Wstaff, very true. Education spending has not helped during the last 40 years. Our test scores are exactly the same as when the Department of Education was created. We should stop spending so much of that money on something that doesn’t work and reinvest it.

@"Someone working minimum wage for 30 years can put enough away during that time period to at least pay for 1 year’s living expenses."

What planet do you live on?

Minimum wage has always been WAY below the poverty level in America.

Do you realize 99ers started running out of benefits almost a year ago?

Do you realize many have been out of work for well over three years?

Do you realize most Americans live paycheck to paycheck?

Out Of 400 Amendments, Just One For The Jobless

Of the 403 amendments submitted to a stopgap budget measure to fund the government through the rest of the current fiscal year, only one mentions the word “unemployment.”

Legislation by Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Bobby Scott (R-Va.) would provide an additional 14 weeks of benefits to Americans who have been out of work for six months or longer. Lee and Scott asked Republican leaders to consider the measure as an amendment to their “continuing resolution,” the budget measure that funds the government through Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year.

Many of the 400 amendments will be pulled, but if the Lee-Scott item is deemed germane by the Rules Committee, it will see a vote on the House floor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/15/budget-long-term-unemployed_n_823599.html

A Disillusioned 99’er Shares His Disappointment With The American Dream, Welcomes Death

“Mark”, a member of the ever growing cadre of disillusioned, disenchanted and disgruntled millions of American unemployed, has written a letter shared by A Company of One, in which he explains the plight of 99’ers (those whose extended unemployment benefits are set to expire) in which he chronicles his plight and his terminal disappointment with the American system. One can only imagine how all the “99’ers” would feel if they did not have the benefit of living at least partially subsidized for 2 years in the socialist state of America. If Bahrain is any indication, where the government’s attempt to purchase the love of its people just failed today, pretty soon not even the 99 weeks of EUCs will do much to suppress what is an unmistakably rising anger among the broad US population.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/disillusioned-99er-shares-his-disappointment-american-dream

Where were the unions supporting 99ers for the past year?

Didn’t they care about millions with no where to go but the streets then?

I got all the emails from AFL-CIO for years now. I never saw one mention of the 99ers in them since we started running out of benefits.

How much mention did we get at that big pre-election rally?

So now they want the 99ers to help them?

If we help them win will they fight for a tier v finally?

It sure seems to me that the unions wrote us off long ago too.

The only support I have for 99ers going to union rallies is to get media coverage for 99ers.

Are all the ones that many 99ers voted for even supporting them now?

Are the unions going to hire the 99ers?

I ask myself these questions.

All 99ers should too.

Where was “move on” for the past year on helping the 99ers?

I do believe Republicans just designated themselves an endangered species in my home state of Wisconsin. I’m not exactly sure how they were able to do what they just did, but the citizens of Wisconsin will not accept this outcome.

1 minute ago……Wis. GOP bypass Dems, cut collective bargaining

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Senate voted Wednesday night to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers, approving an explosive proposal that had rocked the state and unions nationwide after Republicans discovered a way to bypass the chamber’s missing Democrats.

All 14 Senate Democrats fled to Illinois nearly three weeks ago, preventing the chamber from having enough members present to consider Gov. Scott Walker’s “budget-repair bill” — a proposal introduced to plug a $137 million budget shortfall.

The Senate requires a quorum to take up any measures that spend money. But Republicans on Wednesday separated from the legislation the proposal to curtail union rights, which spends no money, and a special committee of lawmakers from both the Senate and Assembly approved the bill a short time later.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wisconsin_budget_unions

I think the shits about to hit the fan in WI

Ok great, So we know nObama doesn’t like any republicans, And no one here has any democrat hero’s, So now we have no differences right?

So lets take it from there and not have all the arguing that accomplishes nothing. Brothers and Sisters united against our corrupt government!

Whereever I link to on the internet in my search for news on the consideration of 589, I am coming across the same discontent with our President. I could not agree more with the perception that he has not stepped up for the unemployed. People are saying that he will not get their vote next time. My problem with this line of thinking is that we really will not have a choice if he is running against any Republican. I simply do not think we can afford to replace complacency with outright destructiveness. At least he will never sign away our rights to SSI or Medicare or Medicaid etc. but if a Republican, any Republican is voted in, his pen will be ready, willing and able.
I would love for Kucinich or Bernie Sanders to run in his stead so I could vote with gusto but that is not going to happen so I am pulling the lever for Obama one more time.

According to an article recently we now have approximately 44 million people participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Its time for Congress to start thinking about taking care of our own country. The answer is Jobs, jobs and jobs.

Really, really, really mean it, cross my heart hope to die mean it :)

I just went to see what one 99er site had to say and I thought I made a mistake and landed on some militia’s site. Jeeze!

This is going to be a really long election season…

Another from Reich:

“The Truth About the Economy in 2 Minutes and 15 Seconds”:

http://robertreich.org/post/6595110483

Tell me then exactly what this president (and most Dems) has done to help the 99ers.

I was one of the first wave that ran out of help in the spring of 2010.

Since then I have watched Obama say how he wants to cut my heating assistance by over 50%, but NEVER ONCE even acknowledged that I (99ers) existed.

You have posted your disdain for I, and the NOVO’s in many places…

We are not, and did not vote for the Republicans.

We did lay down the law though, and even as Ed Shultz said many times, if you don’t acknowledge us, and help us survive we are turning our backs on you.

One would think they got the message in the midterms, but apparently they did not…

So be it. They made the choice.

We don’t vote for ANY evil!

Hi there Wolfy !

Just cruising by ;-)

@ Here is your post with your usual IP threat! GIAR!

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wana play?

@nancym 05/29/2011 3:29am

I think you confused the portion of the Market Ticker post I posted here that talked about the fake Tea Party as being my words.

It was on topic with Donny’s blog posts, so I posted it here.

No biggie ;)