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Dems double down on new spending after discouraging jobs report
The Hill ^

Posted on 06/04/2011 2:59:13 PM PDT by Jim 726

House Democrats this week have amplified their calls for new spending on infrastructure and other federal projects in the face of May's discouraging job-creation figures.

Even as Republicans are insisting on "trillions" of dollars in spending cuts, Democrats maintain that a targeted injection of additional federal dollars in the near-term would go a long way toward reversing the hiring slump. Friday's disappointing job report, they say, only bolsters their case.

"The American people, while concerned about the deficit, place much more emphasis on job creation, and they see a role for the government," Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) told The Hill. "A fast injection of job stimulus on the public side would help tremendously. … It [the job report] helps our argument about investment."

Other Democrats delivered a similar message on Friday. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said "the answer" to the lingering jobs crisis is "investment" in the "communities and businesses who need confidence and resources to hire [people]."

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) said "investing in our communities goes hand in hand with full economic recovery."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: Missouri; US: New York
KEYWORDS: arizona; blumenauer; cleaver; clever; cpcmarxists; engel; grijalva; investment; missouri; newyork; partisanmediashill; recovery; spending; unions
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1 posted on 06/04/2011 2:59:16 PM PDT by Jim 726
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To: Jim 726
Unbelievable! The D-baggers will never learn.
2 posted on 06/04/2011 3:00:58 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Jim 726

Hey, it didn’t work before so let’s try it again!


3 posted on 06/04/2011 3:01:44 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Jim 726

Oh yes, more shovel ready projects. Good thing my shovel is still ready to go!


4 posted on 06/04/2011 3:03:53 PM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic (Support our military or leave. I will help you pack BO!)
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To: Jim 726

Let’s see once again, what is the definition of insanity?


5 posted on 06/04/2011 3:04:45 PM PDT by blue-duncan
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To: Jim 726

First, we cut congressional salaries in half

Then we “invest” those savings into bridges named after members of congress


6 posted on 06/04/2011 3:04:45 PM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: Jim 726
Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber (SNL)

Steve Martin: Whoa, you're in really bad shape. Looks like we're going to have to bleed you.

Bill Murray: But I'm already bleeding.

Martin: Hey, who's the barber here?

7 posted on 06/04/2011 3:06:30 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: Jim 726

News Flash!

Obama institutes policies to "Fundamentally Transform America".

Women and Minorities hardest hit.

8 posted on 06/04/2011 3:07:31 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: Jim 726

La Raza’s boy in Washington, Raul Grijalva. LOL!


9 posted on 06/04/2011 3:10:29 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,..")
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To: Jim 726

more deficit spending means higher taxes on the very businesses the dems claim to want to help. They are bribing these people with their own money.

Time to lay low. This isn’t going to end well.


10 posted on 06/04/2011 3:11:44 PM PDT by griswold3 (Character is destiny)
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To: Jim 726
"House Democrats this week have amplified their calls for new spending..." after losing control of the House because they insisted that passing 0bamacare was worth losing for.
11 posted on 06/04/2011 3:12:59 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Jim 726
‘Investing’ my arse. Thank God the rats have no power in the House.
12 posted on 06/04/2011 3:14:19 PM PDT by JPG (Sarah Palin, driving the MSM crazy one day at a time.)
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To: Jim 726

Kick out the illegal immigrants, and replace them with real Americans.

Three things will happen immediately - more CITIZENS will be employed (lowering the unemployment rate), more taxes will be collected (since illegals pay NO income tax), and welfare rolls will be reduced.

And as an added bonus, crime will go down!

Win-win-win-win. Hard to beat that!!!


13 posted on 06/04/2011 3:14:30 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

I’m in favor of that since I’ve been looking for work for one year 6/1. It seems to me that the people displaced are more citizens of this country than illegal aliens


14 posted on 06/04/2011 3:18:17 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: Jim 726

These people are completely insane, or so out of touch with reality they do not know what day it is,Rats are NOT known for brainpower or achievement!


15 posted on 06/04/2011 3:19:31 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: Jim 726

It’s so obvious that dem leaders want to destroy this country. And their followers and junior representatives follow along.

I know lots of people who would love to have a job. But most of the people who get jobs working on the infrastructure are Hispanic. And most of them are probably illegal.


16 posted on 06/04/2011 3:19:42 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Only a SECOND party will get my vote.)
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To: LuvFreeRepublic

Last year didn’t get out much (surgery/recovery) so I lost sight of it, but yesterday I found my D-handle shovel ~ still good, still ready.


17 posted on 06/04/2011 3:19:45 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Jim 726

The dems are playing the Martingale Betting System.

Good luck to us.


18 posted on 06/04/2011 3:19:55 PM PDT by seton89 (Aequinimitas per ignorantiam)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

yeah, that old communist grijalva almost lost his seat last November to a TEA party candidate. it gave him quite a shock and he’d STFU for a while. looks like he’s back to his old self again.


19 posted on 06/04/2011 3:21:59 PM PDT by Jeff Vader
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To: Jim 726

I’d like to start budgeting from a zero baseline. I’d settle for starting from $1.835T in the last Clinton budget (2001) plus inflation for $2.332T in federal spending next year, which almost exactly matches expected federal revenue. To start from a budget with a deficit over $1T and add to that? No way. That massively wasteful spending is the problem, not the solution.


20 posted on 06/04/2011 3:24:42 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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