care! There is always one in the crowd.Make sure we remember this non sence around election time for Mr Kyles case.Rich Prick!!!!!

In 2010 let's not vote for any Incumbents. If change is what we need, lets change congress from the top down. We need to get the lifers out of office.

didnt the voters just change congress from the top down in the last vote?

Is there anyway..we can send a message to that charecter?Let him know to pack his bags and get ready to exit the senate.Im not gonna forget that "cried foul"comment..

Keith_Fin said it best. I hope others will remember this as well when it comes election time.

http://kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Send him a message here. We wrote this morning asking what was for dinner?

You can send Senator Kyle a personal message:

http://kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm

You object to people getting emergency unemployment benefits cause the GOP needs time to study the bill?

Honestly, how do you sleep at night after that Mister Senator?

I just sent that message over 100 times to him.

Hello everyone I spoke to a gentlemen at Senator Reid's office he stated that it was Senator KYL that is holding up the process on behalf of the Republican he said that it will be time consuming if they add amendments to the bill because they would have to roll call vote and then take it to the floor which could take another 2weeks. The gentleman told me that we could all get together and call Senator Kyl office and ask them if they expect the same people that he is starving to vote for him in his next term. Well i have already called and the guy that answer said that is a good question no has called to say that. I told them that he is able to feed his family and he is not behind on bill looking to be thrown out of his home and he can sleep at night with no stress the guy said that was a good comments and he is going to let someone know that right away so the best thing that i can tell everyone here is to call right now and start telling them that they will not vote for him when his term comes up or the other republicans that don't want to pass the bill. I also told them to tell him to get on tv and tell everyone why is it that he is holding up the bill when they cant feed the families and pay the bills to keep a roof over the families head but he can do all these things with no problem.

I URGE YOU ALL TO CALL SENATOR KYL OFFICE 202-224-4521 and LEAVR COMMENTS they are out on MONDAY and will return on TUESDAY WHO WANTS TO CONTINUE TO STARVE THEIR FAMILIES NOT ME. I HAVE FOUR CHILDREN TO FEED

I sent senator kyle a message, probably won't do much good; but if I didn't send it, it sure wouldn't do anything at all. Maybe if he got hundreds or thousands he might just pass it. At the very least he probably doesn't like it to know this many people don't like him and don't agree with him. So here it is friends we're all on the same side here. LET HIM HAVE IT, send him a message!


http://kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Good job by the republicans and Kyle, the party of NO. Block everything Democrats propose and No ideas themselves. No unemployment extension, no heath care, why don't they say no to big business??? Remember this when you vote. I too sent Kyle a message, hope everyone else does, it is the only thing you can do. A M Rock

New Rule:
Don't screw three quarters of the country out of their homes, jobs, retirement, and health, and half the money in their wallets for gasoline, and expect to get re-elected!

Just called kyles office and left him a message urging him to pass extension. His voice mail isn't full yet so lets keep calling. 1-202-224-4521 This is his fax number. Lets send so many faxes that they pile up all over the floor and at least we can cost them a ton of money in ink. you know how much ink cartridges are. Fax 1-202-224-2207

instead of spending our money that most of us have paid the goverment over many years of our employment...its time they gave it back. See [recesssion fix] below
They have spent 700 million dollars already and a lot of us are starving waiting for this bill just so we can eat. I am lucky to have a landlord so understanding that he has allowed me to stay here even though I have not paid my rent in 4 months because my unemployment only covers the utiliies. I have exhausted my unemployment..dispite spending 8 hours a day applying to every job I can I still have not found a job. I do not eat anymore since I am saving the food from my kids...I cannot sleep at all. PASS THE BILL ALREADY. At least I can eat.


[Recession Fix]
There is roughly 307,648,896 people in the US. We have already spent around 800 million or close to a billion dollars and the recession is still going on. Instead of spending money on programs…give the money to the people and let them spend it.

Let’s look at the population as 400 million for simplicity. (rounded up). If we were to give money for those residence in the USA that are 35 years or older I am sure the 400 million people would be a lot less but let’s stick with 400 million for argument sake. Realistically the population of 35 and older probably is more around 250,000 making this program cost around 500 million.

Give everyone 35 years or older 2 million dollars. (married couples still only get 2 million regardless of how many kids). You have just 2 million dollars I spent 800 million tax payers dollars this recession and consumer spending is way down. If you give people will tell you the 1st thing they will do. Buy a new car, a new home, new cloths etc. This saves the car manufacturers, home sales increase, retail sales go way up etc. Those people that are older will retire from their positions opening many new jobs for those that are under 35. This empowers the people to take their younger children and now they can afford to send them to college to get an education for the future of the USA.

