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Hmmm, this guy worked for a nonprofit. It's hard for me to feel sorry for nonprofit workers.

Kinda' like the line from the "L'il Abner" cartoon from many years ago.
"Nominal fees...that's where the real money is!" (or something to that effect)

In graduate school, I remember overhearing some students talking about how they'd
pocketed a fair chunk of change by putting on a "charity event".
Whenever I hear the term "nonprofit", I think it must have been a term origninated
by dead-pan comedian Steven Wright.

People who lose their benefits should hang the blame where it belongs...
around Hillary's neck.

Hillary acted like a devious and stubborn jerk on the floor of the Senate. See:

CLINTON INEPTITUDE, RAGE, DYSFUNCTION BECOME APPARENT ON SENATE FLOOR

See Hillary yell at Nickles. But bring along your earplugs.

If Hillary would have been less partisan, the unemployed might have had an extension of their benefits.
If Hillary had kept her facts straight, the unemployed might have had an extension of their benefits.

There are things in life that will amaze me 'til I cash in my chips. On is that "job seekers" fail to find jobs. When someone tells me he has sent out hundreds of resumes, been on hundreds of interviews and checks the City Job Exchange day after day, it makes me want to ask what he has applied for, have a look at his resume and a few other questions.

I've been fired or laid off two times since I left the military a little over thirty years ago. Each time I tried to find something in my specialty. I was extreemely particular about what I would accept. However, that luxury had a timetable.

In both cases after that timetable was exhausted, I expanded the horizon in search. The first time I wound up with something, at least, within my "field" even if not exactly what I would have preferred. That one took about six weeks.

The second time occured when I was over fifty years old. That had me worried. I passed a second milestone in time and started looking in other states. If you can no longer make it where you are, maybe it's time to move to where the jobs are. Still looking was more of a full time job than was my previous job effort. Luckily, I found something is a completely separate field in my home. This time the effort took slightly more than three months. However, both my wife and I were fully prepared to move on if that is what it took, even though we have both lived here most of our lives.

I've talked to people in my situation on several occasions. They tell me that often (not always) you should be making more in your new locale than the one you left, and this improvement should take place within about two years.

I tend to lose sympathy for people that tell me they have been looking for work for "X" number of years and there just isn't anything out there. In the worst of recessions there is something out there. It's a law of large numbers and expanding horizons. Otherwise, it's just whining most of the time.

The worst thing congress could have done was to extend jobless benefits. They aren't benefits. They are millstones to hang around one's neck.

Couldn't agree more. I heard a DC-area DJ take a call from a man who moaned "I can't find a job and I'm gonna starve" to which the DJ responded: leave your apt and turn left or right, it doesn't matter which direction. Start walking. Within two blocks you'll reach a fast food place. The little sign in the window will say HELP WANTED. Go in and take the job, which will probly include meals. Is this the job/career you want? Definitely not. But doing 40 hrs a week there will keep you fed and pay for the rent-controlled apt, leaving you with lots more hours each week to job-search. 'Course you'll have to work instead of sitting home waiting for the mailman, but that shouldn't bother you...

One month ago I got laid off from my job. Our savings were already depleted from the last time that I was unemployed. My spouse is disabled, and I have kids attending private school.

In addition to updating my resume and applying to every job agency I could find, my family and I did something else.

WE PRAYED. We prayed, and we contributed to charity.

Thank G-D, He listened. A miracle happened. Within two weeks, I found another job IDENTICAL to the one that I got laid off from. All right, it is somewhat less pay than I was making before, but at least I am still in my field and working at something that I love. I consider that a blessing, and I feel very fortunate.