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The notion that you're going to cut off somebody's unemployment insurance
and have them go out and find a job is just plain nuts in a state like Rhode island
or state like Michigan. 'Cause the job just isn't there to be found.
As
as Senator Stabenow said about Michigan,
her folks are hard workers, Rhode islanders are hard workers, we've got a tradition
of working hard in a whole variety of industries, there are a lot of people lying around enjoying
the luxury of unemployment insurance payments they want to be out getting work. Unemployment
insurance payments let them go search for work and feed their family,
pay the rent,
put gas in the car, buy shoes for their kids,
put food on the table, all in the meantime
our colleagues want to take
the away.
We've even tried to get an extra twenty five bucks
added to the benefit, but the republicans have objected to that.
Twenty five bucks?!
It...
it doesn't seem like much, and indeed it's not much
but if you're just getting by on unemployment insurance
because you're states been in recession for so long as ours has,
that extra twenty five bucks
that's a meal
that the family doesn't have to skip.
That's a trip to the doctor that they don't have to duck because they can't
afford the copay.
It's an important little thing
and it's just symbolic of the attitude of the other side of the aisle that
sorry
not interested
tough bounce we don't care.