[ghettos]
For argument sake let’s say there are 100K people living in the ghetto and cannot get out. This removes all of them. Out of those 100,000 people, 200 will spend wisely and send their children to college and never return. Many others will blow all the money and in a matter of time will end up right back where they left however, you just saved 200 out of 1K and gave everyone a fair shot to do the right thing. If they chose not to do the right thing and blow the money…well right back you go.

[Money to the government for recovery to pay for this]
Since many people will be placing the money in government grants, bank accounts money will continue to flow back to the government. There is tax on any purchase and trust me….people will be buying a lot of things so the tax dollars will flow. (flat tax maybe best suited here). More money will flood the stock market which in turn will translate into a lot of tax dollars in capital gains alone. Companies like Citicorp stocks will rise and saving these companies from disaster.
Since everyone over 35 will have money…unemployment claims and welfare claims will be nonexistent for at least a year or 2. This alone would save the government about 500 million dollars. This program just paid for itself with money to spare.

[Job market]
Since many individuals will retire there will be more jobs than people looking for jobs so unemployment should be nonexistent for a while. There will be plenty of jobs for those that are under 35 years old. Since many of these “under 35” individuals will have parents and family members that received the 2 million dollars…I am sure they will help them out whether it’s through education or letting them catch up on bills while they get a good job since so many jobs will be available. For those people who handle their money correctly they can create trust funds etc for the younger generation of their family.

Healthcare will still need some reform but the money saved from welfare/unemployment/tax dollars from spending will almost pay for a healthcare reform itself. All the spending will clearly add tax dollars to plan for the future for the people who ran out of money and didn’t plan properly.

This will give all Americans a fair chance at financial security. CNN should run specials on “how to manage your money” and “trust funds” for those who never had money before. Also they should utilize a “financial planner” or an accountant to assist. Most people will have plenty of money to hire someone to help them out if needed. There will be those who blow the money and will end up right back but that will be there fault and the government gave them the opportunity to do the right thing and they failed. Others should prosper very well and live a financially secured life not just for themselves but plan ahead for future generations.

needhelpnow - You will never get a job until you KNOW HOW TO DO MATH. Sheesh, your numbers are a mess!.. and your analysis is not much better.

Why is everything, 100,000 will run out of Unemployment Benefits by end of the year? I ran out 3.5 months ago and you can bet your ass I aint the only one. Theirs hundreds of thousands of people RIGHT NOW that have been out for months with no work in sight.

I was employed for 32 years working my way up to management then our company was sold to a company in London. within 4 years our company moved to Mexico.I just finished 1 year of electronics schooling paid for by the government. The day my schooling finished my TRA benefits stopped and that was Aug 22. Apparently your TRA goes hand in hand with unemployment thus leaving me with a degree and 0 time to find a job and no unemployment. JUST GREAT !!! I guess they expect you to have a job the day you graduate. I need this unemployment just to have more time to find work and keep from losing more than I already have, and that degree at this point seems pretty much worthless.

I also just called Kyles office and got ahold of one of his smart mouthed workers. I asked him what were we supposed to do about feeding our children and paying our way overdue bills. I also asked him are his children hungry is kyles children hungry. I worked for a state prison that was opened for over 50 years that was closed and moved to a bigger city. I told him i didn't want a hand out I wanted what I worked for all my life. I told him my taxes paid his salary and he said "well mine does too I have never collected unemployment I have been saving for these types of things'. I told him I have been saving too but that has ran out. I have been out of work for 12 months and i live a small town where there is no work. He said even if the bill passed today it would be weeks before we would get benefits . The amendments they want would help more people. I asked what are we gonna do while kyle drags his feet. He said he dosn't know what to tell me. I hope you and Kyle can sleep and eat good tonight and maybe you will have a job in the next election or maybe you will have to use that savings you are braging about. Everyone keep calling and sending faxes I plan on sending him a picture of my empty refrigerator and ask him does his look like this.

we should call this senetor and give him this link so he can read what america is saying. Maybe if he read our comments 1st hand he can realize benefits are not running out at the end of the year....ITS GONE ALREADY for lots of us. I have lost so much weight I look like a skeleton. But there is nothing I can do, I have to feed my kids. Whatever food I get my hands on I save for them. I have had 2 slices of toast today. That was the 1st time I ate since yesterday morning and this idiot needs more time to review the bill?

