After a disappointing abbreviated version of her interview aired on Sunday, 99er Dawn Rayner’s expanded ABC interview was released today.
Dawn (who can now be found on Twitter @DawnRayner) announced yesterday her surprise at “going viral” with the ABC Sunday Night segment on World News Tonight.
See below the expanded version of the great interview Dawn gave to ABC - below.
UPDATE of the Bud Meyers Story:
Today, the story which commanded the attention of Arianna Huffington and Ali Velshy last Friday and the Host of Radioornot Nicole Sandler this Monday finally hit the Huffington Post in a full feature article by Arthurb Delaney.
From the article:
Meyers wrote that he's out of money and facing eviction in less than a month. He's a "99er" -- a person who exhausted all available unemployment extensions, which in some states amount to 99 weeks of aid, without finding work. There's no official estimate of how many people have exhausted 99 weeks of benefits -- only about half the 50 states provide 99 weeks in the first place -- but the White House estimates that 4 million people will have exhausted all available benefits by the end of the year.
CNN's Ali Velshi said during a Friday broadcast that he saw what Meyers wrote via Twitter. "Bud, I think you're listening, so hang in there," Velshi said. "You're not forgotten by everyone. You're in our heart and thoughts."
Talk-radio veteran Nicole Sandler, who started a website for 99ers, invited Meyers to join her for apodcast on Sunday. She asked him if what he'd written was a suicide note.
"It's a note of desperation, a lack of options," he said. "I want to do everything I can to cling to life. I think life is the most important thing there is. There's that and nothingness. But I'm 55 and been out of work over two years -- I'm not physically fit enough to survive on the street."
FYI: The 99er Nation (UI Exhaustees) welcomes over 22,000 new members every week!
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Thank you Dawn for doing what you can to educate the public. For the past year the Republican party has done enormous damage disseminating false information about a number of topics ranging from implying that the President of the United States is a Muslim terrorist, to all Democrats are the enemy, to saying that 99ers are drunken, drug-addicted bums that America should discard. Politics have been intensely selfish and dark. It's no surprise what happened in Arizona - I saw that kind of thing coming. They can say what they want about politics being unrelated but when you manipulate people using fear tactics you get more than just votes, you get some ugly and unexpected results. Just as people have come to believe that President Obama is not a citizen, is a Muslim terrorist, and that he and the entire Democrat party are destroying the county - they've been just as successful at getting people to believe that they should believe that 99ers are scum. Why do they do this? MONEY.... MONEY.... MONEY.... If you can toss a few Americans in the toilet and flush that's more money for the greedy ones. I have little hope that anyone in Washington will listen because you're not saying anything they don't already know - they CHOOSE to flush Americans in the toilet anyway.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. I am a 99er, diabetic, and I want a job. I have to borrow money just to get my insulin and the basic things for my room. This is not a Democratic disaster as the Republicans want us to believe. They caused this and are so out of touch with the middle class and the poor that it's not even funny. Us 99ers want this extension so we can keep at least a roof over our heads and a phone on so if/when that potential job calls for the interview. This is sickening how so many American people are suffering and the Republican party and a few Democrats are just ignoring us and tossing us away. HOW SAD!!!
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