Unemployment Benefits Extension Decision to be Made This Week?
Posted on | November 1, 2009 | 55 Comments
UPDATE: We have had an amazing response to this issue! If you would like to write an article to those in Washington as to why YOU think unemployment benefits should be extended please email them to jwojdylo@subprimeblogger.com. If your article is free of profanity and any direct insults we will be more than happy to post it on our new site UnemployedandTrying.com and you can send the link to anyone you choose.
Many Americans currently on unemployment are very interested to know if the unemployment benefits extension, H.R. 3548, will pass this week. Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced that there will be another cloture vote on Monday to determine the final language of the bill. If the extension bill passes cloture vote rules state that Senate Democrats must wait at least 30 hours before a concluding tally.
With this being the case, it could mean that it will be late Tuesday or early Wednesday before the bill can be approved. At this point the bill would then go to the House and would have to be approved in full by the House. Several Democratic leaders are getting impatient with the GOP leadership. Due to these disagreements, it is likely that the bill will not include any of the additional amendments suggested by the GOP. Some of these suggestions included the speeding up of the expiration of the TARP funds.
This weekend we had a very interesting conversation on the effects of the unemployment extension; posing the question “will it cause job seekers to be lazy?” Please continue this discussion if you are interested in the matter. The link as available here:
Unemployment Benefits Extension; Will It Cause Job Seekers to be Lazy?
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Author: Jesse Wojdylo
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November 1st, 2009 @ 6:08 pm
Lazy I want a job and wish i did not tneed these ext.benefits but every interview there atre 30-40 people vying for the same postion..get real Lazy???
November 1st, 2009 @ 6:17 pm
LAZY?!?!?!?!? Anyone who makes such as statement is simply showing how ignorant they are about the unemployment situation…and have no clue how many of us are are fighting shut-off notices and driving on fumes trying to find a job that just isn’t there Can we come eat at THEIR house?
November 1st, 2009 @ 6:25 pm
Lazy? No, there are not enough jobs out there.
Recently in the news, an HR person put an ad out for a $13 Hr. Admin. Asst. position at a trucking school. Within a day she had over 500 applicants.
Recently a school was looking for a janitor, it received approx. 700 applications.
The unemployment numbers are much higher than what is reported if you factor in people who have lost their benefits, people who do not qualify for benefits and those who work PT but need and want more hours to survive.
Stop shipping jobs overseas and bring them back to the U.S. We are hard working people, we just need the jobs to be there.
50 years ago a man could support a family with one job and know he had job security if he did well. Can anyone say that now????
November 1st, 2009 @ 6:44 pm
I though this has been passes already. Why is it taking so long. I agree with the above I want a job not unemployment, It’s not nearly enough to cover my bills but it helps. This is not my fault and I should not be penalized.
November 1st, 2009 @ 6:50 pm
I have been laid off since Feb 2008. I have been actively looking for work not only in my profession but others areas of interest which I still qualify for. I have gotten to the next step on numerous occasions as far as interviewing but I never get to the point where I am offered employment. I have even reseached on interveiwing, getting resume critiques and so on… But, no of these proactive things have worked for me. My unemployment benefits ended the last week of August since then I have been borrowing money to pay rent, get food and gas money. I would rather work than get unemployment anyday if I had a choice because the max unemployment isn’t even half of what I was making in income when I was employed. It has been very stressful without any income coming in and I really think that society shouldn’t judge others especially if those particular individuals haven’t experience such a hardship before. I never sit back and talk about others especially if I haven’t walked in their shoes! I am very educated with a degree and still can’t get employed with jobs who don’t even ask for a college degree. Many times when it comes to these sort of things the ones who have the say so are already well off and could care less. So to make this short I would say if you have a job keep it, if you have a career cherish it! Because, you never know when this one thing may happen to you! What you have today can be taken tommorrow!
November 1st, 2009 @ 6:50 pm
Lazy? So now we want to speculate the people that lost their jobs because of this horrible economy that they might become lazy. Like somehow this whole situation was their fault!
Focus on creating more jobs is the issue not the mindset of people who have been laid off.
IDIOTS!!
November 1st, 2009 @ 7:24 pm
Worked 40 years and never needed unemployment. Thank God I was able to work and taxes paid, to help others in need. Now I’m one that needs this help. Lets get this approved before the economy edges downward because of the absence of spendable income. Without these funds things will only get worse!
