Posted on 07/14/2010 9:02:22 AM PDT by Kartographer
3 MILLION CUT OFF IN TWO MONTHS
During the Senate impasse, from the week ended June 5 to the week ended July 10, more than 2.1 million Americans lost their benefits. Another million will join them by July 31.
In Ohio alone, where unemployment stood at 10.7 percent in May, more than 83,000 people lost their benefits in June.
Sister Barbara Busch, executive director of non-profit housing group Working in Neighborhoods in Cincinnati, 65 percent of the people who come seeking help with their mortgages are unemployed or underemployed.
"I fear once the benefits run out, I suspect we'll see a new wave of foreclosures," she said. "I just hope I'm wrong."
Ohio is a bellwether U.S. state in elections. The state's Democratic attorney general Richard Cordray said blocking extending jobless benefits was politically motivated ahead of the midterm elections in November.
"If people lose their benefits they will blame the congressional majority and the administration," he said. "As unappetizing as it is, that would appear to be the strategy."
Senator Coburn's spokesman Hart said suggestions the Republicans were playing partisan politics were "ludicrous."
"The Democrats say that because they want to avoid making the hard decisions," he said.
Alonzo Allen, 55, a former aid agency worker in Cincinnati whose benefits will run out in September, spends two days a week volunteering at the food bank in Over-the-Rhine and the other three looking for work. He said he worries about the one-bedroom apartment he rents and how he will feed his dog Ginger, who is the "only family I have."
"If the benefits stop, I'll be out on the street and I'll lose all my furniture," he said. "That's going to be tough."
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...my gut tells me that some really bad things are going to happen to this country...I’m talking about people taking to the streets...and I don’t think that I’m alone in this thinking.
It’s had to happen for a long time now.
I agree with you, I think it’s going to get mighty ugly out there, looooonnnnnnnngggggg, hot summer and people have a lot of time on their hands no jobs and no money, it’s not going to be pretty.
Those of us who work can't support the Takers in society forever, bub.
They can go get a job - ANY JOB.
Best to be prepared a civil war of one kind or another is being laid out by the leftist on many fronts and it’s just a matter of time before someone strikes the match that sets the whole thing off.
You mean the government might actually be forced to do something about the economy, instead of just keep putting it off by extending benefits and keeping the wolves at bay?
...yep....and I think this has got to be a factor in the surge in the gold/silver/ammo markets....people are making preparations.
I drove by a recycling center the other day two women were fighting over a trash bag filled with cans
Sounds like the Middle East...
Seems to be the plan, me thinks.
our local aldi’s is hiring at 10.00 hr...i bet some of these people would take that job....
No you are not alone.
Can't use any of the “Stimulus” Bribe money like the Republicans wanted, but you'll never see that in the Media.
I theorized that if McCain had won, we would be moving right, but in a more eased manner. With Zero, it’s coming along more violently because of his antics and America is reacting in a more drastic manner than if McCain had won.
...stimulus green shoots abound!!!
Martial law in October?
Hope is not a plan.
Didn’t the admin today say that 3 million jobs have been “saved or created” by the stimulus? Will they simply point to 3 million fewer people on unemployment?
...yes, I think so...and there’s a feeling about Obama that he’s really not one of us...he’s from an overseas culture...he doesn’t understand....he doesn’t know how to fix America....this leads to heightened anxiety, and as you say things are moving along more violently.
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