"Words that make actions speak louder."
Call 661-BOEHNER and tell House Speaker John Boehner to stop the excuses and put help for the long-term unemployed up for a vote. And join today’s “Twitter storm” at 2 p.m. Eastern to #RenewUI.
A message to House Speaker John Boehner: Trying to support yourself and a budding teen-ager on virtually no income in a job market that is openly hostile to older workers? That’s unworkable.
If this deal passes the House and the Senate and signed into law by President Obama, this will be a big deal for people who have been out of work for more than 26 weeks. But that is a way-too-big “if.”
Ted Drost was a six-figure executive who voted for Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk. Now Drost is among the long-term unemployed, and he says Kirk “turned his back on me” by voting to block a renewal of jobless benefits.
Sens. Dan Coats and Rob Portman joined a filibuster of emergency jobless benefits because they could not attach a provision that would force recipients for take any job that was offered, no matter how low-paying or demeaning.
Congress this week assaulted the jobless in two ways – by leaving Washington without reviving long-term jobless benefits that expired last month and by passing a budget that does virtually nothing to boost job creation.
Don’t let Republicans get away with demanding that Democrats “pay for” a benefit for economically struggling Americans by taking away support from other economically struggling Americans.
Thirty-two Democrats opted to put principle before the political expediency of compromise for compromise’s sake. “Congress shouldn’t be patting ourselves on the back just because we didn’t shoot ourselves in the foot.”
We have been calling on our supporters to flood their members of Congress today with this simple statement: “A budget deal that abandons the unemployed is no deal at all.”