Ed Schultz gives Powerful 99er Commentary on MSNBC

Ed Schultz gave a powerful 99er commentary on MSNBC last night.

The Ed Show, now in it’s new time slot at 10PM EST on MSNBC, is every bit as powerful as the show was in his earlier time slot. Ed has a flare for telling it like it is, day in and day out.

Last night was the first time Ed has really had 99er news to focus upon all this year and he did the 99er Nation proud. Ed’s powerful commentary began with snippets from yesterday’s Press Conference where Barbara Lee and Bobby Scott called on House Republican Leadership to allow a vote on the Emergency Relief to help Long-Term Unemployed Americans now.

Several 99ers joined Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.) at a press conference announcing proposed legislation that would give an additional 14 weeks of benefits to anyone who's been out of work for longer than six months.

"People want to enjoy the dignity of work instead of collecting unemployment check," Scott said. "Critics of unemployment compensation believe it gives people incentive not to work, but the fact is ... that there are more people looking for work than there are jobs."

Ed went on to introduce his own variation on a community works program that made so much sense, Congress could never comprehend it's merit - let alone pass such. The clip below features press conference comments by 99er Rhonda Taylor (one of many 99ers present at the Lee/Scott announcement in Washington D.C. yesterday).

The commentary moved many to tears when he discussed Gerry DePietro’s story featured in yesterday’s Huffington Post article by Arthur Delaney: 3.9 Million Americans Ran Out Of Unemployment Benefits In 2010: Report

From the article:

"We're just trying to let them see that we're real live human beings," said laid-off accountant Gerry DePietro, 65. A 99er, she carpooled from the Philadelphia suburbs with her friends Patty Fraschetta and Bob Stroop, both of whom have been out of work for more than a year.

Gerry DePietro said she ran out of unemployment benefits in September and has been selling her jewelry to get by. She said she got $20 for a gold ring that had been given to her by her late husband 37 years ago, before they married.

"It was like losing a million-dollar ring," she said.

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