Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100813:02:05:00
Republicans have targeted one individual american who's struggling to make ends meet and held him up as part of the problem. former house speaker newt gingrich writing yesterday, quote, the extension of unemployment benefits has given people a perverse incentive to stay on unemployment rather than accept a job. he continued, "the wall street journal" quotes an engineer who admits he turned down more than a dozen offers because the salary would have been less than he made on welfare. this story encapsulates the problem of the long-term unemployed, the depth and length of this recession is at ri...