More H.R. 589 Discussion

Jen wrote:

PitchForks wrote:

Jen wrote:

PitchForks wrote:GOP Leaders Agree To Meet With Dems To Discuss Bill For Long-Term Unemployed:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/22/99ers-bill-meeting-long-term-unemployed_n_838970.html

There's a topic for it. Here's the link.
https://dawu.forumotion.com/t1224-gop-leaders-agree-to-meet-with-dems-to-discuss-bill-for-long-term-unemployed#27407

I'm so glad to finally hear that they have at least agreed to the meeting.

mrgolf wrote:It is very important that we all keep on advocating. Maybe now more than ever.

Quiethawk wrote:[

If they don't go in prepared with the cuts it will be a waste of time. In the article from the Huff today it said they will try to meet with The Tan Man in the next couple of weeks from there we know it's a few more to get the bill to the floor. I am sorry if I am being negative, I am just beyond frustration that it has taken this long just to get a possible meeting that I pray they are prepared for laying out a plan for how this will be paid for....

Quiethawk wrote:

mrgolf wrote:It is very important that we all keep on advocating. Maybe now more than ever.

I agree but it has to be said that if they don't come up with the cuts to offset the cost this will go nowhere. It has been said by the GOP that they will not support any bills that are not paid for and they have to cut money off the deficit.

http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2240-Progress-for-99ers-Legislation
House Republicans are demanding spending cuts as offsets, so closing tax loopholes and the like won’t be in play.

If they don't go in prepared with the cuts it will be a waste of time. In the article from the Huff today it said they will try to meet with The Tan Man in the next couple of weeks from there we know it's a few more to get the bill to the floor. I am sorry if I am being negative, I am just beyond frustration that it has taken this long just to get a possible meeting that I pray they are prepared for laying out a plan for how this will be paid for....

Phillymg wrote:

Quiethawk wrote:

mrgolf wrote:It is very important that we all keep on advocating. Maybe now more than ever.

I agree but it has to be said that if they don't come up with the cuts to offset the cost this will go nowhere. It has been said by the GOP that they will not support any bills that are not paid for and they have to cut money off the deficit.

http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2240-Progress-for-99ers-Legislation
House Republicans are demanding spending cuts as offsets, so closing tax loopholes and the like won’t be in play.

If they don't go in prepared with the cuts it will be a waste of time. In the article from the Huff today it said they will try to meet with The Tan Man in the next couple of weeks from there we know it's a few more to get the bill to the floor. I am sorry if I am being negative, I am just beyond frustration that it has taken this long just to get a possible meeting that I pray they are prepared for laying out a plan for how this will be paid for....

Great image Golf!!

QH--Remember when JS123 brought people's attention to the fake farm subsidies??

http://www.nypress.com/article-21342-the-making-of-manhattans-elite-welfare-farmers.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hYPQETfoQA

By going to this site anyone can read the long lists of individual Americans who get government handouts--some get $150,000 & some get $15,000.....but all of them just sit on their couches collecting cash from the govt for doing absolutely nothing.

http://farm.ewg.org/

When you read the lists & lists of names & names you will think you are living in a bizarro world where 'socialism' is bad except for all those people--I just wonder how many of them are in the Tea Party. Unbelievably real-estate developers buy up the fallow farmland, subdivide it into 5-acre lots, & sell it to people who build a house on 1 acre & every year collect a fat check from the govt on the other 4 acres!! Developers highlight the fake farm subsidies in their advertising to sell the lots!! Citizens of other countries like Canada & China who own the lots even collect the subsidies!!

Obama plans to cancel $106 billion of the fake subsidies for the 2011-2012 budget--

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/14/us-usa-budget-agriculture-idUSTRE71D3WH20110214?pageNumber=2
BUT WHAT ABOUT *NOW*??

As of March 18 Congress has cut $10 billion from *existing spending*.....FROM *CURRENT* BUDGET which happens to also include this year's fake farm subsidies due to be paid out by December 31st.

What if Congress cancelled the current $106 billion in fake farm subsidies?? Or even a portion of them?? In there Congress could find $16.5 billion to pay for HR589 & other things like restoring funding to the Workforce Development jobs program.

Golf--If you have time to pass this suggestion to your friend Mike that would be great b/c maybe he has a contact in Rep. Lee's office. Since the fake farm subsidies are already on the chopping block for next year.....*rescinding them for this year* is also an urgent priority. Not to mention an effective way to pay for HR589.

Phillymg I sent this message on the crewof42 website. I think we all
need to express our concern that they need to go with a way to pay for
it....

How To Pay for H.R. 589 Please Help Us.
I am praying
that Rep. Lee & Scott go to this meeting prepared to pay for H.R.
589 we can no longer wait for the games to be played. We are dying out
here. Some of us are down to selling our blood, fillings, doing
experimental drug studies at questionable risk to our health,anything to
survive. Please Please go to this meeting with a way to pay for it.

Here
is a suggestion. Obama plans to cancel $106 billion of the fake
subsidies for the 2012 budget why not cancel them now. This year's fake
farm subsidies due to be paid out by December 31st.

What if
Congress canceled the current $106 billion in fake farm subsidies?? Or
even a portion of them?? In there Congress could find $16.5 billion to
pay for HR589 & other things like restoring funding to the Workforce
Development jobs program.

http://www.nypress.com/article-21342-the-making-of-manhattans-elite-welfare-farmers.html

unemployed2long/1208 wrote:What happened to lee's plan to offset or make cuts elsewhere to get this passed.??

unemployed2long/1208 wrote:What happened to lee's plan to offset or make cuts elsewhere to get this passed.??

Need2Bworking wrote:I agree Mr Golf, it is more important now than ever to keep the emails, phone calls and faxes going

mrgolf wrote:

Need2Bworking wrote:I agree Mr Golf, it is more important now than ever to keep the emails, phone calls and faxes going

Yep!

booniebeast wrote:

mrgolf wrote:

Need2Bworking wrote:I agree Mr Golf, it is more important now than ever to keep the emails, phone calls and faxes going

Yep!

Whoa, my eyes are getting sleepy. When I just read this I read the end of need2B's post as "axes" going!lol