Why are some people bellyaching about Kyl, aren't people in the Senate supposed to read the dang bill first? I would rather have Kyl and others read the bill and know what they are signing before signing. Any intelligent person would read the bill before signing.
After reading the bill, maybe there will need to be amendments.
Plus some states are going to make businesses pay more in unemployment tax. That is in the bill.
How are we to get JOBS when businesses are not going to hire?
Duh.

how long does it take to read a bill that has been passed a few times already. This is not the 1st extension they are doing. This is not that tough. Use the same format you used the last time you did an extension. UGGG.

And btw the Dems don't need the Repubs to pass the bill.
They already have 60 seats.
They are lying.
As usual, what the Dems do best.

Keep calling his secretary is screening the calls and not letting any more voicemails go through haha.

Why would they hold up this bill .....what is the shoe was on the other foot....and do they now we pay there salary and vote them into office.......

There are only 40 Republican senators.
The Dems only need 51 votes to pass this.

I'm worried they may be working on who NOT to give these benefits to... say your original claim date is in early 2008 or late 2007... I'm scared they will come up with something that would reduce the number eligible... I have had NO bites on my resume; the closest I came to any response was a misdirected email. No responses to follow-up phone calls. There are just NO JOBS for the taking. My husband got paid today, we can't pay any bills cause we are saving for the rent (lost our home) and can't even afford the $50 I have no choice to take out for food (to feed a family of 5).

I'm worried they may be working on who NOT to give these benefits to... say your original claim date is in early 2008 or late 2007... I'm scared they will come up with something that would reduce the number eligible... I have had NO bites on my resume, the closest I came to any response was a misdirected email. No responses to follow-up phone calls. There are just NO JOBS for the taking. My husband got paid today, we can't pay any bills cause we are saving for the rent (lost our home) and can't even afford the $50 I have no choice to take out for food (to feed a family of 5). (from NJ)

Regarding the ability of Dems to pass a bill with 60 votes. First the bill has to get to the floor! It is my understanding that Senator Kyl stopped it from even getting that far with his objection to putting the bill up for a vote in the first place. It is a grave misunderstanding to think that just because one party has 60 votes in the Senate, they can pass anything they want. Maybe it should be that way but it isn't.

I would add that the entire country should remember who is "holding up" the bills we need to get t his country going again, in the Senate and the House. When vote times comes around again, vote these people out of office and send a message to the rest of them that their jobs are not life time appointments.

I just Called The Senators office and Spoke with a Rather Polite Staffer and She said that this was just a Proceedure, just because this Bill was Presented within only one Hour of the Vote. She assured me that something would be passed next week. They were trying to figure out how to pay for this Bill. They would like to take money from the exiting Stimulus Bill to pay for it. Sounds like a lot of HOG Wash To me.

They want to hold it up so they can pork it up for their state, for so called projects they have.

Senator Kyl is a piece of work. Call this sorry excuse for a human being and leave him a message (his staff is not picking up today). Tell him we NEED this money NOW. Not when he can find the time to read a couple page bill and think it over. Senator Kyl's number: 202-224-4521

Senator Kyl is a piece of work. Call this sorry excuse for a human being and leave him a message (his staff is not picking up today). Tell him we NEED this money NOW. Not when he can find the time to read a couple page bill and think it over. Senator Kyl's number: 202-224-4521

I called Kyl's office to reem him a new but hole. Of course his office blames the democrats. He is up for re election in 2012 Lets give him the pink slip.

In the meantime lets stake the azzhold out to an ant hill and pour honey on him and the rest of the Republican Trash!

Big Business has taken over this country and nothing short of a revolution is going to take it back from them. We need to end corporate personhood and execute all the CEOs and Boards of directors. We need to kick their families out of the country.

The best purchase you can make today are guns and amno. Protect yourself your family and what you have.

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Jon Kyle is another pompous republican douche bag who will not vote for anything that is not profitable for the republican party! FUCK the party what about the people?

Jon Kyl needs to resign. He needs to go without a pay check for a few months. Congress always gives themselves a raise and then steals from the people

Do you honestly believe that senators read their email or messages sent to their feedback addresses? Don't believe naive...they read none of it.

Do you honestly believe that the slow, grinding political process is going to move any faster because you're out of money? Senators don't give a tinker's damn about the problems of individuals out there. They're worried about making themselves look good for re-election. Nothing more.

