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Pelosi: Unemployment Checks Best Way to Create Jobs
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Posted on 07/01/2010 1:17:26 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Pelosi: Unemployment Checks Fastest Way to Create Jobs

Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. fox news

Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.

Talking to reporters, the House speaker was defending a jobless benefits extension against those who say it gives recipients little incentive to work. By her reasoning, those checks are helping give somebody a job.

"It injects demand into the economy," Pelosi said, arguing that when families have money to spend it keeps the economy churning. "It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name."

Pelosi said the aid has the "double benefit" of helping those who lost their jobs and acting as a "job creator" on the side.

"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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: braindead; pelosi; stimulus; unemployment
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To: Sub-Driver

Let’s take her at her word. If Pelosi truly believed this, then she would support spending the remainder of the so-called ‘stimulus’ funds on extending unemployment benefits. According to her, we get the most bang for the buck through unemployment benefits. But Pelosi is vehemently opposed to spending stimulus dollars on an extension of unemployment benefits. Thus, Pelosi is a liar.


61 posted on 07/01/2010 6:22:38 PM PDT by Hoodat (.For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This woman is effing stupid. Let’s take this to its logical conclusion: if giving people unemployment checks creates jobs, then we can achieve that long-sought-after holy grail of economics - full employment - by simply giving everyone an unemployment check!

But...who’s gonna pay for all that unemployment comp. insurance?


62 posted on 07/01/2010 6:24:20 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: Hoodat

Oops, I don’t know how that happened.


63 posted on 07/01/2010 6:30:15 PM PDT by Hoodat (.For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: Oceander
This woman is effing stupid. Let’s take this to its logical conclusion: if giving people unemployment checks creates jobs, then we can achieve that long-sought-after holy grail of economics - full employment - by simply giving everyone an unemployment check!

But...who’s gonna pay for all that unemployment comp. insurance?

"Shut up," Nancy Pelosi explained.

64 posted on 07/01/2010 7:58:32 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Sub-Driver
This comment just shows that Pelosi cares not a bit about the Small People. They are slaves and peasants to be exploited to serve the rich and powerful. Let them starve on $300 per week... it creates jobs. Pelosi...you are an asshole...
65 posted on 07/01/2010 8:08:26 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: KSCITYBOY

Truly, America has elected its own village idiots to govern itself...


66 posted on 07/01/2010 8:10:15 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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67 posted on 07/01/2010 8:17:24 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: Sub-Driver

Well, then, let the spending blossom! Where’s my check? Just think of all the jobs I could create with other people’s money!


68 posted on 07/01/2010 9:37:06 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: Sub-Driver

Truly she is one of the dumbest women on the planet. Home Depot and Lowes ought to start stocking their shelves with pitch forks, torches, tar, and feathers. At this point, they would sell out every time and would need to create jobs to handle all the new business. Maybe it would cause a few factories to tool up and get some more truckers back on the road as well.


69 posted on 07/01/2010 10:18:33 PM PDT by Wolfhound777 (It's not our job to forgive them. Only God can do that. Our job is to arrange the meeting)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yet Nancy and her ilk thought it was funnier that “nuclear” was misprounced or that an “e” was placed on the end of “tomato”


70 posted on 07/01/2010 11:56:54 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Sub-Driver


71 posted on 07/02/2010 2:06:33 AM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never "free")
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To: Sub-Driver

This is clearly a case of 2+2=5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5


72 posted on 07/02/2010 5:57:24 AM PDT by jmcenanly
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To: Sub-Driver

Without those unemployement checks there would have been riots in the streets by now. The question is how long can they keep kicking this can down the road before it too crashes?

It is not healthy for a society to have so many citizens become wards of the state.

Free money is not free, there is always a string attached.


73 posted on 07/02/2010 7:07:16 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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To: Sub-Driver

Government doesn’t “create” jobs: only productive free
market enterprise can create jobs!


74 posted on 07/02/2010 8:00:15 AM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: Oceander
"Well, when we run out of bread, we can always just eat cake."
75 posted on 07/02/2010 8:38:01 AM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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