Unemployment Benefits Expire Tuesday Unless Congress Acts

When my husband lost a job, it took him two weeks, TWO WEEKS, to find another job. So what if it paid less?? It's called LIFESTYLE CHANGE. Move in to an apartment or move in with family. It is not the end of the world if you have to go out and get a job that pays less than what you can afford to make right now. Get TWO jobs, get THREE jobs. Get rid of your new cars with high monthly payments, sell your house, cut your losses, and move on. If you are alive and well, you can adjust. This false sense of entitlement needs to stop NOW before our children and grandchildren end up paying for our laziness and inability to change and adjust. Sheesh.

People have to learn that elections have consequences. It was the heartland of the country that turned a deaf ear to Obama and the Democrats. Let them get a taste of Republican leadership early!

No one would deprive a business of a fair profit, but rampant corporate greed, fueled by Republican (and some Democrat) members of Congress has sent hundreds of thousands of jobs overseas. Corporate greed hsa made millionaires of many execs, who now enjoy paying little or no taxes, either personally or corporately. The obscene financial practices put in place by donor-seeking polititions has just been approved by the voters by keeping these hypocrites in Congress. Memo to Americans: Voting, or lack of voting has allowed this to happen. It didn't have to be this way.

I feel for these people, I really do, but I am self employed and I recieve NONE of these benefits. I wish I had 99 weeks to back my bill and feed my family.

On Sunday, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, suggested that Democrats would try to wrap an extension of unemployment benefits into any discussion of extending the expiring Bush tax cuts. "We should not be worrying about the discomfort of the wealthy, but the fact that there are many people struggling to survive everyday now because they have no job and no means to keep their family together in very difficult times," Don't worry about the comfort of the wealthy? Yeah, right. We'll just see in the next month or so - unemployment extension will be stopped and tax cuts for the wealthy will continue. Obama's already buckled his knees on his stance of "no more tax cuts for the wealthy." We've got a Republican stronghold once again - of course, they'll worry about their comfort - it brings them a reelection! Feel we're in a Democracy yet?

Instead of having call centers in the phillipines and india train our unemployed here to answer the phones. Keeping theses people on unemployment checks for two year is a disgrace. There are plenty of paying jobs around but you are spoiling these people, it is a great deal not having to pay taxes or anything else, just get a gross check and sit back.

A man alone and without a job will go hungry and do the best he can under the circumstances he faces. A man with a family takes a different view. He is willing to go hungry but he isn't willing to watch his children go hungry. He becomes clear headed in finding a way to feed them and he has a long memory of those who stood in his way when he tried to help himself.

How about pulling troops out of other countries that we pay BILLIONS of dollars for in "peace keeping". How about letting OUR citizens try and live. It's hard enough for people to try and live on Unemployment let alone none!! The fact that they TAX unemployment is rediculous as well. How about letting the umemployed take money out of their IRA's and 401K without penalties... it's THEIR MONEY! I can see taxing it but penalties? Rediculous

Let's get people back to work. Let's stop spending FEDERAL money to support state unemployment. As long as we keep giving money to the LONG-TERM unemployed, they will continue to collect our tax money. There are state and local welfare programs to help the long term unemployed. By spending Federal money on unemployment you are allowing state and local governments to waste money on programs that should be spent on the unemployed. This allows more spending on pet projects that are not needed and which money could be better spent on the chronic unemployed who desperately need the support.

Congress can give 700 billion to the banks, but it cant give 56 billion to the citizens? I can see many think there is some abuse, as with all government handouts, but there are many is hard hit states that cant get a job --- BECAUSE THERE ARE NONE. I dont think its fair that a persons job left for mexico and they where making $15 per hour, to take a job at McDees for $7 bucks an hour and try to have the same living...The only way we are going to bring jobs back is by stopping the ships coming in from china. Start making tv's, radios, cell phones, computers, games, etc.etc.etc.etc. in the states.