THIS is how you frame a GOP (Paul Ryan) talking point.

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15. when I applied in 1995 in Wisconsin

a car with value up to $5,000 was exempt.

Me, I got bounced from the $110 a month that my income qualified me for, because I still owned some land that I bought for $4,500 back in 1987. The equity in my bookstore (perhaps $5,000 as well) and my store inventory was not counted in the calculations.

Other states my have different rules, and rules may have changed, but that's what I know of the rules in Wisconsin in 1995. A year I was also denied unemployment.