November 1st, 2009 @ 7:47 pm
Unemployment benefits vs. Wages,
Being able to pay your bills without having to borrow the money, applying for a job that a 100 others have appled for, your company moving out of state, most importantly what it does to your self worth and self esteem…yeah, who would choose any of these things happening… so they could be LAZY and live on uneployment
I have been unemployed many months because my company moved out of MI – is this my fault? I’m thankful for the benefits at least it helps with my bills but I WOULD RATHER HAVE A JOB!
November 1st, 2009 @ 8:10 pm
How can one make a statement like that. I wake up every day wishing to find work. At my age it’s very hard to find work outside your field. Plus a have a daughter graduating from highschool next year. My baby has a 3.8 GPA and I’m proud of her and it hurts not to be able go provide for her. I wish I could hind a job and not have to wait on unemployment. I lost my apartment I can’t even pass out handbills, they are laying off. In short I don’t want it just because. I need it so I can at least pay my baby school fees.
November 1st, 2009 @ 8:20 pm
Lazy? Ignorant comment. I’m educated and lost my job at 61 yrs. of age and still cannot find a job. Gone to interviews and advised they have 75 more resumes,probably younger people. If I’m lazy I will be taking Soc. Sec. Disability that was approved to me 22 yrs. ago and took it for only 3 yrs. and went back to work and worked till last yr.
Idiots!!!! think before you write.
November 1st, 2009 @ 9:04 pm
LAZY???!!!! Wow, this statement being made by a person who was elected to his position to help improve our situation.. The LAZY people in his District should consider that before re-electing him to office and I wonder how he would do if LAZY was the word used to describe him in the same situation.
November 1st, 2009 @ 10:57 pm
You know what? I am getting sick and tired of the word “lazy” being thrown at people needing unemployment help. Here is the bottom line: IT ISN’T A HANDOUT. To qualify for unemployment, one must have HAD A JOB to begin with. A handout is something given to someone for nothing. Having been in the workforce for over 20 years, I HAVE PAID INTO UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FOR ALL OF THOSE YEARS. In that time, I have received UI 3 times total, with this last time being the worst I have ever had it. There are no jobs here. Trust me.. I think that everyone who is receiving unemployment insurance would much rather be at a good job with benefits and retirement and all that. It is not fun scraping by on half of what I used to make. Nor is it fun having to stand in line at a free clinic to get necessary health care. Get off your high horses and realize that people need a little help. These GOP holdouts were the same people that tripped over themselves to rescue big banks with YOUR tax dollars. Frankly, I think the people need a bailout for themselves.
November 1st, 2009 @ 11:18 pm
Whoever throws out the word lazy with regard to people collecting unemployment benefits in this economy is just plain ignorant! Who in their right mind would want to continue getting half (or less) of their salary unless they had no choice. I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say that it is extremely frustrating to apply to jobs every day–maybe get a few interviews and then don’t get offered the job due to being overqualified! It’s definitely an employers market right now, and they can offer very little salary and be very picky at the same time. If you happen to be over 50, the scenario gets even worse. So, it’s easy for these senators to throw out words like lazy since they are so removed from reality!
November 1st, 2009 @ 11:21 pm
Wow,
That felt like a kick when your down,I’ve worked forty years to loose everything!!!
Forget the unemployment, Give me the social security I’ve paid and will never see a penny of.
Nothing else needs to be said. This is one day of their THREE-DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for. I am ready to start from the beginning by voting out all elected officials and not letting any of them stay in office for more than two terms. No more lifelong healthcare, retirement, voting in their own pay raises, taking perks on our taxes, etc.
House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero, Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford, and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)
The guy sitting in the row in front of these two is on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.
These are the folks that can’t get the budget out by Oct. 1, Seriously!!!
So, we’ve gotten a 30-day budget extension. Well, guess what?! Thirty days from now we will be in the same boat. I guess this makes it easy for the news reporters, since all they have to do is recycle the same headlines from this week and from 2 years ago. And these yo-yos will still be playing SOLITAIRE!!!
No wonder our country is in BIG trouble! These people should be monitored like kindergartners… to make sure they’re paying attention to what they’re supposed to be doing on their jobs… the most important jobs in the American work force!
Unbelievable!!!
