There have been a series of comments coming into our site from another 99er site identifying themselves as Displaced American Workers United. When these commenters first appeared I took them to be genuinely concerned about those 99ers who feel they have reached the end of their rope. This being the case I allowed them to promote their site on ours. After which they began attacking our stance on reality, even going so far as to insult us. Well we are not here in The Trenches because we allow others to walk on us and these socialist mental midgets from DAWU are no exception.
I put up and run From the Trenches World Report but it belongs to the 99ers that are making it a growing reality that is putting forth the most unexpected adversary to those who would see the 99ers swept under the rug.
These socialist pukes at DAWU are trying to jump on the bandwagon and claim responsibility for getting the 99ers after the members of the sub-committee and causing an effect. They purport to be on the inside. I purport that it is insiders on the inside that have brought our country to ruin.
I relish in the fact that the Congressional press secretaries, except for Barbara Lee’s, refuse to speak to me because they are afraid of me, which is to say they are afraid of us, which is to say they are afraid of individual free thinking Americans. The fact is they had better be afraid as they have committed outrages against us that they are going to answer for.
The 99ers on From the Trenches World Report represent a growing voting bloc that has no other purpose than to vote out those who have betrayed us. Our enemies fear us because any one of us is the leader at any time a change in the situation shows a need. We are unpredictable and refuse to be bated back into the false left-right paradigm.
If HR 589 is passed through some compromise it will not be because a bunch of socialists sit around sending emails to their non-representatives and singing Kumbaya in the candlelight. It will be because they have become genuinely afraid of what we are becoming.
The Congress will recess next week so I think we can safely say that HR 589 is going to be pretty much a dead issue until Congress reconvenes March 1st.
I tell each and every one of you reading this, if we start preparing to hang a 99er on a cross out in front of the church John Boehner will be attending for Easter Services, they will take notice. And if we are forced to go through with the demonstration, we will see our numbers grow into an unstoppable army that they cannot ignore.
I believe From the Trenches World Report has the meanest 99ers in the country involved. And the time has come when we need them all. So come on the comments section, let them hear the truth of what the true patriotic 99ers are thinking. Let them see our outrage and resolve. Let them know that if they continue to ignore us they do so at their own peril. And if the socialists try to infiltrate our site, we will shout them down and send them back into the shadows from whence they came.
God bless the Republic, death to the international corporate mafia, we shall prevail.
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You are absolutely correct. These guys do not have a clue as to what we are capable of. So they fear the unknown. I am convinced that the movement going on in this country everyday concerning the 99ers and future 99ers will continue to grow and no one can stop us. Great article, Henry. I also admire the people in Wisconsin for being able to hold it together in peaceful protests. I can see the same thing happening for us at some point in the near future. For now we can just continue to spread the truth and wait. I believe now, more than ever, we will take our cause to the streets.
HEY I’M JUST WAITING FOR THE MARCHING ORDERS
SOMEBODY GOT TO PAY FOR THIS BULLSHIT!!!!
I’M TIRED OF BEING CALLED LAZY!!!! I’M TIRED OF
PEOPLE TELLING ME TO FIND A JOB!!! WHEN I’M DOING
MY BEST TO FIND 1!!! I’M GETTING SICK & TIRED OF
THESE TEA BAG PEOPLE DISRESPECTING ME!!
& ALL THE PEOPLE THAT’S IN MY SITUATION
I’M GETTING TIRED OF OBAMASS !! IGNORING US
SO HE CAN GET THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DOWN!!!!
THIS DISRESPECT GOT TO STOP!!!! NOW
I WORK 2O YEARS OUT OF MY 37 YEARS ON THIS
PLANET!!! PAY MY TAXES!!!! & NOW IN THESE HARD TIMES
I CAN’T GET ANY HELP!!!! BULLSHIT!!
HI folks:
How does Washington justify giving Egypt $150 million to help with there transition? But refuse to create the long term unemployed a job, or extension. Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota.
