E-mail from Elizabeth Warren: This is just wrong

[DonViejo]

Don,

Millions of families are hanging on by their fingernails to their place in the middle class – and the United States Senate just voted to let them fall.

I'm ashamed that the Senate didn't extend unemployment benefits yesterday. I'm sickened that my colleagues went home last night knowing that they just cut off a little help for millions of people who have worked hard and who can't find a job.

And I'm appalled that so many Senators cannot admit the simple reality: we are still in the middle of a jobs crisis. People have been looking for work for months or even years. Many are starting to give up entirely. Young people are beginning to think that there isn't a future out there for them. Long-term unemployment isn't just about money; it's also about losing hope.

These people – our friends, our families, our neighbors – they weren't the ones who broke our economy. So many people worked hard, played by the rules, and did everything we told them to – and now struggle to find work. They need our help.

We help because we care about people, but we also help because it is good for the economy. The numbers show money put into unemployment goes right back into the economy to help stimulate more demand and more business activity. According to a new Congressional report, in just one week after unemployment benefits expired, our state economies lost $400 million. Extending unemployment makes good business sense.

There's so much we should be doing to strengthen our economy and rebuild our middle class, and yesterday we took a step backwards. Washington needs to get back to work solving problems – not making them worse – so families can get back to work.

I really don't get why the Republicans would stand in the way on this issue. I don't get it, but I'm taking stock – and like many of my colleagues who voted to help people yesterday, I'm not giving up.

Thank you for being a part of this,

Elizabeth

[Impedimentus]

1. "Corporations are people"

Actually, they are super people, thanks to a GOP, owned lock, stock and barrel by the greediest plutocrats on the planet. The entire GOP agenda is to squeeze every ounce of productive life out of the 99.9% and then throw us into the landfill (or possibly recycle our body parts).

With a 24/7 FOX News and Hate Radio propaganda machine that Goebbles would envy the far right hate-filled crazies will vote against their own interests time and time again. The plutocrats are destroying every remnant of the middle class and killing off the poor. The Supreme Corporate Court has given money more rights than citizens. The Wall Street vultures and bankster hyenas destroyed the economy and forced many in the middle class into poverty. Starve the poor, eviscerate unions, kill federal, state and local government jobs, demonize teachers, slander minorities, send older workers to the garbage bin, and wring every ounce of productive life out of the young while enslaving them with lifetime student loan debt.

Don't think you can educate the right wing crazies, you can't. They are blinded by hate, fear and anger, and if FOX or Rush said the moon is made of green cheese or Obama started WWI they would't question it for a second.

Well to the Brave New Republican World !

[dmosh42]

2. Dems in the US Senate can blame themselves for these failures caused by the minority dictating....

what will pass a vote. The Repukes have been using the filibuster rule as a weapon that allows them to paralyze our legislative system, while the people have to suffer because a bunch of old millionaires want to 'preserve' this anti-democratic rule of the 1800s. Hopeless!

[a kennedy]

3. Well, and that a ton'o senators are millionaires.....and can't even begin to feel the pain of the

folks that need help.