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November 1st, 2009 @ 11:50 pm
Lazy? Ha!!! Like the rest of you I’ve been searching without any results for a job. I,ve even gotten as far as a second interview with one of them,only to have my dreams of stability shot down. Has anyone stopped to think about how not extending the benefits will lead to our so called laziness? Without the unemployment benefits,how are we suppose to get transportation to find a job,keep a phone on to receive calls or inquire about employment,and how in the hell are we supposed to take care of our children whose only crimes are being born in a world where the rich get richer and the less fortunate well hey I guess we’re all just a bunch of lazy slobs so who gives a damn. Last time I checked no one awards you with an unemployment check for being a lazy-ass.Correct me if I’m wrong but haven’t we all worked most of us for numerous years with the understanding that if we lost our jobs for reasons beyond our control we’d have a little bit of finacial security until we could get back on our feet? Who would believe that the small amount of funds that one receives from unemployment would make us all so rich and comfortable that we’d sit on our asses all day?
November 2nd, 2009 @ 12:09 am
Considering the fact that the Senate is only going to be in session 2 days this week, cloture will almost guarantee that nothing gets accomplished this week.
The cloture vote would have to be taken by about noon on Monday in order for it to be eligible to be acted upon on Tuesday.
I’m not holding my breath.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 12:47 am
LAZY!!!! I was earning $12k a MONTH and claim $430 a week in NYC, the most expensive city in the USA. You do the math! Ignorance is no excuse in 2009!
November 2nd, 2009 @ 5:16 am
LAZY???? I’ll be 60 in Dec and have worked all my life and have now lost home etc. Those who call us lazy are the ones that are still working and haven’t had to walk our walk!!!
November 2nd, 2009 @ 6:56 am
Lazy? no … Hungry and homeless, certainly.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 7:00 am
LAZY how dare you? My company that worked i for laid me off over 16 months ago!! They sent a 6 million dollar account to mexico for cheaper labor and that means bye bye jobs for us!!! You have some nerve calling us lazy!!! Get off you butt and help us hard working people!! Remember unemployment is not Welfare got it!!
November 2nd, 2009 @ 7:05 am
It is with great pleasure that I watch the slow, torturous demise of the Republican Party. Not because I favor the “other side” but only because of their performance over the years. A truly effective government has no “sides”. Candidates should be chosen based on their record & the issues they support. To create multiple parties in our government is nothing more than exercising the #1 rule of war; divide & conquer. A multiple party system is no different than the multiple factions that rule the Middle East by constantly attacking each other instead of working together as one; and look what it has done to us. We are consumed with turning against each other; liberals against conservatives; red states against blue states. Is this some sort of self destructive game we have been forced into? How can we stoop to this depth of immaturity?
Listen to GOP now – there is nothing the other side can say that is not attacked & all but destroyed. They are pathetically grasping at any straw as they slowly sink into their self-made quicksand. They have taken our economy from the Clinton era of balanced, prosperous and in the black, deep into the red. They have given our jobs to every country but our own. They have allowed our neighbors to illegally enter our Country & take thousands of jobs from us while we pay all their expenses. They have sent thousands of our children to their deaths with many more maimed for life and never achieved the legitimate goal of capturing the leader & terminating the organization that actually attacked us. They have left us in a war we cannot win yet cannot leave for fear of having given all those young lives for nothing. They have all but destroyed our Country with personal greed beyond comprehension. And now we are called lazy bums. Well I’d rather be lazy than a ruthless self serving greed hound. I hasten to remind everyone that in order to collect unemployment one must put many years of work & associated contributions into the system to qualify. And the few that may be taking slight advantage are burned out, exhausted & deserve the break. Any one of us will gladly take any job we can find because to believe in the life unemployment benefits provide is just a hard way to go.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 7:10 am
Lazy? I have an idea. Throw all of those jokers out and let all of us lazy people submit for their jobs.
Who in the heck can live off what they pay on unemployment anyway?
Want a good and want it now. That is not lazy.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 7:15 am
Oh have to vent:
Biden is such a liar. Got to love his new math on jobs saved / created. He is full of horse hockey.
Oh by the way: everytime I go past the few road improvements paid for by stimulus monies all I see are 100% illegals running the equipment even flagging the cars to stop/go. And where does it go? Mexico.
And not only that but they come here illegally and then knock up their women so babies are born here. Go to the local flea market and you will see 2-3 kids and one in the belly.
