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President Obama Calls on Congress to Extend $250 Economic Recovery Payment for 2010

WASHINGTON, DC-President Obama announced his support for an additional $250 Economic Recovery Payment to the seniors, veterans and people with disabilities who are struggling to make ends meet with retirement savings that have not fully recovered from their losses over the first year of the recession.

“Even as we seek to bring about recovery, we must act on behalf of those hardest hit by this recession. That is why I am announcing my support for an additional $250 in emergency recovery assistance to seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities to help them make it through these difficult times. These payments will provide aid to more than 50 million people in the coming year, relief that will not only make a difference for them, but for our economy as a whole, complementing the tax cuts we’ve provided working families and small businesses through the Recovery Act,” said President Obama. “This additional assistance will be especially important in the coming months, as countless seniors and others have seen their retirement accounts and home values decline as a result of this economic crisis. I want to compliment all the members of Congress who have been working to address these challenges, especially Senators Reid, Baucus, Sanders, and Lincoln, Speaker Pelosi, and Representatives Rangel, McCarthy, and DeFazio.”

Fact Sheet

The President’s proposal would provide an additional year of the $250 “Economic Recovery Payments” initially enacted under the American Reinvestment & Recovery Act (ARRA). Under this proposal:

* 57 million people would benefit. These include 49 million Social Security beneficiaries, 5 million Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries, 2 million veterans benefit recipients, 0.5 million railroad retirement and disability beneficiaries, and also about 1 million public-employee retirees not entitled to any of the previous benefits.
* The benefit would be $250 – or equivalent to a 2 percent increase in benefits for the average Social Security retiree beneficiary. Under the rules no person could “double dip” and receive a $250 Economic Recovery Payment through more than one program. Nor could they receive both an Economic Recovery Payment and the Making Work Pay tax credit.
* The total cost of the proposal would be $13 billion – and would not hurt the solvency of Social Security. The President is committed to ensuring that the $13 billion cost of the proposal does not reduce the solvency of Social Security or other social insurance programs.
* Would extend an effective relief program. To date Economic Recovery Payments have been made to 55 million people including seniors, veterans and people with disabilities and totaled $13.7 billion. Most of the checks were mailed out in May 2009.

In addition to this legislative proposal, the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Treasury will take steps this week to prevent reductions in the amounts that workers can contribute to IRAs, 401(k)s, and other aspects of tax-favored retirement systems in 2010 that some feared could result from negative inflation over the past twelve months.

New Deaf Dating Launched – DeafSingles.us

October 20, 2009 – Toronto, Canada – DeafSingles.us, a fresh new deaf dating site, has seen a recent rise in new members that can only be attributed to a new website design, and the ever-increasing popularity and awareness of online dating.

“Absolutely no tricks, just 100% dating fun! Why pay for online dating?” says DeafSingles.us, “You can join and browse our free list of thousands of deaf singles who have realised how easy it is to find the perfect match using free online dating and matchmaking.”

The constant media coverage that surrounds online dating is one of the major factors as to why sites like DeafSingles.us are starting to see an extremely high number of unique visitors – especially considering they offer all of their services for free, something that is not very common with the large online dating sites.

With such a huge amount of competition, how are sites like DeafSingles.us? How is it possible that so many new members have signed up? The answers is quite simple.

The first thing you realise when visiting the free dating scene and checking out the websites that claim to offer the best dating services online for free, is the number of liars! Hundreds of dating sites actually charge you a lot of money for extras, or they even charge you once you have found a partner – meaning once you find someone you think you’re compatible with, before you can actually get hold of their details you have to pay a big fee!

After checking out the competition, especially the free dating sites online, I can safely say that if I were single and looking for a partner, male or female, I would definitely give DeafSingles.us a go – it has everything you could want in an online dating site.

About http://www.DeafSingles.us
DeafSingles.us was started because of the lack of excellent, easy-to-use free dating sites. The site is dedicated to those people who simply don’t have the time to meet new people, and would like to find like-minded people online quickly and safely. The website is continuing to grow and so is the company, a free online dating site with features like DeafSingles.us is not easy to find.

