Tom Tancredo: “a great deal of discussion has been undertaken on this floor for the purpose of addressing the issue of unemployment and…”

“a great deal of discussion has been undertaken on this floor for the purpose of addressing the issue of unemployment and for talking about the needs of workers in the United States. We continually look at pieces of legislation that are designed to improve the economic conditions within the country, to establish an environment in which people will be able and businesses would be able to create more jobs, to provide more jobs for Americans; and I certainly support the effort. I certainly believe with all my heart that that is what we should be doing, and I believe in the stimulus package that we passed here. I wish it had been bigger. I think that that is the right direction for the country. But it is also interesting to me to listen to the various interpretations of the problems that we have that are in fact causing people to be laid off or people who are and have been laid off to be unable to find jobs. Some of that is undoubtedly as a result of a sluggish economy, and I say I hope it will be helped by the passage of the legislation that we put through here and went over to the Senate and was signed by the President. I hope for that. But there is another aspect of this jobs issue that I think needs our attention, no matter how unpleasant it is to talk about it.”