Kate
It’s Washington! They don’t justify much and when they try it doesn’t always make sense. Political interest and greed is above the well being of the American public.
Everyone needs to understand the major problem with our country. Our money, and our country isn’t worth anything anymore. Our government knows our country is on the verge of crashing, so they are trying to liquidate for themselves. They are selling their government buildings, they are trying to acquire all the gold, hence all the Pop-Up ‘Cash for Gold’ places. They are making sure that they are all taken care of for any future problems, putting the citizens and the people that voted them in office on the back burner. They have nothing to offer us. That is why they are at the mercy of big corporations. Our country adds to the deficit every day, yet the corporations are making profits everyday. So who do you think the government wants to help, the people that have no money or jobs, or the people that pay their mortgages, and keeps their children happy and safe? They sold us out to the corporations. The 99ers need to protest the unemployment offices, while the rest of America protests the corporations. Do you really think companies like WalMart get so big by doing the right thing? Most of you probably don’t know that WalMart got so big with Americans in the beginning because everything they sold was MADE IN AMERICA. Now they outsource, have legal sweat-shops, and they take advantage of us. We give these companies our trust and money, and they screw us.
My point being, every dollar you spend at WalMart, you are supporting this bullshit. Same with every tax dollar you spend. Just think about it. Did you see the huge budget that was printed, and is currently being argued in congress? Where do you think all that money comes from? You and me. People say that we have no say, because we dont pay taxes if we are unemployed. What about the tax we pay on our gas, and our food, and everything else.
If they can’t take our tax dollars, and use it to help us, than give us our money back. Us 99ers have invested every dollar we own into this country, and what do we have to show for it. America needs to reinvest in the American citizens. We are the best asset this country has, and they are throwing us out to the dogs.
I am 24 years old, with a college degree, and still cannot find work. I look in my newspaper, and there are 5 jobs, all being Avon scams and such. I even traveled the country last summer in an RV looking for jobs, and there arent ANY! I’m told I dont have experience, or some other lame excuse. If you cannot get hired for being unemployed, sue for economic discrimination. If they deny us jobs and money, then we will get it however it takes. Do you think people are going to let their kids starve to death?
These corporations and our government think they can turn their backs on us, but what happens when we have no money left to buy stuff and pay taxes. They will start to lose their houses, and their sanity. If they wont help is, than we need to get our $800 billion back.
Im not even 25, and my biggest goal to is leave this country. The government doesn’t care about its citizens, or protecting us.
Canada here I come!
(and im not going there to get better benefits, or to take advantage, im going there because they care about the safety and health of their citizens.)
I DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE BUT I DO PAY TAXES ON MY UNEMPLOYMENT. SO THEY CAN’T SAY WE DON’T PAY TAXES.
I AM A 48 YEAR OLD VETERAN WHO HAS WORKED SINCE I GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL, BUT WHEN 5 OR 6 LARGE FACTORIES IN YOUR TOWN CLOSE DOWN SO THEY CAN MOVE TO MEXICO IT DOESN’T LEAVE A LOT OF JOB OPORTUNITIES AND IF YOU LIVE 30 MILES FROM THE NEAREST BIG TOWN (WHICH HAS NO PUBLIC TRANS) YOU HAVE TO HAVE MONEY TO LOOK FOR A JOB. I HAVE PLENTY OF JOB EXPERIENCE BUT BECAUSE OF MY AGE AND THE FACT I HAVE BEEN UNEMPLOYED FOR SO LONG I CAN’T GET A JOB. AND BECAUSE I HAVE ALREADY RAISED MY CHILDREN AND DON’T HAVE ANY UNDERAGED DEPENDENTS I CAN’T EVEN GET HEALTH INSURANCE.
