Pelosi: Unemployment Checks Fastest Way to Create Jobs

"It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name."

July 1, 2010 at 2:10 pm - CSPAN
Dateline: Washington DC
PhoneBill   July 1st, 2010 - 9:14 pm

How on Earth does it create jobs??? What about the money spent on premiums, how many jobs are not hired because the capital is spent on insurance?

These idiots have NO idea about private enterprise and money management. It sure is easy to spend other peoples money, huh?

Goldwater2012   July 1st, 2010 - 9:14 pm

My ears are bleeding

WHERE YA BEEN, STRETCH?   July 1st, 2010 - 2:16 pm

She’s been laying kind of low lately, for some reason, hasn’t she? Did she need an extended Botox session or something?

PaBowHunter   July 1st, 2010 - 9:18 pm

I would give California back to Mexico just to get rid of her.

kmichaels   July 1st, 2010 - 9:22 pm

Pelosi is indeed, one stupid kid.

Irondog   July 1st, 2010 - 9:22 pm

Is it Alzheimer's or dementia?

Baloshka   July 1st, 2010 - 9:23 pm

I wouldn't even buy Tupperware from this person much less macroeconomics.

mackycat   July 1st, 2010 - 9:24 pm

I wish Pelosi was collecting unemployment.

Dannoga   July 1st, 2010 - 9:25 pm

The poor lady suffers from CRANIAL RECTOSIS her heads up her butt.

VegasKev09   July 1st, 2010 - 9:25 pm

She's high.

SunshineConnie   July 1st, 2010 - 9:25 pm

Unemployment creates a few government intake clerks. Madame Speaker has totally lost all credibility!

mjishernameo   July 1st, 2010 - 9:26 pm

The woman is demented.

shastamagic   July 1st, 2010 - 9:26 pm

Why get a job if the government is going to pay you not to! When the government gives you a set time to be on unemployment…..most people stay on till the very last day and then miraculously find a job!!!!! This woman is a nut case and is trying to sway public opinion with her words of disbelief!

browncoat78   July 1st, 2010 - 9:28 pm

I think some of that Botox got into her brain.

Justiceman   July 1st, 2010 - 9:28 pm

OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY…back off the botox injections you big eyed lemur , what an excellent representation for California, I would back any initiative to turn it back to Mexico, look at the money that could be saved.

merkhead   July 1st, 2010 - 9:28 pm

Ah, got it – So once folks get jobs, which terminates their unemployement checks, then jobs will be lost.
Doh!

Mike_O_FL   July 1st, 2010 - 9:29 pm

S i gotta be unemployed to get money to try to get employed?? I wonder if her own private world is anything like Toon Town

SpfldJimbo   July 1st, 2010 - 9:29 pm

Now do you see why this country is in a mess? This has the makings of a good Saturday Night Live skit.

RightStuff4   July 1st, 2010 - 9:29 pm

With Democrats, everything that is false is true, what's up is down, what's black is white. They lie with such ease that it would drive most people crazy. Another word for Democrat is psychopath.

mojoe224   July 1st, 2010 - 2:30 pm

It's Liberalism. A mental disorder that nearly 30% of the population is suffering from.

Thankfully, it is is some cases curable. If we could only get the CDC and the WHO to follow it to it's real hotspots: college campuses, Hollywood and urban areas we would have a real chance to eradicate it.

TpartyPatroit   July 1st, 2010 - 9:30 pm

it's official Botox is eating her brain

browncoat78   July 1st, 2010 - 9:30 pm

Welcome to FantasyLand, Ladies and Gents: where paying people not to work by taking money from those who do, somehow miraculously creates jobs just because Mme Speaker WISHES it so! When she makes her wishes, she'd wrinkle her nose if the Botox hadn't petrified her face!

arvadadan   July 1st, 2010 - 9:30 pm

I want some of what she is smoking, it must be really good!!!

doogle   July 1st, 2010 - 9:30 pm

"Pelosi: Unemployment Checks Fastest Way to Create Jobs"

I mean really! Just look at how many jobs those checks have created SO FAR, Nancy!

cliffc276a   July 1st, 2010 - 9:31 pm

Another perfect GOP fall campagin ad..

