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What 99ers & Tier 5 Unemployment Extension Needs

Posted 16 months ago|17 comments|4,305 views
Is this the legacy we leave our kids?
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99ers of America have pleaded their cause, by flooding every means of the social net work... seemingly to no avail. Their stories of hardship, their many forms of suicide, their cries for help, ignored by heartless governing authorities. Those in power, with power, wielding power... seemingly use it for their own enjoyment and gain, playing God with man. Despite all efforts millions of these in peril remain invisible, ignored or silenced...
it would seem their existence has been reduced to a life without limbs!

The following story may help put meaningless pain into perspective...

Being bullied at his school, Nick Vujicic grew extremely depressed, and by the age of 8, started contemplating suicide. At age 10, he tried to drown himself in 4 inches of water, but did not go through with it out of love for his parents. After begging God to grow arms and legs, Nick eventually began to realize that his accomplishments were inspirational to many, and began to thank God for being alive. A key turning point in his life was when his mother showed him a newspaper article about a man dealing with a severe disability. This led him to realize he wasn't the only one with major struggles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Vujici...

If you have arms and legs... use them.
You have MORE than MOST in the world, on your worst day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwZoeTd92...

"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." - John F. Kennedy

We have yet to see what people can do for the freedom and prosperity of each other.
"Love your neighbor, as yourself." - Jesus Christ
UPDATE - 16 months ago
Until God grows Nick Vujicic some limbs...
Or the government listens to the cries of her people... use what you have.
UPDATE - 18 days ago
"Don't Waste Your Life" by John Piper
http://dwynrhh6bluza.cloudfront.net/reso...
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16 months ago: Come to From the Trenches World Report for different strategies we have come up with to pull ourselves out of this mess we find ourselves in.
www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com
16 months ago: weneedtier5,

I checked out your site and there is a lot there... any particular solutions off the top of your head?
16 months ago: We need to change our party affiliation to non-partisan, send in our resumes to Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., spread the word about the Easter project, and build dossiers on our hometown corporate mafia. If we get rid of the false left-right paradigm and realize they are all the same we will go a long way to seeing what they are trying to do to us.
16 months ago: OK, let's say for a moment that you find the "middle of the road" ...how are they going to get into the White House without "big money?" Will it be a grass-roots movement? Who is going to fund this movement? The ones who need this idea most are those who are in poverty. No one is going to set their paycheck aside for change.

Obama was supposed to be this hero... everyone can see just what happened there!
16 months ago: gee when 1000s die homeless and in poverty as a 99er will the President give a speech about how sad it is we killed these people? When 14 people get shot by a nut the nation gets a speech. When 1000s of unemployed die does he understand he and congress killed them by not helping to prevent what kills them? No jobs for millions no matter what they do even after 99 weeks. For 11 million there just are no jobs. SO unless we help them we killed them.
16 months ago: 1000's are dying "homeless and in poverty" right now in America, and the President is not giving a speech for them... what makes us think 99er plight will be any different?
16 months ago: When 1000s of 99ers who no longer get help from UI checks die homeless and in poverty will the President or Congress give a speech about how sad it is we killed these people? When 14 people get shot by a nut the nation gets a speech. When 1000s of unemployed die this year understand congress killed them by not helping to prevent it with UI help over 99 weeks? No jobs for millions no matter what they do even after 99 weeks when 15 million unemployed and 4 million jobs to hire them. For 11 million there just are no jobs no matter what they try. It clear that is why millions are now staying unemployed after 99 weeks. Not because they are not trying to find work like some seem to think and are just wrong. So unless we make a funding plan to help them until job market has millions more jobs to hire more unemployed we killed them by making up this 99 week time limit. A time limit that does not relate in any way to how long it is taking for millions to find work. Work that for millions is not even out there to find. When it is then we can make that the limit. We have long way to go for enough jobs to even consider a time limit. Congress how do you feel about putting millions of Americans in harms way? When at same time you spend billions in wars to save Americans from another 9/11 that killed over 3000? When at same time you spend over 90 billion on foreign aid and ignore the peril doing so places 99ers in harms way that money could prevent? I don't know how you cannot understand when millions of unemployed have no chance to find work after 99 weeks with this jobs market we need to fund longer term help? That is we don't we end up killing 1000s in poverty? You do know poverty kills more per month then 9/11 ever did? So why are we not spending like we do on wars to prevent unemployed from being cut off after 99 weeks and ending up in poverty? A lot of people will die when Congress continues to ignore the facts.
16 months ago: Jim53,

