11/18: Democrats Promise Jobs Bill
Posted by Editor on November 18, 2009 · 2 Comments
House Democrats are looking at swelling deficits further, at least temporarily, on a jobs-producing bill in response to double-digit unemployment and a sense within their ranks that the party needs to do more to put people back to work.
But many of the ideas on the table so far are extensions of last February’s $787 billion economic stimulus package — such as unemployment benefits and subsidies to help the jobless pay for health insurance. They maintain the social safety net for the 15.7 million Americans out of work but they don’t directly create new jobs.
I really liked the Thomas Jefferson quote on the blackboard yesterday:
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would [are] not.”
I would like to share that quote with others, but will need to substantiate it, i.e., date of quote, to whom the statement was made, speech, where delivered, etc. Can anyone help me with that information?
I have come to doubt everything and anything that out politicians tell us.
“You can roll a turd in powdered sugar, but that still don’t make it a jelly doughnut”