You can blame the Democrats for this whole mess. Thanks to slick willy Clinton's mandate that easy home loans should be thrown at the dregs of society, we accumulated almost 10 years and trillions of dollars of sub-prime garbage loans. Loans that went to the stupid, the poor, and the financially clueless...people who have no personal accountability for their own finances. Then the house of cards collapsed, trillions of dollars in moronic mortgage got defaulted upon, and here we are in the 2nd Great Depression.

Thanks Democrats!!!

REPUBLICANS that are unemployed and are unable to find work, have run out of benefits, maybe NOW YOU SEE WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CARES ABOUT, It certainly is not you, next time vote for the party that is trying to look out for your well being, The Democratic Party, the party that cares about all the people, even you Republicans that are being hammered by your own senators

I ran out of unemployment benefits the last week of August. I have lost my home, and am living in an RV. I cannot even pay mt space rent of 300.00 if I don't get this extension. I am eating out of the food bank and I have applied for 100's of jobs with 3 interviews in 2.5 years. I am 51 years old no one wants to hire someone of my age. I have a college education and am healthy. I just CANNOT find a stinking job! Hurry guys get those extended benefits passed!

Hi GOP please start working for the people who elected you

You right

To crapdetector46....you must be a politician, you are rude and shut down to "here is an idea and lets find a way to make it work"....I know that never entered your mind. Take everything literally and do not figure out the basic idea is sound. But since your common sensedetector is NOT working....please act as every other brain dead individual and do not look at the idea...do the math, that will work better. Did you need a calculator????

JUST REMEMBER REPUBLICANS ARE NOT THE SHARPEST PEANUTS IN THE PILE OF SHIT. JUST REMEMBER BUSH DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH YARDADGE BETWEEN HIS GOAL POST. THE THING IS REPUBLICANS DO NOT WANT ANY BODY THAT IS MIDDLE CLASS TO HAVE ANYTHING. SO IF YOU WERE NOT BORN WITH A SILVE SPOON UP YOUR ASS. THAT WAY WE CAN GET FUCKED! AND LEFT OUT IN THE COLD TO EAT SHIT AND DIE FOR THOSE GREEDY BASTERDS.

'My last check should be here tomorrow... That's a scary feeling. If they dont pass this extension ASAP I will be on the brink of loosing everything too!!! PLEASE PLEASE speed it up already...

I tried but the senators voice mailbox is now full on Saturday the 11th.

Maybe instead of spending all of this time bitching, you should be looking for jobs?

Living in Michigan was probably a poor choice to begin with. Any state that puts all of their jobs in one basket is bound to experience fail at some point.

I can't figure out how somebody as stupid as this Billg1236 can be still employed. We are talking about emergency, priority, Stupid. Won't help to tell people "you should have done this or done that".

Reply to billg1236,

Have you ever heard of the saying reception is reality. Well with the fucked up comment you just made about living in Michigan and it being a poor choice and to stop bitching we should be looking for jobs....I got news for you, get closer to your computer screen so you read every word you dick:) YOU HAVE JUST SPOKE YOUR OWN REALITY INTO EXISTANCE. GOD DOSN'T LIKE UGLY WHEN YOU DIG SHIT YOU MUST EAT IT. AND I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING. YOU'LL BE ASKING FOR HELP NEXT. MOCK MY WORDS.

I will send Kyl a message with my middle finger.

This debate about should they or shouldnt they is ridiculous! They know people are in need for this extension, why prolong it? Its stupid and unethical to think that these idiots dont see that if they dont put a lil pep in thier step that every unemployed citizen of this country will be marching down that famous street in washington and make shit happen cause they acting to slow with this decision. they know there are no jobs so just get on with it alredy! DAMN.

Let pray that it passes soon

I'm in the same position as all of you. But, what's going to happen after they approve the 4th extension, that runs out and still no jobs? I just don't know what i'm going to do!

We need to organize and take to the streets.

Who the hell is Kyl? Why did he cry foul? How about other Republican senators? Does Kyl represent GOP? Why GOP didn't stop this idiot? Don't they know they are out of touch?

We all must come together and go back to what people used to do back in the days and march in the damn streets. WE NEED HELP NOOOOOOOW. All 50 STATES START MARCHING......BECAUSE IF THEY DON'T GET THIS BILL PASSED AND OUR BENIFITS TO US SOON AFTER, I HAVE A GREAT FEELING THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL START TO SNAP.

