Rick Allen: “That is exactly right. Like the gentleman, I have been in my home State of Maine doing community meetings and talking to…”

“That is exactly right. Like the gentleman, I have been in my home State of Maine doing community meetings and talking to people throughout my district, and these are not very good times for many, many people. We are suffering losses in agriculture, we are suffering losses in manufacturing, and, for more and more people, it is difficult. I sat with a group of people at one company which is doing okay right now, but she was talking about the cost of her health care, trying to raise her daughter, she is a single mom, trying to take care of a daughter, and she said what a lot of people are echoing: ``I never thought it would be this hard.'' This is a difficult economy. Young people coming out of college today, coming out of graduate school, are having a very tough time finding jobs, and many people are being laid off and losing their health care along with their employment.”