I have waited until late to write today’s article in hope that there would be some news of an Easter Project protest somewhere. Well, I guess if nothing else I no longer have to put up with anyone coming on the site and saying “All you people do is talk about it, no one is offering solutions.” The problem is not nor has it ever been that nothing could be done to address the situation. It is just that no one wants to do anything to take on the problem. It is so easy to just sit back and wait for somebody else to make the sacrifice to affect the change. Maybe this is why the Egyptians put up with the abuse they did for 50 years before acting.
When I first became a 99er I was determined to address the situation. To me, it was war. So I looked at my meager resources and reasoned as to how I could make them cause the maximum effect. This site and the articles I have written represent the best I could do with what I have.
On April 2nd I made a sign and marched out by myself in front of the community center in the little town I live in. There is no way I could have put together an Easter Project protest as I am handicapped by my location and lack of transportation. Come what may I can say I have done absolutely everything I can with what I have to try to affect a change and will continue to do so.
If nothing else, From the Trenches lets our enemies know that we are still out here preaching defiance in the face of their tyranny.
99ers we must continue to unite with our fellow Americans in every walk of life. We must speak the truth loudly and meet our detractors head on. We must reiterate over and over again the unprosecuted theft of the $26 trillion and the fact that we paid in trillions of dollars in taxes over our lives only to be dispossessed, disenfranchised, and made civilly dead for our trouble.
We must refuse to be discouraged in any way and continue on knowing that as sure as more deprivation lies ahead more of our fellow 99ers are going to have to realize that there is no politically correct, touchy feely way to achieve our goals.
It has always been and still is my opinion that we are going to end up in a shooting war before this is all done, and there is going to be no place to hide when that time comes. The people will either fight or die as our enemies intend to offer us no quarter. And as they have overextended themselves to the point of no return, they are already quite aware of the situation. In the end we will win. It is only a question of how much more we will suffer from this day to that.
Continue to encourage everyone you know to register non-partisan. As for right now this would seem to be the only thing we can ask our people to do that will not cause them to drop down into the fetal position and start sucking their thumbs.
There is a great awakening going on in our country right now and it is running head on into the absolutism our government is trying to inflict upon us. In short, something is going to give because it has to.
If anyone did do an Easter Project protest that has as yet gone unreported, all apologies and I salute you.
God bless this Republic, death to the international corporate mafia, we shall prevail.
talk talk talk washington is geting fat on pay backs from these gas co. they pass bills for the gas companys then when the price go’s up they disassociate them self from these company’s. People wake up you are being robbed.
Unite, I agree. But the Unemployed Friends Forum banned me for tell off those that don’t agree with me. One of their moderators disagreed with me about Oboma birth place and was quit caddy about it. So when I called her out on it I was banned.
If 99ers are supposed to unite and stay united, then 99ers must respect each others opinions. Why would the government help people who can’t act democratic.
TroyComic,
Number one this is not a democracy this is a Republic and the only things that will get your comment removed from this site are grossly profane language and troll propaganda designed to further the lie of the false left-right paradigm and divide our people.
I do not lie, I am a 99er, I have an opinion about Oboma’s birth Cert or lack there of.
I did use the f word as part of a tell off. Aww the evil f word, big deal.
I got banned because I doubt their precious Obama’s birth place.
I got banned because I bought steak to a fish fry, cooked it and tried to share it.
I fought against trolls for the last two years.
Welcome
neah, neah neah….that’s goatwisdom! That’s about all I’m hearing from washington these days.
***Urgent – Everyone please read this message***
Why are we allowing political representatives ruin this country and dictate the worst direction for our citizens? We voted them into office to manage the country only to be lobbied by corporations and other powerful influences. Unemployed people, especially the 99ers, need help and yet they choose to ignore our pleas. We are surrounded with lies and corruption that will destroy this country and yet we seem to ignore the destruction of our livelihood by putting our head in the sand. Read this article to get fired up! http://www.npr.org/2011/04/25/135575490/sitting-all-day-worse-for-you-than-you-might-think?ft=1&f=1002&sc=igg2
Also visit http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/
We must make them accountable. How do we do this you ask? We MUST bombard our local and national news papers, TV stations, websites, public forums, political news channels, entertainers, neighbors, etc., in mass numbers, daily until they ask the politicians for the truth. If we do this simple task then perhaps when they interview senators and representatives, including Obama, they might actually start asking the right questions. We must repeat this every day until they can’t avoid the direct questions. If you are NOT unemployed, but read the issues in the above links then you should become angry and follow through with the next step in taking this country back from corruption.
