End of unemployment checks will mean no income for many

[tonysam]

Not that Congress gives a shit millions will be without, and then the economy will tank even further:

Xernna Nieves, her four children and her sister have for the past eight months lived in a single, cramped hotel room just outside of Atlanta.

Nieves, her sister and the two youngest children, both girls, sleep four to a bed. The boys, 15 and 12, sleep on the floor. In such close quarters, "We're getting on each others' nerves," Nieves said.

After nearly two years without a job, about the only thing that Nieves, 41, a former accounting worker, can count on is her unemployment insurance check; a $330-a-week lifeline that pays the rent, fills her gas tank and feeds her family when their $300-a-month food-stamp benefit runs out in mid-month.

Barring any further action from Congress, however, Nieves' "lifeline" will be cut at the end of June.

That's when she's slated to join hundreds of thousands of jobless workers nationwide who've exhausted their maximum 99 weeks of unemployment benefits and face life with no meaningful income.

Let 'em die is the attitude of Max Baucus and other idiots in Congress who don't realize and don't care there is NOTHING out there.

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[tonysam]

1. Kick for visibility n/t

[Taverner]

2. Third World USA here we come!

I'm wondering when shopkeepers will start hiring hitmen to kill the beggar children (Ecuador, Peru, Columbia, Paraguay)?

[blindpig]

3. k&r

[Donnachaidh]

4. but -- haven't you heard? The economy is improving!!!!!!!!

We don't have people falling off the economic edge -- we created thousands of jobs last month!


Change you can believe in! Yes we CAN!!! A Chicken in every pot! Read My Lips -- Mr. Gobachev - tear down that WALL ......

:sarcasm:

This story will be pushed down and swept under the rug. We don't need no stinking poor people at our party....

:puke:

[chill_wind]

5. Congress might get to it yet. But first,

we've got to get Gates that $33 billion he needs, sez Reid.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8295361

[Walk away]

6. 1+

[NotGivingUp]

7. And, exactly, what is YOUR answer to the problem? eom

[Hannah Bell]

8. tax the rich. for example, EXXON paid NO taxes last year, but made 45 billion

in profits.

[tonysam]

9. What is YOURS?

Congress can act, but it won't.