WE SHOULD QUIT WORRYING ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES UNTIL THEY CAN HELP THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY. THE ECONOMY IS JUST GOING TO GET WORSE AS THE 99ERS INCREASE. AS LONG AS THEY KEEP BAILING OUT THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP AND NOT HELPING THE PEOPLE AT THE BOTTOM THEY ARE JUST WASTING THE TAX PAYERS MONEY. IF PEOPLE DON’T HAVE MONEY TO BUY STUFF THEN WHY MAKE MORE OF IT TO SELL? THEY (GOV) SHOULD NOTICE A CHANGE IN INCOME TAX MONEY SINCE THERE ARE MILLIONS THAT NO LONGER PAY TAXES BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO INCOME.. MY INCOME WENT FROM 100,000 YEAR BEFORE LAST TO 15,000 THIS YEAR. BUT THEN AS LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED I AM JUST SITTING AROUND ENJOYING DRAWING A CHECK UNSTEAD OF HAVING THE INCOME THAT I HAD BEFORE. LOL THEY JUST DON’T HAVE A CLUE ABOUT HOW LITTLE MOST OF ARE GETTING NOW COMPARED TO WHAT WE HAD. AND IF YOU HAVE NO HOME, NO INCOME AT ALL HOW DO THEY EXPECT YOU TO BE ABLE TO LOOK FOR A JOB BECAUSE HECK YOU CAN’T EVEN WASH YOUR CLOTHES, OR HAVE ANYTHING NICE ENOUGH TO MAKE YOURSELF PRESENTABLE FOR A JOB INTERVIEW. PEOPLE JUST DON’T HAVE A CLUE.
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We must organize & mobilize as a nation now… The U.S is on the path of being taken over by illegal immigrant and terrorist by 2011. Media black outs & Internet censoring or site blocking in the U.S is already being tested and a bill is up for a vote. What’s next to be taken away, freedom of speech and the right to bear arms? Beware crooked businesses, politicians, and other trader illegal immigrant supports will push congress & Obama to vote to yes on an amnesty bill this year to allow the continued invasion of over 30 million illegal immigrants. Most of who are habitual lawbreakers, uneducated, criminals, terrorists, gang members, pedophiles, prostitutes, and drug users/dealers. Illegal Immigrant and supporters steal money, use violence, and make terrorist threats to people who oppose amnesty or want laws enforced. Defense budgets and military bases all over the country are closing down. Wake up U.S citizens!!! We do not need more illegal’s joining the military. We have the draft and Militia’s in law for emergency or invasion. Why are our military soldiers dispatched all over the world? Not to protect us, but to protect big corporations and the rich over seas. Your current lawmakers have sold us out to foreign nations, private investors and the poor south of our border. The plan is to replace us with illegal immigrants then leave legal U.S citizens broke, hungry and defenseless to be taken over by rich and poor foreigners with bad intension. Citizens born in the United States are the target of elimination and are slowly being pushed out of the workforce to be left broke and dry. Illegal immigrants in the U.S earn an average income of $30,000 per yr with no papers, elementary diploma, high school diploma, or college degree. This is our regional land and the citizens born of it have a physical & spiritual oath to preserve or defend it at all cost. A fact is illegal immigrants hate U.S citizens; many raise their kids to be lawbreakers, criminals and to support terrorism in the USA like there parents. This Dream Act and any for of amnesty is a breach of national security and must be stopped now. The people do not have to accept this treason or any new laws or legislation that supports foreigners before it’s own legal citizens. So if you prefer to keep living a lie and are too scared, lazy, blind to truth or have no will to defend the soil you were born on to help citizens & people in need… Then don’t follow us at http://usmoa.org/
Not only the 99ers need help but all of america.I lesten to the DEM and THE GOP on tv and think are these realy the people that run this country if so we are in deep s–t.Over goverment wants to make cuts in speending .Look who they want to cut ,the people that need it .This is done again and again .And we keep voteing for them. THEIR JOB IS TO HELP AMERICA AND ITS PEOPLE,NOT CHINA, INDIA ECT.IF THEY CAN’T DO THE JOB THEY WERE PUT THEIR FOR FIRE THEM.I am tired of the hole dam lot of them.China is laughing at us,how dum can we be. We let China take our jobs, companies make big profits,China keeps growing and we have to barrow money from them to run our country.How dum can you get.We better wake up fast before we become a country of 99ers.The people that have a job today may become a 99er tomorrow.Think about that .They keep saying of the future of our kids,they did not think of that when jobs were leveing to go overseas,did they. They pass the fair trade act ,fair to who?I hope everyone knows whats realy going on and speak up america
WE NEED A LEADER- someone that can speak to our so called representatives and say ” LISTEN YOU SCUMBAG! THIS IS HOW IT’S GOING TO BE!”
