I have a lot of unemployed relatives! I myself am in danger of losing my job. All you have to do is have the "wrong" facial expression these days to put your job at risk. Almost everyone i work with is too scared to do anything but work, not even make eye contact.
And i have never seen so much unemployment since carter was president.
Instead of spending the stimulus money from washington, dc to alleviate the suffering and fear of the unemployed here, the texas state legislature is arguing over it while making plans to spend it on everything but what it was meant to be spent for and i have to wonder which lobbyist client will be getting their pockets full of it.
Read on. I wouldn't have believed it for myself if i had not read the news report myself!
And i didn't think you would either so i included the story so you could read it for yourself. Since all taxpayers' dollars from all over the country were used for this stimulus program, you need to see what is going to happen to it!
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AUSTIN, Texas - The debate over Gov. Rick Perry's decision regarding part of the federal governments stimulus package is still going full force.
The Texas House has started debating a bill that authorizes the state to accept the $555 million in stimulus money slated for unemployment insurance. The bill already passed under Republican leadership in the Senate.
After the stimulus package passed Congress, Perry announced he would not accept money that forced the state to expand programs. The stipulations of the stimulus money for unemployment insurance requires Texas offer unemployment benefits to some part-time workers as well.
Maybe part-time jobs were all you could get —like people in my family. And maybe you had several part-time jobs because that was all that was available. And if you lose those jobs, you still have rent to pay and utilities to pay and groceries to buy just like you would if you had a full time job, should have had a fulltime job in the first place except the economy is going to hell and still falling for ordinary people... Ordinary working people, that is!
Although Perry refuses to back down on his stance, the state's unemployment benefits fund is expected to face a deficit in the near future.
A big deficit because the elites on the northeast coast in washington, dc is passing down all of their debts and failures to us here in texas and now our economy is being destroyed right before our eyes!
Rep. Mark Strama, D-Austin, led the charge in the House to accept the money and the debate got heated when Rep. Ken Legler, R-Pasadena, filed an amendment that would require anyone applying for unemployment benefits would have to submit to a drug test.
"It's adding insult to injury, " said Rep. Jim Dunnam, D-Waco. "Not only have I lost my job through no fault of my own, but I've got to go pee in a cup or get my hair pulled because they think I might have been doing methamphetamine two months ago or cocaine two months ago. Give me a break."
Strama then offered up an amendment to Legler's amendment making the necessity of drug tests a study, essentially gutting the proposal.
After two votes and two head counts to make sure everyone voted for themselves, Strama's amendment passed.
The Austin lawmaker then tabled the unemployment insurance bill until Thursday evening.
While they are fighting over bull*, people who are without jobs through no fault of their own are going to lose their homes, apartments, vehicle and go hungry!
Because the elites have no idea in hell what ordinary people are going through. That is being out of touch. These are the people we are electing to office!
While Gov. Rick Perry is criticizing Washington bailouts, state lawmakers are planning to use $11 million in federal stimulus money to help rebuild the badly burned Texas Governor's Mansion.
It is ok to rebuild the palace but it won't help the people who are out of work!
Top budget negotiators said Thursday that a House-Senate committee agreed on the expenditures late Wednesday night. Some $11 million in federal rescue dollars would be spent to refurbish the mansion, which was badly burned in an arson fire last summer.
A fire which was set by a white young man according to the surveillance video which was readily available for viewing until it was yanked off of the internet.
For security reasons, the bus stop that was in front of the capitol building was moved but it was this young white man in a sedan who threw the fire bomb that started the fire —not a bus rider! So what was up with moving the bus riders & a further attempt to rid downtown austin from having to look at poor people, disabled people, older people and working people who have to rely on the bus for transportation!
This same mentality is spending money that could help unemployed texans to restoring the governor's mansion... An alternative is to let the governor and his family live in the pease mansion which is in a lot better shape and less of a security risk.
Around $10 million in state tax money is also slated to be spent on a renovation expected to cost about $20 million, officials said.
So when you add it all up you have to wonder what the difference between the actual cost is and what is actually going to be spent and what is actually going to be pocketed!
All the while people are being trained at taxpayer expense for jobs that are not there —unless they are nursing and it jobs and maybe education jobs.
Where are the jobs that this money was supposed to provide?
Where are the jobs?
Perry's office could not immediately be reached for comment.
But if they could be, they would tell the people to eat cake.
On second thought, these people are so out of touch, they aren't even sure if working people who lost their jobs really do have the same needs they do —like for food and shelter and utilities like electricity and running water...
I love historical buildings but people need to come first!
I have a lot of family members who are unemployed!
What about the people who dont have any family members who can help them out.
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