Our representatives in Congress were elected to create jobs for unemployed people and to get the economy back on track for everyone.

Politicians in Washington should vote plain and simple to extend the lifeline of unemployment insurance benefits for the millions of Americans who stand to lose them —without also voting to kill 140,000 jobs and vital programs and services.

People in our community are hurting – we need good jobs, not a misguided unemployment bill that cuts benefits for unemployed people who, through no fault of their own, are barely scraping by to feed their families, stay in their homes, and pay for the basic necessities of life.

When politicians vote to make cuts that will have the most severe and immediate impact on people living in states suffering the highest unemployment without asking multimillionaires to shoulder a penny of burden, it is clear that they are siding with the rich and powerful over the rest of us.

Instead of siding with billionaires and scapegoating unemployed people by asking them to take drug tests or means tests, our representatives should act quickly to help unemployed people who are desperately trying to keep food on their tables and regain a foothold in the labor market.

The way to do that is by creating jobs and by supporting the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act (H.R. 3346), legislation that would extend the current level of federal unemployment benefits through 2012 as our nation continues to crawl out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

Congress should support a clean unemployment extension bill and oppose one with job-killing cuts that will hurt working people while insisting on protecting tax loopholes for the super-rich.

It is wrong that in the United States of America some nurses or construction workers who earn $50,000 a year are paying higher tax rates than hedge fund CEOs pulling in $50 million a year.

Whose side is your representative on? Millionaire CEOs or middle class families?

Washington has said that cutting the budget and cutting taxes for the super-rich will create jobs. It’s a big lie. They have it backwards. Putting Americans back to work is the only way we will ever reduce the deficit and rebuild the economy for the long-term.

Instead of killing jobs while voting to extend unemployment benefits, we want Congress to kill the tax giveaways and loopholes for CEOs and big corporations – and use that money to create jobs by passing jobs bills and a strong and fair unemployment extension bill.

Call your representative TODAY and tell him/her to stay in Washington until this bill is fixed.

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