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John Garamendi: “It's easy enough to say, but when you're out hunting for a job, you know these are difficult times. And we're going to…”

On the recordNovember 18, 2010
It's easy enough to say, but when you're out hunting for a job, you know these are difficult times. And we're going to make efforts to turn that around, and we've talked about that a little already, but the jobs are not there. We need to move this economy forward, and then as we do so, those jobs will come back. And let's understand, this is not a bunch of welfare. A lot of people are against welfare. We understand that, but these are middle class Americans----
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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Nov 18, 2010

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Garamendi addresses the challenges of job hunting and the need to improve the economy.

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