06/11/2009
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"If the only thing you're motivated by is cost--we now know, without any question, categorically, that if we don't address this issue, it is going to mount as a cost issue."
"The sad but unavoidable truth is that many of those jobs aren't coming back."
"We all know that our unemployment rate is unacceptably high."
"Many of the industries that built Connecticut's prosperity during the 20th century are in decline."