Author: Henry Shivley

Whether the unemployment legislation passed in Oregon will help a single 99er will not be ascertained until the week of April 17^th as it will not take effect until then.  From what I have read I do not believe the legislation is for 99ers, but rather for those who have not yet reach 99 weeks.

During the duration of time when I was drawing my unemployment in the State of Oregon the state passed several extensions in order to get the unemployed through to the next federal extension. 
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It seems that every time an article on From the Trenches  gets picked up by a larger site and we see a growth spurt it is immediately followed by an attack.   When I see an IP coming onto the comments section with different names attached, my first thought is Troll, but I have to be careful as there are some people out there who are so paranoid that they think this tactic will somehow protect them from being identified with our site.

The fact is if you come on this site as Curious George and the government wants to know who you are, it is not even an effort for them to find out.  And one might ask his or herself what has this country come to if we have to be afraid to express ourselves freely.  So for the paranoid out there I will explain the following.
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After a week’s rest our Congress will be taking a couple more weeks off for Spring Break and truly this is not unreasonable as screwing the American people 24 hours a day, 7 days a week has to be exhausting.  And now the Tea Party is reportedly upset because the Republicrats are not cutting spending enough.

 When the Tea Party first grew up from its grass roots while Bush was in office, I thought it was a good movement that was bound to cause positive change.  And evidently so did the enemies of the 99ers and the middle class.  This is when rich elitists like the Koch brothers stepped up and financed the infiltration and takeover of the Tea Party by the Neo-Cons.
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More American auto workers are facing layoffs as General Motors says it is going to shut down its plant in Shreveport, Louisiana next week.  Also Toyota has announced that it might be shutting down several of its plants in the United States, and it is reported that Ford and Chrysler may follow suit.  So what is the problem?  Are the employees making too much money?  Are their retirement packages too generous and their medical benefits too extravagant?

No, that is not it at all.  The fact is it beginning to look, more and more every day, like the United States cannot build an automobile without components imported from Japan.  So there you go there is the proof for all of you out there still denying that our industrial base has been shipped out of this country.
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Never does the lie of the false left-right paradigm stand out more clearly than when a president, whether Demopublican or Republicrat, takes an action for the corporate elite which can only be considered detrimental to the country and to the people.  The propagandists from the false left and the false right are now coming out in unison and brotherhood in support of the unconstitutional invasion of Libya.

I heard the most outrageous assertions from both CNN and FOX.  One talking head tried to put forth the idea that the War Powers Act needed to be repealed because it limited presidential prerogatives for going to war.  The fact is that without the War Powers Act the president could not take us into war under any circumstances without the consent of Congress.
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Barry the Rat was in El Salvador yesterday touching base with the mafia dons who control that area as we 99ers suffered through another day in hell.  Concerns about the constitutionality of the Libyan invasion were dismissed by the Obama administration, as their spokespeople put forth the assertion that Congressional approval was not needed, as the hit on Gaddafi had already been sanctioned by Big Lou Macaroni, chief enforcer for the Brooklyn branch of the New York mafia. 

Don’t laugh what we see occurring on an international scale today is no different than the open violence displayed on the streets of New York and Chicago just eighty years ago.  The international corporate mafia run cartels do not even resemble governments anymore.  The corporations boldly brought their boards to Washington DC and took over our government. 
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Our illustrious president Barak Hussein Obama AKA Barry Soetoro AKA Barry the Rat is vacationing down in South America this week or at least that is the story that the mainstream propagandists are putting out.  The fact is Barry the Rat is on a very important mission for the international corporate mafia, United States branch at large.

I’m going to tell you exactly what Barry is doing so that we can all sit back and watch it unfold as our middle class takes another hit.  You see the corporate mafia, USA branch, has a few trillion dollars stashed in overseas accounts which represent profits made by US companies in foreign countries.  
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Another American military invasion in the Middle East and hey 99ers, money is no object.  This as our so called representatives are taking a week vacation from the daunting task of cutting every social program and refusing an unemployment extension because it is unfunded. 

Why are not these holier than thou crusaders acting on their mandate to the people in coming out in mass opposition to this unfunded, unprovoked, and unjust third invasion of a sovereign country in the Middle East?  I’ll tell you why.  Because this new war is going to put more money into the pockets of those our so called representatives serve.  And that is not we the people. 
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As radiation from Japan rains down on the west coast of the U.S., American war planes prepare to invade Libya, and millions of 99ers continue to suffer the grossest deprivations, King Soetoro and his wife Michelle Antoinette are basking in the sun of Brazil.  

If you think about it, Obama has become so insignificant as a leader in any sense of the word, that we should be wondering what we are paying him for.  If he completely disappeared and no one could find him the only difference would be that our corporate controllers would not be able to claim to be lording over us with any legitimacy. 
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Well Obama’s approval ratings are continuing to fall.  So I guess some more American service people had better get ready to die in Libya in order to bring them back up as the UN Security Council has okayed not only a no-fly zone but any military action deemed necessary by any country to protect the insurgents in Libya.  And when it comes to another war in the Middle East what it will cost and how it will be financed is not an issue.

