Unemployment benefits extensions are needed NOW!

Imagine how crooked and petty many of the political people are at your local community level, or even around your neighborhood. Take that and multiply it by the factor of millions it takes to rise to the very top of their political food chain.

While some people in politics today, just like some people in the financial industries for another example, may not be greedy, heartless disgusting pigs, obviously they are the exception. To rise through each layer of their political grid(lock) takes another order of magnitude jump in playing the system, hypocritical behaviors and all the other enabling and inhuman activities necessary for success.

Now, consider who we are dealing with, the disgusting pigs -- Kyl, Isakson, McConnell, Hatch, Alexander et al -- who have blocked the much needed immediate help for working Americans victimized by their last decade of allowing, even encouraging, other pigs to loot and destroy the moral fabric of our society. These 40, or so, senators have risen to the very top of the political Ponzi pyramid. They are top pigs in the poke.

It's not surprising they held up these benefit extension for a number of reasons. Firstly, they could care less about us. We don't have lobbyists who can take them to Barbados to golf or for their daily $100+ luncheons. What's more, check out their automated email system. If you're not living in their state, they really, really don't care. You can't even vote against them. (And former Senate staffers say aides don't really read the letters, they skim and categorize them, keeping them more as an informal poll on issues.)

Secondly, we have the problem they don't relate to our situation in the least. While it seems unreal to us to consider they have no compassion or feelings whatsoever, it is equally unreal to them that people who have worked their entire lives or are honest and moral would be victims of their system or actions. They simply don't see how we are out of work if we're good people and don't know what it's like to worry 24-7 about how to pay any bills or buy groceries. Nor do they care.

Thirdly, their world is this gilded cage political system they control. They spend their  time hobnobbing with each other at social functions, kissing each other's asses, making deals over supper of in the cloakroom, trading this pork project for that pork project.

The real time suffering of people is irrelevant to their political dealings time frame where issues -- see health care -- play out over decades, not hours. Their rapid fire response to the Tarp bank financial bailout came because they were panicked by their friends and immediate associates. Then, it took like a day to dispense hundreds of billions of dollars with no oversight while suffering by people they don't know who can't vote for them is subjected to this incredible scrutiny and delay over "funding", BS amendments for unrelated issues such as immigrant IDs, their own pork projects, even that housing tax credit that is controversial because the program has so much fraud etc..

Senator pigs also hear constantly from all sorts of interest groups and, again, the paid lobbyists or people with money who buy access to their time. When they hear genuine cries of anguish and despair, they filter that as just another lobbying entity wanting some favor or project. They don't look at it as desperation or legitimate need.

What's more, as the GOP leaders said this week when confronted with polls showing only 20 percent of Americans publicly called themselves Republicans, they didn't care so long as people voted for them in the elections. Hey, it's worked for them since Reagan, so why should they care. They feel that when the drama is over and people get their extension people will forget the pain the last few months and then get distracted by the cynical hypocritical issues of gay marriage, flag burning, "socialism", swift-boat, or whatever they come up with in the election cycle.

Furthermore, they are able to filter out our cries through their system of aides, lackeys and other employees, the low level staffers who answer our phone calls or look at the e-mails. If one, two, three or more of us cornered Kyl in an alley, for example, he would be listening to us with a lot more immediate concern, and being the coward he is, probably fear. But as it stands, he has dozens of buffers between himself and us.

Additionally hurting us are the Democrats, even the ones who say they are trying to help. The House and Senate extension bills each were presented in early August. Shaheen had two months to file her amendment asking the coverage be extended to all states. However, she waited until the very last moment, a merely political ploy to maneuver the Republicans to back her plan or to block it and hurt their political chances. If she genuinely were interested in expanding the benefits for all of us, knowing how the Senate "works", she would have filed this amendment in August or September, so the 70 percent of people covered by the original House-Senate bill wouldn't lose their benefits as has now happened.

This is not to say all pigs are created equally. The Democrats have helped and are sympathetic. they are trying to get us the extension, even though they, too, are mired and blinded by the political prism.

