They did it! The government of your nation did it! They just turned their backs on over a million people on unemployment and denied the extensions! Congress, in the most nefarious and pernicious move seen since “post economic collapse period,” has walked away, went home for the weekend and did not extend unemployment benefits to over a million America families.

One Senator from Kentucky was allowed to block the unemployment benefits and put over a million families in complete and utter jeopardy by cutting off the only income these families have to pay their bills. Jim Bunning the junior Senator from The Blue Grass State just decided to play politics with people’s survival and crushed the unemployed by making a national debt argument on the backs of over a million families. In the most coldhearted fashion, this venal man sold his soul to ideology and crushed under his foot the desperate millions of people who can not find a job due to no fault of their own.

The dysfunction of this government is now in full force and on display for every American to see. Those of us with a job who don’t speak out and do something, deserve to one day be in our fellow American’s shoes. Our government is completely out of control and with this latest failure has become the single biggest threat to the survival of the American family. To allow one politician from some small state to block extended unemployment for over a million people and their families goes beyond anything acceptable.

This is a direct assault on people’s ability to survive and this congress has now become a clear and present danger, not only to the millions of people they just harmed, but the rest of us as well. All you have to do is turn on your TV and see the civil unrest in Greece to know not just third world nations experience civil unrest. The government in Greece just cut off a lot of services and you see what happened there.

I, for one, don’t need or want to see this kind of thing in the streets of America. However, this is only the first million people the congress has cut off, there are millions more after them. These people who are unemployed and cut off are the people from the beginning of the economic collapse that lost their jobs. There are millions after them and what are the streets of America going to look like when these people hit skid row?

The government and Wall Street have wiped out ten million jobs and now won’t even float the people on unemployment who have nowhere to go! This is beyond a travesty; this is a government who is putting us all at risk with this incompetence and apathy.

People do you understand? One million, two hundred thousand individuals with at least 2 or 3 other family members in their homes, have no ability to pay their bills now. This affects probably around four million human beings. They are not from some third world nation on the other side of the planet. They are our neighbors, friends and family! No excuses; these people can not wait until some election in November to vote these bums out. Something has to be done this weekend!

My God what kind of country have we become? Our government is destroying millions of people. Are we just going to turn our backs because we still have a job? Where and what is the soul of this nation? I want an answer to that question now!

Here is the deal… all foreign aid should be suspended effective immediately! Not a single dollar goes to any foreign nation this weekend until this government takes care of these American families. Who would have guessed that the Democrat party with complete control of all branches of government would allow one ignorant Republican Senator to destroy millions of American families? Are we to believe that just couldn’t stop him??

C. Rich

{update from unemployment website}

July 23, 2010
Governor Signs Executive Order to Provide Extended Benefits; New Federal Law also Extends EUC Eligibility Dates

Governor Crist today signed Executive Order 10-170, authorizing Floridians who qualify for Extended Benefits (EB) to be able to receive those benefits as provided under The Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010, which President Obama signed into law last night. The new law also extends eligibility for the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program by approximately six months.

Customers who are potentially eligible for these additional benefits will be notified by mail.  EUC recipients can begin certifying either online at www.floridajobs.org or by calling (800) 204-2418 within two weeks.  Certifying online is the quickest and most efficient way to process payments.  EB recipients will be instructed on how to certify weeks.

EB

• This federal proposal includes an extension of the full federal funding for EB.
• The EB program pays up to 20 weeks of additional benefits to individuals who have no further entitlement to regular or EUC benefits if the state is in an extended benefits period.
• Governor Crist’s Executive Order allows eligible Floridians to receive EB payments through December 4, 2010.

EUC

• Tier I: Under the new law, unemployed workers receiving benefits from their regular state claims have until November 20, 2010 to exhaust their state benefits and establish eligibility for EUC Tier I, which provides up to an additional 20 weeks of benefits.
• Tiers II and III: Unemployed workers currently receiving benefits on EUC Tiers I, II, or III may qualify for the next level of benefits if their current tier is exhausted by November 27, 2010.  EUC Tier II provides up to 14 weeks of benefits and Tier III provides up to 13 weeks of additional benefits.
• Tier IV: Those who exhaust Tier III benefits by November 27, 2010 could establish eligibility for Tier IV benefits, which provides up to 6 additional weeks of benefits.
• Those who received a final payment notice for regular, EUC Tier I, II, or III will receive a wage determination letter in the mail and will automatically be enrolled in the next level of EUC.  They should be able to begin certifying for the additional benefits within two weeks and will be paid retroactively.
• Those who will exhaust EUC Tiers I, II, and III between July 22, 2010 and November 27, 2010 will be automatically enrolled in the next level of benefits.  They will receive a wage determination letter in the mail and can continue claiming weeks.
• Customers can be paid EUC until April 30, 2011.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• The new law does not create any additional tiers of benefits.
• Customers who are potentially eligible for additional benefits will be notified by mail and can begin certifying for weeks within two weeks of the law’s enactment.

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