And no I don’t dislike Mexicans but I DISLIKE anyone who is here illegally sucking on the sugar coated teets while the rest of us are FORCED to sit on our tails. And YES I will work for their wages not proud want a J-O-B.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 7:22 am
Lazy? Lazy?
I wish i will get a Job that i can pay my rent and bill. I can’t believe im saying this i can’t believe We have to Work just to survive and im not talking about, saving and just enjoying the beauty of LIFE like “Those people who are desiding everything for us”.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 7:32 am
Suggestion:
Do what I did:
Take your resume and copy/paste it into email and send to:
Biden
Obama
Your state’s governor
Your state’s elected officials Senators etc.
And preface it by adding your own comments and especially about the comment on us being lazy.
I even took the submission for our D-O-L and added it as a job submission. And yes when I turned in my record of looking for a job the D-O-L thought it was cool. One even commented I should send it to the Ga. State Labor Commissih Mike Thurmond. She said you ought to do this because he says there is a job for every Georgian. *isses me off.
Get mad and let those folks know. I write to them almost daily saying we need decent paying JOBS AND WE NEED THEM NOW.
Let them know too WE are going to VOTE THEM OUT. And that we are WEARY OF everyone blaming someone else. I don’t care who is to blame deal with it and move forward.
LOOKING FOR WORK 100+ resumes submitted. Some I added will do anything moral and legal just to get my foot in the door.
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Oh I forgot we are all lazy making a killing off the unemployment “insurance”.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 7:59 am
Lazy,
You must be rupublican. I’m out of work for over a year. I didn’t choose this situation to happen. I made a very good living for the last 10 years since I graduated college. My ave. pay was roughly over that stretch of time was about $1500 a week. I should be moving forward in my career not backwards. I never even new what unemployment was. Now I’m reduced to $556 a week and thats ending in 2 weeks. I had to sell my house at a substancial loss. The funny thing about that is I did things the right way. I put 25% down on my house and had over a year of reserves in the bank and paid off 70k in student loans before I purchased my house. I’ve wathched my retirement funds go down the tubes. I had to move back home with my parents at 35 years old after living on my own for the last 15 years. I thank god I had this as an option. Whats wrong with this picture???
November 2nd, 2009 @ 8:01 am
why did the democrats try to expand the bill. it would have passed if they had not screwed around with it
November 2nd, 2009 @ 8:03 am
I have worked since the age of 16.Not once have I needed to collect unemployment until ,August 18 2008.I WAS LAID-OFF due to the economic melt down.I am insulted to be considered lazy becuase I have had to collect benifits that are there for this very reason. I worked in the printing industry 20 years,now there are no jobs and I have sent out 5 resumes and filled out at least 3 applications a week since August,2008.If we the unemployed are soooo lazy, than why are there 50 to 100 us applying for every job. Or shall I say the few jobs there are left!!!
November 2nd, 2009 @ 8:03 am
Lazy !!! For sure the folks using that word for us unemployed are working with a paycheck. I’m 61 yrs old and have worked for the past 40yrs,with money being deducted each week for these types of situations. No longer do I look for a job in what I have done, I now look for a job ANYWHERE, doing ANYTHING, because here in Florida there aren’t much of any jobs.
Lazy !!! just ticks me off, particularly when I’m interviewed by someone half my age whom I hve forgotten more then they know.
Before using the word lazy towards us unemployed check out just how much money we are collecting particularly here in Fl, trust me we aren’t putting it into a savings account!
November 2nd, 2009 @ 8:13 am
Voting 87-13, the senate advanced a bill (HR 3548) that would provide 20 more weeks of jobless checks for those whose current allotments have expired or soon will expire and live in states with at least 8.5 percent unemployment.
My dismay is not only the damaging delay caused by Republican stonewalling with totally unrelated amendments or how to fund the benefits extension which appears inevitable. My greatest dismay is the 13 senators who voted against the extension per se! Why would any senator vote against extending jobless benefits for those Americans who, through no fault of their own, are in dire financial circumstances including mortgage foreclosure due to a national unemployment rate approaching 10 percent!
Something’s wrong with that picture!
