Pelosi: Deficit Tripled and We're Not Getting Anything For It
Building the case for a brand new jobs-creation bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says most Americans would not mind inflating the already-gaping deficit in exchange for more jobs. The California Democrat said on a conference call Tuesday that Americans could “absorb” the hit to the federal budget, and she argued that their biggest complaint is not that the deficit is big — it’s that they’re not seeing any benefit in return for increasing the U.S. debt load. Despite the $787 billion stimulus package passed in February, unemployment climbed to 10.2 percent in October. While critics cite the jobless rate as a sign that the stimulus has failed, Pelosi argues that the federal government is just not trying hard enough. “We have to shed any weakness that anybody may have about not wanting to be confrontational on this subject for fear that we’d be labeled not sensitive to the deficit,” Pelosi said, in a recording posted by Think Progress. “The American people have an anger about the growth of the deficit because they’re not getting anything for it.” So now they want to do it all over again.
1 comments:
The last time we gave away money it didn't work. That's why we need to do it again. Yep, she's a democrat. (By the by: I can't bring myself to put a capital "D" on that word. It doesn't deserve to be capitalized.)
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