Three Cabinet appointees from opposing party is unmatched
"Putting three Republicans in my Cabinet...is unprecedented."
"Putting three Republicans in my Cabinet...is unprecedented."
"You and I know that in the history of mankind and womankind, government — federal, state, local, or otherwise — has never created one job."
The Congressional Budget Office "estimates that only 15 percent of this stimulus package will be spent in 2009" and only 37 percent in 2010.
On attacks by Republicans that various programs in the economic stimulus plan are not stimulative, "If you add all that stuff up, it accounts for…
"The average bonus [on Wall Street] is about $100,000...The bonuses on Wall Street are down 44 percent."
The stimulus bill contains "$20 million for the removal of small to medium-sized fish passage barriers" and "$25 million to rehabilitate off-roading trails for ATVs."
"There are no earmarks" in the stimulus bill.
The Senate version of the economic stimulus package includes "millions of dollars to World War II Filipino veterans in the Philippines."
To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, "if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since…
"The (economic stimulus) legislation could open billions of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)."
"There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jump-start the economy."