In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
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I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.
Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.
The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.
I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed worker faces. I know the world of the labor union better than I think anyone else does.
The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.