THIS Is Stimulus?

I think that the liberals have reached the bottom of this "economic stimulus" barrel. Instead of spending money to "save or create" jobs, now they are reduced to what Nancy Pelosi calls "one of the biggest stimuluses to our economy."

Unemployment checks.

Yes, they are crowing about FINALLY managing to increase out national debt by another $34 billion. Despite passing PayGo laws last year and trumpeting that this would slow down our massive rush to bankruptcy, Democrats are refusing to offset the extra spending with cuts in other areas. They'd rather use Dad's credit card... metaphorically speaking.


So now they're left trying to convince a skeptical public that this measure has ANYTHING to do with stimulus. Keep in mind that the liberals pushed through a massive $787 billion stimulus program last year that "saved or created" two million or so jobs, saved the economy from a massive depression, and kept unemployment under 8%... according to Obama. Meanwhile, they are ignoring the fact that we have MILLIONS more unemployed, our economy isn't doing that great, and unemployment is MUCH higher than 8%.

We are to believe that with just another $34 billion in deficit spending (for now), this will stimulate the economy back to health.

And they're not talking about building bridges and roads anymore. NOW they're reduced to claiming that unemployment benefits are one of the best ways to stimulate the economy.

So we're not talking about creating or saving jobs, anymore. Now we're just talking about sending people a check because the government has shown that it CANNOT create jobs.

Which a lot of us knew in the first place.

Anyway, I just thought you'd appreciate the spectacle of liberals claiming that we can reduce the unemployment rate by extending unemployment benefits. Geeze, don't they know that if you subsidize something then you get more of it?

If it weren't so serious, this would make me chuckle.