November 2nd, 2009 @ 8:36 am
You A**HOLES how dare you call us lazy I had a job over 2 years ago making $13 an hour plus overtime was laid-off January 3 2007 and wasn’t called back,I’m 57 years old and have been looking for a job and can’t find anything. I also served in Vietnam and just recently got diagnosed with Diabetes from exposure to Agent Orange with secondary Neurapathy and pain in finger and toes and you call me and my fellow unemployed Americans Lazy you ought to be in our shoes and see how you like someone playing with your life. I haven’t collected a check in 5 weeks now how am I suppose to pay my bills? I think we should send all our bills to these Senators who want to play games with our lifes and make them pay them. GET OFF YOUR A**ES AND PASS THIS TODAY WE’RE DYING OUT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 2nd, 2009 @ 8:41 am
just a though on the GOP stalling the unemployment bill over and over and over again. do you think that the GOP are smart enough to know that they are going to lost a lot of seats come election time? do you think the GOP knows that the middle class are the ones who will vote them out of office? Do you think the the GOP knows that the the least likely to vote are the poor and homeless? Do you think that the GOP thinks, if we hold up the unemployment bill it will send million of unemployed into poverty, so the people that are going to vote us out are now the people who are the least likely to vote. If these people don’t vote we don’t lose or jobs. by holding up this bill the GOP has put 7000 people a day into poverty and thus less likely to vote against them. Just a though.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 8:48 am
Frankly, NYS state and our senators has been remarkably proactive on this so wailing on them is preaching to the choir, but without passage we are all in a world of hurt. This is A LIST OF SENATORS who have continued to attach unrelated amendments so keep this legislation stalled. No doubt they have never gone without.
Seriously, everyone who has access to a computer and too much time on their hands needs to annoy the crap out of these guys. THEY ALL HAVE EMAIL: LET THEM KNOW THIS WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN.
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) [6.8%]
Sen. Christopher Bond (R-MO) [9.5%]
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) [10.9%]
Sen. Thomas Coburn (R-OK) [6.7%]
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) [8.2%]
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) [11.6%]
Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY) [6.8%]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) [11.6%]
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) [6.2%]
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)[6.7%]
Sen. Jefferson Sessions (R-AL) [10.7%]
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) [7.4%]
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) [9.2%]
DO NOT FORGET MITCH MCCONNELL AND JOHN BOEHNER. These are the same obstructionists who blocked every step attempted to assist those of us without a country club membership. The thing they hate more than angry constituents is angry constituencies from other states overwhelming their staffs. THEY LOVE MAIL JUST AS MUCH SO MAKE USE OF ALL THIS TIME, AT LEAST THEY WILL KNOW WE’RE NOT LAZY. MAKE THEM WISH WE WERE LAZY.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 8:49 am
My benefits ran out in September. If they actually manage to get the benefits extended this week, I may be able to keep my house for a little while longer. Or maybe not.
Getting told an extension would make me lazy is laughable. A local company (Well, 45 minute drive for me, but I would gladly do it for the job.) took apps for 50 positions 3 weeks ago. They had over 3000 applicants. 60 to 1 odds, at best. Not finding a job these days has nothing to do with being lazy.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 8:53 am
HERE IN MICHIGAN, WE’VE HAD THE HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN THE COUNTRY FOR THE LONGEST. TRUST ME WHEN I SAY THERE ARE NO JOBS HERE. I RAN OUT OF BENEFITS OVER A MONTH AGO AND IS REALLY FACING HARD TIMES IN EVERY AREA OF BILL PAYING AND SURVIVING IN GENERAL. ALL I CAN SAY IS I HOPE THE BIG WIGS IN D.C. GET THEIR STUFF IN ORDER SOON WITH CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS AROUND THE CORNER. PLEASE KNOW PEOPLE HERE ARE IN DIRE NEED OF RELIEF.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 9:07 am
LAZY!!!!!
I HAVE BEEN UNEMPLOYED SINCE MAY 2007, I HAVE FOUR CHILDREN…ALL UNDER 9 YEARS OLD. FOOD STAMPS DENIED ME TWICE, BECAUSE I HAD 9K IN 401K. I HAD TO CASH IT IN SO I CAN PAY MY BILLS. MY CHILDREN ARE ASKING ME WHY THEY CANNOT GO ON VACATIONS OR BUY CERTAIN FOODS. I KEEP TELLING THEM THAT MOMMY DOESN’T HAVE A JOB,THEREFORE WE HAVE TO USE VERY LITTLE OF EVERYTHING. AFTER EVERY PREGNANCY, I WENT BACK TO WORK WITHIN 2 MONTHS. I AM NOT LAZY, STAYING HOME IS DRIVING ME CRAZY. I HAVE HAD A JOB SINCE THE AGE OF 14. PLEASE DON’T INSULT ME.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 9:09 am
[...] SubprimeBlogger: Many Americans currently on unemployment are very interested to know if the unemployment benefits extension, H.R. 3548, will pass this week. Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced that there will be another cloture vote on Monday to determine the final language of the bill. If the extension bill passes cloture vote rules state that Senate Democrats must wait at least 30 hours before a concluding tally. [...]
