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Nick Smith: “If a family loses income, a family loses their job and they go on unemployment, the budget they started when they had a…”

On the recordJuly 16, 2002
If a family loses income, a family loses their job and they go on unemployment, the budget they started when they had a full job is not going to continue spending as usual. Maybe we should even reduce it below the budget.
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Nick Smith
Republican · Michigan

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Discussing budgetary constraints and family financial situations.

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