Unemployment extension will pass if Dems can pay for it, Grassley says

Thanks to the Democrats now that we have been waiting for over a month FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS ! we are gonna be freaking (HOMELESS) by the end of the week just what we need in this world is another homeless well i hope the government doesn’t mind me popping up a tent under the nearest freeway (THANKS ALLOT FOR A WHOLE LOT OF NOTHING)
If their were more job opportunity’s this wouldn’t even be an issue.

I have been phoning Senators offices for the past week explaining my situation.
I was laid off last November, and have just expired my FIRST 6 months of UI.
I have 3 really good job prospects, one is actually a 6 figure salary, but none of them start until late July or early August.
But, if this bill doesn’t pass, I will not have the money to pay my rent in July.
I am driving without the legally required car insurance and with expired licence tags.
So, I would like to propose a few things:
First, if anybody gets evicted starting July 1st, let’s start taking over the Senator’s offices….use them to sleep in, send faxes, use the phones and their computers to find work.
Second, when we do find work, claim 99 exemptions. I REFUSE to pay any more taxes!! Remember the old saying ‘No taxation without representation’?? Well, it is VERY obvious that Americans have no representation!! “Taxation without representation is TYRANNY!!”
Third, if this bill does not pass, let’s make sure that this 4th of July is the SECOND one that NO AMERICAN will EVER FORGET!!
Everybody get your guns ready….and let BLOOD RUN IN THE STREETS!!!
We can afford to GIVE Pakistan $7.5 BILLION to arm and train Taliban to kill AMERICAN soldiers…..we can afford to GIVE Egypt $7 Billion, we can afford to GIVE Haitian earthquake victims over $2 BILLION dollars, we can afford to GIVE $30 MILLION to Palestinian refugees…
We CAN AFFORD to keep the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent of the country.
We CAN AFFORD to bail out Wall Street and buy GM.
But we CAN’T AFFORD to take care of middle class AMERICANS who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own???
And this is being decided by people that ‘We the People’ are paying!!!
‘We the People’ are ALLOWING these people to GIVE our tax dollars away to others, but they won’t help us??? With OUR OWN MONEY????
I am absolutely ASHAMED of the Senators and to be called an American!!!
And Senators…..you should be ASHAMED of YOURSELVES!!!
Even more so if you consider yourself a ‘christian’!!!
Would jesus ALLOW people to be thrown out of their homes and apartments??
Would he ALLOW them to go hungry???
And yet FUND a 9 YEAR war, in which thousands of innocents have been killed??

So that idiot Schmuck Grassley is concerned that the bill that he voted against would add 55 million dollars to the deficit over 10 years.Let’s see how quick those scum sucking republicans vote yes for another 33 billion dollars to fund that goddamn war in Afghanistan.Pigs,pigs,pigs.Grassley is nothing but a wrinkle neck asshole!!

Chris, how is it the Democrats’ fault? The Republicans have been blocking it, supposedly to cut the deficit a little bot, but I suspect it’s to get people to react exactly as you have , and blame the Democrats for what Senate Republicans are doing. You should be angry, absolutely, but yell at the right people.

our government doesn’t care about us…if they did this would have been a top priority…instead they continue to use OUR TAX money for their selfish desires. Screw our government! They have failed us immensely!

This was a porly written article. The bill that failed to pass three times last week was the HR 4213, not the standalone bill S.3520 that was proposed today. It’s never even been voted on yet. Yes, the HR4213 included the unemployment extension of the deadline, but it was paid fully from debt, and included aspects that were unrelated that the Republicans didn’t want. This new bill does not use Pay-go money or is offset. It is using emergency spending. It is, overall, a bit more friendly to the Republican agenda.

It’s really ironic that Byrd died when he did.

It throws off Reid’s plans completely.

Now all his hardball tactics, using the unemployed as leverage to pass other agendas, just backfired. Someone must have been praying.

Now it will be harder for him to get his 60 needed votes on cloture for the other bills he planned on getting through the Senate with the pressure of getting it through before the 4th of July. His own people are turning against his act because they can see right through him. Oh, and not that some Republicans are playing dirty (I couldn’t stand the fillibustering — they should have more trust in their party and more respect for the Americans who are unemployed). Last Friday, Reid’s folks said that he had no plans to propose a new bill that would be ammenable to the Republicans, but at the same time, they were not going to give up the bill to let it die, so that the unemployed at least could get benefits from the state. I wonder if Reid will back it up with his “yes”.

Chris you are blaming the wrong party. Not one REPLUBLICAN voted to extend unemployment.

I don’t know how anyone can vote for a replublican,it seems like they have people in a tranz.They are just trying to make”Oboma” look bad by trying to keep him from helping everyone.They “repub”s are trying hard to wipe out the middleclass and the lower income everyone needs to take a good hard look at what their up too…This is a National crisies and All men need to come to the aide of the party!!!!!!!!

Look we live in Fla… the lowest unemployment paying state..we receive $275 per week, and what is that, covers barely nothing.. but it is something. How about we regulate each state the same amount of funding and see how that balances the budget… why should Indiana get $575 per week and Fla only $275….doesnt make any sense. Past the bill before we start loosing everything.

