Posted on 07/26/2010 10:30:44 AM PDT by sickoflibs
That’s why it’s so essential to pass the unemployment insurance extension that comes up for a vote tomorrow. We need to pass it for men like Jim Chukalas, who’s with me here today. Jim worked as a parts manager at a Honda dealership until about two years ago. He’s posted resumes everywhere. He’s gone door-to-door looking for jobs. But he hasn’t gotten a single interview. He’s trying to be strong for his two young kids, but now that he’s exhausted his unemployment benefits, that’s getting harder to do.
We need to pass it for women like Leslie Macko, who lost her job at a fitness center last year and has been looking for work ever since. Because she’s eligible for only a few more weeks of unemployment, she’s doing what she never thought she’d have to do — not at this point, anyway. She’s turning to her father for financial support.
And we need to pass it for Americans like Denise Gibson, who was laid off from a real estate agency earlier this year. Denise has been interviewing for jobs -– but so far nothing has turned up. Meanwhile, she’s fallen further and further behind on her rent. And with her unemployment benefits set to expire, she’s worried about what the future holds.
We need to pass it for all the Americans who haven’t been able to find work in an economy where there are five applicants for every opening; who need 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.
Full transcript: Remarks by the President on Unemployment Insurance
2008 Barack Obama Convention Speech Transcript(Hope and Change Flashback)
You think he pulled a fast one?
You can see why congressional democrats do not want Obama campaigning for them, especially about the stimulus package which appears in Obama’s own words to have failed.
You'd think the image on Charlie Crist hugging comrade 0bama would've been the kiss of death for him.
Democrats outline terms under which Ohaha will campaign for candidates:
(1) No Obama photos with candidates.
(2) Obama does not stand too close to candidates at rallies.
(3) Obama does not mention Democrat, and the candidate's name, in the same sentence.
(4) Obama does not mention healthcare and if he has a cold or a cough, he stays in the WH.
(5) Under no circumstances will rally entertainers sing or play, "Chicago, Chicago, that Toddlin' Town."
(6) No foods served with hot sauce.
(7) All contributions from the DNC are returned unopened.
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CNBC's outspoken Rick Santelli said that all government spending is not created equal, and that Obama's so-called stimulus spending went to govt payrolls and not the infrastructure improvement it was sold as.
The $786B TARP Bailout is now being called, "A MASTERFUL DECEIT." Paulson, et al, may not have pulled a fast one when he testified in favor of the TARP before Congress----but Congress' phony outrage is a puzzlement. If HR 1424 was a 'MASTERFUL DECEIT' then CONGRESS didn't do its job.
TITLE I—TROUBLED ASSETS RELIEF PROGRAM (required 'Congressional Oversight' sections listed)
Sec. 101. Purchases of troubled assets.
Sec. 102. Insurance of troubled assets.
Sec. 103. Considerations.
Sec. 104. Financial Stability Oversight Board.
Sec. 105. Reports.
Sec. 107. Contracting procedures.
Sec. 108. Conflicts of interest.
Sec. 111. Executive compensation and corporate governance.
Sec. 116. Oversight and audits.
Sec. 118. Funding.
Sec. 119. Judicial review and related matters.
Sec. 121. Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Sec. 125. Congressional Oversight Panel.
Sec. 127. Cooperation with the FBI.
Sec. 129. Disclosures on exercise of loan authority.
In HR 1424, there are enough rules, regs and CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT REQUIRED that not one Thin Dime should have been 'misspent.' So if anything crooked did go on Congress should look in a mirror. They dropped the ball -- again. And the same Gangster Government will run our healthcare.
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DID YOU KNOW? TARP was not designed to be a pool of money available for bailout of just anything that didn't move, like a couple of bankrupt unionized companies in the automobile industry? TARP was very specific in its purpose to provide liquidity to frozen banking and financial system and stave off the run on the banks (attack on the financial system, by proxy) and allow the 'netting' of the [frozen] assets on the books of financial institutions, in the aftermath of the fall of Lehman Bros and the run on trillions of dollars in money market funds in the consequent "breaking the buck" by private Reserve Primary Fund managed by Bruce Bent.
What a shame that people like Obama are so deluded by the estimation of their own brilliance that they cannot see simple truths, like how free enterprise, if left alone by an intrusive government, can create far more jobs - real, long lasting jobs - that would put people like Mr. Macko back to work and make unemployment extension unnessessary.
What a shame.
My understanding is that based on the latest unemployment 'benefit' passed into law - 99 weeks remains the most one can get on unemployment - two years is 104 weeks, so how is Jim Chulalas assisted? And that's the point, how far does America go on this issue - it's not like we have funds available.
the only undeniable impact that the obama administration has had on employment was a -1 when they fired that lady from the USDA.
If Obama hadn’t destroyed America’s jobs, then this wouldn’t be a problem.
Jobs under Bush averaged about 5% unemployment. It’s been between 9 and 10% for Obama.
Millions of jobs lost and we all know folks out of work.
The 99ers are pushing tier five expansion.
Tier Five or Die!
“H.R. 5741 Slave bill now in Committee
Rob Dew
Infowars.com
July 26, 2010
Slavery has a new name: “Mandatory Service”, introduced July 15th 2010 by Charles Rangle.
Democrat Charles Rangel.
H.R. 5741 will give the president the authority “To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.”
http://www.infowars.com/h-r-5741-slave-bill-now-in-committee/
That is interesting. It shows you their values in the House.
I don’t see the congress getting anything really controversial passed to Obama’s desk between now and the election. It is just not in Senate Republicans interest. I suppose they could slip it in a war funding bill and see if that flies. They cant use budget reconciliation for that.
