David Litzenberger, David Oshaughnessey, Jonah Schmelling, Victoria Dexter, D’asia Raines (Alexandra Spychalsky)
“Ratify this healthcare system, which I don’t understand. I know you can probably go online and find out more about it, but they’re not really telling people what it covers, doesn’t cover. Places I worked for, I never got no insurance. I worked for a golf course for nine years, and all I got was a paycheck.”
(David Litzenberger, 58, of Camillus, volunteer at Crouse Hospital, unaffiliated with a political party)
“Conflicts overseas would be an issue, being an ex-military person. I think they tend to put their feet into too many waters. They think they’re the police of the world, and that’s what the U.N. is for. So I think they need to scale back and take a look at their own, our own safety here than trying to police the whole world.”
(David Oshaughnessey, 34 of Port Byron, truck driver)
“I mean the economy is crap. It’s really hard to get a job right now. I went through unemployment, spent about 12 hours on the phone trying to talk to somebody, anybody. I was irritated. It’s just the thing that unemployment takes so long.”
(Jonah Schmelling, 22 of Syracuse, part-time security for Al’s Wine and Whiskey lounge )
“I would like them to concentrate on the poor. What they need to do is come out of they suits and get in the people that don’t have position. Just for a week, just to see how they live and what they’re going through. And then they’ll see why the Democrats is fighting as hard as they are.”
(Victoria Dexter, 50 of downtown Syracuse, construction worker)
“Gas. Because it’s too expensive. Recently, I’ve seen it go up maybe twice since the year started. Twice. So every time it goes up it’s like, what the hell.”
(D’asia Raines, 19 of the Northside of Syracuse, cashier at the Syracuse transit center Dunkin’ Donuts)
(Alexandra Spychalsky is a senior with dual majors in magazine journalism and Spanish language, literature & culture.)
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