From the PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW:
Sen.-elect Pat Toomey said Thursday that Congress should extend unemployment benefits but must pay for them by cutting money elsewhere…
“We are running really a staggering deficit, and a federal government that’s spending too much money, running too big a deficit, actually prevents us from creating the kind of jobs that we need so badly,” Toomey, R-Lehigh County, said during a visit to Pittsburgh.
“I think there are cases when we do need to extend unemployment benefits, but we’ve got to (offset the benefits’ cost) so we don’t damage our economic prospects,” Toomey said…
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