Political Quotes

“I don't think that any of us think that a math debate is the most productive way to spend our time in the Senate, but just so we are all talking on the same song sheet: $400 a week, add $600, is $1,000 a week. Divided by a 40-hour week, that is $25 an hour. I don't know how you explain that to people who are making 15, 16 bucks an hour in Delaware, that you are now going to pay them $25 if they become unemployed. The Senator from Illinois said this is the program only for people who are involuntarily separated. If that is the way the program worked, it would be great, but anybody who has ever spent any time with unemployment insurance programs in your States knows that is not how it works. How it actually works is, once you create a disincentive to work, employers regularly work with employees to say: I kind of would like to drive you off the system, and I think you should recognize this would be better for you, too, if you can casualize it. That is actually what happens. I will yield the floor back to the Senator.”