Joe Manchin
speaker
479 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 13 Dec
Joe Manchin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they said, what do you mean?
I said, I can tell you why the coal mine union coal miners and all the factory workers that I grew up with, where they are today, why they switched and started voting Republican.
They believe that the Democrat Party in Washington basically spends more resources, effort and time on able bodied people that don't work or won't work than you do those who do.
Let's take the welfare system.
I tried for the last five years.
I had one person who's bright as could be.
I said, I want to change the cliff to a slope.
That's all.
Cliff is this.
I'll use $25,000.
You make a dollar over $25,000, you lose all your benefits.
But you stop working right there.
Or you work under the table so it doesn't show up.
Do whatever you can.
Why can't we make that into a slope and let them work into a livable wage and give them assistance all the way up?
It's the cheapest thing we could ever do.
Pride and dignity back in a person's life.
Childcare.
I got eviscerated on childcare and I said, I'm all for childcare.
Give it to the people that need it.
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