Jenny2   July 1st, 2010 - 9:31 pm

RIP Pelosi's brain.

harvey_mushman   July 1st, 2010 - 9:31 pm

Nancy, PUH-LEEZE!!!!!!!! Could someone kindly pass the lithium? I don't know how much more of Ms. Speaker's drivel I can take.

Simon, Professor   July 1st, 2010 - 2:32 pm

I dare say Speaker Pelosi has lost her mind. Following her rationale, we should put triple the present number on unemployment and triple their benefit…yes, the economy would really take off then! Nancy, you are now officially a candidate for DOLT of the YEAR!

doogle   July 1st, 2010 - 9:34 pm

I'm thinking the doctor may've shoved the botox needle in a little too far…struck a vital nerve in her brain…caused an electrical short.

"Yeah Doc…that seizure Nancy had during her last treatment? You fried her brain."

OptimistTN   July 1st, 2010 - 9:35 pm

I AGREE – Pelosi unemployment would take us a long way toward creating jobs. Hopefully it will happen in November

johngaltpodcast   July 1st, 2010 - 9:35 pm

She really is as dumb as a box of hair. Handing out "Obama money" doesn't create anything but votes for the liberals and a lonnnnnnng line at Cobo Hall.

We have to give Nancy credit, though; she's created dozens of jobs for the squad that keep giving her plastic surgery in perpetuity…
http://johngalt.podomatic.com/

Crossland   July 1st, 2010 - 9:35 pm

Pelosi is dumber than a box of rocks. This is absolute proof that the woman is so looney-tunes that she needs to be committed IMMEDIATELY to the California state hospital for mentally ill.

Unemployment allows people to spend other people's money. It creates NO JOBS. With her logic, that unemployment checks create jobs, why don't we all quit working, go on unemployment and create beaucoups of jobs? If it's so good, then everybody should be in on it and create all kinds of jobs – the only problem is that with everyone collecting unemployment and no one working, what good will the newly created jobs do????

Pelosi has to be the worst speaker ever to be elected. What a joke. What an embarrassment to all smart women that this woman is part of our subgroup. Geeez. Excuse me while I go beat my head against a wall.

86-44   July 1st, 2010 - 9:36 pm

thie funniest thing I have seen today.

99 weeks of unemployment and you still don't have job yet the checks we pay the more jobs we create?

the hot job today must be the guy that cuts the unemployment checks

RightUnite   July 1st, 2010 - 9:36 pm

Uuuuggghhhh! What a dumb woman….

RightUnite   July 1st, 2010 - 9:37 pm

Good idea….

RightUnite   July 1st, 2010 - 9:37 pm

Botox poisoning…

punditpawn   July 1st, 2010 - 9:38 pm

WTF is wrong with this country? How the h3ll can a wench like that even get a job let alone rule a nation?

RightWingStuff   July 1st, 2010 - 9:38 pm

Very simple – someone has to process those checks!

Did you plug the hole yet daddy?

mackycat   July 1st, 2010 - 2:38 pm

But there's no evidence of a brain to eat.

Diptera   July 1st, 2010 - 2:39 pm

Obviously she has never had that problem or she would know better. Pelosi is a rich woman, a rich socialist who only spends other peoples money – unemployment is something she has never experienced. Of course she could be using O-speak which means unemployment checks is the fastest way to create government jobs – lol

RightWingStuff   July 1st, 2010 - 9:39 pm

Time to put Nana in the home.

kay   July 1st, 2010 - 2:39 pm

Madame ‘Deficit” Pelosi. Every time she opens her mouth she spews Nazi rhetoric.

