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/

[Laelth]

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

-Laelth

[heaven05]

2. my type of Democrat

you go girl! keep fighting the good fight. She has the integrity and courage to speak truth to power. God! I want to see her ensconced in the Oval Office at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I think that she would fight for the 'common' man and woman struggling from paycheck to paycheck.

[MrMickeysMom]

3. Thank you, Senator Warren!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

4. K&R

I'm SO glad she singled out Paul Ryan. Heartless.

[JDPriestly]

5. K&R.

[KoKo]

6. Recommend!