Elizabeth Warren COMES OUT SWINGING For The Unemployed

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Senator Elizabeth Warren went on the Senate floor on Monday evening with the passion to inform through clear lenses. She blasted the GOP for blocking an extension of the federal unemployment insurance that expired at the end of last year. Elizabeth Warren began by reminding senators what brought the country to this point. “Just five years ago middle class families got hammered by the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression,” she said. “These families didn’t cause the crisis. They worked hard and played by the rules. But they ended up paying the price for Wall Street’s wild risk taking and Washington’s failed oversight. People lost jobs, lost savings, lost homes.” She goes on about the reality of poor and middle class Americans. Elizabeth Warren goes on to talk about the impact the lack of unemployment insurance is having on them.


The same government that allowed the crash because of lax regulations on the corporatocracy is creating additional pain to the out of work poor and middle class. This government was willing to step in, not in months but in days, to assist the corporations that brought the crisis upon themselves. Yet, the current Republican Congress and Senate are forcing Americans to go through hoops to help those who can least help themselves. “Because of Republican filibusters, 1.6 million Americans and counting have lost access to unemployment insurance since the end of last year,” Elizabeth Warren said. “including more than 60 thousand people in Massachusetts. Their obstruction means that we cannot fulfill our commitment to the families that need it most. My Republican colleagues should be looking for a way to say yes. Yes to helping middle class American families and their 2.3 million children who rely on unemployment insurance. But once again they just want a way to say no.”




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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/02/04/elizabeth-warren-comes-swinging-unemployed-video/

[Kurovski]

1. k&r. (NT)

[warrprayer]

2. You make me dizzy

... Miss Lizzy!!!

[WillyT]

3. Off To The Greatest Page !!!

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4. "..Elizabeth Warren is correct...

....Most of those dependent on unemployment insurance are not looking for a handout, they are looking for a hand up, an opportunity to rebuild their lives. Their lives were destroyed by a purchased government and a heartless Plutocracy.

Walmart, the store where much of the poor, the working poor, and middle class still shop, had a slump in profits coincident with food stamp (SNAP) cuts. It is likely that the corporate masters may force these politicians into gear lest their businesses suffer more. It is not about the pain to humans, the average American, but the pain to businesses that concerns many of these politicians.

Irrespective of the ultimate result of the unemployment insurance battle, Americans must organize. They must ensure that they elect responsible, empathetic, moral leaders starting in 2014. No one should sit out the 2014 elections......"

[BrotherIvan]

5. Just telling the truth

No platitudes, no soaring rhetoric. Just the truth, please. I have finally learned that any politician who tries to do anything different is lying.

[ProSense]

6. Senator Warren, Democratic Senators Advocate for Unemployment Insurance Extension on Senate Floor

Originally posted here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024444170

Senator Warren, Democratic Senators Advocate for Unemployment Insurance Extension on Senate Floor

Senator Booker (D-NJ) Delivers Maiden Speech, Begins Colloquy to Urge Extension Passage

Feb 4, 2014

Video of Senator Warren's Remarks Available Here

Washington, DC – As part of a colloquy on the floor of the Senate led by Senator Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) maiden speech on Monday evening, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called on Congress to pass an extension of unemployment insurance. She advocated for the 60,000 people in Massachusetts and 1.6 million Americans across the country who lost their unemployment insurance benefits when Republicans filibustered multiple attempts to pass an extension and cut off many families’ only means of paying the rent or putting food on the table.

“Unemployment insurance is a critical lifeline for people who are trying their hardest and need a little help – a recognition that Wall Street and Washington caused the financial crisis, but Main Street is still paying the price,” said Senator Warren. “And there’s the rub: Republicans line up to protect billions in tax breaks and subsidies for big corporations with armies of lobbyists, but they can’t find a way to help struggling families trying get back on their feet.”

The senator read a letter she received from Terry, a 41 year old resident of Gardner who was suddenly let go from her job last year, leaving her unemployed for the first time since she started working at age 15. “I know I’m one of 1.3 million faces, but I’m a face from near your home,” she wrote. “I’m a face that never thought I’d be in this situation. I’m a face that needs the help of my government’s services that I have paid into for many, many years. I’m a face that has done everything I’m supposed to – but I feel like I’ve fallen aside and no one sees me. I’m not an abuser of the system. I’m someone who really needs my government to be there for me now. Please see me.”

Senator Warren also addressed the misguided comments of some Republicans that unemployment insurance is bad for struggling families and that unemployment insurance keeps individuals from finding work. “This is an insult to hard working people across this country – people who are doing their best and can’t find a job. This is an insult to people like Terry,” she said.

Senator Warren held a roundtable in Worcester last month to discuss the expiration of unemployment insurance and her continued fight to help families struggling to find work.

http://www.warren.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=330

[G_j]

7. K&R

[Laelth]

8. k&r for Elizabeth Warren. n/t

-Laelth

[SmittynMo]

9. This woman is totally awesome

She nailed it. Screw the less fortunate and give their lobbyist all the breaks. This last move they pulled is going to really hurt the economy in a big way. In the mean time Ryan and all the ignorant republicants are sitting back enjoying watching the country suffer.

The republicants are the most ruthless people on the planet and they must be stopped. How anyone can support their beliefs is sinful. All they do is lie, cheat and steal.

Please encourage people you know to vote in November and lets get rid of the pond scum.

[cinnabonbon]

10. She's an inspiration

[okaawhatever]

11. Shall we also point out that unlike a lot of the GOP speeches you see (think Bachmann) this is in

front of the Senate and not those empty room speeches others tape for campaign purposes.

[madrchsod]

12. just think of a biden- warren ticket.....

i know ....it`s not going to happen.

[blue14u]

13. She makes me cry.

I adore Elizabeth Warren! She is phenomenal at her position.

It breaks my heart that all of America and our masters are not repeating
and projecting what she has to say. Where are our leaders? Why don't we have every Democrat standing up and saying this and fighting for us like
ELIZABETH WARREN. ... ?
I am begging all of you, go vote 2014. Find a Candidate that speaks the same
language as her. Then you will know you have elected a real leader and
fighter for "We the People"... don't sit it out.... GO VOTE! Be part of the solution,
be part of the change we so desperately need. No excuses. We have got to
do this. Otherwise, we are all responsible for each and every horror story
you will read about. Not being hysterical here, but maybe we need a little
hysteria to wake people up.

My rant for the day! No I don't need3d or want a pony. I want representation in Washing DC...

VOTE 2014!.. VOTE!