The only reason she wants the people to get unemployment checks for the last year is it makes the unemployed numbers feeel reeeally good. But when the poop hits the fan …when all the 600,000 census takers are unemployed, and the unemployed 2 million have no benefits……they will take to the streets and demand the illegals go home so they can have jobs. When that happens all he11 will break loose. You communist in the WH will feel the pitchforks in the pants.

This is what happens when you STIFLE business opportunities in the private sector, you gubermunt twits.

denise92459   July 1st, 2010 - 9:39 pm

Please, good people of San Francisco…raise your freaking standards, will you, and get rid of this idiot in November.

c_knight   July 1st, 2010 - 9:39 pm

How about lowering taxes? Do you know how many jobs are lost because companies move out of this country because the taxes are too high here? Lower the taxes by lowering your spending and this will create jobs. Where I work, if we didn't have as high of a tax we would hire more people, but becasue the tax is so high we aren't.
This lady needs to shut up. She has no clue what she is talking about.
What on Earth were people thinking when they voted for her?
Can we fire the government and hire the private sector to do their job? It would run a lot smoother. Maybe it's time that We the People start to Tax our government (just a thought).

punditpawn   July 1st, 2010 - 9:41 pm

So the Bush Checks that were sent out were evil, right? The money gets spent which 'creates jobs' according to stupid wench Pelosi, but Bush = Hitler and Obama = I'm going to hurl.

Conbatzors   July 1st, 2010 - 9:41 pm

Republicans are idiots for voting against unemployment. That said, Nancy is a bigger idiot for her dumbfounded comments about job creation.

You fight a war for this country, come home and get a good job in corporate America. Corporate America is hit hard by the recession and you're laid off. You can't find a job and these republicans just voted your unemployment extension away. I don't get the logic. The voting no on everything isn't going to help this country, but I think that's the republicans plan so they win the next election. Politics are crap. Signed..independent voter

war_man   July 1st, 2010 - 9:41 pm

Could this woman get any dumber?

triton2106   July 1st, 2010 - 2:41 pm

This lady is out of her f*****g mind. She’s a total disgrace to our country. She’s either on drugs or has dementia. The only way to create jobs is to flush this administration down the toilet in November and vote in real LEADERS who understand basic economics.

di_da_is_alpha   July 1st, 2010 - 9:41 pm

To hell with illegal Mexicans, let's deport this bitch.

wohlfguy   July 1st, 2010 - 9:41 pm

Must be Krugmanomics.

Actually the best way to create jobs would be to vote these morons out of office and get some folks in congress that actually have run a business and created jobs.

I am truly looking forward to November 3 when these proglodytes can start collecting their unemployment checks

scrivo   July 1st, 2010 - 9:42 pm

Simply stated….Pelosi is a PUTANA AMERICANA…..as my uncle in Milan calls her

Crossland   July 1st, 2010 - 9:42 pm

Not only has botox EATEN the woman's brain, it's served as a pickling device as well! The scary part is that she really BELIEVES what she's saying!!!!!!!

secularstupid   July 1st, 2010 - 9:42 pm

Pelosi likes monetary ping pong, of course no wealth is created. Wealth comes from the creative energy and activity of free people. Something she does not comprehend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9_bP219ehQ

wohlfguy   July 1st, 2010 - 9:42 pm

She had some credibility left?

duh_swami   July 1st, 2010 - 9:42 pm

Look, she has Botox and cleavage…What more do you want?

berlinwallart   July 1st, 2010 - 9:42 pm

Oh my gosh – how is it that so many Americans voted for this dweebette – oh wait a minute, I know how…I live in MA and I see the idiot who still have the Kerry Edwards bumper stickers on their cars….we have to fix our school systems here in America…we are turning out trash. http://www.baselines.com/music/pc.mp3

CaptainHawk1   July 1st, 2010 - 9:43 pm

She really must think we're stupid. WHO NANCY??? NAME ONE F U C K I N G ECONOMIST THAT WILL CLAIMS THAT UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE CREATES JOBS AND STIMULATES THE ECONOMY!!!

