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Pelosi: Extending Unemployment ‘One of Best Ways to Grow the Economy’
Cybercast News Service ^ | December 6, 2013 - 6:10 AM | Susan Jones

Posted on 12/07/2013 2:07:40 AM PST by Olog-hai

Almost 11 million people couldn’t find a job in November, and for those who don't earn a paycheck, unemployment benefits work for the economy, too, a leading Democrat says.

“Economists agree that unemployment benefits remain one of the best ways to grow the economy in a very immediate way,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (R-Calif.) said at a news conference on Thursday.

She spoke after Democrats held a hearing on the impending expiration of unemployment benefits—an “essential lifeline that millions of Americans and their families depend on,” Pelosi said. …

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: extension; liberalagenda; pelosi; unemployment
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She repeated this meme back in 2010. Kinda telling when she reveals in a backhanded manner that she prefers people “depend on” the government (i.e. be dependent on). It truly is a wonder that she gets away with going on like Marie Antoinette for so long.
1 posted on 12/07/2013 2:07:40 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

People this stupid in positions of responsibility really piss me off.
Did she learn everything she knows about economics from the Sunday funnies?


2 posted on 12/07/2013 2:17:35 AM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: Bullish

Sane people would not make statements like that. What a idiot. Does she even think before she opens her mouth?


3 posted on 12/07/2013 2:41:14 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Bullish

Pelosi will say *anything* to defend Obama and his mess.


4 posted on 12/07/2013 2:41:26 AM PST by Usagi_yo
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To: Bullish

No, from her Communist father, a former mayor of Baltimore.


5 posted on 12/07/2013 2:41:39 AM PST by twister881
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To: Olog-hai

Crazy Ahole


6 posted on 12/07/2013 2:47:20 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Revelation 6:10)
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To: Olog-hai
Al Gore...please pick up the white courtesy phone. There is a unregulated, unproductive CO2 source destroying the environment.
7 posted on 12/07/2013 2:50:04 AM PST by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: Olog-hai
To Nancy:
Economics 101
Being taught at a school near you. ATTEND! ! ! !
A third grader has more economic sense than this stupid witch! ! !
8 posted on 12/07/2013 2:52:30 AM PST by DeaconRed (ZERO should be like his new best friend Nelson Mandela. Spend 27 years in prison.)
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Why doesn’t this craven idiot resign so she adds to the economy?


9 posted on 12/07/2013 2:57:49 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Olog-hai
I know Rats have a play book they all go by, and all, but doesn't it have more chapters than this? She's basically recycling the same BS from 2010 that lost her the Speaker's seat. My only remaining 'hope' is that Rats keep on putting their foot in their mouths and folks start to notice and give us a substantial conservative landslide type victory this approaching November. That would be 'change' I could get my arms around. The ads against these clowns write themselves daily.

What more can Canservatives possibly need than the Rat's and RHINO's own words and deeds to run this entire detestable crowd out of The People's Capital?

Where is the Magnificent Bastard of the Tea Party?

10 posted on 12/07/2013 3:18:07 AM PST by ri4dc (Cut your cable. Buy more ammo. 'This war is lost!' The worst is yet to come.)
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To: jsanders2001

“Sane people would not make statements like that. What a idiot. Does she even think before she opens her mouth?”

Calling Pelosi an idiot is an insult to idiots. I think she (and Reid) are crazy as $h!t house rats, and just as dangerous.


11 posted on 12/07/2013 3:31:19 AM PST by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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Pelosi is too stupid to be an idiot.


12 posted on 12/07/2013 3:34:41 AM PST by jmacusa (I don't think so, but I doubt it.)
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To: Olog-hai

No human can be this stupid! She is driven by her agenda and her pocket, her investments and insider info. She wants to be part of the eternal elitist utopia at all cost, she and many like her are traitors


13 posted on 12/07/2013 3:42:12 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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You say that she is stupid, but somehow she is just smart enough to get reelected time after time. She said this in 2010, and got reelected. She got reelected in 2012. She is saying this again in 2013-2014. What are the odds she gets reelected in 2014?

In her district, I'd say 10 to 1 as long as she keeps the 'D' behind her name.

14 posted on 12/07/2013 3:46:11 AM PST by Wingy
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To: Olog-hai

As soon as we are all unemployed receiving unemployment, the ecomony will take off like a a rocket. Job creation will grow like kudzu. Soon everyone will be employed and the ecomony will tank again. Pelosi is brilliant.


15 posted on 12/07/2013 3:53:44 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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To: snoringbear

> “Sane people would not make statements like that. What a idiot. Does she even think before she opens her mouth?”

Calling Pelosi an idiot is an insult to idiots. I think she (and Reid) are crazy as $h!t house rats, and just as dangerous.

You make a good point...: )


17 posted on 12/07/2013 4:14:59 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Olog-hai
What a freakin' moron. Someone should have bitch-slapped her three years ago.

Pelosi - Then and Now photo Pelosi-ThenandNow_zps8fb1c1f5.jpg

18 posted on 12/07/2013 4:26:52 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: Olog-hai

Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK-Dqj4fHmM

Well, I guess she’s actually not fat.


19 posted on 12/07/2013 4:29:11 AM PST by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwell)
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To: Olog-hai

Yes, the statement is idiotic and I even have to admit being surprised to hear her repeat this nonsense.

Miss Nancy never says anything off the top of her head though. It’s clear that the Democrats have decided that their only chance to rise above the Obamacare disaster is to double-down on the “Free-Government-Sh*t-Voter” program and push government dependency as hard as possible. Extending unemployment insurance will be their big line in the sand in the coming budget battles, and any Republican who resists this will be portrayed as heartless as well as opposed to “economic stimulation”.

This fits right in with the drive to drastically increase the minimum wage and swell Medicaid’s ranks. It’s all designed to create 30 second TV spots for gimmedats. “Tax cuts for billionaires blah blah blah...”

Nothing is more important than making sure there is a get-out-the-vote effort for the remaining productive citizens in 2014.


20 posted on 12/07/2013 4:30:12 AM PST by Junk Silver
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