>> this whole conversation arose out of gop concern about how extending unemployment benefits sea breezes the deficit unless you have some sort of, as mcconnell and kyl put it, offset. but is there an actual quantifiable reality regarding the jobless benefits and how they affect the deficit compared to tax cuts? >> sure. they, well, number one, the unemployment benefits, if you extend them, will cost about $30 billion. if you extended all of the tack cuts, it would be, if i remember correctly, $3.28 trillion. so the two are very different. but then on the other side, you have the stimulus of the two measures. right, the one thing that republicans have said over and over is that tax cuts are important for stimulus. that's how mcconnell thinks they pay for themselves. but the fact of the matter is, mark zandi, who is an adviser to the mccain campaign says for every dollar you spend on the bush tax cuts, you get 0.32 cents or 32 cents of stimulus, for every dollar you spend on unemployment benefits, you get