This is up there with her claim that the Catholic Church has struggled with the definition of when life begins.

wohlfguy   July 1st, 2010 - 9:43 pm

To many face lifts. Her forehead used to be the back of her neck

nostudme   July 1st, 2010 - 9:43 pm

Taking stupid to a whole new level. Last chance November 2010, November 2012. Or we'll ALL be on unemployment.

wohlfguy   July 1st, 2010 - 9:44 pm

do not confuse the proglodytes with facts

HymieG   July 1st, 2010 - 2:46 pm

This woman is one of the worst things that ever happened to USA (Obama might top her a little, Reid, Franks & Dodd come close). Thanks to California for such a great contribution to America, NOT!!!!!

WeMadeAmistake   July 1st, 2010 - 9:46 pm

Pelosi is the perfect example of the' ignorant' electing the' mentally ill'.

coniljw   July 1st, 2010 - 9:46 pm

Call Speaker Pelosi in DC at 1-202-225-4965 and tell the person who answers the phone you want to leave a message on Spr. Pelosi's voice mail. If the mailbox is full, call back and tell the person answering the phone that you want to leave your message with her since the voice mail is full.
This is the only way to tell this nutbag Pelosi what you think and that she will hear. Leaving messages on the internet sites is great and lets off steam but we need to make the calls.

TBoneMalone   July 1st, 2010 - 9:46 pm

I have only one thing to say:
THIRD IN LINE FOR THE PRESIDENCY

BluePhantom2   July 1st, 2010 - 9:47 pm

PLS when you loose the house PLS resign and go home!

CaptainHawk1   July 1st, 2010 - 9:48 pm

Although she's out of her flipping mind, as someone who pays the premium for my company I can tell you that unemployment premiums are quite low and aren't keeping anyone from being employed.

The bigger issue of course is that it's all deficit spending and doesn't work any better than the the stimulus bill. All we are seeing is an exapansion of the economic behaviors we have seen over the last 10 years, spending money we don't have and artificially inflaring the strength of an economy. The problem is that it's not even creating a faux propsperous economy anymore like it did during the Bush Administration.

MAC59   July 1st, 2010 - 9:48 pm

Take what Nancy says, turn it around 180 degrees and you arrive at the truth.

CaptainHawk1   July 1st, 2010 - 9:49 pm

I love California. The people are morons but I love the state and I ain't ceding it to Mexico.

obamamammajamma   July 1st, 2010 - 9:50 pm

Dumb as a stick. Thick as a brick.

rtwingteamster   July 1st, 2010 - 9:50 pm

If I didn't know better I would swear I was watching a Saturday Night Live skit. How can these people get elected? These people think they are so much smarter than the rest of us. I would guess if you checked their IQ's you would find out they are in a lower percentile than the average persoin walking down the street . . .and that's not saying much. Oh well, keep your fingers crossed for November.

rovers   July 1st, 2010 - 2:50 pm

I would love to meet an economist. One that is not a socialist. I want just one honest ecomomist to say giving away money creates long term demand upon which factories and businesses can be brought into existence. Only jobs can do that.

FSGolf   July 1st, 2010 - 9:51 pm

Just when you think you've heard it all… Nancy opens her mouth again and crap comes flying out!
How on earth does taking money from one person, ie; the taxpayer, and giving it to someone else STIMULATE the economy? I will spend MY money, YOU spend yours. If you don't have any, go make some!

I get taxed on my income, I get taxed at the register, I get taxed for living in my home…
Then the tax money is given to someone else and I'm supposed to believe that is STIMULUS!?!?!
Who is the economist she mentions that believes this? Will they please stand up and explain that?

CaptainHawk1   July 1st, 2010 - 9:51 pm

^^^ BTW, best comment yet. If I could vote for you 10 times, I would.

