Now Republicans Are Targeting Unemployment Benefits?

Courtesy Donklephant  Tue, 03/09/2010 - 7:52am

As Americans, we’re accustomed to a certain standard of living.

Nothing lavish, mind you. Most of us don’t have big, fancy houses or expensive cars. Most of us don’t have investment portfolios bursting at the seams.

But we do have families and we do have responsibilities, and given that we pay our fair share into the system, we expect a safety net when circumstances out of our control force us into the ranks of the unemployed.

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