This scenario should show everyone that in the international political agenda human life is not a consideration.  Think about it like this.  If the true goal was nothing more than to get an incompetent president reelected it would be an extremely simple task. 
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New jobless claims dropped to 385,000 last week as inflation continues to rise.  There are at present 10 million 99ers.  There are over 8.9 million Americans still collecting unemployment benefits at present.  No new jobs are being created in spite of what the propagandists say. 

At this rate there could very well be 19 to 20 million 99ers by the 2012 election and if you want to count all the long term unemployed, I have to believe that that number would come in at right around 30 million. 
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So far $46 million has been donated by American citizens for relief in Japan.  $1.3 billion was donated for the Haitian disaster and $5.3 billion went to the Gulf Coast after hurricane Katrina, marking a sharp decline in American generosity.  And what is causing that decline?  Well it is a fact that most charitable donations in the United States come from our middle class, as the rich do not care in reference to misery and suffering.  That being the case as our middle class continues the shrink, so does our ability and willingness to help others.

If you think about it, if each billionaire just gave five million dollars to charity, suffering around the world could be, at minimum, reduced to the point that starvation would not be an issue.  But we need to understand that the rich elite, not only applaud starvation, but are working toward a 90% world population reduction.
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Well our so called government has sent warships to aid the Japanese and also, through the Suez Canal, to anchor off the coast of Libya.  You see the people in Libya are being oppressed.  They are not being allowed their pursuit of happiness.  Therefore, our politicians are chomping at the bit to rush to their aid.  Wouldn’t it be nice if the 99ers’ lives were thought worthy of salvation by our so called government?

The people in Wisconsin are now taking action to recall Governor Scott and his backers, both Demopublican and Republicrat, in retaliation for their blatant abuses of power in attacking the working people in that state.  The propaganda push has been that the public workers needed to lose their bargaining rights because their pay and pensions had caused a deficit. 
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There is an article in April’s edition of Reader’s Digest titled, “How the Great Recession Changed Us.”  Talk about a blatant attempt to polish a turd.  According to the U.S. Census there was an 11.7% increase in the number of households containing more than one family between 2008 and 2010.  But this is a good thing because it makes families become closer.  Of course they don’t like each other as much anymore, but they sure as hell are closer.

500,000 people age 35 and older were forced to move back in with their parents, siblings, or other kin in the same time period.  There was an 8% increase in the number of kids who have moved back in with their grandparents from 2009 to 2010, but remember, things are getting better.
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It seems every day more and more of the world is falling into chaos, from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan to the uprisings in the Middle East and anti-government protests in Europe.  And don’t forget there is a terrorist behind every bush wanting to blow us up.  But you know what?  Being a 99er, I have to say I do not think these catastrophes are hitting my psyche one one-hundredth of what they would have in my prior life before unemployment, though I am genuinely worried about the three nuclear power plants in Japan that may be melting down.

I live in Oregon.  During the Second World War a little town about 50 miles to the east of where I live, was the only place in the continental United States to suffer casualties from a Japanese bomb.  The bomb was sent via a balloon which drifted with the weather currents and landed in Bly, Oregon where some children from a church group found it.  It was a very tragic event.
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It is March 12^th and spring is creeping up on us.  Right now we have about six months of good weather ahead of us and we should not waste one second of it.  There is already a call for a Nationwide Protest on April 2^nd and this is good.  And of course there is the Easter Project coming up on April 24^th.  From the activity I see from website to website I think we might be finally communicating without trying to push any single agenda, hence, as individuals. 

As individuals we can win this thing, but if we want to win we cannot keep being nice about it.  We must start turning to ourselves as individuals and saying if nothing else, what can I do as an individual to strike a blow for the cause of the 99er? 
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Barbara Lee and Bobby Scott cosigned a letter that was sent to John Boehner, Eric Cantor, and Dave Camp requesting their assistance in finding financing for HR 589, and also their help in plotting a course that will allow the speedy passage of the legislation.  Personally I do not see how this is going to do any good.  Remember John Boehner and company are working through a mandate that was put forth to them by the voters which says, “Destroy everyone but the rich.  Give no quarter and take no prisoners.”

Considering the recent outrageous acts committed by Wisconsin’s governor I do not think anything is going to stop this power grab, short of armed conflict.
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The mainstream propaganda machine continues its blackout in reference to the 99er issue.  I believe there are 99ers out there who are taking actions that are deliberately being excluded from the mainstream news.  This being the case we must push from the bottom up.  If you have been following the comment board you will know that an opportunity has arisen to get news coverage through mlive.com/jobs. 

What needs to happen is for a group of 99ers in Michigan to get together, start building a cross and a platform, and have their most eloquent speaker step up to do an interview.  Relief for the 99ers is not going to come simply by us wishing for it.  We are going to have to step forward and demand it.
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