2010-11-19T04:32:57Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2007:/bill/comments/66653 2010-11-19T04:32:57Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-19:/comment/216325 TravisHJ Why not just do away with minimum wage? 2010-11-23T11:37:01Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-23:/comment/217119 acuera Over the past 3 years, $319 billion has been spent to ensure unemployment insurance for those of us who are unemployed. In 2008, $700 billion was spent at one time to bail out the banks & Wall Street. Which created the greater debt? And which worked for the greater good? Helping working people and their families seems better for the greater good. Helping the wealthy has never to me seemed for the greater good, of course maybe its my own working class bias at work here? 2010-11-23T11:43:29Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-23:/comment/217122 acuera Which is better than nothing. By the way, since August, a bill has been sitting idle, to extend those who are 99ers. What we need is a comprehensive bill to address the realities of capitalism -- there will always be long periods of unemployment under capitalism, so the benefits need to be in place for as long as it takes to fix the greed driven messes capitalism inevitably creates. 2010-11-23T11:41:34Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-23:/comment/217121 acuera $725 billion for the war in Iraq. $275 billion so far in Afghanistan. Thousands of American lives and millions of native lives lost. $319 for unemployment insurance. The majority of workers are still alive. What's better -- spend money to kill or spend money to keep people alive? 2010-11-23T11:51:04Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-23:/comment/217124 acuera Job growth means more wages paid out, more benefits paid out, and less profit for corporations. Unemployed we get desperate, and are more easily exploited. Congress does not "create jobs" -- capitalists do. And in America, there is no government control over corporations. That's why it is capitalist -- corporations have a "free market". They are free to do as they choose, and they choose to lower wages, limit employment, and rack in bad profits from it. As for debt, well, that's the American way, debt and credit. Better to be in debt for a good cause than a bad one. 2010-11-23T11:53:54Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-23:/comment/217126 acuera There is a way to fix up. It is called checks and balances and accountability. The FBI raiding Wall Street this week is a good start. There are laws in our government that do not allow the behavior that has been in practice since the 80's -- uncontrolled greed and profit. This happens every 60-70 years or so in America. All that can be done is crack down and keep an eye on it. 2010-11-23T12:03:43Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-23:/comment/217128 acuera This is already being done. An unemployed single person who has no UEI benefits has to work in order to get General Relief, which is about $275 a month in most States. Hmmmm......way below minimum wage. And, undocumented workers get paid as little as $2.00 an hour in sweatshops. By the way, not even a single person can live off minimum wage. So what is your point? 2010-11-23T12:04:27Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-23:/comment/217129 acuera Sadly, cheap labor is all the rage these days. And of course they want cheap labor. More profits for them. Sadly it's not just republicans who think this way. 2010-11-23T12:06:36Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-23:/comment/217130 acuera Wow you are the lucky one -- only your kids are in debt? My whole family is in enough debt already! We kind of owe our soul to the company store,if you know what I mean. But brace yourself, many more blows to come. We shall see. 2010-11-18T12:20:23Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-18:/comment/216249 Abaratarrr this bill is not an unemployment extension, it just extends the dead lines to sign up for the current unemployment extension for the newly unemployed 2010-11-18T14:23:56Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-18:/comment/216279 BenjaWiz I UNDERSTAND PEOPLE NEED HELP BUT TAX AND SPENDING ISN'T THE ANSWER CONGRESS NEEDS TO WORK ON ENCOURAGING JOB GROWTH NOT RACKING UP MORE DEBT THIS IS JUST MADNESS. 2010-11-18T14:20:33Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-18:/comment/216276 BenjaWiz IT'S NOT GOOD POLICY TO ENGAGE IN LONG TERM UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION AS OUR KIDS ARE IN DEBT ENOUGH. NO MORE TAX AND SPEND CONGRESS WAKE UP OR 2012 WILL ANOTHER BLOW. 2010-11-19T05:52:40Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-19:/comment/216343 MTeinert So what you're saying is lets not put our kids in debt by helping the middle class by extending unemployment for the people who's jobs were shipped overseas, instead we should put them even more in debt than that by paying trillions down on a war that is not paid for to fight so called terrorists. Oh yeah we should also put them more in debt by extending the tax breaks for the top 2% of people who got us in to this mess in the first place. Let's just keep shitting on the middle class to help the super wealthy and watch our kids starve in the mean time until they still have to carry the burden of our nations debt. Im sure this will help the future of our country. Good job you dousche bag. 2010-11-29T06:24:17Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-29:/comment/218636 satdog50 This Bill is useless we have millions and millions counting 99er's out of work we should count them now it shows the true numbers. Wake up and try standing together ALL Unemployed stop playing Washington Republican games! 2010-11-29T06:28:37Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-29:/comment/218638 satdog50 ALL Unemployed 34 weeks, 43 weeks, 99er's need to stand together. These are milions and millions not reported. You better wake up it is time now or nothing. It is time for ALL Unemployed to show we are not like Republican filibuster. How does it fell to vote Republicans back in wait till 2011. Same old same old. China deserves to have this country the way we act! 2010-11-21T14:05:03Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-21:/comment/216720 Lin You can't be serious? You must be a republican idiot who just wants to get cheap labor. 2010-11-23T11:40:09Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-23:/comment/217120 acuera I would like to say that we need to be wary of being negative toward foreign born workers. We are all workers and we are all exploited. The "middle class" in America lives on credit, so, to me, it doesn't really exist. Don't let a high wage fool you into thinking you are not working class. When you lose that high paying job, you end up down here with the rest of us. So long as you have to work you are working class. 2010-11-23T11:51:45Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-23:/comment/217125 acuera So true this. 2010-11-23T12:09:33Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-23:/comment/217131 acuera Cute kittie! Your key phrase is watching kids starve, thank you for saying this!!! out here in California, nearly 50% of kids suffer from what is called "food insecurity". That means they don't get enough to eat. With nearly 1/2 million unemployed and millions more underemployed, it's no wonder. Wow. That $700 billion bail out could have fed a lot of kids!!! I'd rather go into debt feeding kids than anything else. My kids say they don't mind paying on Tuesday for a hamburger today, so let's just do it! 2010-11-21T13:57:45Z tag:opencongress.org,2010-11-21:/comment/216718 Lin LETS JUST KEEP GIVING TAX CREDITS TO THE WEALTHY BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN SO GOOD AT CREATING JOBS AND KEEPING THE ECONOMY HEALTHY! SOON PEOPLE WILL BE ON THE STREETS IN MASS AND THEN WE CAN SEE HOW BAD IT REALLY IS AND IT WILL BE LOOKING LIKE A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. EXCEPT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WILL HAVE JOBS WILL BE FROM INDIA, CHINA AND MEXICO. AND THE PEOPLE ON THE STREETS WILL BE NATIVE BORN MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS. CORP. AMERICA IS ANTI-AMERICAN. AT THE LAST PLACE I WORKED THEY PREFERRED TO HIRE FOREIGNERS (ESP. CHINESE) AND DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SUPPORT OR TRY TO RETAIN SOMEONE WHO WAS BORN IN THIS COUNTRY WHO WAS ACTUALLY MORE QUALIFIED. (BIOTECH FIRM)