Pres Obama Weekly Address: Time to Pass Bipartisan Legislation to Extend Emergency Unemployment Ins

[Tx4obama]

Published on Jan 4, 2014

In this week's address, President Obama says Congress should act to extend emergency unemployment insurance for more than one million Americans who have lost this vital economic lifeline while looking for a job.

[freshwest]

1. A poll shows there is going to be a backlash for this:

Poll: Congress Risks Voter Backlash For Letting Unemployment Benefits Expire

to Mr. Bill:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101681887

We must not forget the multipler effect from this income source being cut off through no fauilt of the unemployed. There are spouses, children, extended family, schools, mortgages that will not be paid and they will be shoved onto already straining state budgets.

Even though some red states have cut them off there, too. Obviously, they are not welcome in the states they and their families live in. The GOP wants the people to be as they were in the Great Depression.

Homeless, desperate, dying and moving from place to place. Their local communities and belongings sold on the auction block to the vultures who voted for the GOP to do this.

We can do better.

[another_liberal]

2. That's what I call, "Cutting to the chase."

He got to the point and then drove it home. Unemployment benefits are smart, effective and, damn it, American workers deserve them.

[AutismRain]

3. Damned Right

Amen brother Obama is a good president and knows what he is talking about. The heat he is under is given by president bush for messing up the economy and an Obama care computer glitch that he had no way to see coming.

[nonoxy9]

4. Is anyone else sick of it always being a fucking "emergency"?

This "leadership by crisis" shit has got to stop!!! UI, social security, health care! These things should be never have to be an emergency afterthought.

[raindaddy]

5. Not To worry nonoxy....

Global warming as an afterthought will take care of the leadership crisis shit and every other human crises we've put on the back burner because profit is the solution to everything.