OR BETTER YET MAYBE US THAT ARE UNEMPLOYED AND ON UNEMPLOYMENT AND WHO'S BENEFITS HAVE EXAUSTED .....MAYBE THIS WOULD BE A PERFECT TIME FOR US ALL TO PULL TOGETHER AND FILE A CLASS ACTION LAW SUTE AGAINST THESE BASTARDS.

A lawsuit would take years to go through the courts if it was even allowed to proceed as congress has sovereign immunity(the king can do no wrong) for any action or inaction they take or fail to take.

We need to stop protesting in large numbers in every city in America for jobs and to stop the corporate ceo slave masters and bankers from continuing to rob us.

What a bunch of sniveling whiners in this comment section. The government didn't make you have 2 kids and "one on the way" that you apparently cannot care for on your own.

If you can't care for your children they should be removed from your (lack of) care.

Dear billjenkins

That is the dumbest statement I have ever heard. You must be on here just to piss people off which is a mental problem of its own or you can't read and you are living with someone so you don't have a clue what is going on in this world and your nurse wrote this for you.

So please do the world a favor and jump off a cliff.

Thanks, rickmick

Some stimulus package if it takes this long. Send some free health care along with the money. all unemployed are gonna get swine flu and give it to everyone cuz they have no $ to go to doctor.

IT LOOKS LIKE WE WILL ALL HAVE TO GO HUNGRY AND BE IN THE DARK. YOU LET THEM PUT US DOWN LIKE THAT OR YOU GONNA COME SWINGING BOTH FIST. YOU KNOW GO AHED KISS THE GOVERMENTS ASS . YOU PROBALY DON'T HAVE A SILVER SPOON UP YOUR ASS. JOBS ARN'T NOT THAT EASY TO FIND. FOR YOUR INFO I LOST MY KIDS BE CAUSE I DIDNOT HAVE A JOB. YOU KNOW WHO I'AM TALKING ABOUT

This is my last week of unemployment without another extension I am screwed. I am a college educated certified teacher and I can't find work in anything. I mean no teaching jobs, no fast food jobs, no motel jobs, absolutely nothing. In a year I've had one job interview. I have no where to go and I don't know what to do like so many people. They need to add another 2 year extension to unemployment because do any of us really see the economy getting better any time soon?

If you want fast action contact the senators for your state and tell them if they don't drop everything today and pass this you will vote them out next election. If anough people do this they will get scared.

Rick, I did that and it gets you nowhere. I think that they do not care. What I do not understand the big thing about lesser states with unemployment. When your unemployed whether your state is 3% or 15% you are still unemployed and need the help.
Lets stop worrying about which state should get more and pass it all the same for everyone.
1 unemployed in a state is too much.

Bob

This is crazy! I am a working mom and my husband has been laid off from his construction job for quite some time, with no offers out there, and he looks for a job every single day!! We just had our electric shut off Friday, and the same day we had a notice to shut off cable/phone/internet... I am in a daily fear that my only transportation every day to work will be repo'd..... we were within 1 day of going into foreclosure on the house.... what else can they take from us?? We have 4 kids. I have sold almost everything we have of value on eBay just to survive!! Now there is nothing left that people will buy!! My husband went ot every single local agency that helps people in need last Friday, and we got turned down by all 20 of them, saying they have no more funds to help!! But yet, even though I don't make very much on my income, we STILL don't qualify for food stamps!! Oh, and my husband's unemployment ran out over a month ago!! Still no work!! I buy him the newspaper EVERY DAY! There is nothing in there unless you are a certified RN! That is all that is hiring around here, and our unemployment rate for our county is 11.9 % as of August 2009!

IF THE PEOPLE IN CONGRESS AND THE SENATE CAN FIX THE WORD STUPID WE WOULD NOT BE IN THIS MESS. LEAST WE KNOW HOW TO POUR PISS OUT OF A BOOT.

I got my last check mid aug.I have a 3 year old little girl,she keeps asking me about christmas,at least if they pass this it could boost the economy a little,the people who make these rude remarks to the ones unemployed,will also lose thier jobs if some money is not spent during the next 2 months,to help boost the economy,something has to happen this week,some people like myself do not have family to movein with,

My husbands unemployment already ran out. We need help NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow! This is actually making me feel a little better I now know I am not alone. This has got to stop the stress and worry over bills and how i am going to feed my kids has taken its toll. God Help Us All.

