2010-07-04T03:54:03Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2007:/bill/comments/64923 2010-07-04T03:54:03Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-04:/comment/203309 jrhill Get up from your chair, open your door and walk outside... "Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?" 2010-06-30T14:25:34Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-30:/comment/201989 mek8630 well since I didn't get to say what I really wanted to because it has a stupid ridiculously short limit. My point is we should all stick together through this and MAKE them give us our money. THEY WORK FOR US not the other way around. I don't know about you people but seriously do you want others going without not being able to take care of their families? While you sit there and are ok for another couple weeks and then the same thing will happen to you. That is the plan though is to divide us. 2010-07-04T20:31:45Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-04:/comment/203346 zen_maker I know, they call us lazy, but look at them, going on vacation and leaving millions without food money. 2010-07-04T20:19:08Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-04:/comment/203343 zen_maker I told my landlord to please wait until I will be able to get my unemployment benefits reinstated, but he refuses to extend me any longer, will throw me outside. I can't believe the government is doing this to its own citizens! They have enough money to provide ammunition for their war games but don't have enough money to feed their own citizens, this society is coming to an end! 2010-07-04T20:23:44Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-04:/comment/203344 zen_maker We pay our politicians, they are our employees and yet we are the ones that are without work, without home, without food!!! WTF!!! 2010-07-04T20:27:25Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-04:/comment/203345 zen_maker They want to pass new war funding for $36billion dollars in Afganistan, they don't care about us, the unemployed are less important their war on terror... 2010-07-05T01:04:37Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-05:/comment/203353 Jess01869 I know! I got evicted June 18th. Going on week 5 of no benefits, didn't get to Tier 2. Wasn't able to renew my stickers on my car, pay my insurance, and even my license is suspended since I wasn't able to pay my monthly $200 surcharge, and I had to apply for emergency food stamps yesterday! I had to move to a new town and have a little less than 2 weeks to turn in $550 for rent and a $300 deposit,transfer utilities in my name, and pay a phone bill on the 12th to keep my phone on. Among the places I applied at is Walgreens and they haven't even called me yet. My Wells Fargo account over drafted by $30 and closed since I couldn't pay it in time on top of all that. UH! This is crazy and now a 'War spending package'!? What is going on with this country!? We're the ones putting money BACK INTO the economy with our unemployment benefits. Here we all worked our asses off, paid taxes for years just to lose our jobs by no fault of our own and then get forgotten by the senate and left to suffer. 2010-07-05T07:44:36Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-05:/comment/203371 dankennedy73 Please stop using government sites to preach religion. There are plenty of churches, if that is what people want to hear they can simply go to the nearest on or better yet they can open a bible and read it for themselves. I protected and respect your right to be religious, please show the same courtesy and respect my right to not have to be preached to when I'm trying to a feel of the political pulse of the nation. 2010-07-05T08:03:40Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-05:/comment/203373 lordgotmilk Unless something drastically changes, when I do get back to work, I'm going to go through the research on tax law. I remember hearing a few times that it's completely possible to not pay taxes, because the wording of the tax codes is such that it applies to business. I don't recall all the details, hence the research, but all the cases I've heard of are no longer paying taxes. If they won't represent the people they are hired by, then I want my money out of it. I won't pay them. 2010-07-05T09:20:11Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-05:/comment/203380 mykenzi 12.2% unemployment rate in my county. 9.5% unemployment rate in my state. We need tier 5, 6, 7 or how ever long it takes to get back to work. I'm a 62 year old professional and have worked since I was 14. I can't bend (physically, not because I won't, I use to be very active) down to work in the farm fields, and the migrants (illegal or not) are all working their asses off!!! I just want to work again :-( 2010-07-04T09:27:25Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-04:/comment/203325 satdog50 Tier 5 is absolutely needed by ALL Unemployed. Stop the games on the deadlines when there are only a few this Bill will help. Remove the deadlines and incorporate new TIERS 5, 6 for at least one year for American Unemployed who are suffering. Your ODJFS need to be contacted on their practices of stopping the unemployed not to be able to file claims this is wrong it will not provide true unemployemnt rate numbers in this country. Do something right for a change you know there is job issue in this country if 99 weeeks can not find work and the 26, 43 weeks can not find work why are you penalizing the unemployed who completely exhausted thier claims . Get a Tier 5 , 6 BILL. 2010-07-06T16:14:55Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-06:/comment/203492 Jess01869 Does anyone know New Jersey's unemployment rate? Senator Frank Lautenberg of NJ (democrat) took Byrd's place. Final