Help!
39 Republicans and 1 Democrat; Ben Nelson of Nebraska
are suddenly worried about the deficit.
As a result of their sudden state of worriment,
2,200,000 long-term unemployed Americans have now lost their unemployment benefits.
53,500 more will join them each day, which amounts to more than
350,000 people each week, who will be losing what could be their only source of income
for housing, utilities, food and health-care for themselves and their kids.
To put those numbers in perspective...
2,200,000 is the population of Houston, and by the end of next week,
it will be more than the population of Chicago.
350,000 is roughly the population of cities like:
New Orleans, St. Louis, Tampa, Santa Ana and Cincinnati.
53,000 is approximately the population of places like:
Flagstaff, Sarasota, White Plains, Cheyenne and Battle Creek.
And, should the filibuster continue...
in one month we're looking at the population of
Manhattan, Philadelphia and Detroit...combined!
These people are our friends, our neighbors, our families
These people are us!
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