Here is Senator Kyl's phone number: (202) 224-4521 I've made it a habit to call a couple times a day for the last 7-8 days. The 3-4 times I've actually spoken with someone have been a lot of fun:

ME: "So you know Senator Kyl's block of this bill is making children go hungry?" REPLY: Well, he's aware of the situation." ME: "So you're saying he's aware but is directly responsible for making hard working Americans that were laid off, though no fault of their own, put their kids to bed without food?" REPLY: "He's doing everything he can." They think we're stupid. What other conclusion can we come to? He's a rich cat from Arizona and could care less about me, you, or your kids. CALL HIM. He may just press delete but every time we talk to one of his staff it plants a seed of our situation. CALL THIS M-FUCER

I teach job skills classes in Microsoft Office here in California. My students, after about 6 hours of focused, employer's viewpoint training are getting or keeping jobs at a 76% success rate.

I have to fight to get people to come to the classes (which are donation-based) at my local church. Other churches are reluntant to work with a "rival" church. Adult schools get paid for bodies that sit in their chairs and not for those bodies actually suceeding in being employed. The longer that those bodies are unemployed, the more money they recieve. Argh!

The local unemployment offices, however, are thrilled that dozens of people here in CA have gotten off of the unmployment rolls here in CA. They send unemployed people to the classes every week, including their own staff people.

It is so frustrating...

Louise70606
Please sign the unemployment extension. I have exhausted my unemployment benefits. I do not want to stay on unemployment all my life. I have an interview an have no money to get to the interview, no money to pay my rent, buy food, pay utility bills, etc. I'm a single mother from Texas where the unemployment rate is rising everyday. There are two hospitals that laid off over 50 workers last week check your facts. Between Beaumont and Port Arthur Texas the unemployment rate has risen to over 10.5 % in the last month, Check your facts. I need this extension to stay afloat. Why stall? Please you do not know how many people are hurting out here. I have two children in college. Why bail out the financial institutions, the car dealers, wall street and take your time and cry foul play about money that we have worked hard for all our lives and paid into the unemployment insurance so that when we are unemployed WE THE PEOPLE could go to you as our Senators and ask for help in time of need. I am 55 years old and need just one more chance to make this interview work and keep a job and retire. Please sign this bill ASAP.

THANK YOU,

Anita ARceneax

Time to get off your rumps and get to work. The Golden Arches are hiring. Get to it soldiers!!! No more left wing liberal entitlement programs. Try being a mall cop or a molly maid.

Fraternally yours, Johnson

i have tried ti find a job for 2 yrs now any job doing anything i am 60 yrs old and no one will hire me not even talk to me about it so what now ? my unemployment is done ,bills are not getting paid, shutoff notices and looking to get put on the streets yea more homlessjust what this country needs more homless

My husband is 58..he can't find a job either..there giving them to younger people who can lift more and stay longer..mmmm. I can't find a job because I have a couple of restrictions but the state says I'm not disabled..we are so screwed.

Hey Johnson! Do you have a job? Doing what? If you do how do you have the time to come on here and bust our balls about finding work. Golden arches DO NOT hire people with any kind of college degree, period!! These jobs you're talking about DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT hire people with a college degree and a brain. They say you're over qualified and when the economy turns around you will leave to a better paying job. They don't want to waste there time and money on you. These are facts, look it up!! Why are you even here talking to us? You obviously have no life. Hopefully you won't ever loose your job because being out here in this situation is something I never thought would happen to me.

everyone need to start praying

well if the extension happens and i am fortunate to receive it i am leaving this place called michigan and finding some sort of job in another state a warmer one at that because we can not live on unemployment forever and michigan has been murderd, it died when the car industry left
i have seen it before in pennsylvania when the steel mills closed dead towns all over. very sad happening in america what happen to the american dream? for the hard working born american it is gone taken away by non born americans because our doors are always open to the people of other lands that want the dream our goverment gave our dream away so now here we are poor, broke, homeless, without jobs, THINK ABOUT IT!

i am just so sad. that our goverment can not understand and doesn,t really even care what happens to all of us . otherwise they would have granted the extension and had it on its way to us by now and had it even retro so some of us could get a bit out of debt we will see this week what comes of the extension stimulus.....i pray for us all and i sincerly hope we all will make it thru this, we are the true americans and we can do this we will make it with out the american dream at hand we will show them all..we have the heart. in god we trust!!!!