vote needed perhaps? Write him! 2010-07-06T03:35:49Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-06:/comment/203420 zen_maker Unemployed man: "I can't pay my rent, I can't find a job, please you need to pass this bill asap!" Senator: "DO NOT DISTURB" Will be back from vacation on July 12! Unemployed man: "My kids are starving, I can't buy any food, I can't find any work" Senator: "DO NOT DISTURB"!!! Unemployed man: "I'm leaving this country" Senator: "Good news, I'm back, lets filibuster this bill!!! Unemployed man: "F@#$K" 2010-07-06T04:14:58Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-06:/comment/203424 jennkadd This bill needs to be passed immediately! I am and have been actively applying for jobs everyday, not even caring anymore what job it is or the pay. I do not qualify for assistance according to Michigan DHS, they say my husband grosses too much to receive food assistance for my son. That is false, otherwise I would not be looking for help. I do not WANT to be on unemployment, I would love a job. But by cutting the benefits like this will crush us all who were receiving it. 2010-06-29T14:49:02Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-29:/comment/201454 passitalready THE REASON "WE" don't have the money is because "WE" spent it bailing out the very CROOKS that are responsible for this CATASTROPHE? Simple truth is, I am a VICTIM of this fiasco and now being treated as if I am Responsible by My Government and My Fellow Americans! I would love to trade places with anyone who has a job, home, food, AND A PAYCHECK TO SUPPORT IT ALL. ANY OFFERS? DIDN'T THINK SO!!! Don't cast stones when you live in a glass house... Soon what "We" can't afford because we were Victimized BY ALL AMERICANS, "We" will be forced to take from "YOU". AND WE WILL BE CASTING THE STONES, JUST AS YOU HAVE, AND YOUR WORLD WILL COME CRUMBLING DOWN , JUST AS OURS HAS. Will YOU then be screaming of the injustice of it all, that YOU are the victim here, that YOUR Government and YOUR Fellow Americans are treating YOU as if YOU are Responsible??? I guarantee it! 2010-07-06T05:51:17Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-06:/comment/203427 LUnemp If all of the companies in the United States would STOP outsourcing to other countries then we would have more jobs... I think they should make the companies that outsource pay a high tax to be able to do this - make it not so economically wonderful for them. The money they save on payroll would be paid in tax's... 2010-07-06T06:25:46Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-06:/comment/203432 Houselogic Good men and women are forced to be silent and hold their tongues cause of fear of what is thought of them. What is the best thing to do for a man when he fails, its to mock him. So to help someone who has failed as a result of an outside influence (Congress/Senate) is fear of losing POWER over the 1 you made fail. Get in the way or get out the way but don't block failure or success. These men in women who make these polices and write these bills, are no more diffrent than being Lords/Ladies in medieval times. Like the majority of most Americans I wait silently, waiting for the time when those who say, "There are jobs out there you have to go look!!! don't be Lazy!" Soon the constant ignoring of your people Lords/Ladies of the senate.... Will be met with tyranny of the people's own doing, and then when everyone begins to ask, "How did we get here? Where did it all start?" Good men and women will be made evil and tyrants will be made gods!! 2010-07-06T21:42:09Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-07-06:/comment/203504 jduong08 I agree with you...stop issuing work visas to forgein residents. many of company are hiring forgein employee 2010-06-29T07:24:33Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-29:/comment/201120 NoneYa That Harry reid is the culprit. He has something stuck up his ass. I don't blame Republicans alone in this. Both sides are to blame. Nearly 44 % of the Senators are millionaires, when less than 1% of US population are. The rest get paid handsomely with tax payers money. You think they care about you? Then you are mistaken. It's not the fat cats in Wall Street that created this problem, they are the fat cats in Washington that did. So they must be charged and brought to justice if you ask me. Lobbying, campaign donations so on and so forth- just another name for bribery which is a crime any way you look at it. They are the ones making our lives miserable. I suggest even bringing those firing squad from Utah and line them up in Capital Hill and take care of them. No one misses them. Who cares about their familie as they don't seem to care about ours. 2010-06-30T14:22:46Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-06-30:/comment/201987 mek8630 I am sure you don't need the income anymore than I do. I am losing EVRYTHING. I cant afford to by my baby diapers,we are going without food.I cant afford to getthe plates on my car renewed.I can't buy gas.I can't find a job.I have turned in so many resumes I can't even begn to remeber who all I have and haven't turned one into.But yet nobody has called me for even an interview.I just don't understand.Even if I were safe and was in the ones that WOULD get it,I wouldn't want the bill to pass.It is not fair that the government is trying to just kill us off and not giving any help.I have paid into the p.o.s.government my whole adult life just like everyone else.I say its our money and we should be getting it.I don't want to paythem up there anymore salary and I want my MONEY.They will see the bad come out as soon as I run out of options and cant buy milk for my baby or food for my wifeandI.THAT will be the day.Together we can make a difference.Alone we are nothing.