Then the Republicans overall plan for the destruction of the middle class is working. No one has ever questioned why they were against all these social programs because they were always still there. Now after 8 years and utter destruction to those programs and infrastructure and public education maybe people will finally see why the Republicans always push the wedge and non issues. Because if they told the public what their policies were really about they would never win. And it’s been working for them since Nixon. Now maybe in my lifetime I will finally get to see the death of that ideology because it’s very ugly once you see beneath the surface. And for this extension fight you have seen beneath the surface. Learn from it and remember it. Because if McCain gets in Social Security will be gone too.

Link:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27201970/
AIG spent thousands on execs’ hunting trip

UK vacation happened as insurer asked for billions more in federal loans

THIS IS THEIR 2ND TRIP AFTER ASKING FOR MORE BILLIONS!
THE 1ST TRIP WAS TO A SPA
UNBELEIVABLE!!!!!

Yes. Unfortunately there are many people voting for Obama simply because he’s black. This is very sad. Personally I will vote for someone because he has integrity and experience and is best suited for the job. Not because of his or her skin color. :(

Link:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27202928/
U.S. confronts possibility of deep recession
Current economic downturn bringing anxiety similar to 1970s, ’80s

But unlike the last two relatively short recessions, this one could be much longer and more severe, potentially bringing with it anxiety and job losses not seen in many years

We need that EUI now .No jobs out there at all now..
I am going to be homeless if they don’t pass this soon!!!

their excuse was, ‘it was planned months in advance of the bailout’. so? they still could have canceled. i bet the deposits they lost would have been a pittance compared to the 120 billion the taxpayers just gave them. where is the law? isn’t this criminal? is NO ONE going to jail for any of this crap? write your congresspersons.

NJ & 1 or 2 other states have UE deductions taken from each paycheck. Fact.

Friday 10/17

Link?

That’s true. The Repubs were against the bailout, and the bailout could NOT have been passed without major support from the Democrats. That’s why it’s so easy to see that we got screwed. Extended benefits and the rest of the stimulus bill could have been easily added to the bailout. Bush would have signed it because he’ll do anything to get the $700B bailout money. What happened instead?; they tacked on some tax cuts and money for rum and wooden arrows. That’s $150B worth of add-ons and none of it was for us.

I do blame the Senate Repubs for blocking our bill, but Pelosi had enough power to overcome this resistance by adding it to the bailout or the CR. Pelosi and Reid didn’t do it because they want to pick up enough votes in the Senate to have a democratic veto proof majority. Right now the Dems have 51 Senate seats and they need 60. The Dems are hoping to embitter us against the Repubs to pick up more seats in Congress. All the while, people are being evicted and going hungry.

Pelosi is now talking about 300 Billion insted of 150 Billion for the Stimulus Bill. I’m sure that will help us to get it passed. All we need is 6 billion for stand alone H.R. 6867. No pork…..

When does the UE figures come out?

Okay, I believe you.

thank you!!!!!!!!!

I THINK that we may not qualify for state benefits but we will for the FEDERAL extension… At least that’s what someone at BWC explained to me.

looks like the troll has gone back to old tricks of talking to self. anyone new, beware. a troll is all over this site.

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!
But Pelosi was RIGHT there for the camera for the bailout!!!!

that bill will never pass the senate, which has 51 dems to 49 republicans. no way they will they pass it by 2/3rds. and if mconnell or any other republican can block it from coming to the floor, they will. read mcconnell’s record. he is a repub and he is opposed to social programs (his state’s UE be damned).

Bush thinks this is a joke, he gets on the tube and jokes around smirks and says I won’t be here , absolutely no conscience

Fact is nobody on this board can wait until Nov. let alone Jan. for this to pass. That is the reality. And now with the retail news I see all the posters from a few days ago saying go get a retail job and how easy it is to get a job at Wal Mart are proved dead wrong which I said when that stupidity was posted. I don’t know what Washington doesn’t understand about this. There are no jobs and now we don’t even have the poverty wages coming in. No income means crime and homelessness will rise. It’s amazing DC can’t see cause and effect and do nothing about it. Since they caused it and now ignore the effects the policies have had on the country. And both sides deserve the blame. the Republicans for these policies and the Democrats for going along with all of them and not being a opposition party.

Reid is not allowing it to happen, McConnell(the pug senate leader) needs it to happen his state is over 6.5% unemployed (based on the corupt reporting methed that cnly counts less then a 3rd or the unemployed.

If reid will call for an emergincy session McConnel will support it, it is all in reid’s hands now. unfortunate for us Reid is not up for reelection.

A website for HR 6867 has been setup at
www.hr6867.com

if your benefit year has ended, you will need to apply for a new claim. if you have worked the required number of hours, you will get that new claim, which will be paid for through your state fund. if you are ineligible for a new claim (for whatever reason) you will qualify under the federal extension (it rolls over to that), provided you fall within the fed’s timeline requirements for the extension. on the last extension, they had some dates by which you had to have exhausted your last claim in order to qualify for the extension, the point being to prevent people from qualifying indefinitely. i do not know what those cutoff dates will be for the new federal extension (when one is passed). so, everyone is dealing with a lot of uncertainty here. the best thing is to find work and hang onto that if you can get it. that’s always preferable to collecting UE. i know everyone is trying.

Do a search in Yahoo news for “layoffs” no wonder its such a challange to get a job, so many places are laying off workers and\or not hiring, every day there are more out of work.

I’m trying to keep postitive thoughts, hoping to get a job. What’s amazing is I am also applying for “survival jobs” even the part time minimum wage and I am not being called for interviews. I find out they hire people who’s last job was a similar minimum wage job.

The UI rate for my county for August is 6.4%, I will wild guess its higher for September when they publish the numbers, as there have been several large scale layoffs in area.

very shortsighted of you to label the rest of the bill ‘pork’. not at all, imho. it goes to states and infrastructure and many other areas other than UE. 300 billion compared to more than a trillion at this point for Wall Street? i don’t think that’ looks like much at all.

I am sitting here applying for jobs and hoping that the second extension passes…but, will any of us that have exhausted emergency benefits qualify for another emergency extension? my thinking is that if our benefit years have ended, with little or part-time earnings, will we even qualify, or will we have to accept a reduced benefit since we have collected unemployment 39 weeks out of the past year?
anyone know…i’m in pa

I love how the Dem’s are socialist, but the Repub’s don’t get called fascist. Sure the Dem’s help the poor and want to get involved in things like healthcare that I think they should stay out of, but the Repubs are 10x worse; they giving trillions of dollars to corporations and the rich. They go to war and the corporations profit while Americans die. Who runs up the national debt? Please tell me who?

Yahoo News – US confronts possibility of long, deep recession

“The jobless rate is currently at 6.1 percent, and many economists expect it to rise to about 7 percent early next year — a level the country has not seen since 1993. Some analysts believe the unemployment rate could eventually climb close to 8 percent, which hasn’t happened since 1984.”

Full article at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081015/ap_on_bi_ge/meltdown_recession;_ylt=AsW3mHQszFd45nxewyX1avms0NUE

Just heard we are in a recession, but bail out only help us not to go into a depression.

Where is our extension???

So if Bush says he would support it he needs to get the Senate back to vote…. Just like he did his Bail out and his Iraq war!!