Leading Democrat: "We've Got to Spend Our Way Out of This Recession" (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, February 1, 2010, 3:51 PM
The definition of insanity…
Barack Obama and democrats tripled the United States deficit last year.
Today, Team Obama announced that this year’s deficit will top last year’s deficit.
Later this morning, House Majority Whip James Clyborn told FOX News that, “We must spend our way out of this recession.”
From massive spending bill to massivie spending bill, Obama and the democrats haven’t even flinched.
The Hill reported:
The U.S. government must spend its way out of the recession, the Democrats’ third-ranking House leader stressed Monday.
Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the House majority whip, said that trying to find greater savings in the budget, which was released by President Barack Obama this morning, wouldn’t help alleviate the recession.
“We’ve got to make some decisions here as to what’s in the best interests of our country going forward,” Clyburn said during an appearance on Fox News. “And I think the best interest is to invest in education, control these deficits, while at the same time trying to get people back to work.”
“We’re not going to save our way out of this recession,” the majority whip added. “We’ve got to spend our way out of this recession, and I think most economists know that.”
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Mike commented:
These people are BRAIN DEAD. And they keep getting elected.
gus commented:
Clyburn, like most LIBTARDS has no experience in the real world. He’s an old fashioned LIBTARD.
gus commented:
Former teacher, majority black district BINGO.
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gus commented:
Daughters name is “Mignon”.
No kidding.
Dell commented:
Yes, in deedy! When you’ve dug your hole so deep you can’t get out – KEEP DIGGING!!
When your bank says your checking account is overdrawn – WRITE MORE CHECKS!!
It’s the same logic as pouring water on a drowning man…and it’s never worked yet. And it won’t this time, either.
gus commented:
Dell, this is typical LIBTARDISM, a HACK whose whole life has been spending other peoples money as a substitute for doing something productive. Race baiting, taxing and spending is all this type of LIBTARD HACK knows. His constituents have their hands out 24/7. Government is their mommy and they expect YOU and I to pay for MOMMY to wipe their butts. They don’t spend 2 seconds considering the damage they do on a daily basis. And the real doozie is that they think places like CUBA are wonderful.
Waiting to retire commented:
When your bank says your checking account is overdrawn – WRITE MORE CHECKS!!
Quit channeling my ex-wife…..
BigAlSouth commented:
Rep. Clyburn, where is all that money that you plan to spend? What’s that? We’ll just borrow more from the Chinese? Are you outta your freakin’ mind?”
Revolution.
Hedgehog commented:
Yet another blithering idiot who has to go.
kansas commented:
“We’re not going to save our way out of this recession,” the majority whip added. “We’ve got to spend our way out of this recession, and I think most economists know that.”
How do you even respond to insanity like this? Dressing up these Affirmative Action turds in suits doesn’t make them any smarter.
Joanne commented:
Stupid people have invaded America.
Dell commented:
Gus, you’ve got to “let go” more often. You hold it in like that and you’re going to have a coronary. Don’t hesitate, pardner, just let it out!
Waiting to retire, I almost went that “I do” route. Until I realized “I don’t”. Every day I thank the Lord for unanswered prayers.
gus commented:
Dell, being NICE to LIBTARDS doesn’t work. They still fu@# you.
Chisum commented:
Hope and Change.
Dem Senators retreat to South Beach with 108 lobbyists
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/01/dem-senators-retreat-to-south-beach-with-108-lobbyists/
mike191 commented:
Mr. Clyburn is a poster child for Keyensian scum.
Chisum commented:
O’Donnell: Reform is dead
Democrats knew they lost reform with the Massachusetts election and some of them like Rep. Barney Frank essentially said so. “The first reaction to the Massachusetts election was the honest reaction,” O’Donnell said. Frank later walked back his comments.
But since Election Night, he said, Democrats have moved into “full bluff mode.”
“We’re absolutely in full fake cheerleading mode. I think Nancy Pelosi has absolutely no moves left. I think she knows that now. I think Harry Reid knows that. And that’s why they don’t bring it up,” he said. “They had a Senate leadership press conference (Thursday) and it was as if (reporters) were asking about World War I” when they asked about reform.
O’Donnell attributes the theatrics to the need to deal with a liberal base that will go bonkers if Democrats quit on reform. And the cue cards are nothing new. He pointed to Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer’s statements during the fall that the Senate would pass the public option even though “he’s smart enough to know they were never going to get it.”
“No one who went on television was free to say anything realistic,” he said.
http://www.politico.com/livepulse/0210/ODonnell_Reform_is_dead.html
Kem E. commented:
Spend your way out of a recession. That was tried in the Province of Ontario. Two hours from bankruptcy….before the Banks made them start layoffs of Government workers to four days a week…plus other measures. Leftist Government; the New Democratic Party. It was still bad when they where thrown out of office.
bill-tb commented:
Just writing checks you can’t cash … I doubt it ends well.
I am beginning to see the reason for not allowing the federal government to collect up all that power …
jim commented:
After they did the gerrymandering, was this the only guy left in the district who owned a suit?
penny commented:
Yep, Obama and his socialist regime have doubled down, like pitbulls that can’t unclench their jaws, they refuse to retreat from their middle class killer health care and cap n trade schemes. But, then again, killing off the middle class is what they are after.
Like their European socialist elite counterparts herding the needy and the gov’t dependant is the objective.
Spending your way out of debt is as stupid as drinking your way out of alcoholism.
Corporal Vere commented:
It will have to be consumers spending.
Until the consumer starts buying, no amount of gov spending or printing Federal Reserve notes will bring about robust economic growth.
The dilemma is that Obama and his cliche of rump bolshevists and socialist keep making wrong turns on the economy and their threats against banks and Wall Street are killing the recovery with uncertainty.
I blame Bush.
Chisum commented:
Oh those Dems.
New York Democrats in hot water over slush fund
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/02/new_york_democrats_in_hot_wate.html
Ladue Pundit commented:
Corporal Vere
February 1st, 2010 | 7:48 pm | #24
It will have to be consumers spending.
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Tax season is in full swing here, Corporal, and my clients who are still gainfully employed remain hesitant to plan vacations or make major purchases. People, especially self-employed folks like my spouse, do not like what looms on the horizon: energy taxes, higher income taxes, and socialized medicine.
The Democrat Party is bankrupt, literally. They, and the idiots who elect them, simply don’t understand how things work. It’s not complicated.
But they’re stupid.
Sojourner commented:
hmmm.. POTUS really oughta’ tap Clyburn’s fiscal genius-ness..maybe put him in charge of a Senate committee to ponder the matter…call it the Clyburn Revenue Assessment Program..CRAP.