Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100714:02:22:00
People lose their jobs as well. that means there are more unemployed people and fewer jobs so we're not just dealing with the problem for the unemployed here. we are dealing with a type of sort of counter pro cyclical measure that will make the recession actually worse. >> hasn't the jobless benefits package, the proposed additional extension, already been slashed in hopes of getting some republican votes as well as the votes from the more timid democratic senators? >> it's been slashed many times. one thing that's important and some people have caught on to this sort of argument about it that...