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here, good night. Six years ago he came to Wales and told us we were | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
too easy on benefit claimants. Public officials should stop | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
coddling people! That people needed to get off | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
welfare and get back to work. People in the US don't have this | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
sense of entitlement. We've brought him back from Dallas, | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Texas to find out if anyone listened. | :00:35. | :00:49. | |
Dr Merrill Matthews is a conservative and a leading | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
commentator on social affairs. He's also a big believer in the work | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
ethic. I'm Merrill Matthews and I'm from | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
Texas. We believe that people should be able to pull themselves up by | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
their own bootstraps. Government should give people a hand up not a | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
hand out. Since he was last here six years ago | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
benefits have been cut, capped, and streamlined. The Coalition | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Government has introduced the Work Programme which aims to get people | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
who have been unemployed for a long time into jobs. | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
I've heard the UK has taken some good steps on welfare reform and I'm | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
back in Wales to see how that's working. | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
Six years ago when Merrill met Paul Peck at his home in Merthyr he'd | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
already been on benefits for 20 years. | :01:44. | :01:53. | |
Does that make you depressed? I am not depressed. | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
Today, not much has changed. Paul is 52 and he hasn't worked | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
since he was 26. He had a heart murmur and then he lost a leg eight | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
years ago. What Labour calls the bedroom tax - and other changes in | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
benefits - have left him worse off. I disagree with the bedroom tax. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
They've taken ?30 a fortnight off me, ?15 a week. | :02:23. | :02:39. | |
Now you've had your benefits cut but you're still getting by? If they cut | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
them more, would you go look for a job? | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
Yes, I'd be fighting more to get work. | :02:46. | :03:02. | |
Yes. I would think of getting work. I do get bored in the House. | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
But apparently not bored enough to go out and struggle to get a job! | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
Merthyr was once known as the sick note capital of Britain. Merrill | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
wanted to know if Paul's estate, the Gurnos, has any job opportunities. | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
Would you allow him to volunteer to get some skills? Yes. Was this hard | :03:28. | :03:42. | |
to find? No. Are you looking for a job? Yes. | :03:43. | :03:58. | |
So does Merrill think Paul has been looking hard enough for work during | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
his 26 years on benefits. You've been 20 years on benefits, | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
missing a leg, but you still were healthy. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
Yes, but no jobs out there. But then you say you haven't really | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
looked for a job. No. | :04:14. | :04:22. | |
Paul is clearly a personable and likeable person and has some real | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
health challenges but I don't think he is trying hard enough to get a | :04:26. | :04:40. | |
job. He says people don't want him, but he also admits he hasn't applied | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
for any jobs. This is where the problem lies. When the Government | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
makes it a little too easy for a person to be on benefits, then we | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
shouldn't be surprised if a lot of people are simply satisfied with | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
staying on benefits. The Government says it is getting | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
tougher. It is cutting benefits, and more than a million sanctions were | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
issued last year - that is withholding benefit from claimants | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
who, allegedly, weren't looking hard enough for work. | :05:07. | :05:16. | |
When you can you should work, because welfare should be a second | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
chance and not a way of life. In the US, both Democrats and | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
conservatives like Merrill have supported radical welfare reforms | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
which mean that if people on benefits can't find a job the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
Government will find one for them - like it or not. | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
It's lunchtime on the Gurnos and Merrill is sampling the local | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
cuisine. They try to do fish 'n' chips in | :05:41. | :05:50. | |
Texas. They just cannot do it. And he has one more question about | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
the local jobs situation. Our women the only ones who want to apply | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
here? I have jobs but it's always the | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
women who apply for them, never the men. Only a couple of meals have | :06:09. | :06:21. | |
applied. Why is that. People see the arm looking for jobs. You are seeing | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
they do not even apply. They do not even come here and ask. How are | :06:28. | :06:42. | |
you? Good. Have you ever had a cowboy hats? No. | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
Employment in Merthyr's gone up by 300 since Merrill was last in town. | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
A few of those jobs have been created at this metals company. | :06:55. | :07:10. | |
We are expanding. We are employing 24 people and within 12 months' time | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
we will imply another 12 people. -- employee. I'm having trouble getting | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
welders. Phil Corke, the boss, has a problem | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
finding enough skilled workers. One youngster he's taken on is Matthew, | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
who'd been unemployed since leaving school. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
In the six months what was that like? | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
I was desperate. I was trying jobs I didn't want to go for. Six months is | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
a long time to be sitting on your backside doing nothing. | :07:55. | :08:05. | |
How does it feel to have a job now? Yes, relieved, working five days a | :08:06. | :08:15. | |
week now, great. The Government is trying to get people off welfare and | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
it says it is keeping its side of the bargain by creating more jobs. | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
Over the last year, it is Wales that has seen both the largest increase | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
in the employment rate of any UK region, up 2.1 percentage points. | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
And the largest decrease in the unemployment rate, bringing the | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
