"Those 3.9 million are not necessarily still unemployed, and not all of them are necessarily "99ers" ...the White House estimated that another 4 million would exhaust their unemployment benefits during the course of 2011."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/10...Headline: "Unemployment Extension 2010: What You NEED To Know About Congressional Dithering On Benefits"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/unemp...Lots of talk, and not so much walk. I told a few people that I would get back with the results of my contacting Churches and individuals in every State of the Union... I was disappointed. Is it that this issue is unimportant? is it that these organizations are doing all they can?? or is it that everyone has come to the end of their resources and don't have an answer to this huge problem???
I sent out over 1000 e-mails and received back less than a handful. AND by the national results... that is about accurate for all attempts to get much needed answers. I still think that economic stimulus is best placed in the hands of small business. IF you pay one person for another 99 weeks, you fed a family for the same duration... if you help one person start a small business for the cost of 2-3 99ers, you could feed multiples more in wages and spin-off commerce.
Home Business - A Cure for Unemployment
Starting a Home-based Business May be a Personal Recovery Plan
http://www.suite101.com/content/home-bus...A few tips for those who may be interested in starting a small business...
there are Seven Pitfalls of Business Failure:
http://www.businessknowhow.com/startup/b...I maintain that Unemployment benefits across the board is "good money after bad" and there is a greater benefit for those who do have the skills to run a small business, as well as those around them if efforts were increased in this area. If the government wants to toss the money around... make community improvement projects. Even in developing an poor countries South of us employ people to sweep streets and cut grass by hand-tool if necessary. I don't know if we are ready for that yet.
I wonder if the unemployed would like a job that involved touching s---f with their hands... or if they would like to do manual labor just to get off unemployment? I think to some degree there are those who enjoy the benefits without the responsibility. We all seem to have a pride that prevents us from doing those things that may be beneath us... I could be wrong. Ye, this in no way diminishes the responsibilities of Government to assist their own citizens before doling out foreign aid.
I sure hope that the increased attention to this problem will cause a movement toward solutions... but it will take more than my 1000 e-mails. One would think that if Facebook and other social media could be used to topple an entire government, the same media could be used in a constructive way to blast attention in the right direction!
I don't get, nor want a cent to post this or anything, so don't let that be an issue...
let's see how much attention this and other posts can get by our total influence in this world. Even if we all just got back a response of less than a handful... it is a good start!
I fear though, that it will take more than sentiment and electronic messaging to create change. It seems only when the rubber hits the road in protest or demonstration that it makes the news. I just pray that the demonstrations aren't incited to violence. That would be just the excuse some are waiting for, to expose "Democracy" and reveal what it really is like out here in the West.
More Liberty, less licence...
More Freedom, less forms...
More Blessings, less bureaucracy...
Even if you get MORE financial support from the government,
you may get less cooperation from your State, you may have to come to Canada!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQscE3Xed...