They want to balance the budget during the worse recessions since the Great Depression expecting it to create jobs! Clean up the waste first, as this is not the best time to stop spending. Fix the Corporate tax haven loopholes, start taxing corporations for outsourcing and moving entire industries to foreign countries, decrease the wasteful Defense projects, eliminate medical fraud and quit bailing out Wall Street and the banking system when they are the reason the economy is what it is today.
We are preaching to the choir only writing our messages on the 99ers and other unemployment news websites. We must reach everyone in order to deal with this issue. There are more than 20 million people unable to find suitable employment; probably twice that and growing (I bet the IRS knows exactly!). The unemployment rate isn’t lower. The 99er’s aren’t being counted! Why do they quit counting these people? Why do they stop compensating the unemployed at 99 weeks? What is so magical with that number?
How many foreclosures, bankruptcies, and suicides are necessary to get their attention? Demand the news agencies to report the real news!
Send parts of this letter to everyone including each email address at http://www.CNN.com , http://www.foxnews.com, as well as http://www.american99ersunion.com/ and support sites to spread the word. Please add your thoughts as you go. Repeat it daily so everyone will participate in this movement. A positive note on msnbc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3FJAF0hiU8
***Urgent – Everyone please read this message***
Why are we allowing political representatives ruin this country and dictate the worst direction for our citizens? We voted them into office to manage the country only to be lobbied by corporations and other powerful influences. Unemployed people, especially the 99ers, need help and yet they choose to ignore our pleas. We are surrounded with lies and corruption that will destroy this country and yet we seem to ignore the destruction of our livelihood by putting our head in the sand. Read this article to get fired up! http://www.npr.org/2011/04/25/135575490/sitting-all-day-worse-for-you-than-you-might-think?ft=1&f=1002&sc=igg2
Also visit http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/
We must make them accountable. Ask the politicians for the truth. If we do this simple task then perhaps senators and representatives, including president Obama, might actually start answering the questions. If you are NOT unemployed, but read the issues in the above links then you should become angry and follow through with the next step in taking this country back from corruption.
They want to balance the budget during the worse recessions since the Great Depression expecting it to create jobs! Clean up the waste first, as this is not the best time to stop spending. Fix the Corporate tax haven loopholes, start taxing corporations for outsourcing and moving entire industries to foreign countries, decrease the wasteful Defense projects, eliminate medical fraud and quit bailing out Wall Street and the banking system when they are the reason the economy is what it is today. We surely could afford unemployment extensions correcting any of these issues
There are more than 20 million people unable to find suitable employment; probably twice that and growing (I bet the IRS knows exactly!). The unemployment rate isn’t lower. The 99er’s aren’t being counted! Why do they quit counting these people? Why do they stop compensating the unemployed at 99 weeks? What is so magical with that number? .
How many foreclosures, bankruptcies, and SUICIDES are necessary to get their attention?
REPORT THE REAL NEWS!
http://www.american99ersunion.com/
Unemployment Zealotry and the Frustrations of a Jobs Advocate http://exm.nr/hZpYyM
Say hello to “Zionism” at its best my brothers and sisters. May GOD make these Zionists feel what we have been feeling in the land of the free and the home of the brave. GOD BLESS.
I did go out with mine, 8 of the 12 other 99ers,or rather 93ers since we fall below the 8.5% threshold to even get the full extension benefits, showed up, the media…all the media we contacted…did not, Apparently the bigger story was a march by Illegal Immigrants demanding ” workers rights ” which took place near us, even when I tried to get one of the lesser media outlets to give us a look/interview/voice, I was told ” that’s not newsworthy ” I guess struggling legal Americans are simply worthless in the eyes of not only our so-called representatives but in the eyes of our media as well…
At least you tried ! Fucking media pigs.
Contacting the mainstream media news stations, station celebrities, TV show producers, even Oprah, hasn’t helped in reporting the 99ers efforts. Even the staged meeting between Barbara Lee and Boehner didn’t make the first minutes of the evening news because it’s controlled by Rupert Murdoch. And what he doesn’t own still mimics his lead. Google’s headlines are the same as the main stream media! Unless a skilled unemployed long termed hacker can jack into the mainstream news reports, the whole country hears what the powers that be wants them to hear. I sat and watched tonight’s news and they had a story about a man being arrested for throwing a dog in the street (which by the way wasn’t hurt). While the long term unemployed hurt every day.
Even the supposed stupid comment by Boehner caught on tape saying “The Poor and Lazy Caused Current Crisis” to Rolling Stone magazine will never be heard thru the mainstream media.
