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So as our economy wanes and stumbles, talk about helping the disfranchised, the unemployed and the homeless is mute. They fixed that last month with a bill that offers tax cuts to businesses that hire workers. That's it, that's all they could think of to help the millions of suffering. Or perhaps they can reinstate unemployment benefits for almost a million of you, but not before the Fourth of July recess.

There are answers and there is hope but it starts by telling the truth. There can be no jobless recovery or any recovery at all without jobs! That isn't a Conservative or a Liberal belief; that's just common sense.

"No nation can long continue half bankrupt. Main Street, Broadway, the mills, the mines will close if half of the buyers are broke." Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"A house divided against itself cannot stand.
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other." Abraham Lincoln

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