total fall since the election to 24,000. | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
This is all the result of our reforms - getting people to step up | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
to their responsibilities to get back to work. | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
While more are now in work, many are struggling. Rachel Stagg has two | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
jobs. Only one of them is paid and it's only for ten hours a week. | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
She's still on job seekers allowance and has to do a whole day's job | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
search every fortnight to avoid sanctions. Back in Swansea she | :08:57. | :09:06. | |
worked out for us how much better off she is working part time instead | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
of living on full benefits. I am just ?2.75 a week better off. | :09:15. | :09:34. | |
It's hard. I want a full-time job. If I get up to 18 hours I would be | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
better off slightly. But if I do 16 hours and pay for rent and council | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
tax, because that's what you have to do, I would only have ?35 more than | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
I would have no. Merrill went to meet Rachel. This | :09:54. | :10:16. | |
furniture was given to me. And the stable. Our friend of mine was | :10:17. | :10:26. | |
drawing out the table. Tell me more about your struggles. You are | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
working but it is not helping you make all your ends meet. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
No, I thought if I worked I thought I'd get more stuff for the House and | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
me and my son and have a better life really. Then it just didn't work out | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
as well as I thought it would. I think if I worked full time it would | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
be worth working. I believe you have had to go to a food bank. | :10:56. | :11:05. | |
Embarrassing to go to food bank or ask for a voucher. People expect | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
when you're working you don't have to do these things. When I was on my | :11:10. | :11:20. | |
actual JSA I didn't have to do these things. | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
Rachel gets the bus to and from the children's nurseries where she | :11:28. | :11:37. | |
works. How long is our bus ride? You are volunteering five hours a week. | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
What expense does that put undue? It costs me ?70 a month bus card, | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
and then I have to buy smart clothes for work, so that's extra expense | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
then. Is it lifting your spirits? You have got a job. I enjoy working. | :12:00. | :12:10. | |
The Government says its welfare reforms mean it now always pays to | :12:11. | :12:21. | |
be in work rather than on benefits. Experts agree, but say the extra | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
costs of work can make the difference tiny, especially if | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
you're part time. There is a cost to working and that can offset the | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
benefits of work. So politicians need to be aware of that. They need | :12:37. | :12:45. | |
to be looking at that to see if they are actually sure that people who go | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
into work and have their benefits cut because they do have some hours | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
are in fact coming out was because of the benefits cuts. | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Rachel, who's a single mum, is one of 690,000 people in Wales living in | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
households below the poverty line. But she has a job. This is poverty | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
in work. So what does the Government say to | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
this? The Welsh Secretary couldn't meet | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
Merrill when he was here, so Merrill left him some questions. | :13:15. | :13:28. | |
Hello, Mr Secretary. I am a conservative policy areas like you. | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
I have been looking at your welfare and work programmes and they have | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
questions. Do you believe that what you're doing is actually helping | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
people? We have to understand that the policy we are considering will | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
ensure that it never pays people to be out of work rather than in white. | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
Universal credit which has been rolled out across the country will | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
actually address that. -- rather than in the work. There is nothing | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
better for people than having the structure of work and there is | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
nothing more that gives people a sense of self satisfaction than | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
having a pay packet. Unemployment figures are improving, but Chris | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
Bryant, one of Labour's spokesmen on welfare, says the numbers conceal | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
the problem of poverty in work and that's not all. We have a massive | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
underemployment problem in this country. The number of people in my | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
constituency who maybe have eight hours of work a week, ten hours, and | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
that is not enough to pay the bills were. Now we only enough. So they | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
get some support from the state. -- nowhere near enough. What impact | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
credits, which have been cut, that means people are going to food | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
banks. You have this bizarre situation where people are keen to | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
work. They have not got enough hours and are probably not being paid very | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
much for the few hours they are working and have to rely on charity | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
as well as the state to put food on the table. People like Ian Purcell | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
are trying to alleviate poverty in Wales. He runs five food banks | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
supported by churches in Cardiff. Merrill lent him a hand at the | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
warehouse. How much would they get per person? A single person would | :15:14. | :15:21. | |
get ?25 worth of food lasting 3-5 days. Someone like myself yourself, | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
with a good appetite, it might not last that long. Some people make of | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
that last for a week. -- make the third last. | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
According to those who run Wales's food banks, they're dealing with | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
record numbers of people. People like Peter Nahimara. How much of a | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
struggle is it? It is a big struggle. You look at the fridge and | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
you do not have anything. You did not have anything in your pocket to | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
buy things. The volunteers here have noticed a big increase in the number | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
of people in work and in need. We're getting very busy. Five hours, it is | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
