Thread: Nearly One Million US Workers Cut Off Unemployment Benefits

Nearly One Million US Workers Cut Off Unemployment Benefits

Politics / US Politics
Jun 19, 2010 - 03:08 PM

By: Global_Research

Patrick Martin writes: With 12 Democrats joining a unanimous Republican bloc, the US Senate voted Wednesday to defeat a proposed extension of unemployment benefits for workers who have been jobless for nearly two years. The bill would have extended unemployment benefits for those out of work more than six months, until November 30.

In the two and a half weeks since June 1, when the last extension expired, some 903,000 workers have seen their benefits cut off. By June 26, that number will top 1.2 million.

Meanwhile, the Labor Department reported that the number of new claims for unemployment compensation jumped to 472,000 last week, the highest figure in several months.

The result is that a Congress that rushed through a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street in October 2008 in a matter of days, and authorized a further financial windfall to the banks and speculators five months later, cannot bring itself to support even the most meager subsistence for the unemployed workers who are the victims, not the perpetrators, of the economic crisis.

The vote was taken under Senate rules, not to pass the legislation itself, but to “waive budgetary disciplineâ€

They have plenty of money to hand out to multi billion dollar companies, and to pay tuition, medical expenses and social security benefits to illegals; but when it comes to the Americans who made this country great; they are told to go to hell and find a box to sleep in somewhere.

A million more people with no income what so ever. How soon before the riots ensue?

I wonder what would happen if more Americans started showing up at day labor sites.

Originally Posted by Richard

I wonder what would happen if more Americans started showing up at day labor sites.

My guess is we would be stabbed or shot by the illegals...heck, what do they have to lose?? They will have a "Get out of jail card" , start back at "GO" and won't lose a minute's sleep over the crime they committed.