They need to focus on the AMERICAN PEOPLE!! It is ridiculous that we have to endure such economic hardships without any help. As long as we stay quiet then they will keep getting away with this crap. We need to be visible and get together to fight against injustice. Wisconsin is setting a great example of what it’s looks like when people have had ENOUGH!
Most of the big shots on wallstreet SHOULD BE IN JAIL FOR WHAT HAS BEEN DONE to us, but not one of them has even been charged. Only Bernie, who is right when he says “why me?” EVERY WORKING PERSON IN THE COUNTRY HAS BEEN SCREWED and we get no JUSTICE!
Hi. First, thank you for this informative site. I just became a 99er two weeks ago and I’m looking around the sites for guidance.
You mention the DAWU site. I’ve browsed it but don’t see any comments about this site (using the search feature). Where are the posts that you mention?
Thank you again for this site and good wishes to all 99’ers!
Joseph
Joseph,
They put the comments on this site and I trashed the worst of them.
i just read on-line that the u.s.a goverment is planning on handing egypt 150 billion dollars to help them with their economic recovery . i think that money shoulf be used to pay for job creation here in the united states instead of being sent to another country . or to be used here to fund an unemployment extention for the long term unemployed here in the usa . mr oboma needs to spot butting his nose into other countries dealings an worry about the people that should mean the most tp him the people of the united states .
I agree totally. I have worked all my life, and only had to use unemployment once. I am 52, and it seems I am to old to work, and to young to receive SS. There are going to be millions of us by the November elections, and we aren’t stupid enough to believe the rhetoric of self serving republicans. Who do you think people are going to vote for, in the midst of no money, losing homes, and watching food programs obliterated. I don’t think whatever dirt is dished out about a democrat versus republican when it comes time to vote. Even if you are republican, you will realize you were thrown to the wolves by your party members and want to retaliate by voting for the democrat. If there are any republicans reading this, you had better warn your leaders to think about the consequences of blocking H.R. 589, because the loss of a home and food trumps loyalty every time.
Congress says there is no money to help the unemployed, especially the 99ers but they will send billions to a foreign country, last time I looked we are living in the USA. When is congress and the President going to WAKE UP and help the poor people in this country. The USA has changed for the worse. We have soldiers fighting to keep us free and congress is letting this country become poorer and poorer. The average person can’t make ends meet. Rich getting richers and poor forgotten. About the budget the President wants to cut fuel aid, welfare beneifts WHAT ABOUT TAXING THE RICH? They threatened to take business else where, most of the wealthy compines all ready do that. How many compines have already gone to foreign countries. How do we get congress to read what is written and how most of the American people???????? I for one is ashamed of this government for not caring about their own tax payers who have help to make this country great.
Let the republicans block H.R. 589. See how many of them win in the November Elections.
I know I have made comments but it has been about us as American people with no wear to turn and what might happen to some of us will we be desperate enough to hurt ourselves because we have no other options thats what I worry about. But I will tell you one thing is that Republicans have screwed us so bad that I don’t know another person who would vote for them unless they are rich. They have ruined everything and everyone although I do think the President should be backing us up as Americans and saying yes they need our help it goes right back in the economy. The Republicans will be voted out and I can say that the Speaker of the House is the worst heartless person I know they will have to live with lives on there heads because we just can’t keep going so I hope they feel good!!!!!!!!!!!
