Obama defends federal unemployment benefit and tax cut extension | MLive.com

Obama defends federal unemployment benefit and tax cut extension | MLive.com: "Meanwhile, 99ers — those unemployed Americans who have exhausted all the weeks of benefits available to them — are angry that they've been forgotten. The proposed 13-month extension of federal unemployment benefits in the agreement does nothing to help the 5 million long-term unemployed who no longer receive benefits and there's been no discussion in Congress to do so.

The grassroots Unemployed Workers Action Group is sending a letter to the president and Democratic senators vowing to make sure 'no incumbent Democrat - including President Obama - is re-elected in 2012 unless more weeks of unemployment compensation are added for 99ers during the lame duck session.'"