Reply #68: Al Franken quoted it on the Senate floor a few weeks back: "You know, I'm Jewish. So I don't know [View All]

[kath]

the New Testament all that well. But I know Matthew. 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of my brethren, you did for me.' I went to a union hall not long ago. Building trades. A carpenter came up to me. Big strong guy. Rough, calloused hands. Tears in his eyes. He had gotten just a little bit of work here and there in the last 18 months. He said to me, 'I never took unemployment before. I hate it. But if it weren't for my unemployment insurance, I wouldn't be in my house.'

Making tough choices means doing one thing and not another. And right now, we're faced with that choice. If we can't agree to help people like that carpenter by continuing emergency unemployment benefits, how can we live with ourselves? How can we think that we're doing our jobs? The choice before us is clear this holiday season-lend a hand to those who simply can't get by without the help, or give $100,000 in average tax cuts to people making over a million dollars.

Where are our values? What are we doing here? It's almost Christmas. We'll be leaving here to go spend time with our families. We've got jobs, we've got great jobs. I think this is the greatest job, trying to make people's lives better back in Minnesota. So I ask again, what are we doing here?" http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9688346