Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it … - Dave Obey

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We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.

Dave Obey

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

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Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

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