2010 DeafNation Cities Schedule

This is the pending schedule that DeafNation will plan to host 2010 expos and the cities will be hosting are:

February 20: Tampa, FL
March 6: Phoenix, AZ
April 10: Omaha, NE
April 17: Birmingham, AL
April 24: Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
May 1: Pomona, CA
July 18-23: Las Vegas, NV (DeafNation World Expo)
Sept 25: Worcester, MA
October 9: Pleasanton, CA
October 16: Seattle, WA
November 6: Chicago, IL

I was surprised Tampa, FL is the first city to host the 2010 DN Expo, this is a interesting change.

I see they make some changes and host at a new city, what do you think and should DN change city every year to make something new?

What about World DeafNation Expo in 2010? Are you going?

5 Leads To Have Successful Relationship

Have you wonder how you can have a successful relationship the one you love but are you sure she or he is one for you? How would you know? This 5 steps will tell you how. If one of these are unsuccessful, your relationship will not work. This will help educate you to understand what relationship is really about because it have big responsibility and understanding. The 5 C’s are:

Communication
1. the act or process of communicating; fact of being communicated.
2. the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs.
3. something imparted, interchanged, or transmitted.
4. a document or message imparting news, views, information, etc.
5. passage, or an opportunity or means of passage, between places.

Caring
1. a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
2. a cause or object of worry, anxiety, concern, etc.: Their son has always been a great care to them.
3. serious attention; solicitude; heed; caution: She devotes great care to her work.
4. protection; charge: He is under the care of a doctor.
5. temporary keeping, as for the benefit of or until claimed by the owner: He left his valuables in the care of friends. Address my mail in care of the American Embassy.
6. grief; suffering; sorrow.

Confidence
1. full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing: We have every confidence in their ability to succeed.
2. belief in oneself and one’s powers or abilities; self-confidence; self-reliance; assurance: His lack of confidence defeated him.
3. certitude; assurance: He described the situation with such confidence that the audience believed him completely.
4. a confidential communication: to exchange confidences.
5. (esp. in European politics) the wish to retain an incumbent government in office, as shown by a vote in a particular issue: a vote of confidence.
6. presumption; impudence: Her disdainful look crushed the confidence of the brash young man.
7. Archaic. something that gives confidence; ground of trust.

Cooperation
1. an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.
2. more or less active assistance from a person, organization, etc.: We sought the cooperation of various civic leaders.
3. willingness to cooperate: to indicate cooperation.
4. Economics. the combination of persons for purposes of production, purchase, or distribution for their joint benefit:producers’ cooperation; consumers’ cooperation.
5. Sociology. activity shared for mutual benefit.
6. Ecology. mutually beneficial interaction among organisms living in a limited area.

Compromise
1. a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.
2. the result of such a settlement.
3. something intermediate between different things: The split-level is a compromise between a ranch house and a multistoried house.
4. an endangering, esp. of reputation; exposure to danger, suspicion, etc.: a compromise of one’s integrity.

T-Mobile Outage – Time To Switch!

I was being told from one of my friend who is with T-Mobile, and it’s confirmed that T-Mobile network is out since last week and there are lot of deaf people still using Sidekick and they couldn’t be able to use it and they are very unhappy with the T-Mobile’s service.

I remember in the past, I used be thier customer and I will never forget the horrible customer service and the service really sucks. I was surprised Microsoft bought Danger and even they still not know how to operate the server properly. They have history repeat of downtimes.

My advise to you, is quit T-Mobile and switch to AT&T and get Blackberry and I promise you will not see any downtime or problems. I made the right decision to switch to AT&T since year now and I never had a single problems. Their service rocks and very solid connection almost everywhere I go, never “X” connection.

Just my advice, get out and switch to AT&T and you will be glad, I promise. If you pefer to stay, call T-Mobile and request for service credit.