I think to most our discussion is merely a topic. But for those in the middle of the situation it is a matter of life and death. It is pretty hard to convince someone who has never lived without... to really understand. The anxiety alone can be very harmful to ones health and outlook... with all the "brains" in America you would think there would be some solutions instead of rhetoric.
16 months ago: I feel ya man. Its hard right now but nobody has to starve. Go get food stamps. I did and now i have plenty of food to live on. I'm very fortunate because I have the ability to live very poor and low but still remain positive and have a general feeling of peace in my life. Also, if you have no income you should qualify for medicaid. If depression is becoming unbearable due to unemployment please get medicaid and help for your depression before it gets too bad. Jesus loves you.
16 months ago: We can build schools and hospitals in other countries to keep them from being communist but can't our own. Those against Tier5 and health insurance think those who "Don't Have" do it by choice. They have never missed a meal, or slept outside or been treated like dirt at an emergency room trying to get medical help. There comes a point when the psyche can not longer take it and one gives up.
16 months ago: I think that most of words that come out of a politicians mouth, are at best smug. You are right... they haven't gone a day "without" ...and as long as they do what they are told by BIG MONEY ... they never will.

One can only surround him/her self with genuine people, and be a service in their community helping the less fortunate. It doesn't change the situation that much... but it sure revives the soul. Keep on being strong.
Annie Rolwing
Annie Rolwing
Crete, IL
16 months ago: Food Stamps Ha I applied and I was told my husband made too much money to qualify.
here is my story.


ABOUT Annie
I am married and have been out of work since June 18th 2008. My husband is still paying off student loans he has three masters and has been forced to take a job which is in retail for very little money. It cost him almost his whole paycheck to get back and forth to work. We have lost our house and then our rental, sold all of what we have worth selling, had a vehicle repossessed. I still consider us very lucky to have a great family to take us in, I feel for all unemployed because of the recession which is really a depression. I wish they would just admit it. I am appalled to be labeled a 99er. What does that mean?????????????????? I am still an American. Does anyone read the constitution or believe in it I don't think so.
16 months ago: I appreciate you sharing. I think many out there don't really see that most of the "options" are being exhausted... and the system need some over-hauling.
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16 months ago: Is it so hard to believe that there isn't a person in power that really gives a crap about you. The ruling elite care about you and your family like you would about stepping on an ant hill. you are a meaningless number, a statistic. get over it! The problem isn't the job market, or the job the puppet president is doing, its the monetary system itself. Your local grocery store is over stocked with supplies and not enough money to buy them. hello? Don't be shocked when the next jared loughner strikes giving them more excuses to take more rights from all of us. after all there is a killer in every back yard. be afraid, be very afraid. grow a spine america.
16 months ago: Is it so hard to believe that there isn't a person in power that really gives a crap about you. The ruling elite care about you and your family like you would about stepping on an ant hill. you are a meaningless number, a statistic. get over it! The problem isn't the job market, or the job the puppet president is doing, its the monetary system itself. Your local grocery store is over stocked with supplies and not enough money to buy them. hello? Don't be shocked when the next jared loughner strikes giving them more excuses to take more rights from all of us. after all there is a killer in every back yard. be afraid, be very afraid. grow a spine america.
16 months ago: I agree, we definitely need to break free from our own dependence... on the government. I believe that there is enough brains in the country to figure this out..
http://www.rantrave.com/Rant/In-this-God...
16 months ago: I agree, we definitely need to break free from our own dependence... on the government. I believe that there is enough brains in the country to figure this out..
http://www.rantrave.com/Rant/In-this-God...

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