Senate Votes Against Unemployment Extension

Faith Dosier
The extension of unemployment benefits is no more as of today's vote, 57-41. As the benefits run out there are millions of millions of people without jobs in a job cutting job market and poor economy wondering what will we do now? Many of us are educated and unemployed and the economy hasn't changed. Where are the jobs? Should we all be homeless? There are millions upon millions of us out there who are losing everything. Some of us in the ranks of the unemployed are without a high school diploma, some of us have one, some have an A.A., A.S, B.A, B.S, MBA, PHD, and Doctorates. There are people who can't get jobs with 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 + years of experience behind them.

The point is that there is huge amount of unemployed people from every education level and these are not outliers this is the norm. How could Senate be so stubborn and ignorant to see of maybe they are just purposely ignoring the clear implication that with so many unemployed and people be laid off from all education levels in the vastly huge amounts we've seen that the problem is the jobs are not out there and no one is hiring like ten plus years ago. Millions of people are losing their homes and the result of the economy. Millions of more families are receiving food stamps from when they were once just the working poor, middle class, and upper class.

What are we going to do now? Will Congress prevent factories from going overseas so we can have more jobs? Or maybe they could pass legislation to ban all customer service jobs in America have to be operated from America with Americans and legal residents of this country? How about make a law that film companies here have film in America only and hire us only. All of those things would bring millions of jobs back but they would never do that but instead The Senate will kill unemployment instead even though we've not seen our much need increase of jobs for Americans.

I love my county but right now I'm beginning to think that THE SENATE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT AMERICANS. There will be more and more of us going homeless, hungry, and more.

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  • Sue Bowman-Wulf7/11/2010

    I can not believe our nation has turned their backs on all of us (middle America). We are the people that built this country by buying our homes and saving for retirement, paying bills and being a good consumer which stimulated the economy.I have worked for over 23 yrs in an industry that can no longer support outside sales and same with my husband. Resumes are sent out everyday with maybe 1 call back a week and a bazillion other applicants also. This would have been the 1st extension and we are already going through our savings and just cashed in one of our retirement funds so we won't lose our home just yet. It is a great possibility that we might as so many of us will, along with our insurance because the premiums are outrageous.My daughter is mentally ill and needs medical and won't get it if we lapse in our coverage. We will all be flooding the emergency rooms and foreclosures will be enormous, how will that stimulate the economy. STOP SPENDING MONEY ON OTHER COUNTRIES! WE NEED IT

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