Will 99ers Ever Walk Like the Egyptians?

Ask your self: Will 99ers Ever Walk Like the Egyptians? Speculation on this important issue is rampant in the Blogosphere - and the answer in great part lies with Washington D.C.

This week, Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) will be holding a Press Conference announcing a Bill to Help 99ers. Rep. Lee, Rep. Scott, and a representative from the National Economic Council will be present as well as the Co-Founder of the American 99ers Union, Gregg Rosen. Several members of the 99er Nation will be on hand in Washington D. C. Wednesday in support of The Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act.

PRLOG (Press Release) - Feb 07, 2011 – The American 99ers Union is proud to announce that on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 10 a.m. EST a press conference will be held to announce the introduction of a bill that would add 14 weeks of (retro active) extended unemployment insurance for all unemployed Americans. The Press Conference is being held at the Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, D.C.

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Introducing this stop gap measure is welcome news to millions of hurting Americans who have not had UI benefits for up to a year ago, but getting Speaker Boehner to bring it to the floor might take some doing.

Even if the bill receives it due in the way of full debate and a vote in the House of Representatives, it’s passage is far from a sure thing - then there is the small matter of getting it through the Senate intact so President Obama can sign it into law ASAP. This is and has been a dire emergency situation for 11 months now and Washington seems unmoved by the utter urgency of the matter.

Weary from years of fruitless job search activities, trying to survive on nothing and every cry to Washington for help falling upon deaf ears, the millions of UI exhaustees must once again garner the fortitude and focus required to engage in the political battle which could very well determine if the 99ers will indeed ‘walk like the Egyptians.’

The Declaration of Independence references some important and timeless truths about the earliest American beliefs on the subject of human rights and what must be done when the government no longer is responsive to the universal principles laid out in this document.

........ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.......... That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness......when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism (the exercise of absolute power in a cruel and oppressive way), it is their (the people’s) right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of.....

The American people - the unemployed - the impoverished - the outsourced - the 99ers have all been suffering. Surely it is NOT yet reached the point where the people of the USA need to abolish their government, but it may be time very soon when we must take to the streets for peaceful petition and protest in large masses to make sure we the people are no longer pushed aside in favor of the lessor numbers of wealthy and big money corporate interests.

The question is what will make you leave the relative comfort and obscurity of your homes and get out there to make your needs known in a way that Washington cannot ignore?

If you are not yet there, perhaps you are not yet hungry enough, angry enough or desperate enough to do so. If that is the case then good. This means you are better off than many in America today who are not so fortunate. Or maybe we are just waiting this one last time on Washington to do the right thing and be quick about it.

Washington - Heads UP: This may well be your last chance to assure America is not the next Nation to take to the streets demanding you put main street first and help those victims of Washington’s greed and failures over the past decades. I implore you to listen to the people’s cry and HELP the 99ers NOW. It is the only humanitarian and American thing to do now!