50-50. Half are on benefit and half are in work. So they have work but | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
not enough? The add-on zero hours. They go in one day and an employer | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
might say, we do not need to tomorrow. -- they are on zero hours. | :16:26. | :16:35. | |
I do not like this issue zero hours. Your only given the hours they want | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
you to have. You're on zero hours? Most companies get sea levels. -- | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
gives evil powers. -- most companies give zero hours contracts. He is | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
taking part-time jobs and has gone into the zero hours contracts | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
position and he is not able to find any real work with that that | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
sustains him. It seems like this is something where the politicians are | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
promoting something that makes the unemployed numbers look better but | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
actually isn't solving any problems and might be creating more problems | :17:19. | :17:29. | |
than it solves. Your Government has recently said that you're going to | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
be cutting benefits for people if they do not take zero hours | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
contracts. But they seem like they are not actually achieving the goal | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
and they are not helping people get into work. Some aspects of these | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
contracts concern us. What concerns us particularly is where there might | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
be extra 70 provisions so that people who sign up to them are | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
prevented from seeking work elsewhere. We are concerned about | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
that. That is why we launched a consultation some time ago. We have | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
had over 30,000 responses to that consultation and we will respond to | :18:05. | :18:06. | |
that consultation in the course of the next couple of months. | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
Opposition politicians are asking why the Government is telling people | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
to take zero hours contracts or face losing their Unemployment Benefit. | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
As a committed Christian, Merrill was keen to hear what the churches | :18:22. | :18:40. | |
here have been saying about Government welfare reforms. | :18:41. | :18:54. | |
Archbishop. Nice to meet you. Come on in. Glorious day, isn't it? This | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
is a lovely place. They even have your name on it. In case I get | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
lost! These welfare cuts are hurting the | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
poorest of the poor. To that extent, the kind of overall cutting benefits | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
without understanding or necessarily seeing the individual impact of | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
those benefits, that is where I believe the unfairness has come in. | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
Churches, both Catholic and Protestant have been united in their | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
opposition to the Government's benefit cuts. But Merrill says | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
they're wrong. Supporting the poor is the duty of individuals he | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
thinks, not the state. What is an obligation for the individual | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
Christian has nothing to do with what should be an obligation of the | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
Government. To say that the Christian contribution to society | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
has nothing to do with the Government is my contribution and | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
vice versa, it is dividing society up. Because a society, the | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
Government and the churches are not engaged with one another in the | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
common good, gaps emerge through which people will fall. | :20:15. | :20:24. | |
The church is concerned that the Government is cutting back benefits | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
and that at people. I'm a Christian too. And in the US, we think that | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
giving should be an individual's responsibility, not a government's. | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
In addition, the churches often require something. If they provide a | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
meal, they require the person to listen to a sermon. It creates a | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
connection between what the person is getting and what they are giving. | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
That is the way benefits programme should be established. If the UK | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
Government isn't doing that, it should. | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
In other words, Merrill believes that in return for support from the | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
state, people claiming benefits should do some work, even if it's | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
unpaid. Lee Jeffs is doing just that in the Pontrypridd area. I was a job | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
club and job searching and they asked volunteers and I said I was | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
willing. Glyncoch Regeneration and the local council run a recycling | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
scheme that funds itself with the help of volunteers. Not getting paid | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
for it, but it is voluntary. I am not paid to work. Lee has had some | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
mental health and alcohol issues but he's determined that this time he's | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
going to get a job and stick with it. Just hoping something will come | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
out of it. It is better than being stuck in the house all day. I want | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
to get out and do stuff. I would obviously be fair trade work but at | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
the moment I cannot get a job that is paid so I do voluntary to get | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
myself into full-time work. No pay, low pay, part-time | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
contracts. But Merrill believes the answer to poverty in work isn't to | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
raise wages, like some suggest. He doesn't even believe in a national | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
minimum wage. To show us why, he took us back to | :22:02. | :22:14. | |
that small company in Merthyr where Matthew Davies works. Phil Corke's | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
workforce earns good wages, but he says he could take on more | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
youngsters if it weren't for the minimum wage. We would like to | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
employ more young people. Uses the blood of industry but we are having | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
these Government rules put on us like the minimum wage and everything | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
else at the moment. Legislation. You used to hire more people, didn't | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
you? We certainly did. Before the minimum wage, we hired more | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
youngsters and train them and they went on to better things perhaps. | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
