On Labor Day, remember the unemployed vote

[Dulcinea]

Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/05/EDNQ1F83HK.DTL

As many of us gather for parades, barbecues and festivities in honor of the many men and women - past and present - who toil day in and day out in hopes of a better life, let us not forget the 31 million who will be celebrating this Labor Day from the unemployment line.

Let us not forget that their burden is not theirs to carry alone. Let today serve as a reminder that the jobless are jobless through no fault of their own. They are casualties of the gravest recession since the Great Depression - and they deserve our help.

They deserve a hand in the fight to get back to work. They deserve a decent paycheck - not a meager unemployment benefit. They deserve to know where they'll be laying their head next month when the foreclosure notice shows up.

America's unemployed deserve policies like the Union of Unemployed's Hire US, America plan, a 21-point strategy for reversing the jobs crisis. Policies that discourage the outsourcing of American jobs, demand the creation of a Works Progress Administration-style jobs program and create a Tier 5 unemployment extension for those who have been out of work longer than 99 weeks are imperative to this country's future economic existence.





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[jpak]

1. The unemployed - the GOP calls them "entitled", "stray animals" and "welfare queens"

I hope they do vote