What's the solution? Honestly, I don't know. except as we crowd-source this maybe people will come up with our magic bullet. We live in a society where a hoax balloon boy gets wall-to-wall media coverage, but 400,000 -- 7,000 a day -- soon to be 1.2 million to 2 million people are starving and left to die get three minutes late Friday afternoon on CNN.

Offhand, the most lasting, and probably just, solution would be to French Revolution them, but I am in favor of a bloodless accounting since I personally couldn't handle the stress of it all. We could demonstrate as they did in the early 1930s, but that would be too late and it didn't do any good in the 30s anyway.

The best I have come up with is what we're doing, except more-so, flooding their stinking telephone lines with calls, not letting them get away with lies; and, if possible, showing up individually or in groups to their field and D.C. offices. We need our friends and relations to call them as well.

Please post your suggestions for immediate and compelling action! 

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Facebook event created titled "Unemployed benefit extension virtual march on Washington"

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Holding up this unemployment extension bill is tantamount to taking a gun and shooting 7,000 American families DAILY who have lost this lifeline. More than 500,000 have had benefits expire.  More than 2 million people, and by extension their families, will lose this lifeline by Christmas.

Yet the Senate continues to stall on this lifeline help. Republicans twice have blocked consideration on bogus grounds. Now they have loaded on EIGHT amendments -- some highly controversial -- having nothing to do with the benefits. They also object to continuing a $14 per employee per year tax for businesses already funded through 2011 to fund the benefits.

However, the Democrats won't formally bring the extension to a vote because they say the Republicans will filibuster.

Huh?

Unemployed people have worked for years in most cases actually contributing to the benefit system intended to aid them in their hour of need. This is life and death.

WE MUST COLLECT TOGETHER IN CYBERSPACE AND IF NEEDED AT THE CAPITOL and tell these insensitive pigs they need to forget about this politics garbage and respond to our immediate needs.

Unemployment is at 10 percent nationwide, which doesn't count people whose unemployment benefits have run out -- 400,000 this month, 1.4 million by December, and those who are underemployed, or working part-time when they need full-time work. The actual unemployment rate is near 20 percent. And as the Jobs Report so clearly illustrates, "employers" continue to cut jobs by the hundreds of thousands each month.

The lobbyists buy these senators left and right. Unemployed people don't have any money. What kind of nation have we become?

We must band together and collectively call out these insensitive stinking senators -- who had no problem in the last month while the UE benefit bill stalled increasing staff salaries in two minutes, funding wars everywhere, giving money to other countries, enabling million dollar bonuses to bank employees and financial people who screwed the unemployed and the economy and a bunch of other stuff about crack cocaine and whatever else, including their own three-day work weeks.

WE DEMAND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT EXTENSIONS TODAY!!!

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Call out these GOP leaders who specifically are delaying this and causing us such unnecessary suffering.

Mitch McConnell, Ky., the GOP leader at (202) 224-2541. I called and his lackey said he was for this, and said why don't the Demos bring it to the floor. Well, they tried twice and McConnell's whip Kyl objected. So, the lackey argued with me and told me to call Kyl's office and hung up.

Jon Kyl, Ariz., GOP whip, and lobbyist lackey. Try calling his office and they don't even answer. His voice mail is (202) 224-4521. He has been using procedural fine print to stop votes twice since last week. You may recall him as the guy during health care debates last month questioned why people needed maternity coverage since he didn't.

Johnny Isakson, Ga. Repub and real estate lobbyist turned senator. This piece of work has attached all sorts of amendments that have nothing to do with nothing -- house tax credits for a program that had 100,000 bogus claims and is a real estate scam -- immigration and six other garbage amendments to delay the unemployment benefit vote. (202) 224-3643,

And of course Oral Hatch, Ut., well known hater of everybody not giving him money. He has been at the center of this add bogus amendments while pretending to be in favor charade because if it went to a vote and you voted against it everybody out of work --Dem and Repub -- would hate you at (202) 224-5251.