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The Faces of the 99ers

Posted 15 months ago|1 comment|497 views

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60 minutes , 99ers , unemployment , congress , republicans

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Kqm2010

I just like to share this video with anyone out here who just can see who the 99ers really are. I found this on youtube. It is the show 60 Minutes doing a piece on the 99ers. The 99er aren't who most people think they are. Most are well educated had good jobs and over the age of 40. Most have been out of work for more then 2 years. Life has changed for all the 99ers. And I think it will change how the 99er live out the rest of there life's. Watch the video, it really does put a face on the 99ers.

UPDATE - 15 months ago

watch who the 99ers really are

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Kevin Kelly
Williamston, SC

15 months ago: American 99er's are the largest growing unorganized group of people in the nation. The people of Egypt, via protest, removed President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak from his office. Why don't the American 99er's show the same passion? Oh sure we send a couple of emails to our House and Senate members, but the messages are simply blocked. We place calls to the same Congress people and a 20 year intern runs interference. We start a blog, or two, or three, but no one reads them except other 99er's. We can sit back and do nothing and that's exactly what will happen, nothing. Sure we want a Tier 5, but are we willing to protest or take action for it? Probably not, THAT WOULD TAKE AN EFFORT. Why should Congress listen to us, we're not doing anything. No major network has picked up on our story, nor placed us in the homes of American's nightly. We are absolutely no threat to the government what so ever. We continue to allow the Department of Labor to report their concocted unemployment reports and sit back and say "oh well, what can I do"? Depending on who's report you read there's anywhere from 1 to 15 million 99er's. Many 99er's out there helped to form the non-violent protest movements, the love-in's, or the sitting in's. I AM NOT SUGGESTING VIOLENCE HERE, but why haven't 99er's packed the National Mall in D.C.? Let's show America exactly how many there are of us. Shatter the government's unemployment numbers. If we continue to take the same measures we are taking now, we are going to get the same results we have now. Nothing. The 99er's biggest problem . . . getting up from our comfort zone and taking action!

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