SergeantHulka   July 1st, 2010 - 9:51 pm

I can't believe what I just heard. Unemployment checks create jobs? Does that woman REALLY think that We the People are that F*****G STUPID. I hope like hell that all you morons in California who voted for this idiot get what's comming to you. I know the rest of us are. And we don't even get a kiss.

Lowballhitter   July 1st, 2010 - 9:51 pm

Nancy –

If this is such a good job creator, then SEND EVERYONE $100,000 IMMEDIATELY!!! Oh wait…there's a downside? Oh you mean that in order to pay it back we need to eventually get the money (TAKE THE MONEY) from someone? Well now…then that's a different story!

mark1944   July 1st, 2010 - 9:52 pm

Every time I think there's no way Nancy Pelosi could truly be as stupid as she seems, she up and fools me by showing me anew that she really is that stupid. Staggeringly, stunningly, stultifyingly stupid. If giving out money to the unemployed is the fastest way to stimulate the economy to create new jobs, imagine how many jobs could be created if congress gave money to the employed! Boy, we'd be up to our eyes in jobs. Worst of all, she'll probably get re-elected in November.

randall22000   July 1st, 2010 - 9:52 pm

This is the way those libturds think!! No surprises here. Pelosi, Reid, and Nobama are all morons. They make the the Three Stooges look like rocket scientists. The land of fruits and nuts deserve Nancy Pukosi and all the damage she is doing.

CaptainHawk1   July 1st, 2010 - 9:52 pm

^^^ A close second for best comment. brilliant.

IraqWarVet   July 1st, 2010 - 9:52 pm

We might have to get China's okay on that first…Diane Frankenstein might have a connection or two.

OldWoman   July 1st, 2010 - 9:52 pm

I do believe you are correct!

OldWoman   July 1st, 2010 - 9:53 pm

LOL!

caorco   July 1st, 2010 - 9:53 pm

This witch knows EXACTLY how to earn money. She and her elitist demlibs just don't want anyone else to have it. She and Gorby have a nice little deal going with the Presidio. Ask san fran nan about "Presidio Partners". She's about as elitist as they come. Don't for ONE MINUTE think she gives a crap about anyone but herself. Oh – maybe her family. They get the "sweet" deals in the Bay Area. She and her demlib buddies will tax, regulate and destroy any private industry, unless THEY have a vested interest. They HATE any private business that might turn a profit (unless it's THEIR profit). Nothing would please these idiot sticks more than to have 20% unemployment. Just think of alllllllllllllllllllllllllll those wonderful voters that rely on the gubment for their very existence.

jp2feminist   July 1st, 2010 - 9:53 pm

They've got us where they want us. If you don't support unemployment benefits, then you are a hater of the unemployed. How about if we make it easier for business to hire people by freeing up capital? Then the unemployed would be back to work and the taxpayers would be off the hook. It just makes no sense to continue to give money to able-bodied people who are sitting at home looking for a job. Idiot Pelosi is giving money to the wrong group. What am I not getting here???

stmike146   July 1st, 2010 - 9:53 pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/01/expired-...

Read about this woman as you idiots post. You breitpartistas have no clue about the real world and the job situation.

kathy   July 1st, 2010 - 2:54 pm

not surprised when OBAMA, PELOSI AND BIDEN MOUTH THEIR BIG MOUTH

nothing good will ever come.

DarthShatner   July 1st, 2010 - 9:54 pm

The reason you dont get the logic is because there is no logic to your strawman arguement.

Strawman arguement 101

Child: Can we get a dog?
Adult: No, we cant afford it.
Child: Awww. C'mon.
Adult: I said no, we cant afford it.
Child: But if we get a dog it will protect us at night when we sleep. (strawman arguement)
Adult: Thats not the point, we cant afford it.

You are the child. Debate the issue like an Adult.