What I still don’t understand is, don’t these producers, reporters, celebrities and others that can get acknowledgment for our situation thru the media have family members with children needing long term unemployment! Why haven’t they stood up for us against these corrupt powers that be, this includes both of the lying political parties the corporate thieves that robbed and continue to rob and plunder our countries wealth, even the President is an accomplice to these atrocities against previously hard working Americans.
Why is he so worried about what’s happening to the citizens of other countries and turns a blind eye to our own?
He and others are spouting garbage about cutbacks for the future when our futures have been ruined by our past and present leadership. Most of us have worked hard for many years only to have our investment in our country stolen by the billions thru corporate greed with no end in sight. Corporate heads are still taking record bonuses, profiting from wars (selling arms, food, vehicles and uniforms to America’s defense department for other countries via our taxes).
They have us right where they want us. The unemployed are blaming the Republicans for their support of corporate thieves and kick back donations and the employed and others are blaming the Democrats for overspending asking for cutbacks to social services when we need them the most.
Glenn Bax –
Your witnessing something that hasn’t happened in our lifetime, the ruining of America. We are in the death throws and all this ugliness is what happens. All we can do is hope and pray the people stand up, if they don’t, it’s over.
The american people must make a stand and the time is now.Call your reps,DEMS AND GOP,AND KEEP CALLING.TELL THEM WHAT AMERICA NEEDES IS NOT WHAT WE ARE HEARING FROM THEM,ALLSO YOUR STATES GOVERMENT.Taxes,food,gas,houseing you name it its keeps going up.AMERICA CAN’T KEEP GOING ON LIKE THIS.If it keep up ,how much will you have to make to live on,lets thing about that.If we don’t get our jobs back,their we be no america as we know it.Chinas growth for the first quater was 9.7%.WHAT WAS OURS? It going to take a long time to come back.Unless we change our way of doing things in our goverment.Right now companies are makeing an all time high in proffits and they like the way things are.Will america come back who knows,but the way it looks more and more people will suffer.
No country can beat America, except America. The European Union has panicked America into decimating itself from within.
YOU GOT IT AND OUR DUM GOVERMENT DEMS AND GOP IS LETING HAPPEN.
20 YEARS AGO THEIR WERE NO SUCH THING AS A 99ER.UNEMPLOYMENT WAS AT ABOUT 4%.LOOK AT THE DIRECTION AMERICA TOOK. BUSH AND THE REPUBLICANS LET THIS HAPPEN BY PASSING BILLS LIKE NAFTA & FAIR TRADE ACT,TAX BREAKS FOR COMPANIES THAT TOOK THEIR JOBS OVERSEAS.IN THE MEAN TIME MORE AND MORE AMERICANS LOST THEIR JOBS.COMPANIES PROFITS ARE AT A ALL TIME HIGH,WHILE WAGES ARE AT A ALL TIME LOW.FOOD,GAS,HOUSING,TAXES,HEALTH INS,CAR INS YOU NAME ITS ALL GOING UP.
CHINA’S GROWTH WAS 9.7% THE FIRST QUARTER.WHAT WAS OURS? WHAT ABOUT A HIGHER IMPORT TAX TO GET AMERICA ON A FAIR PLAYING FIELD.WE DON’T HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT THAT DO WE? NO,
BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT & CORPORATE CORRUPTION.
THEY WANT TO CUT SPENDING.YES ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLES BACKS AND TAKE MORE FROM THE POOR .
WHAT ABOUT THE WARS GOING ON.WE HAVE NO PLAN, WE KEEP LOSING AMERICAN LIVES AND SPENDING WHAT LITTLE MONEY WE HAVE LEFT TO KEEP GOING, EVENTUALLY CHINA WILL SECRETLY TAKE OWNERSHIP OVER AMERICA BY SECRETLY PLANTING FOREIGNERS LIKE OBAMA INTO THE WHITE HOUSE I.E. FUNDING THEIR CAMPAIGNS!
AMERICA WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FIGHT BACK BECAUSE BY THIS TIME IT WILL HAVE BECOME A 3RD WORLD NATION AND EVERYBODY WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME A 99ER! WITH NO GAS MONEY TO DRIVE TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND PROTEST!……NOR ANY MONEY FOR A GUN FOR WHEN THE USA GETS SECRETLY INVADED BY CHINA!
WHEN THE MIDDLE EASTERNERS FIND OUT THAT CHINA CONQUERED THE USA THAN ALL THE MUSLIMS COUNTRIES WILL SHOW THEIR REAL COLORS AND INVADE CHINA ……AND….THE ANTI-CHRIST (QADDAFI) WILL RULE THE WORLD ‘THE END’……
SOURCE; HOLY BIBLE-REVELATIONS – talk to GOD daily – believe it or not!