Unemployment benefit extension criteria unfortunate

Congress is broken, our government and our leaders are incapable of fulfilling their responsibilities. While they sit in their cozy warm offices, people out here are dying and they could careless. Billions have been sent to Wall Street, in time for them to cook the books again and pass out MILLIONS in bonuses. They enact a first time home buyer program that is blowing up in our faces with loop holes that are allowing four year olds to get get benefits.

All these cash for votes, opps…. clunkers programs continue to lead us down the road of disaster. The road of ignoring the elephant in the room, that of a out of control debit load and unemployment that is forcing the foreclosure rate to climb beyond the point of no return.

Reality is, healthcare and cash for clunkers are not feeding people or keeping the roof over their heads. Unemployment is our number one problem, as it directly effects when the real issues that need to be corrected are addressed. Without people working, debit can not be paid down, taxes can not be paid, hello it isn’t that difficult to understand.

Now this poor woman, trying to do the right thing gets smacked for working, doing anything she can. The powers to be basically penalize her by cutting her benefits nearly in half. Let’s not even get into the unemployment extension that is being held up because these freaks can’t agree on what account to use. WHAT DO YOU CARE, ITS NOT YOUR MONEY ANYWAY!

Hello…HELLO….ANYONE UP THERE ON THAT HILL…..HELLO???

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Now, I am against anyone taking advantage of others. But, the FTC & the Federal Government is way over stepping their area of responsibility. This is just another attack on free speech and civil rights. This is the Patriot Act of the internet. Yes, this sounds like a nice thing they are doing to protect people but it is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and nothing more. The federal government can’t do the job it is already charged to perform and now they want to go out and start controlling the internet. What is happening here folks? This is crazy!

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Snubbed By Obama, Fox News’s Chris Wallace Calls White House “Biggest Bunch Of Crybabies I’ve Ever Seen” (VIDEO)

Hold the phone Gracie! Wasn’t it FOX News that refused to carry the President’s address to congress? Like, the only “major” network to refuse to carry the speech? And now, Chris Wallace is calling the White House “crybabies” because the President skipped them on the Sunday news run?

Hey Chris/FOX News, make up your mind! You don’t want to carry what the President one day, and now ten days later your upset that he doesn’t stop by? Please tell me that you are just messing with us. Please tell me you don’t really think we are buying this twisted lie you are trying to spin to us.

Someone, please tell me they are not buying into this unfair & unbalanced load of crap!

Snubbed By Obama, Fox News’s Chris Wallace Calls White House “Biggest Bunch Of Crybabies I’ve Ever Seen” (VIDEO): “Snubbed By Obama, Fox News’s Chris Wallace Calls White House ‘Biggest Bunch Of Crybabies I’ve Ever Seen’”

Get knocked down ….

One step forward, three steps back. Everyday, people everywhere fight and battle just to get out of bed. Getting dressed, or taking a shower is just things that fall to the side. They don’t eat right, much less healthy. Taking care of themselves is not a priority. They see the coming day as just another bunch of wake up hours to be endured. They watch movies, and read books (blogs too) that show people who defy the odds and find happiness and success.

I know this because I fight this everyday. In the last few months it has only gotten worse. For me it is something I think I have fought for some time now, how long I do not even want to consider writing down. It would only serve to anger and push me down further.

Every night, I am plagued with thoughts of the things I didn’t get done. Question why I didn’t get this or that done. I get up and think I can get it all done then. Course, I am only getting worthless “busy” work done. Not like you can call people at 1 am and discuss business. Find myself reading for hours about things in this world I have no control over, but feel the intense desire to comment on them. Guess we always feel better when we can focus on others and their problems then facing and dealing with our own. I am not only a member of that club, I am the president of it.

I now find myself in a hole I don’t know how anyone could climb out of. Know some will say, suck it up. Get up, get dressed and go find any job you can. No matter how poorly it pays. Yea, that helps! I have heard this so many times, and with what little strength I have left I have fought it. Not sure why, but I have. Could be that I am so stubborn I can’t help but hurt myself. For some reason I have held out “hope” that I was better then that. That there was something about me that could attain greater. Experience is proving to me, that there isn’t anything special, that I have been wrong.

The negative impact it has on me has been rather extensive. But the hurt and pain I have caused others is the worse part. Met a very special person many years ago and put her through more then anyone should ever have to deal with. She endured not only my failures and everything comes with that, but even more. A son who I have never met, but I am touched by daily. Then there is the one person, above all others who should never be injured or hurt by me, but it seems everyone that comes in close proximity of me gets pulled down. To each of you, I really am sorry!

Now what? Where do I go, what should I do?

Right Wingers Wreak Havoc on Philadelphia Town Meeting

This whole healthcare reform issue is getting so out of hand, and to be perfectly honest, this is bullshit from all sides. This is an issue that is about our lives and everyone has turned it into a political debate. To such a point, people are screaming at each other in the aisles of our local meeting halls. So many people just need help, they need medications. Is it anyones responsibility to make sure this mothers child lives or dies, or if that senior gets the medication to extend their life? Not even going to touch on the hopeless thought of comfort.

