Posted on 07/01/2010 12:33:44 PM PDT by i88schwartz
"It injects demand into the economy," Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said of unemployment checks.
"It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name."
Pelosi calls unemployment checks a "stimulus" that is a "double benefit" helping "those who lost their jobs" and at the same serves as a "job creator"
"It's impossible to think of a situation where we would have a country that would say 'we're not going to have unemployment benefits,'" Pelosi said.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
excuse me folks while i roflmao.....
if these people in cali don’t get rid of this bia** next time around....sheesh....
bfl
There has been unending extensions of unemployment since Porkulus I. So where are all of those jobs it created?
I didn't expect her explanation to make any sense, just wanted to hear her rationale for the claim.
Is this The Onion? Iowahawk? This cannot be serious - no one is this stupid.
Quick Quiz:
Which is nuttier?
A: Nancy Pelosi
or
B: Squirrel poop
The best unemployment check is a job.
Pray for America
“never mind those dollars would have been spent elsewhere anyways and without the 20-25% overhead of the federal government.”
The whole point IS the 20-25% overhead of the federal government. They don’t really care if they have to tax and spend a billion in order to rake off a million. As long as they can rake off enough millions to make them and all their cronies rich as kings on the taxpayer’s dime.
Second career doing standup comedy?
But seriously folks - I just flew in from the coast - boy are my arms sore - wait a minute - what am I saying - I flew in on a miltary jet.
Let’s see — so by this logic, the welfare program we had from 1965 to 1995 was also a wonderful creator of jobs. It worked so well, we had to stop it.
I kept looking for the “Semi-satire” alert. Mike Savage is right...liberalism is indeed a mental disorder.
Liberals really think that. That’s all part of having an incurable disease of the mind.
Pelosi is so far out of touch, as with Stark and a host of tohers, that the only time she gets back to ‘reality’ is every time she wipes her arse. “Jane, you ignorant slut” comes to mind here. =.=
Since when does anybody on unemployment go out and buy anything besides the basic necessities???
People on UE are not out creating jobs. They will consume much the same minimum gas and food requirements as if they had a decent job. But both the folks working and the unemployed have reduced disposable income with each new tax. So as states are forced to fund healthcare and deprive cities of funds, up go local sales and realestate taxes. And up go contribution requests from volunteer fire departments, teachers, all charities.
The best possible solution is to STOP federal confiscation of earned and invested dollars. That actually does put money into the economy and cause job creation.
Unemployment was obviously never intended as an economic tool- a safety net yes - but not an instument of market management.
Nope. Pelosi is dead serious, and not far enough leftist for most of her voters
OMG, she said this money is more important because it is spent quickly...so it stimulates the economy faster.
Well, maybe they should start cutting underemployment checks for those people who want to make more money at their jobs - they will promise to spend it quickly and therefore it will stimulate the economy.
Hey - this is easy and fun;)
NO WONDER WE ARE IN A MESS. . . . . . .
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