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There's A Lot We Can Do To Improve American's Retirement Security, But It's Wrong To Replace The Guaranteed Benefit That Americans Have Earned With A Guaranteed Benefit Cut Of Up To 40%.

Unemployment Insurance Was Meant To Be A Bridge For Temporary Spells Of Unemployment. The Bad News Is All The Evidence Is That The Longer You Have Unemployment Insurance, The Longer People Stay Out Of Work, Their Skills Erode. The Job They Ultimately Get Pays Less. And That's Not To Their Benefit.

If You Have A Problem Where You Have Just Poverty, Long-term Insurance Benefits For An Emergency Aren't Going To Solve That Either. You Have Got To Fix The Social Safety Net.

This Nation Has Been Through Hard Times. But Those Hard Times Have Hardened Our Resolve. Im Ready To Do The Difficult Work Ahead. But I Want To Do That Work With Barack Obama, And Not A Tea Party Ideologue. We Can Move America Forward, But We Can Only Do It Together.

We Would Be Somewhat Foolish To Work Out Something On Stopping Us From Going Over The Cliff And Then A Month Or Six Weeks Later Republicans Pull The Same Game They Did Before And Say, 'we're Not Going To Do Anything - Unless This Happens, We're Not Going To Agree To Increasing The Debt Ceiling.' I Agree With The President, It Has To Be A Package Deal.