I told you long ago that my picture will eat your hard drive if you steal it.

Did you think I was joking?

Watch out for those anon visitors…

3.9 Million Americans Ran Out Of Unemployment Benefits In 2010: Report

Last year, 3.9 million Americans ran out of unemployment insurance benefits, according to a new analysis provided to HuffPost by the National Employment Law Project.

Those 3.9 million are not necessarily still unemployed, and not all of them are necessarily “99ers” — people who exhausted the maximum 99 weeks of benefits currently available in 25 states — but the number offers a dramatic reminder that the longest-ever unemployment lifeline is still not long enough for some Americans to climb out of the deepest jobs hole since the Great Depression.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/10/2010-unemployment-benefits-exhausted_n_820957.html

The way to help is to pass this legislation as introduced! This will provide an unemployment extension to millions that lost their job by no fault of their own, the rest is pie in the sky, what if, conjecture at best.

We are on this board to support the passage of HR 589 and to discuss strategies to assist in getting this bill out of committee and on to the floor for a vote. Most on this board have fought hard just to get this bill to the stage that it is today. Your straw poll may be be of interest to you but based on the current vote you are greatly outnumbered here at 152 to 14 as of this moment.

We want good jobs created and we want a modest financial bridge until those jobs are available. Nothing more, nothing less. How about we just call it a bail-out like we did with Wall Street?

Vote this up if Sher1 is the problem here on OC

Ok so I was side tracked by my first job Interview call in three years! So we have a new Bill!! Wow what a day, I have been shaving all day and got it down to a goatee!

I hope I get this job, but I will still follow and do what I can for our plight!

OC needs to post a new forum rule “Open Congress is for Bush haters only. All other facts, figures, arguments, opinions will be promptly snuffed.”

And maybe we should all just live like the Chinese workers, working for slave wages, and “bunking 3-4” in a room as you said?

How about I drive my truck through your home and tell you it is your fault because you didn’t save for it?

I don’t take sides anymore. Both sides leave much to be desired.

I am a equal opportunity hater of DC these days….

Lee and scott do not need permission form republican leadership to get a vote on 589 as an amendment to the CR

“amendments like Paul’s, which is not supported by leadership, would not have received a vote because congressional leaders had limited or even prohibited amendments during spending debates. But this year, House Republican leadership decided to use an “open rule” for the CR, giving every member of Congress the right to bring an amendment and have it debated."

a funding source for 589,would be supported be democrats and tea party-ers

“Paul is trying to build support for an amendment to the fiscal 2011 funding bill that would end all foreign assistance to Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Pakistan. The funding bill currently being debated by the House, called the continuing resolution (CR), is needed to keep the government running after March 4.

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/02/16/ron_paul_seeks_vote_to_end_foreign_aid_to_egypt_israel_jordan_and_pakistan

Job cuts for poor seniors could up homelessness

Really? No shit…you’re joking…right?

LOS ANGELES – For $700 a month, 65-year-old Esmeralda Calderon cares for children part-time through a federal community service job that’s in jeopardy because of cuts to the proposed federal budget for 2011.
Under the Department of Labor’s Senior Community Service Employment Program, more than 75,000 elderly Americans living in poverty in all 50 states earn their keep by the slimmest of margins. To qualify, participants must be over 55 and earning less than 125 percent of the federal poverty level — $13,600 a year.
In the budget bill signed Friday by President Barack Obama, the program was slashed by 45 percent, from $825 million to $450 million a year. Advocates say it could mean as many as 58,000 fewer jobs if states or national groups are forced to discontinue the program because of the reductions.

more @ : http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_senior_jobs_cuts

a moment of weakness…feed ‘em to the lions, burn ’em at the stake, whatever we can come up with isn’t a bad enough form of execution to cover what they’ve done & what they continue to do to us & this country

Obama Biden 2012! Change you can think of, but not actually experience. But it’s good to think of it right? Come on vote for us so we can spend our way out of bankruptcy. I mean that’s how it works right? Rough crowd. The top 1 percent pay the top 99 percent which feed of the top 1 percent and the top 3 percent pay 80 percent of the taxes so the bottom… never mind. Obama Biden 2012… How can you get involved… read on…

1.) Buy ear plug, insert them wear at all times so you can’t hear
2.) Buy a blind fold, wear it so you can’t see.
3.) Before you use said blind fold and ear plugs, be sure to read the instructions book on how you will think, what you will do, give us all your money, let us control your every move, let us watch you every where you go, give your soul to us.
4.) Enjoy your free voucher for koolaid for all new DNC members.

Your lack of knowledges need no reply.

House Dems Open To Compromise On 99ers Bill

WASHINGTON — The Democrats in the House of Representatives who are pushing for additional jobless aid for the long-term unemployed say they are willing to compromise with Republican leadership on cutting spending from the budget to prevent the cost of new benefits from adding to the deficit.

In a Wednesday letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.) wrote, “We want to work with you to identify how best to finance this legislation and ensure its swift passage.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/09/99ers-house-dems-compromise_n_833545.html

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.

A rally in San Francisco on Saturday drew thousands to the city’s Civic Center, in a show of solidarity with Wisconsin and the public sector unions there. The San Francisco demonstrators were angry about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to strip public sector unions of their collective bargaining rights, but that’s not all they were angry about.

I have a couple HUGE questions these days…

Why didn’t the Democrats try to come up with a way to pay for it when they controlled both houses of Congress, and before the elections when it would have gained them countless votes from the 99ers.

Why would they not even bring it to the floor for an up or down vote?

And why would the Democratic leaders not push for it, or even allow it to be included in the tax cut deal when the rich overwhelmingly benefited from that deal while taxes on the poor were increased?

Now the conversation in DC is all about how much more is going to be cut in help to the poor we are supposed to think they are finally going to actually try to help the 99ers?

I say BS! The Dems had every chance in the world already to help us and they did nothing! They left us to freeze and die on the streets!

And everyone knows the Republicans have no intention of helping us besides talking more about their phantom job creation BS.

Oh go ahead and “Change” it feels good! I will hold down the fort for you WasMiddle =D

“Both Houses need over 50% of either house to pass a bill on to the President. For an ordinary bill to pass each chamber or house of the US congress, it needs a simple majority of yea votes which would be 50% + 1 vote. In the US House of Representatives, ordinarily there are a total of 435 seated Representatives. 50% of 435 is 217.5. As there are no half votes, the fewest yea votes required for an ordinary bill to pass the House would normally be 218. In the US Senate, ordinarily there are a total of 100 seated Senators. 50% of 100 is 50. A simple majority is 50% + 1, thus the fewest yea votes required for an ordinary bill to pass the US Senate is 51.”

Continue reading on Examiner.com: New unemployment extension bill for 99ers gains cosponsors – National Unemployment | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/unemployment-in-national/new-unemployment-extension-bill-for-99ers-gains-cosponsors-the-new-bill-that-wo#ixzz1E9lZJjD3

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