IT IS TIME TO SEND OUT A MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOS

From:
http://usunemployed.blogspot.com/p/media-sos-campaign-main-street-needs.html

The long term unemployed have now went through the process of sending M-A-Y-D-A-Y faxes to all target members of Congress. Do you want to give those members of Congress the opportunity to ignore that massive campaign without any mainstream press coverage? Are we going to allow Tom Coburn to declare that we will get an extension to 103 weeks and extend it even more and then allow Senator Max Baucus say that he believes 99 weeks is enough and there is hardly any mainstream press coverage?

US Unemployed Blogsite does not believe this is the right thing to do. Too much time and effort has gone into this cause to allow it to be untouched by the larger audiences that will apply the heat to Congress for that "political will". When you consider that the one Senator who promised more weeks has voted against the extensions and then you consider the other Senator who said 99 weeks is enough has voted for the extensions - it really proves the point that these people in Washington are saying one thing to the camera and doing another on the Senate floor. Enough is enough. They all need to walk the walk if they are going to talk the talk.

If you are sitting there thinking to yourself, "what good will that do?” Think again please. Ask yourself again how in the whole wide world this effort could possibly hurt the cause. If you do not get that job you wanted but doesn't exist today, do you have anything better to do? The pressure needs to be mounted if Congress needs that "political will". Remember, the unemployed only represent 9.7% of the United States population.

Millions of other Americans need to fully know the plight of the long term unemployed because mainstream is failing to report the issue. If you are employed and not in this nightmare, you may be more inclined to believe the news story that Congress is actually doing an unemployment extension (or has recently already done an unemployment extension and things are fine until June) and not care about the detail that Congress only changed the dates available for existing tiers. There is still an unemployment crisis in this country and the larger media outlets need to be reporting the whole story.

Let's not allow mainstream media to report another half-truth unemployment extension story without mentioning the need for Tier 5 Unemployment Extensions!

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