| There are now more Americans that have been unemployed since recording began in 1948. Forty six percent of America's jobless workers have been out of work for more than 6 months. What are these people going to do to survive?
These aren't nameless faces. These are your neighbors, your friends and family. They are the people you go to church with and the ones who hold the door open for you at the post office. Now you may see them in the streets with "Will work for food signs". It may sound as if this is an exaggeration, but unfortunately it is not.
They said their concern was the growing deficit. Well, without those people spending the unemployment checks and supporting businesses to create more jobs the economy will be seriously effected. When their homes are repossessed, an already struggling housing market will be hit hard.
When they are forced to apply for Welfare benefits the government deficit will rise. (Seniors and adults without children won't qualify) If they become desperate enough to steal the government will then pay for extra law enforcement and the insurance companies will have to raise rates to cover the claims. It's a snowball effect.
Our representatives say that if they continue to pay unemployment benefits then people will not search for jobs. This is a slap in the face of every person who has worked their entire life and paid into the system! This is an insult to their integrity!
I am one of the people whom this vote affects. I have been on unemployment since January of 2010 and if I don't find work in the next 30 days will lose my home, my pets and everything else. It's not like I've been sitting at home eating steak (like our representatives). The cupboards are bare and I eat a LOT of rice and other inexpensive food just to have enough. My check is less than HALF of what I made before.
It's time the WE THE PEOPLE IN ORDER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION exercise our right to vote - those who forgot whom they represent - out of office and into the unemployment lines.
Sources:
http://cnmnewsnetwork.com/1221...
http://www.layofflist.org/2010... (Real stories from real people. Some are very sad, but worth reading)
http://www.norwalkreflector.co...
http://www.thebreakroom.net/ap... (My own website. Permission is granted to reprint)
http://www.associatedcontent.c... (This story show where the money is really going, such as poop research)
http://www.denverpost.com/rawn... |
