[Uncle Miltie]

You get more of what you pay for.

[Terabitten]

"We've never done it," Durbin said. "And it is counterintuitive that to stop a recession we have to take spending away from one area and put it into another. We need to put money into the economy."

Do they even listen to themselves? He's right. They *do* need to put money into the economy. Since all government money comes from the taxpayers, the ONLY way to "put" money into the economy is to lower taxes.

The fastest way to put money into the economy would be to announce that the corporate tax rate is now zero. That would pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy virtually overnight.

[Eagles6]

Gee, the truth is a little different than the msm portrays. Who'da thunk it.

Only 48% of the stimulus is spent, guess they have to save that for fed, state and municipal workers who all vote dem.

[Munson]

I am for extending the benefits as long as Republicans get something in return like removing the money to Hamas. $200 million.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

"We've never done it," Durbin said. "And it is counterintuitive that to stop a recession we have to take spending away from one area and put it into another. We need to put money into the economy."

Reagan penned this crowd perfectly, they're demagogues.

You can't spend your way into prosperity, it's never been done. They should be making it easier for businesses to expand and hire people instead of just taxing, spending and regulating everyone out of existence. Unemployment is only supposed to be a temporary fix.

[WOSG]

When Bush entered office in 2001 there were around 133M people working. When he left in
2009 there were around 135M (down from a 2008/Jan high of slightly less than 138M. During his 8 years there was a GAIN of 1,080,000 jobs.
When Republicans controlled the house and senate ((Jan 95 to Jan.01) the gain over that period was +16,107,000.
When house and senate were split (Jan.01-Jan.03) there were 2,203,000 jobs LOST.
When Republicans controlled house and senate (Jan 03-Jan07) +6,801,000 jobs were GAINED
When Democrats controlled house and senate (Jan 07 to now) -6,497,000 LOST
In the 17 months of Obama -2,979,000 jobs have been lost.
Source for the above is the “total non-farm payroll: all employees (PAYEMS) of the Deptof Labor.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/congress/Dems-refuse-compromise-to-extend-unemployment-benefits-97625324.html#ixzz0sZAOpXIm

[ThePatriotsFlag]

I don’t get this ... don’t they have a majority and didn’t they pass health care without any help from the Republicans? How can they blame this on Republicans when they have the majority and can (and have) do/done anything they want?