BikerBen   July 1st, 2010 - 2:54 pm

I guess what Nancy Pelosi is admitting is that an unemployment insurance check puts money in people's pockets, and this money will be spent , for products, and that increased demand for products will provide jobs in order to produce those products, etc., etc, etc. My question is … why do liberal socialists pretend they don't understand the concept of tax reductions to accomplish this very same effect? Why do they not want the best for this country? Why do they pretend they never heard of Milton Friedman? Haven't they seen that communism has failed wherever it's been tried?

ABNRGR   July 1st, 2010 - 9:54 pm

How many jobs are lost because of the tax money I pay the government that I would otherwise be spending on durable products.

If giving checks out is all it takes, give me a couple!

NY_Anna   July 1st, 2010 - 9:55 pm

I'm unemployed…I'm not sure my check is doing much to CREATE jobs however. I'm saving them to buy my freedom from NY and move to a red state. Maybe Speaker Pelosi meant that if you are trying to get by on an unemployment check, you'll do ANYTHING to get off unemployment. I swear, you can make more a Micky D's.

IraqWarVet   July 1st, 2010 - 9:55 pm

Hell yeah! By her twisted standards then Con-gress must be getting unemployment…I want one of those jobs.

Taguba   July 1st, 2010 - 2:56 pm

Already back to the old format ??

HughGKnutts   July 1st, 2010 - 9:56 pm

Where's a bolt of lightening when it's needed most?

cjs77   July 1st, 2010 - 2:56 pm

“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.”

fastfacts   July 1st, 2010 - 9:57 pm

Nancy Pelosi has no idea how to fix this economy. If she did she wouldn't give Congress raises, fly a private jet, waste millions on those trips, and waste money in the bills she passes. What needs to happen is cut spending and direct funding into the right programs, not just back to your constituents. Get rid of the immigration problem, welfare and other wasteful programs for law breakers need to be cut. Look at what is happening to the victims of health care: http://www.americanparchment.com/library/obamacar... . That is when things will change.

tampamom25   July 1st, 2010 - 9:57 pm

I would laugh if it wasn't so doggone scary to think that this woman is third in line for the presidency. Dear God deliver us from these granola people (fruits, nuts and flakes) who are running our country and help us find someone who honors and upholds the Constitution! She makes my head hurt with her idiotic comments, and I agree with another poster who said let's give California back to the Mexicans just to get rid of her!!!

ArchiteuthisNeb   July 1st, 2010 - 9:57 pm

Pelosi is right, if your definition of "job" is "something you get paid to do". Whenever government "creates jobs" it does so by taking a little money from a large number of people (the taxpayers) to give a lot of money to a small number of people (the 'newly employed'). Pelosi has realized that what the small number of people are paid to do is a trivial detail; it may as well be standing in line.

Bankroller   July 1st, 2010 - 2:57 pm

Her only hope is a full frontal lobotomy.

Brian   July 1st, 2010 - 2:58 pm

Yes, it is the fastest way to create jobs, when the checks stop! What incentive is there to work when one is paid not to work?

kay   July 1st, 2010 - 2:58 pm

@ c_knight July 1st, 2010 – 9:39 pm
***How about lowering taxes? Do you know how many jobs are lost because companies move out of this country because the taxes are too high here? Lower the taxes by lowering your spending and this will create jobs. Where I work, if we didn’t have as high of a tax we would hire more people, but becasue the tax is so high we aren’t.***

( This kind of thinking is harassment to this admin. It is not on their agenda.)

***Can we fire the government and hire the private sector to do their job? It would run a lot smoother. Maybe it’s time that We the People start to Tax our government (just a thought).***

(Lol….you are too funny! In order to tax someone… they first have to have a job….and second be willing to work! hehe)

BradHarringtonh   July 1st, 2010 - 9:59 pm

Is Nancy Pelosi always drunk when she gives these speeches, or is it just the medical marijuana? Such as sweet b#$*h, and she just doesn't understand what reality really is like!

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