Chuck Schumer: “I doubt it. Forget the raising of the money. I worry that they don't sit down and talk to somebody who is making that…”

“I doubt it. Forget the raising of the money. I worry that they don't sit down and talk to somebody who is making that amount of money, ever. Yes, you may shake hands at a county fair. But how about sitting in a living room and talking to the family who is making $27,000 and has dreams for their children and is struggling to do the best for their kids and can't make ends meet? Again, that story about the communion touched me. But there was another one in that New York Times, an article about a family, a husband, wife, and two kids who were going to have to move out of the house they always lived in because their landlord got an 18-percent increase in property tax and he didn't want to pass it on. They were friends. It is a two-family house in a neighborhood in Queens. He didn't want to pass the property tax on as a raise in the rent for the people in the apartment. He had no choice because he couldn't make ends meet. He was not well off either. Here is a family--they probably don't pay much, if any, income tax; I don't remember exactly what their income was, probably in the $30,000 range--who is going to have to move. They don't know where to find a place to live. The kids will have to be uprooted and go to a different school. Who in this Chamber would not choose to help that family out a little bit? I mean, create jobs? I have to tell you, a lot of these families have jobs. They had jobs. The hard-working sort of bottom-of-the-ladder jobs that they are starting out at.…”