What Bushy does not understand is that while on Unemployment you have to actively look for work, no freebees, here in NY, we have to make a weekly list of every job we applied for, and then we receive a letter to go to there office and present our list, they spot check the list and if you are caught lying they can suspend or deny benefits, nothing is free Bushy.

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

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

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?

Friday 10/17

Link?

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.

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

Where is our extension???

Link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081011/ap_on_go_co/second_stimulus

They said the White House signaled it would accept an extension of unemployment benefits, but the speaker refused to allow the stimulus package to be broken up.

Read for your self ..Nancy Pelosi didnt want to break the deal ..they were going to vote yes

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.

thank you!!!!!!!!!

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.

Well, after tonight’s debate, considering all the publicity he got, it seems to me that poor ole “Joe the Plumber” might find himself in a completely different tax bracket !

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-fi-econ16-2008oct16,0,5983500.story?page=1

La times 50mins ago

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said that Bush will consider economic stimulus proposals but has problems with some components advocated by Democrats, such as extending unemployment benefits and funding infrastructure projects.

“Bush will consider economic stimulus proposals but has problems with some components advocated by Democrats, such as extending unemployment benefits and funding infrastructure projects.”

Looks like bush is out to get us again. No surprise there i guess but wasn’t someone saying he was in favor of extending benefits today on these boards?

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.

Yeah, and it seems we can’t get him barred either, :(

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.

Very interesting. Five people “supposedly” found the new NELP alert “not useful” on a fourum that is about the very bill that the alert is about.

Don’t forget you are loggrd in to vote no to a post.

How would a person go about squatting a house? Seriously.

John McCain is hesitating, backing off from Bernauke’s second stimulus need, he wants to wait and see how the 700 billion helps the economy, LOL (Bloomberg)

Do those idiots in Washington even know about the tent cities? Probably not. The CBS story was good. It shows a guy with his resume applying for jobs and his wife crying. They should all watch that.

let me be the first to tell you from experince on how to sqat a house find a empty boarded up house take the boards off the windows and set up shop call your electric co,gas,co and phone then change your address they have to evict you from the house just like anyone else also they will more than likely offer you money to move on if you leave everything intact michigan dave

My prayers are answered.

I thought the Senate was going to meet today and vote on the extension?

Misinformation!

Senate Dems call for emergency session about home heating costs
Updated: 09/08/2008 09:27 AM
By: Curtis Schick

LIHEAP was already voted on and added to a previous bill. Troll is misleading everyone with his post.

I hope they don’t wait until Obama is in office. That’s another 3 months of waiting all so that they can give their new Democratic President credit for the changes. Unreal!

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?