Extending Unemployment
As difficult as the economic situation has been on some, you would think it would be a no-brainer to extend the unemployment benefits to those who have been without a job for over a year or more. However, there is a backlash in this country in regard to the long term unemployed that says these people are lazy or not trying to get a job. The fact is, there are no jobs to be had in some areas and in other areas such as manufacturing these jobs are not expected to come back. So what do those people do?
Our Republican dominated government ran up a deficit from 2000 to 2008 that far exceeded anything we have ever seen in the past and yet these same Congressman and Senators are now screaming to balance the budget and making the very people who paid for the banks and wall street to be saved starve and go without? Yes, we have a deficit problem but I say it’s a deficit of ideas, of common sense and of truth. We need people of both parties who are more about Americans and less about party lines. Until we get those people into office, I am afraid we may all loose at the expense of partisanship.