November 2nd, 2009 @ 9:29 am
We gotta way round here to deal with folks like that! take em out in the woods and tie them to a tree “buck naked” and pour honey and molasis over their genitals and leave them to be made right by the coons and such! after a night in the wood they’d be sqweelin a diffrent tune bout being lazy!
November 2nd, 2009 @ 10:01 am
Lazy – what an insult. I have been unemployed since May of 2006. I have applied for over 200 jobs and have not even been granted one interview.Lazy? The lazy description belongs to those damnable republican senators who are now the party of no. They have never had to move out of those soft chairs they occupy. They make big money, have big perks and little brains.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 10:44 am
Lazy? Complete BS. I’ve been an inner city teacher of the handicapped for close to ten years doing what I love. I took a new job; I was the last person hired and received a nomination for teacher of the year twice! I loved my job. Two years after, I was released because of cuts. I have not worked in more than two years. I’m going stir crazy being home and next week my “unemployment benefits” run out dry. I’m petrifed. Then we these a$$holes saying we might get lazy?? F-K them!
November 2nd, 2009 @ 10:49 am
As a designer (not too many of these jobs available) I’m more than willing to do low paying janitorial-like work but was told I don’t qualify again and again…. not enough experience. Lazy? Maybe a bit of truth. Forced “laziness” due to circumstances.
For now I’m taking it upon myself to make my own work. Hopefully it’ll take off and eventually I can hire 25 people like me – hungry to work.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 11:15 am
The Scenario:
They past the bill, despite the usual, suspects and look like heroes RIGHT BEFORE the holidays.
Assholes.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 11:19 am
Lazy. I been working since 11 years old delivering newspapers as my first job. Everytime you apply not enough experience over over qualified. Bills are past due. Kids have to eat. I paid my taxes my whole life. Never went depended on welfare or food stamps. I think its nerve to say lazy. I spend all the money I saved you explain it to kids why theres no food on the table.
Please pass this bell.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 11:50 am
LAZY!!??!! U think i want unemployment.. they dont even give u that much $$.. i used to make 20 and hour. now i get half of what i used to. We need help!
November 2nd, 2009 @ 11:51 am
THIS FROM COMCAST.NET ABOUT CIT BANKRUPTCY:
“The move wipes out current holders of its common and preferred stock, meaning the U.S. government will likely lose the $2.3 billion in taxpayer funds it sunk into CIT last year to prop up the company.”
This unemployment extension is roughly $2.3 billion and was to come from the normal taxes taken for unemployment.
What is really better, investing 2.3 billion in the livelihood of the people who forged the productivity statistics over the last decade or some lousy savings and loan company that lied to get the money and lost it anyway? That was some of my taxes too, that I had earned and gave to the government, involuntary and without accountability!
November 2nd, 2009 @ 12:09 pm
I’ll tell you who is lazy……. The damn Republicans who can’t shit or get the hell off the pot! The late Senator Kennedy is rolling in his grave!
November 2nd, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
I agree with the comments presented here. I want to work and need to work. I have been out of work since February 2008. I have applied to jobs and I have had interviews but no jobs. I have taken this time to get my bachelors degree and now working on my CPA license. I decided to take every moment to improve my skills so when the market loosens up a bit, at least I have a better shot. I am not lazy at all. I try to keep myself busy by keeping myself with a daily routine. I get up at 5am, I log online and fill out job applications at every site possible. I then go workout because sitting around the house can make you gain a bit of weight. I come home clean cook and study for CPA.
I have two interviews lined up this week which I’m glad to have hope. I just received an email today from the IRS saying I am eligible for a position that I applied for just last Thursday. I submitted my paper work so now I need to see what will happen with that.
