help us! extend benefits to 125 weeks please

We have no money for food extend benfits or foreclosures will skyrocket from 99 weeks to 125 weeks for hard hit states.

If unemployment benefits are not extended beyond 99 weeks to 125 weeks for hard hit states we will have bread lines and food lines in this country and then a revolution. Later we will replace the congress at the election booth.

Harry Reid 202-224-3542
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2 for voicemail

We need Congress and the Administration to hear from us, LOUD AND CLEAR! Please pass the word around!

Please continue to call and email. Just to add, also continue to email daily(or call anytime)using the links to the right of the forum.

Let them know..You are unemployed. Assisting the unemployed is an emergency situation. They need to renew the Unemployment Compensation program as well as add additional tiers of benefits for the long-term unemployed IMMEDIATELY otherwise millions will start being without a lifeline...,etc.

PHONE NUMBERS(this is not exhaustive):

Whitehouse:
Comments line: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
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Congress Switchboard:
TOLL FREE: Provided by Unemployedworkers.org site, the Coalition on Human Needs offers a toll free access to the switchboard: 1-888-245-0215
(202) 224-3121
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Look up legislators here:
HOUSE CONTACTS

SENATE CONTACTS
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DIRECT LINES FOR SOME KEY CONTACTS:

Senate Majority Leader Reid: (202) 224-3542
Senate Minority Leader McConnell: (202) 224-2541
Senator Richard Durbin: (202) 224-2152
Senator Max Baucus: (202) 224-2651

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: (202) 225-4965
Rep. Jim McDermott: (202) 225-3106
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer: (202) 225-4131

THANKS! I WILL UPDATE THE ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THE HOME PAGE!

repub: "99% of republicans are all hyprocrites" - love the math LOL!!! It's like deja vu all over again! ha ha

one can only hope that all you republicans that dont like hand outs!! and social programs step up to the plate and say no!! But im sure like most republicans your just hyprocrite. This is my money now paying you to sit home and do nothing!! Eamil rush see if he and George will bail you out or call the tea party!! 99% of republicans are all hyprocrites. I also hope all you lose your health care and dont sign up for badger health care because its a socailist program.

BTW, unemployment is not a handout. Your employer pays in to the State a percentage of your wages as long as you worked. If you have worked for 25 years and never had to draw on it, with compound interest, there is a lot of money sitting somewhere in the states coffers. No where near the amount you could receive in 99 weeks. For you people out there that claim this is welfare, it is farther from the truth!

Janesvillemom - My mistake but really what's the difference? SOMEBODY needs to bail out the working class.

JustGuy: You are making me LOL! If there was an award for jumping to conclusions, making absurd assumptions, and random projecting, it would truly have to go to you. READ WHAT I WROTE, not what you think I think, or how you think I "make it sound".

To all those who commented on my original post, thanks for your thoughts. Now go read what I actually said, in fact I'll summarize it right here. First statement: pretty sweet deal for those who can get it. Can anyone truly object that to get almost two years of UC is not a pretty sweet deal? I made no other statement whatsoever about those who are getting the benefits. You would have to agree that 93 weeks of UC is a whole lot better than the standard 26 weeks. Basic math: 93 >> 26.
The second thing was a question. Surely there has to be a limit to the length of time someone can receive UC benefits before the rest of society says enough is enough - I made no statement as to what that limit is, I merely asked the question.
Lastly, for those that presume anything about my life experience, both past and present, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about, as I do not divulge those personal details on a public blog. Suffice it say that I have had many varied experiences in my life and can completely empathize with those on all sides of this situation.

As bobb1951 says, there are no jobs. Almost all of the jobs that were created in the last ten years have vanished in the wake of the credit crisis, and they are not coming back at anything like the rate of previous recoveries. This is now a worse jobs situation than the early 80s recession and in long-term unemployment terms the worst jobs climate since the Great Depression. This is a national problem, and not a case of there being vast rolls of unfilled jobs out there in some other part of the country. The idea that you can create a job simply by kicking someone off of unemployment is so ... stupid, reactionary, judgemental and smug that it beggars comprehension.
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Calculated Risk is an economics blog that produces some widely-admired charts. Here are three posts from today showing the grim situation for job-seekers:
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/0...
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/0...
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/0...
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This chart in particular shows the comparison of this recession to major postwar recessions. The good news is that the free fall seems to have stopped.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pMscxxELHEg/S2...

2 years of unemployment is TOO much. Where is the motivation for working.

davic, BUSH bailed out the banks, Obama bailed out the auto industry.

People are going to have to make the tough decision to move where the jobs are, and right now they are not in south central WI, nor will they for a long time.

I'm not for extending jobless benefits unless those folks are actively in some kind of college or retraining program, and even then, people are going to have to move.

Pattycake-My thoughts exactly. And how about Obama bailing the unemployed out like he did the banks.

It's a nice idea extending them, however does anyone think that those 100,000 people are going to find employment over the next year? After the people who went back to school get out, where are they going to work? What it does is dig the nation deeper in debt, and ourselves as well. I wish I could see some good options, but frankly, I don't see any, nor do I see any recovery here for another 5-10 years. We hoped to leave the area, but then try and find someone who wants to buy a house right now.

Fear not, with all those jobs Obama claims to be creating, those 100,000 should be able to jump right into one.

We can't give people on Social Security their yearly increase but we can keep extending unemployment?????

superdave when there is no work and people who qualified for unemployment apparently were working You say pretty sweet deal well it isn't near the wage we were earning and we have no insurance benifits as to not working. that little money does not go far. not all of us get sub pay. Until people are in the shoes of the ones who lost their job I think you need to think of what you would do without a job and using most of the money for medical and gas to look for a job. Most of the ones that lost their job do have kids and families and the high cost medical bills add up is left unpaid. people had years of paying in and they are qualified to get this money. And FYI superdave there is no welfare!!!and by the way you are not providing for anyone as most companies pay in to insurance for unemployment so superdave hang on to your bankroll you may be the next one to need UE. As noone is exempt from losing their job. I just hope the economy takes a good turn for those that are in this boat.

SuperDave....you are quite ignorant. Obviously your situation is not one of unemployment or you would be empathizing better than your comment suggests. Perhaps someday you yourself will have hardship and will find out what it is like to have nothing. You haven't a clue whether these people running out of funds are going back to school, doing less-than-adequate work just to be working and waiting for an opportunity. Granted, there most likely will be some poeple taking the UC benefits with no intention of bettering their lives. But that is the choice made by them. But the majority of people who have lost their jobs to no fault of their own deserve to be helped. Before you make such a statement, think before you write and do not post such idiotic statements.

WOW no comments yet???? Hope they extend the benefits for the people out of work.

"Dipko says Wisconsinites can receive a maximum of 93 weeks of unemployment benefits." That's almost two years - pretty sweet deal for those who can get it. How long do we continue to provide for them before it becomes welfare?