Send me a check and I will spend it.

[genlock]

"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."

[Bob Campbell]

Probably a reference to the fact that 70% of the American economy comes from consumer spending. Thus, more money in consumers' pockets means more jobs.

[Tom Taggart]

Yes, but not sustainable economic activity. Socialists eventually run out of other people's money.

**Idiot back on TV again, talking about more solar power projects. Sun is setting on his administration.

[Bob Campbell]

Whew. Good thing we don't have any of those here. Though it seems to work pretty well for France though. And Sweden. And Switzerland. And Denmark. And Norway. And the Netherlands. Well, I won't go on.

[fearpeddler]

once again, if you think life is so damn great over there then go there.... just because everyone else does something doesn't mean we have to

[NOMAD]

Yes, but not sustainable economic activity. Socialists eventually run out of other people's money.

Nomad wrote:
Unless of course your brand of Socialism deals with the heavy subsidization of the Oil Companies, Coal companies or entities that profit from human suffering like Big Pharma, the Health Insurance Industry or the Military Industrial complex...

Then you get all the tax payers money you want...

**Idiot back on TV again, talking about more solar power projects. Sun is setting on his administration.

Nomad wrote:
Really?? Who exactly do you think is going to beat him in 2012?? Palin? Romney?

[fearpeddler]

i dunno, theres a movement forming behind gov. Brewer from arizona. She could be a contender...

[Tom Taggart]

At the rate he's going, he will be out-polled by "none of the above."

[NOMAD]

At the rate he's going, he will be out-polled by "none of the above."

Sorry.. But if this country can survive two terms of the worst president in modern history with GWB, they can survive anything..

Gonna take a while to clean up the mess caused by 12 years of Republican control of the congress, 8 years of Republican control of the White House and the continued death grip that the rightwing has on the Supreme Court.