Surely, this is not what President Obama meant by “CHANGE”.
Sign the Executive Order to Extend Unemployment. Republicans serve the rich & they always will. Someone has to stand up for us the unemployed. Last Friday, 6/25/2010, the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC aired a segment on unemployed America. Everyone needs to go back & see that segment. It will disturb you at what republicans said about the unemployed. Republicans called the unemployed leeches, stray animals looking for a handout, & if you stop feeding them they will go away. That we have become lazy & don’t want to work. Let’s not forget the democratic Ben Nelson democrat from Nebraska voted with the republicans. Democratic voters in hs district must be appauled. They should know what to do in November elections. We will not go away!!! We are the new faces of the Recession of 2010 which looks like the New Depression of 2010. A march is scheduled for the unemployed July 2,2010, in all states. Go to UTube & type in OVERTHROW 2010, to participate. We are voters & tax payers who by no fault of our own, have been caught in the crossfire of a BAD Deficeit. I thought we were now the majority in Washington. We have been put in this unemployed America to stand up for ourselves. These benefits help us to feed our families, pay our mortgages & rent as well as car, car insurance, utilities, etc… We apply for jobs daily,weekly,only to be turned away because for every 1-2 job psitions available, 100-200 people are applying. The government needs to step in & see why employers are hiring slowly. Form a Committee.They have committee’s for everything else. God Bless everyone & let’s email our democratic Senators, Congressman & women, Representatives even if in your area is only republican, you can write the democrats in other states.Go to C-Span now & look at our Democrats fighting for a new unemployment bill being brought back!!!

It really is astonishing to see these Republicans get kicked while they’re down and come back to their masters, begging for mercy and blaming a fictional enemy. These clowns don’t give a sh*t about you or deficits. If they did, why did they run up the largest ones in US history? As was pointed out earlier, there will be $33 billion for endless war but nothing for people that ALREADY PAID FOR THEIR BENEFITS THROUGH TAXES! Where is the right wing on us getting our taxes back? Oh that’s right, we’re not the super rich.

Really? I will see you guys in November. How could you screw us? Just who is going to feed my kid now that I do not have a job? I hve worked for 40 yrs and paid my fair share. Now what?

Jill just to get the record straight I live in Indiana and I guarantee you that we don’t get 575.00 a week in unemployment benefits. The most we get is 390.00 a week before taxes, and that 390.00 is only if we made enough while we work. So it might be just a little more than what Florida gets, but no where near that amout.

Hmm…..How many people are losing unemployment benefits? The Government fudges those numbers anyways for those of you that have ever taken an economics class. Unemployment is really at 15% in Wisconsin. We should overthrow our own crooked government and burn down the IRS buildings. I guess everyones vote counts now doens’t it!!??

Go Harry Reid! he’s working hard to help the ununemployed. god bless him. i wish there were more people in government like him. being jobless sux its good to have a voice speaking for us. i really hope the bill gets passed…..

[...] This article from the Minnesota Independent says U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) believes the jobs bill, which has an extension of unemployment benefits that is weighing down the entire measure, could pass with the right funding: [...]

@Jill in FL, please get your facts straight before you start spewing hate. I live in IN and am current collecting benefits. The max here is $390 a week.

I am in Missouri and I used to get 230.00 a week unemployment benefits. Now i dont get jack shit cause the republicans wont pass anothe extension. Im screwed!

did you know 3 million dollars of stimulus money went to studying why CHINESE prostitutes consume alcohol while working and providing them with information letting them know the dangers of alcohol consumption. No joke, a University got funding for that research. Hey how about instead we build a half-way house for US prostitutes to get them out of that life instead. The point is there were hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars wasted on similar bondooggles in the stimulus and more than 30% is yet to be spent. All the republicans were asking was that we use some of the unspent but allocated stimulus funds for the unemployment extension instead of just incurring more debt. 40% of all personal income taxes raised now goes just to pay the interest on our debt. Read that last sentence again and think about it, hard. Money doesn’t go on the rose bushes in the rose garden at the whitehouse, we cannot just keep wasting money. Put it to proper and justified uses.

The Dems were wrong. Did you all miss the G20 meeting last week, the rest of the world gets the fact that high deficits are unsustainable.

It’s really starting to suck now.

How can our government justify spending/giving money in foreign countries when our country is so screwed up? I consider my self fortunant because I don’t have children I have to feed while being a victim of this horrible recession. Here in Tx I was only receiving $250 a week after taxes and could hardly make it. And now I’m having to pick up any penny I see on the sidewalk because this extension isn’t getting passed. My hat is off to all of you parents out there that are able to provide the little that you can for your family and still survive. I don’t know how I’d do it if I had a family to take care of. God bless you all. Y’all are the people who fellow Americans should be inspired by, not these over payed athletes that everyone idolizes. I pray that one day we will have officials in office that understand that to make the world a better place you have to start by making your country a better place. America must lead
by example and take care if it’s people or choose to not lead at all. Because our government is out there telling the rest of the world that how we do things is better, democracy is how it should be. Well why would these countries believe a word of that when they look at us and see that we too have starving, homeless families that are not being taken care of by the government or it’s citizens? Why would they want to choose that when they can look at china and see that comunism is helping that country immensly? Don’t get me wrong, I love my country and democracy and freedom but it is truely a sad time to be an American. Somewhere along the line we have forgotten what principles this country was founded on. We now live in an age of government corruption and greed. Our elected “leaders” care more about their votes to stay in office rather than protecting the country they claim to love and serve. Good luck to you all that are experiencing the brunt of our recession along with myself. Maybe we will be able to teach the next generation about what it really means to be an American.

Something to think about? What if god remove the bless that he has blessed you with as a nation to help your brother&sister at their fall time. But what change are we make when prayer for our needs of change but know action be DONE. CHANGE WHAT ARE WE WHAT FOR GOD HAS THE POWER PLEASE PASSED THE EXTEND TO HELP AMERICAN PEOPLE