If You're Over Age 50,

I Was Born And Raised In The High Desert Of Nevada In A Tiny Town Called Searchlight. My Dad Was A Hard Rock Miner. My Mom Took In Wash. I Grew Up Around People Of Strong Values - Even If They Rarely Talked About Them.

The President Is Now Having To Deal With A Congress. He's Never Had To Do That Before. The President In The Past, He Has Just Done Whatever He Wanted. He Had A Big Rubberstamp Here Up On Capitol Hill, Whatever He Wanted, They Stamped Ok. That's Not The Way It Is Now.

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.

The War In Iraq Is A Serious Situation. It's - It Involves The Worst Foreign Policy Mistake In The History Of This Country. So We Should Take Everything Serious. This Is - We Find Ourselves In A Very Deep Hole. We Need To Find A Way To Dig Out Of It.

The Best Solution Would Be Better Strategies For More Rapid Economic Growth And Getting People Jobs And Increases In Income. You Should Simply Be Clear About Matching Problems And Solutions. If The Problem Is Someone Can't Find A Job Because They Don't Have The Skills And They Need Some Retraining, Extending Emergency Unemployment Isn't Going To Solve That. You Need The Job Training Programs Or The Skills Bills That Come Out Of The House And Are Sitting In The Senate.