U.S. Congress - H.R.589 Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011
H.R.589 - Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011
To amend title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for additional weeks of first-tier emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes. view all titles (4)
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- Official: To amend title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for additional weeks of first-tier emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes. as introduced.
- Popular: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act as introduced.
- Popular: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011 as introduced.
- Short: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011 as introduced.
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I hope everyone know’s that this bill could have already been passed by now! They clearly do not give two rats asses about any one of us!
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So, “they know exactly when there will be enough jobs for anyone who is still able & wants to work.” Really? How? Where’s the proof of this? In fact, how can they know that when most companies in each zip code don’t report to the government when they’re looking for employees? I don’t know of any small or medium sized businesses that report that to the government, and there’s still a large amount of turnaround at places in fast food and retail industries. Even though working for $7.25/hr at these places is better than begging on the street, why is there such a large turnaround? Can someone honestly say a “99 weeker” can’t get a job at a gas station, or McDonald’s, or Wal-Mart? If they’re so “overly qualified” then they should be getting these jobs, even if they have to move to do so. So here’s the question, why are those on long-term unemployment still believing these jobs are “beneath them” so to say when working for minimum wage allows you to keep your pride more than begging?
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Now for my not so friendly side.
By your logic, your dad & your son must be an idiot because that’s exactly what you are, an idiot.
A handout? That’s how you see this? Due to our employment, employers are charge a tax. That tax (FUTA) is to cover unemployment. By our work, it is our right to collect unemployment. It is not a handout. Employers made much more profit from our labors than they have paid in via FUTA.
For 40 years, Congress has done whatever it could to aid American jobs leaving America & doing nothing to stop them from going. All in the name of profit for corporate America. In aiding & abetting corporate America in gutting American jobs, IMO, Congress is traitors to the citizens of America. Traitors are shot.
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Not trying to say you’re wrong, only attempting to add to it, I think it’s also partially our fault we let this happen. We’ve sat on the sidelines too long and it’s time for us to take our government back.
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HopefromCA,
I wouldn’t like that scenario you describe, not one bit. But, Here’s a question. Where is this person’s savings? I’m assuming they made at least $5/hr for 30 years since they’re 55. If they did, then they could’ve saved up $33,739.07 by placing 10% of their income into savings and letting it accrue 0.5% (or 0.005) over 30 years. Now, these are conservative numbers but assuming they’ve used 99 weeks of unemployment, they have no other income except UI, and they’re doing all they can to only put food on the table and find jobs (not watch TV or get online or play xbox or have 2 cars or really even buy new clothes at this point), then a family 3-4 should be able to survive for another year before they’re starving. So, where is the money?
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“Legion1” I agree with you 100%! And if this doesn’t pass. They will have a full scale problem on there hands. That will be a lot worse then what happened in Arizona.
The Congressional Budget Office report entitled, “Policies for Increasing Economic Growth and Employment in 2010 and 2011”* estimated that increasing aid to the unemployed “would raise output cumulatively between 2010 and 2015 by $0.70 to $1.90 per dollar of total budgetary cost.
The CBO also estimates that extending unemployment benefits would add 8 to 19 cumulative years of full-time-equivalent employment per million dollars of total budgetary cost.* HR589 will effectively serve this purpose.
According to CBO, increased aid to the unemployed is more cost effective boosting economic growth and employment than a variety of other policies under consideration.
There is only 1 job for every 5 unemployed persons, and 42% of all unemployed have been unemployed for over 6 months, with 21.9% unemployed for over 1 year.**
IHS Global Insight predicts the total number of jobs in the U.S. won’t return to prerecession levels until 2013, that doesn’t account for growth in the labor force.
I’d be willing to bet you’re not even unemployed “fakk2” & you’re here not for any type of serious discussion but rather just to cause trouble. I also consider it a safe bet that you’re at least one of the “7” negative vote against this bill. Try walking in our shoes, you won’t like how they fit.
1.) I was unemployed, I found a job because I was hungry for it.
2.) I would like serious discussion if anyone made sense instead of calling for reparations or the like. If we can figure out a way to pay for the bill, I’d be more open to it.
3.) I am a negative vote because we shouldn’t extend the UI and make it a lifestyle to be unemployed. Regardless if you’re looking for work or not, there are those that abuse the system. Those not abusing the system will be punished because, although they’re trying their best, we can’t afford to let people keep abusing it and driving us deeper into debt.
4.) Once again, I was unemployed, but I got off my ass, moved to a different state and found a job leaving everything I knew behind. I know how it feels to be turned down by companies although you’re overly qualified because I’ve been there. I dunno, maybe me getting a job was luck, maybe it wasn’t. Either way, I didn’t get anywhere by staying where I was.
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An interview with Gerry DePietro, a 99er advocate that recently met with her Congressman, went to Washington D.C. for the introduction of H.R. 589, and who will be interviewed on the Ed Show by Ed Schultz Monday night at 10:00 PM (EST) on MSNBC.
Link for BlogTalkRadio program from 3:00-3:30 PM (EST) to listen live (podcast will be available shortly after the show is completed).
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tier5for99ers/2011/02/13/discussion-on-hr-589-unempolyment-expansion-bill
You can leave questions during the show in the comments section or use the call-in Number: (805) 285-9728 to ask questions during the show and we will do our very best to field your questions.
Concocting the illusion of me spitting on our forefather’s graves (who by the way, most of those forefathers were slave owners, I suppose that should be upheld as well according to your warped way thinking), is a puerile attempt at diverting attention from the actual argument at hand which is that you are ignoring what is current and expedient and obvious.
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‘That document was created by men who lived under a tyrannical ruler’…..too bad they could not identify with the slaves they owned and make the association about their own tyranny.
Very true.
I just don’t understand why it matters if ONE IGNORAMUS doesn’t get it.
Obviously, this IGNORAMUS is incapable of understanding.
Why waste time over an IGNORAMUS. There are more important matters to attend to. Let the IGNORAMUS box with its own shadow.
BogTalkRadio podcast now available:
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http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tier5for99ers
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I’m in my mid fifties. What work I have now is hard, back breaking, physical labor outdoors in the cold for $12 per hour. Most of that goes to my landlord to pay for a campsite with no water or electricity. At the end of the day my back hurts so bad I can’t even sleep, I’m so tired I can barely stand up, and I have pains in my chest. I need over $1000 just to get my truck legal again. Every time I drive it now I risk losing it. I was lucky to have a room to stay in for most of the winter, but that ends March first. The person whose room it is left in July to travel the country in search of a job. He could not find one he would be able to live on and is coming back.
There is not a day that goes by now when I don’t think about how I can’t keep living like this, and I see no light at the end of the tunnel. Am I supposed to spend the rest of my life doing hard labor and living in poverty until I drop dead? Is that what all my years of experience in several fields gets me now?