That DAWU site censors posts. They deleted my post explaining my perspective of the WI teacher protests. I am a property tax payer in WI, but they deleted my take on things there, without explanation. The mod who did the deleting has yet to step forward, identify and explain, after 24 hours.
At this point they can be considered little more than wagon jumpers, searching for a cause to grab onto.
Posts should not be censored/deleted by any site, including this site.
Joseph
Homes have already been lost. No cars for transportation nor insurance. No money for gas or food. So let them step in the way of hr 589 and they will be out by the next day. We have lost what ever patients we had left. I think the protest that are happening now are long over due. They have pushed us to the absolute limits. Children are already starving. Visit your local homeless shelter. A rally is going on in Providence this Tuesday night the 22nd of Feb.
Im 56 yrs old living in north carolina.Im a 99yr i have paid into the system since i was 16 yrs old.I truly believe the government started this whole backlash against the unemployed because they know weather dem or repub,they have no clue what to do so when in doubt demonize them.thats what hitler did with the jews he demonized the jews till the german people hated them much as this government is doing with us.If they can make us hated and invisible they can kick us to the curb.see they have gone yrs letting jobs go over seas even giving tax breaks to encourage it.Well now the job jar is empty,all the manufacturing jobs are gone.So guess what rather then stopping that we all need to reeducate ourselves.my friend called me from rockford ill last wk.He lost his job of 37 yrs hes 55yrs old.now i ask you what in the hell is he gonna do.hes lucky hes just starting his unemployment,but i guarantee you at the end of this yr all unemployment will end period,then you will have between 15 and 20 million 99yrs.our ranks grow i heard 30 thousand a month.at 56 yrs old i have paid taxes towards unemployment benefits but if they want to argue that then fine i want 40 yrs of social security money back now.
Excellent article!
I live in the sad sorry state of Florida which was once near the top of the US economy and consistently had among the lowest unemployment out of all the US.
Not anymore. I work(ed) in residential construction and the industry was destroyed by years of government ineptitude piled on top of pure greed. Bad combination.
Now the rest of the country has see slightly rising employment and minor recovery, but Florida still hovers near 12%, where it’s been for almost 2 years, with no sign of improvement any time soon. I’d rather not move, but might have no choice. My unemployment ran out 6 months ago after collecting the 99weeks. I cannot find a job in construction and can’t even get hired to some menial thing dues to thef act that every opening has 10 applicants and I’m either too specialized or over-experienced.
The 14 weeks would help me to stay afloat just slightly longer.
I’m really quite sick of it all. I wish they would get it over with already. Meaning the decision of H.R. 589. I don’t hold my breath or cross my fingers on this one. I think we are all wasting our time. I know, most everyone doesn’t have anything better to do. But surely there is something they can do to help us. Even if it’s not with cash? Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful for the weeks I’ve received but I think that they think it’s been long enough. And I couldn’t agree more. I’m going out tomorrow to collect aluminum and then tomorrow night I go back to babysitting. I make out pretty good with those two but I also do a little ebaying. I will be glad when summer starts so I can get back to yard sales and thrift stores. I make about 100 per month more than my U.I. was each month total, And the best part is NO TAXES. It’s a must try
I agree, 14 weeks isn’t a lot, but it means a couple more months of roofs over our heads and food.I warned the republicans on lots of blogs, but they assume they will get voted back in anyways. Wish I was a fly on the wall when they realize 14 weeks on the H.R 559 could mean the difference between being voted out or back in office. What would it hurt?
I warned people for years boehner would be a poor choice. I worked at a placed called the liberty where he came in for contributions from an ultra rich d_cks he was in called the knights of the round table.they had a backroom for them only so i know his bogus beginnings when all he was a trophy husband kissing azz to make his start and see why he so good at making see the lies as truths but damn it it has to stop. support the people or be thrown under the bus with the rest of the sellout liars.god wont be the only one passing judgement if hr589 fails!!! To the streets to show them how this country was started to stop governments like this were stopped and why people still dream!!! Dueces unemployedohioman