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>> and now its time to talk about jobs. >> all right. let talk about jobs. heres one, neil bowlens job with the faa new on furlough. >> i have a hard time understanding their partisan bickering and rhetoric. were reaching into our investments, savings, signed up for unemployment, and thats barely going to make the electric bill, much less the water and mortgage, so, yeah, were incredibly disappointed. >> he says congress could have prevented his ordeal with just a days work. heres why ...

might be losing their paychecks. thats because badly-needed construction at american airports is at a standstill. air safety inspectors, for instance, are working without any pay. and the government is not collecting $200 million a week in airline ticket taxes. thats 1 billion tax dollars lost between now and when congress gets back to work. now remember, the lawmakers responsible for blowing this hole in the budget just spent months railing about the deficit. and when they got done wi...