When they have got the skills, we can obviously afford to pay them. | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
But in the interim, there is a big training programme that we have to | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
follow to get into the level we require. Independent experts say the | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
national minimum wage doesn't affect employment, but Merrill agrees with | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
Phil. What is happening here is that the Government is trying to do good | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
things but is in fact getting in the way of job creation. Because small | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
and medium-sized businesses, those of the job generators in both the UK | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
and the US. They create the most jobs. But they do not have the | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
assets to be able to pay large salaries. They need to bring someone | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
in at a lower price and raise that when the person becomes skilled. | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
Average unemployment is under 7%, but youth unemployment is between | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
two and three times higher than that. Merrill says the Government | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
should subsidise employers to take on youngsters. Matthew Davies owes | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
his job here in fact to one such scheme. Matthew has gone onto the | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
Jobs Growth Wales programme where he has been supported for six months. | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
After that period, as long as he kicks all the boxes, which he has | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
done so far, we give them an apprenticeship and train him as an | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
engineer. The Welsh Government scheme gives | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
the employer enough money to pay a young person's wages for six months, | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
providing the boss agrees to find them a permanent job in the end. You | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
have got people on benefits. The question is, how'd you the person | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
transitioning from benefits. They will be taking the money anyway. | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
Using Jobs Growth Wales allows them to try out skills, get that | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
experience, see if it works, and if it does, they have a new good | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
employee and the unemployed worker finally has a job. | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
While the UK Government has been getting tougher on claims for | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
benefits, it's also introduced the Work Programme to help people get | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
jobs. We took Merrill to Glyncoch to see how it's operating. The first | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
person he met was Lee Jeffs. We saw him earlier doing voluntary work. | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
Lee Jeffs. Looks like you got me some good Welsh weather! | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
He got that post with the help of this community centre and its Welsh | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
Government-backed schemes. Paul Stepczack is in charge. These are | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
just some of our learners. They are here or any basic skills course at | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
the moment to help with numeracy and literacy. We have, in the area | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
alone, about 150 different adult learners on our books. They gain in | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
the region of 400 qualifications a year at all levels. Lee came to us | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
because we also run the job club, and from assessing Lee's needs, we | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
found a number of courses which could help him into employment. One | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
of those courses results in a qualification to work on a | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
construction site, known as the CSCS Card. Lee says that got him a | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
labouring job a few years ago, but since he's been on the Work | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
Programme, he's had no real help to find employment. It did not work | :26:05. | :26:14. | |
well for you? Noel. I am leaving now so I can move onto something else | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
and actually do something. I have been out of a job since being in the | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
Work Programme. Paul Stepczak says he's seen a lot | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
of job-seekers who are considered to be too hard to place by the Work | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
Programme, so aren't helped at all. We have seen and have actually have | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
some employees mention the traffic light system. That is where people | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
are marked as clean, amber and read. If your green, you unemployable and | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
you're given support and help on your way. If you read, people are | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
further from the market. -- if you are red. In my experience, | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
unfortunate, those people have been put in the draw. -- in the draw. | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
Fewer than 11% of people on the Work Programme got a job after 12 months. | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
But the Welsh Secretary says the programme is working. The Work | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
Programme is aimed at the 10% of those cases that are most difficult. | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
That has started to prove very effective in Wales. Back in | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
December, we did an analysis and found 12,000 people who had been off | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
work and had then found employment. I think overall the Work Programme | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
is starting to prove its worth. How are you? Good seeing you. Nice | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
meeting you. It's a long way from Texas, but | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
after his mosey through the valleys and taking a long, hard look at our | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
work and benefits system, what does Merrill think about it? | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
The last time I was in Wales, the Government was looking at welfare | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
reform in order to get people back to work. Well, I have been back and | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
looked at those efforts and they have made some steps in the right | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
direction but there are a lot of improvements that need to be made. | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
A Texas conservative he might be, but his conclusion is that | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
individuals do need help and that Government has to do more than cut | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
benefits. It must also keep its side of the bargain, and this is his | :28:14. | :28:23. | |
final message. There are many people out there who | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
really want to find a job and go to work. It is time for the elected | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
officials to go to work to ensure that they can. | :28:32. | :28:36. |