NOTE The following text is a quote:
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-unemployment-insurance
Home • Briefing Room • Speeches & Remarks
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release July 19, 2010
Remarks by the President on Unemployment Insurance
Rose Garden
10:55 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. Right now, across this country, many Americans are sitting at the kitchen table, they’re scanning the classifieds, they’re updating their resumes or sending out another job application, hoping that this time they’ll hear back from a potential employer. And they’re filled with a sense of uncertainty about where their next paycheck will come from. And I know the only thing that will entirely free them of those worries –- the only thing that will fully lift that sense of uncertainty –- is the security of a new job.
To that end, we all have to continue our efforts to do everything in our power to spur growth and hiring. And I hope the Senate acts this week on a package of tax cuts and expanded lending for small businesses, where most of America’s jobs are created.
So we’ve got a lot of work to do to make sure that we are digging ourselves out of this tough economic hole that we’ve been in. But even as we work to jumpstart job growth in the private sector, even as we work to get businesses hiring again, we also have another responsibility: to offer emergency assistance to people who desperately need it — to Americans who’ve been laid off in this recession. We’ve got a responsibility to help them make ends meet and support their families even as they’re looking for another job.
That’s why it’s so essential to pass the unemployment insurance extension that comes up for a vote tomorrow. We need to pass it for men like Jim Chukalas, who’s with me here today. Jim worked as a parts manager at a Honda dealership until about two years ago. He’s posted resumes everywhere. He’s gone door-to-door looking for jobs. But he hasn’t gotten a single interview. He’s trying to be strong for his two young kids, but now that he’s exhausted his unemployment benefits, that’s getting harder to do.
We need to pass it for women like Leslie Macko, who lost her job at a fitness center last year and has been looking for work ever since. Because she’s eligible for only a few more weeks of unemployment, she’s doing what she never thought she’d have to do — not at this point, anyway. She’s turning to her father for financial support.
And we need to pass it for Americans like Denise Gibson, who was laid off from a real estate agency earlier this year. Denise has been interviewing for jobs -– but so far nothing has turned up. Meanwhile, she’s fallen further and further behind on her rent. And with her unemployment benefits set to expire, she’s worried about what the future holds.
We need to pass it for all the Americans who haven’t been able to find work in an economy where there are five applicants for every opening; who need 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.
And for a long time, there’s been a tradition –- under both Democratic and Republican Presidents –- to offer relief to the unemployed. That was certainly the case under my predecessor, when Republican senators voted several times to extend emergency unemployment benefits. But right now, these benefits –- benefits that are often the person’s sole source of income while they’re looking for work -– are in jeopardy.
And I have to say, after years of championing 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 are now saying we shouldn’t offer relief to middle-class Americans like Jim or Leslie or Denise, who really need help.
Over the past few weeks, a majority of senators have tried -– not once, not twice, but three times –- to extend emergency relief on a temporary basis. Each time, a partisan minority in the Senate has used parliamentary maneuvers to block a vote, denying millions of people who are out of work much-needed relief. 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.
That attitude I think reflects a lack of faith in the American people, because the Americans I hear from in letters and meet in town hall meetings –- Americans like Leslie and Jim and Denise — they’re not looking for a handout. They desperately want to work. Just right now they can’t find a job. These are honest, decent, hardworking folks who’ve fallen on hard times through no fault of their own, and who have nowhere else to turn except unemployment benefits and who need emergency relief to help them weather this economic storm.
Now, tomorrow we will have another chance to offer them that relief, to do right by not just Jim and Leslie and Denise, but all the Americans who need a helping hand right now — and I hope we seize it. It’s time to stop holding workers laid off in this recession hostage to Washington politics. It’s time to do what’s right — not for the next election but for the middle class. We’ve got to stop blocking emergency relief for Americans who are out of work. We’ve got to extend unemployment insurance. We need to pass those tax cuts for small businesses and the lending for small businesses.
Times are hard right now. We are moving in the right direction. I know it’s getting close to an election, but there are times where you put elections aside. This is one of those times. And that’s what I hope members of Congress on both sides of the aisle will do tomorrow.
Thanks very much.
END
11:00 A.M. EDT
"Times are hard right now."
Thanks for the ping sickoflibs.
Left unsaid; “When has a poor person ever hired anyone?””
That question was asked of Juan Williams on Fox News Sunday yesterday. His facial expression was priceless.....
He kept prattling on about how the taxes on ‘The Rich’ were justified & needed to ‘pay down the debt”.
Then he kept harping on the idea that what the economy needs is ‘consumers’, not investment in jobs.
NO ONE is able to be a ‘consumer’ if they don’t have a job where they can apply their skills & earn money to spend.
Juan Williams is so stuck on stupid that even when the undertaker gets him, he will still be stuck.
How this man keeps getting a paycheck from Fox is beyond me. He can make a door knob look positively smart.
re: appears in Obama’s own words to have failed
A good Alinskyite knows that the purpose of any victory is to provide the framework for the next fight.
About 1965 the Alinsky movement in Chi-town started fighting redlining (lack of houses, mortgages, insurance, etc to those who couldn’t qualify). The conscious goal of every red-lining fight was “win-but-fail” so the fight could gain momentum and escalate to the next level.
The same was true of every issue for the dominant Alinsky variant, which in Chicago was not the ACORN variant. it was the NTIC-UPAJ variant of Alinsky. A third variant, the Jimmy Carter variant really was sincere and wanted to win. But became the useful idots of those who valued escalating the fight over winnig.
See my new tagline
Whats really really stoopid is ALL THE REPUBLICANS that have left this response to "tax the rich" go unanswered.. They stand there like mental deficients staring into the light.. with not a word to say... -OR- some yada yada.. that fools no one..
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