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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Much more fitting pic :)
From the link nancym posted,
What’s the takeaway? We live in a country of principles like civil liberties and the rule of law. Power and authority aren’t owned. They are shared. But the evacuation of Zuccotti Park and others around the country casts a sickening pall over such ideals. Worse are the media images of the past week, especially in New York where it all began, and what they might suggest.
Cops dressed like soldiers in body armor, face shields and helmets deploying excessive force against peaceful protesters. Such images call to mind dictatorships, not the land of the free.
Perhaps we are merely seeing a duality that has been there all along. On the one hand are the American dreamers hoping for a renewed promise of opportunity, equality and justice. On the other are the guardians of the corporate state accountable no one but the wealthy and powerful.
And who the hell is paying for protecting this moron now?
Herman Cain receives Secret Service protection
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68638.html
WTF!
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Now some out there may ask why Herman Cain should get taxpayer funded Secret Service protection while you or I would not if we decided to run for President…
The answer is it depends on how much MONEY you have…
Imagine that!
Over and over, day after day we here on our media that the Democrats and Republicans can not agree on anything at all anymore.
Is that REALLY true?
One of the most important bills of our time (HR3261) is not even talked about in the main stream media, and has bipartisan support.
Why is that?
How many Americans would support this bill if they really knew the true ramifications of it?
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From one of my Libertarian friends. As usual, when the battle against the injustice of so many things these days feels almost overwhelming, her words make me step back and look inside to remember what I already knew for a long time. Though I do not agree totally with her, I do on much…
Occupy Your Ownself
Everybody, but everybody, wants to get in on the Occupy Wall Street act. Since the leaderless, focusless band of creative protestors began getting media coverage, all manner of commentators have commentated. Multitudes claim to know what OWS really is or really ought to be. Political people who may have something or nothing in common with the vague aims of OWS or the vague band of jugglers, gypsies, drummers, retro-hippies, sincere-if-ignorant fogheads, and genuinely angry activists are cautiously trying to bend OWS to their own purposes.
The third-biggest bonehead ever to win a Nobel Prize, Paul Krugman, demonstrates what an old fogey and conventional thinker he is by urging OWS to coalesce around (his) establishment goals. Oh yeah. Infrastructure investment! That’s worth taking to the streets for.
Democrat party leaders cautiously circle OWS, wondering if they can co-opt it as their R-comrades so quickly and successfully co-opted the Tea Party. When Obama so much as makes a wussy comment in favor of OWS, TV mavens say he wants an Arab spring (never mind that the Arab spring was all about toppling … oops, people like Obama). And R leaders screech that The Big O is supporting mob rule.
The OWS is a bunch of teenage tyrants The OWS is full of freedom-fighters! Yes, they’re freedom-fighters, but they’re misguided. Let me show the way!
http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2011/10/09/occupy-your-ownself/
I couldn’t possibly disagree with this article more. What an incredibly narrow view of history! Reads more like a long whine than any kind of real thought. I lived through the Viet Nam era also, and the very question of whether the marches ended the war is just too simplistic a notion. It’s always a process, and usually a long process of changing the culture, changing the conversation, changing the public focus, often led by the energy of the current drives of the youth. Anyone who ever thought a few marches, even a few injured and even killed, would instantly create major change is quite naive. Change takes time, and also hard work and clear-thinking strategy that uses all possible “weapons,” all the more need for long term thinking, not impatient whining when it doesn’t look like instant gratification.
And the comment about Krugman is totally unjustified. He may be part of the media power structure, but he’s been on the side of sanity and the people for a long time.
I figured you would :)
I think her point was ten years, Kent state, etc, etc, just to end a losing war, not even mentioning all our dead soldiers…
I agree that all the huge protest did not do it. They did help though…
@"And the comment about Krugman is totally unjustified. He may be part of the media power structure"
Do you honestly believe we can change a totally corrupted system from the inside? We better find some good billionaires willing to fight too then…
I watch some on the left say that Occupy should be fighting to get Obamas jobs bill passed. Even if they could influence Congress to do that, what REAL help would it provide for most of the millions and millions screwed now?
You watcher Dylan Ratigans “rant”. I firmly believe he is 100% right.
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Are you still referring to Krugman? He’s just like the Fox News props who are set up as foils for the pundits on the right, when the main stream broadcast media wants to make a show of being balanced. That still doesn’t make him wrong.
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I kind of think politics is a vehicle to keep people from killing the greedy bastards who rape and pillage endlessly, Ah well it does serve other things, but really today the real rapists are counting on the political process to save them from what they so RICHLY deserve, As they laugh off the various groups out there protesting, They are truly clueless as to what they are playing with.
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Greatest spotlight building projection EVER:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/18/occupy-wall-street-two-mo_n_1101626.html#s483379&title=Another_View_Of
Gawd, what kind of mentality does this? Obey orders like automatons, no matter what, even orders from a college administrative bureaucrat, not even an elected official.
UC Davis Police Pepper-Spray Seated Students In Occupy Dispute
I have to say, it’s beginning to be more and more reminiscent of the 60’s and 70’s era in regard to the apparent giant break in empathy between the youth protest culture and the inflexible “establishment.” But it’s not really just a generational difference, and it really wasn’t just generational back then either, even though it was portrayed that way in terms of dress and haircuts. I sort of wonder if there will evolve some kind of “identity badge” like the long hair back then was a sign of someone you could instantly relate to if you were of the same “tribe,” like beatniks with berets, etc.
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Of course a big difference now is that the actual military are not seen as the villains. And I wonder just how this will all play out when those thousands of troops start returning from overseas next year, coming home to no jobs and so many holes in the safety net. It’ll be a long hot summer I think.
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