Healthcare has become the latest whipping boy from both the right and the left. What is our (all of us as in society) responsibility to the person next to us? Do we have a responsibility? Or is it our “God-given, inalienable right” to be responsible for no one other then ourselves? This is an issue that is rapidly reaching the normal conclusion we usually find ourselves in. It is not how loud you scream, but how much money you throw at it. Because the simple fact of voting in this country is measured in Benjamin’s not a ballot.

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Philadelphia, PA — August 2 – This afternoon, at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, I saw the face of ignorance and hate–and it wasn’t pretty.

When Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius and Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) came to the National Constitution Center to answer questions about health care reform, they were greeted by an overflow crowd of approximately 400 people, the majority of whom were supporters with legitimate questions.

Unfortunately, though, a well-organized, belligerent and loud group of right-wingers stood in the aisles and across the back and disrupted the town meeting throughout. They yelled, shouted and jeered, and it was clear that they were not there to participate, but instead to try to disrupt the meeting and make it difficult as possible for anyone else to ask questions. They jeered from the moment the director of the Constitution Center stood to welcome everyone. For a few days leading up to the town meeting, e-mails circulated around Philadelphia warning that the ‘tea-baggers’ were planning to protest the meeting and, although there were fewer of them than there were supporters–they made more noise shouting about ’socialism,’ ‘abortion,’ and ‘assisted suicide.’

To show their support, the audience stood and applauded Secretary Sebelius and Senator Specter numerous times. There were people in the crowd wearing purple t-shirts with gold and white lettering that said ‘Health Care Now We Can’t Wait.’

Local members of Health Care for America, a non-partisan, nationwide coalition of volunteers were a strong presence at the event. According to Antoinette Kraus, a Pennsylvania Eastern Organizer for the Philadelphia Unemployment Project, one of Health Care for America’s member organizations, ‘Two people a day die in Pennsylvania from illnesses that could have been prevented if they’d had access to affordable health care.

‘We advocate for quality health care for all through a public option,’ she said, ‘and we encouraged all advocates of health care to come out today and support Sect. Sebelius and Senator Specter.’
In spite of the chaos, questions were asked and answers given. In response to one question, Specter said, ‘I believe the single-payer system should be on the table,’ and was enthusiastically applauded. A retired nurse then prefaced her question by saying, ‘If single-payer passes, I’ll come out of retirement!’

When asked why the Community Choice Act (which would cover patients who can be treated at home) wasn’t included in the proposed plan, both Sebelius and Specter explained that they are an effort to put it in the final Senate bill.

When an angry woman approached the microphone and complained that health care reform would lead to ‘rationed care,’ Secretary Sebelius said emphatically, ‘Rationed care is absolutely not something we condone,’ and explained that today health care is ‘rationed everyday for people who do not have coverage.’

To emotionally charged questions about abortion and assisted suicide, Sebelius calmly answered, ‘Abortion and assisted suicide are not a part of the legislation.’

impassioned and frustrated man asked why–if sixty-three percent of the American people favor health care reform–can’t sixty-three percent of the Congress pass the legislation. Specter replied, ‘We are going about it in a democratic way.’

One person described seeing people ‘falling through the cracks everyday’ and asked what can be done about ‘getting insurance for people with serious illnesses.’ Sebelius explained that the proposed health care reform would require ‘no more pre-existing barriers, no more being dropped by insurers when you’re seriously ill, and no more losing coverage when you lose your job.’

Frances Conwell, Philadelphia, was in the audience and supports health care reform and she explained, ‘People say they don’t want to pay for other people, but I say they’re going to pay anyway–they can choose to pay for prevention or for how much it costs us now when people have to go to the emergency room for care.’ She added, ‘I have health care, but I can’t watch other people suffer just because I have coverage. You have to think outside yourself and think about other people.’

Maureen Benzig, retired, who formerly worked at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, said, ‘I would like to see a single-payer system and I was happy to hear Senator Specter say he like it on the table, but I support a public option if we can’t get single payer.’ Benzig described a family member who is a physician and took a year off in order to support single payer. Her own doctors, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania also support single payer.

When I asked one of the belligerents why he and his companions wouldn’t stop shouting so others could speak and be heard, he shouted that it was his right to yell under ‘the first amendment.’ I then asked why he couldn’t respect the first amendment rights of others and he answered by glaring at me and walking away.

After the question and answer segment ended, I asked three of the boisterous opponents of health care why they do not support it and one of them pulled a copy of the Constitution from his hand and waving it, said, ‘Health care is not covered in the Constitution.’ Their arguments were illogical and based on lack of knowledge and an abundance of fear. I commented to them that they were being had, that they were working against their own best interests and they kept waving the Constitution.

The fury and rancor in the faces of the right wingers at the town meeting made it clear that this was not about health care only. It is about fear and raw anger, already inside them, now directed toward the health care debate. They see defeating health care legislation as their opportunity to re-visit the Presidential election.

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I want to believe him…. UH Football coach apologizes for gay slurs

University of Hawaii football coach made a public apology for his use of gay verbal slurs while talking about the Notre Dame players several times during a WAC press conference.

