Obama Election-Year Jobs Agenda Stalls in Congress

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Source: Associated Press

The election-year jobs agenda promised by President Barack Obama and Democrats has stalled seven months before voters determine control of Congress.

Democrats have no money to pay for the program. That's because both Republicans and the Democratic chairman of the Senate Budget Committee objected to taking money left over from the fund that bailed out banks, automakers and insurers and using it for the jobs bill.

Such a move, they insisted, would add tens of billions of dollars to the $12.8 trillion national debt....

Even legislation to help the jobless has run into trouble now that Republicans, following the lead of the tea party movement, have decided to make trillion-dollar-plus budget deficits a campaign issue.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04/11/us/politics/AP-US-Congress-Jobs.html

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Just who the hell do they think they're kidding?

Reagan reportedly tripled the national debt with his tax cuts favoring mostly the rich

Dubya redoubled it for the same people

And now to get the economy back up to speed for everybody, these Fascists are suddenly deficit conscientious

While the vast majority of us have watched our standards of living decline if not go down the toilet

Are you getting mad yet?