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Obama Urges Senate to Pass Unemployment Extension


July 19) -- In anticipation of Tuesday's unemployment extension vote in the Senate, President Barack Obama made an appearance in the Rose Garden this morning to urge legislators to pass a bill that would extend the period to apply for unemployment aid through the end of November. With last week's appointment of Carte Goodwin to the late Robert Byrd's vacated West Virginia Senate seat, the bill is expected to pass.
Obama also addressed the conservative argument that continuing unemployment benefits acts as a disincentive for the unemployed to actively seek new jobs.

"These leaders in the Senate who are advancing a misguided notion that emergency relief somehow discourages people from looking for a job should talk to these folks," Obama said, directing the audience's attention to three unemployed Americans sharing the stage with him. "That attitude, I think, reflects a lack of faith in the American people."

http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/obama-urges-senate-to-pass-unemployment-extension/19559817


Obama Pushes Congress to Pass Unemployment Benefits Extension

In a sharp, scolding tone, President Obama on Monday castigated the "partisan minority" who have held the workers of America "hostage to politics" by delaying the extension of unemployment benefits. The president called for Congress to pass the extension, which will come up for vote tomorrow, saying it was "time to do what's right -- not for the next election, but for the middle class."

In making his case, Obama stood alongside three people -- Jim Chukalas of Fredon Township, N.J., Leslie Macko of Charlottesville, Va., and Denise Gibson of Queens, N.Y. -- who are out of work and for whom the extension of benefits was characterized as critical. Obama noted that all three were actively looking for work but needed "emergency relief to help them pay the rent and cover their utilities and put food on the table while they're looking for another job."

The president recalled a "long tradition" of providing relief to the unemployed under previous administrations -- Republican and Democratic alike -- criticizing those who had championed policies that "turned a record surplus into a massive deficit, the same people who didn't have any problem spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans [and] are now saying we shouldn't offer relief to middle class Americans who really need help."

The president made clear his frustration at the thus-far stymied efforts to pass the extension "not once, not twice, but three times." He targeted Senate Republican leaders who were "advancing a misguided notion that emergency relief somehow discourages people from looking for a job," countering that those needing unemployment benefits were "honest, decent, hardworking folks who've fallen on hard times through no fault of their own; who have nowhere else to turn except unemployment benefits; who need emergency relief to help them weather this economic storm."

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/0...ress-to-pass-unemployment-benefits-extension/
 
Obama Urges Senate to Pass Unemployment Extension


July 19) -- In anticipation of Tuesday's unemployment extension vote in the Senate, President Barack Obama made an appearance in the Rose Garden this morning to urge legislators to pass a bill that would extend the period to apply for unemployment aid through the end of November. With last week's appointment of Carte Goodwin to the late Robert Byrd's vacated West Virginia Senate seat, the bill is expected to pass.
Obama also addressed the conservative argument that continuing unemployment benefits acts as a disincentive for the unemployed to actively seek new jobs.

"These leaders in the Senate who are advancing a misguided notion that emergency relief somehow discourages people from looking for a job should talk to these folks," Obama said, directing the audience's attention to three unemployed Americans sharing the stage with him. "That attitude, I think, reflects a lack of faith in the American people."

http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/obama-urges-senate-to-pass-unemployment-extension/19559817


Obama Pushes Congress to Pass Unemployment Benefits Extension

In a sharp, scolding tone, President Obama on Monday castigated the "partisan minority" who have held the workers of America "hostage to politics" by delaying the extension of unemployment benefits. The president called for Congress to pass the extension, which will come up for vote tomorrow, saying it was "time to do what's right -- not for the next election, but for the middle class."

In making his case, Obama stood alongside three people -- Jim Chukalas of Fredon Township, N.J., Leslie Macko of Charlottesville, Va., and Denise Gibson of Queens, N.Y. -- who are out of work and for whom the extension of benefits was characterized as critical. Obama noted that all three were actively looking for work but needed "emergency relief to help them pay the rent and cover their utilities and put food on the table while they're looking for another job."

The president recalled a "long tradition" of providing relief to the unemployed under previous administrations -- Republican and Democratic alike -- criticizing those who had championed policies that "turned a record surplus into a massive deficit, the same people who didn't have any problem spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans [and] are now saying we shouldn't offer relief to middle class Americans who really need help."

The president made clear his frustration at the thus-far stymied efforts to pass the extension "not once, not twice, but three times." He targeted Senate Republican leaders who were "advancing a misguided notion that emergency relief somehow discourages people from looking for a job," countering that those needing unemployment benefits were "honest, decent, hardworking folks who've fallen on hard times through no fault of their own; who have nowhere else to turn except unemployment benefits; who need emergency relief to help them weather this economic storm."

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/0...ress-to-pass-unemployment-benefits-extension/
please understand to simplify things bit;
an old West African fable (maybe)

a poor young man with 7 children, finds a pot of gold,
his wife says praises praises
now we are no longer poor, and we can feed our children each day instead of once a week
and build a home and hearth, so they no longer have to beg for fufu and wecan make our own fufu,
and no longer sleep in this damp cave

but the man said

there are robbers and maruders in this land that will surely attack us for this gold,
let us seek them out and give them some gold to pacify their greed so they will leave us alone.

his wife said those brigands are on the other side the kingdom, and know not of your discovery,
take care of those you love first!

but out of great fear the man gave a nugget of gold to to a traveling merchant nearby in town, and told him please tell the brigands my message,
now being a merchant and hearing the message he became greedy and said
for this task you must give me 1/10 of your gold,
so inspite of his wifes pleading and his children's tears he did so

when the brigands emisary came to the man, he came with his master of arms,
but the man was known to be one skilled in the arts so they could not rob him

The man said here I have already given 1/10 of this gold therefore as protecton money I wish to give you half to leave me and my beloved children in peace.
the brigands said yes 5/10 sounds like a good deal, but his brother the master of arms over heard this so he planned to get some for himself as well which would go into the robbers collective,

so he said
there are creatures beyond that hill, fearful creatures half man and half lion,
that we must go to war with to save this village for surly those creatures will raid the village at night and devour all the children

so the man thought but his wife said,
how can you believe such a tall tale? and what proof has he of such monsters,
besides what will be left of the gold for us?

but the man thought in fear and said maybe there be and maybe they be not,
besides,
I hear there is great farm land on that side of the hill and the war with those beasts will enrich the village,
so he gave the master of arms 4/10 of the gold

when he looked at the pot
there was nothing left but dust,
so he went to the brigands and they said our brothers war is not over, but will be by the time your seven children are grown, fret not,
besides we have our own youth and families to feed,
and times are hard.

so he went from door to door to beg to his neighbors,
and one by one they replied

where you not that young man we saw back when,
with that huge pot of gold?
 
I believe he did, as tyhe bill was passed on benefits for the unempolyed people
that is good, however I hope you understand the parable of the above story, and the money need for jobs, foreclosure assistance and what he termed infrastructure, for the 42 states that are going banckrupt
 

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