I ran out of my benefits in September. I try not to think about what will happen to me and my child this month as i have not enough money to do anything with. I try not to focus on what can happen. I just pray that I will have a job soon so I can pay bills. I will probably be working any way by the time these people in the white house pass the unemployment extension. Obviously, it is not a priority for them at this time. Its a disgrace to our country that these people treat us so badly.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 2:35 pm
Seriously???? I just HAD to respond to this!! My husband has been practically “begging” for work, and everyone keeps telling him mthe same thing, that they definently will give him work when they get the work themselves! Ha! At this rate, when the economy DOES pick up, he probably will have about 20 job offers!! The jobs just are NOT happening right now!! What do you want us to do? We can’t even feed our kids and we both worked our entire adult lives!! I’m still working (thankfully), which is keeping the mortgage and electric paid, but there is nothing left after that!! And all the local agency’s turn us away for help because they don’t have funding!!
November 2nd, 2009 @ 2:39 pm
So, if you want to see what other disgusting things the Republicans are up to,(and some democrats, btw), please go and watch this youtube video!
I’m not sure if the embedding will work, so here is the web address you can copy and paste! This is a great report, and tells you not just to blindly trust our leaders and the media!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDxm–DyavI
This is so sad, that they waste time that we pay them for, that they are supposed to be getting our business done in, to spread more political lies, and poison the American koolaid they want us all to drink! I’m disgusted personally, they care nothing for us, I assure you!
November 2nd, 2009 @ 3:38 pm
DO NOT LAY OFF THESE GUYS, FOLKS. IF THEY THINK THE PRESSURE IS OFF FOR A MOMENT THIS WEEK WILL TURN INTO NEXT MONTH. PERSONALLY, I CAN’T MAKE IT TO NEXT MONTH.
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) [6.8%]
Sen. Christopher Bond (R-MO) [9.5%]
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) [10.9%]
Sen. Thomas Coburn (R-OK) [6.7%]
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) [8.2%]
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) [11.6%]
Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY) [6.8%]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) [11.6%]
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) [6.2%]
Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)[6.7%]
Sen. Jefferson Sessions (R-AL) [10.7%]
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) [7.4%]
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) [9.2%]
IT WILL BE THE SAME DAMNED THING WITH HEALTHCARE REFORM AND BANK REGULATIONS, MARK MY WORDS. OBSTRUCTION IS THE ONLY CARD THEY HAVE TO PLAY THESE DAYS.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 3:55 pm
You have got to be kidding! Lazy? I have worked since I was 16-years old. 12-years old if you count babysitting. In the summer before my senior year of high school, I did enough interior house painting to buy a years worth of school clothes and supplies/accessories, etc. I am now 43 and this is the first time EVER that I have collected unemployment. I need the help. I have documented proof that in 10 months, I have applied for almost 400 jobs. Yes, I have proof because it is needed for unemployment. And, there isn’t enough room on the form to put all the employers I have applied with. So, to anyone who says people on unemployment are lazy, we have worked for years to get this, even the extensions. We pay into social security we aren’t eligible for. Being on unemployment is no prize because it doesn’t count as income to the Fed Gov at tax time when filing tax returns.
November 2nd, 2009 @ 6:17 pm
REMEMBER THOSE SENATORS WHO ARE HOLDING UP THIS BILL. MAKE THEM UNEMPLOYED AT ELECTION TIME. OR DO WE THE UNEMPLOYED HAVE TO MARCH ON WASHINGTON.
November 3rd, 2009 @ 11:43 am
Lazy? Let me tell you my story, I graduated from a prominent university with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a certification in Computer information Systems. I have worked all my life since age 14 and paid thousands of dollars in taxes, I’ve been unemployed for nearly a year and my unemployment has been exausted. I’m on the verge of lossing my vehical and my credit is close to defaulting. I’m not lazy, I’m just a victim of circumstances. You see, WORK is in my blood. After all we build things here in Michigan, we are a working society, that’s what makes this county so great!!!!!
November 5th, 2009 @ 1:22 am
It’s a shame that the people who got caught in the mess, referred to as, an econmic down turn. We are dedicated hard workers who were loyal to our employers and got let go. How does lazy get in the mix. Lazy would be true, if there were an abundance of jobs. People who don’t work because of a company eliminating your position- is something else. Not lazy. Please don’t use this as another political crutch.
November 12th, 2009 @ 7:48 pm
Well, unemployment rate has breached the 10% mark and is likely to get uglier and unfortunately a few more millions are at risk. You can find your Job Security Score here http://tiny.cc/FDLwo if you are curious.