Here is the video of his apology;

Get it done, or go home!

Lot of talk by Sen., John McCain this morning. Seems he has something to say on everything from how Sarah Palin is being treated, to slamming the “Blue Dog Dems.” Granted, the dems have not handle the issue of healthcare very well at all. The dems are doing exactly what they cried foul on the republicans during the Bush years. But, isn’t that the circle we have been in for decades? It has only gotten worse with each passing election.

Both parties are wrong on this. The real issue is Mr. McCain, you and every other Senator need to stop talking on TV and talk to each other. We are tired of your (everyone’s) personal issues with this person or that person. You have a job, that we hired you for and to be honest the expectation is for the job to be done, and done right. So far, most of you are failing, miserably.

More and more, the issue of term limits is raising its head. Our chosen system of government does not support career politicians. How things are now, politicians are more focused on keeping their job, then ever doing their job. Does anyone really believe we are getting our moneys worth out of anyone in Washington? Its not like much you do up there isn’t changed every four to eight years. This is one serious problem, it makes most the things you “do” only a band-aid. One President signs that land must be protected for the citizens of the future, and then the next guy comes in the office and changes it. No doubt both can and do justify what they change. So, when we hear about something you wave in the air as an accomplishment, we don’t really get excited. It is temporary at best.

Know you ladies and gentlemen think we are stupid, (and in many cases your right) some of us can and do remember what and why you said we needed this or that. You get whatever it is you said we needed and then a few years later, opps, did a little “rethink on that” and you change it. And you can’t figure out why your approval ratings are the lowest in history. Course, you have learned, who cares? You people are sub 30% and it hasn’t changed a thing in your daily life.

Mr. McCain, if you want to make a positive change for the American people … institute term limits. We have heard the argument about how term limits would shorten us of those individuals that are good. I am sure there must be some good people in Washington, but human nature has proved that no matter how “good of a person” you are, corruption and worse, lethargy always sets in. Having a limited time to get things done is good. It pushes the person to get done what they came to get done.

Term limits also solves the campaign finance problem. Reduces the influence of big money, because they won’t be shelling out as much for someone that has a limited window of opportunity to give them what they want. Not to mention how much of a checks and balance this would install. (Makes you wonder how this would have impacted the recent Wall Street meltdown.) Encourages the person running for office to get in there and do some good without having the monkey of paying this group or that corporation’s “favors” back. For us citizens, it would be like watching Michael Phelps. Get it done, or go home. We can get behind someone who is working hard, check with NBC they will back me up on this.

America, take back your future, take back your government, lets get term limits in acted!

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Poll Shows Obama’s Clout on Health Care Is Eroding – NYTimes.com

Hey Mr. President,

Know your busy and all, but from down here …. we are a bit more concerned about putting gas in our cars and keeping the Madoff bankers on the other side of our front doors.

See, we don’t have helicopters, planes, private resorts at our disposal. I don’t have anyone walking my dog, or a staff making burgers not good enough for me so I take my ride, (all 26 of them) down to “Five Guys” and get some grease for the staff. I live in a very small rental, no car, and fighting to survive. Those crazies up the hospital only want cash for my medications and well, I just don’t have it right now.

Healthcare is a problem, no doubt and one that you and I both know will never be fixed. It just how it is. Hospitals will fail, funding and care for those of us down here will continue to be cut. Now, the minute an insurance company is facing bankruptcy I think the lesson from AIG should ring loud and clear. Just tell’em no. Don’t worry, they will file with the court, because George made sure they would get more protections then us, they will get through it, I promise. (Now that is my free advice to you, see, we didn’t need a lobbyist at all.)

All I am saying is, drop this hopeless fight. You aren’t gonna win, and we down here have already lost. Pick your battles better, do something that will bring a change to us down here.

Thank you

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President Obama’s ability to shape the debate on health care appears to be eroding as opponents aggressively portray the effort as a government takeover that could limit Americans’ ability to chose their doctors and course of treatment, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

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Dionne Warwick: Big Radio’s Attacks on Me Aren’t Surprising

I would just like to know, how bad do these “artist” have it? Seriously! Didn’t look all that bad for Michael Jackson, least from the ariel photos of his rented little cottage. Wasn’t looking bad on mtv’s Cribs, with the pools, dozen cars in the drive-way and Cristal in the fridge. The private jets, limos, million dollar motor homes, and of course the internet runs rampet with the stories of gift bags, artist’s contractual requirements. How about all the clothes, and stuff they are given, in hopes someone will take their picture wearing their products (which the artists love to bitch about having their pictures taken).

In this economy, and the hell most of us have really suffered through…. screw you and your whiny ass about not getting your cut of a song played on the radio. The same radio play that got you to where you are, talk about ungrateful.

Shut up Dionne, and the rest of ya! Don’t waste our time! Want some pity? Get down here with the rest of us and walk in our footsteps, then maybe we might remotely care, but in all honesty, if you still bitched about it after walking my walk, I would just burn your cd’s.

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