President Obama fights for unemployed

This does nothing for me personally. I've been out of work for 2 1/2 years, (or should I say a paying job) and did not receive unemployment benefits. I worked for a church and they didn't pay into the system. Aside from temp jobs here and there, that's all I've had coming in. I worked all my life and have been on unemployment once, maybe twice, but I remember what it was like and it isn't fun living off unemployment. Now that is cleared up, I am wondering how heartless these politicians are finding it so impossible to do the right thing for so many out of work?

They don't have a problem cutting taxes for the wealthy, yet even when Greenspan said these tax cuts should end, they fight like hell to keep them going on without paying for them. They have seen that these tax cuts still left average people out in the cold, didn't do anything to put people back to work but they want the unemployed to just do without any money coming in and no jobs.

Don't they think people notice exactly who it is they are fighting for? We noticed! But this is beyond backing the rich, this is about conscience. I doubt they have any left. For heaven's sake veterans are unemployed and this includes them too!

Obama calls for extension of jobless benefits, criticizes Republicans
By the CNN Wire Staff
July 19, 2010 11:48 a.m. EDT

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
President Obama criticizes Senate Republicans for blocking jobless benefits

Obama makes his plea at a Rose Garden appearance

Obama: People "aren't looking for a handout. They desperately want to work"

(CNN) -- President Barack Obama urged Congress on Monday to pass an extension of unemployment benefits, saying that Senate Republicans have allowed short-term political concerns to trump the needs of the jobless.

During an appearance in the Rose Garden, Obama argued that that the federal government has "a responsibility to offer emergency assistance to people who desperately need it" and an obligation to help families "make ends meet."

The Senate is set to consider a bill Tuesday that would extend the deadline to file for unemployment benefits through the end of November. The bill would cost $33 billion in additional deficit spending, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Senate GOP leaders have blocked a vote several times, highlighting deficit concerns by arguing that any benefits extension should be offset by spending cuts. Democrats are counting on the seating of the replacement for Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia on Tuesday to break the logjam.
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Obama calls for extension of jobless benefits