job creation. are you saying that the president is wrong in what he just said? i was repeating what the president was saying for the last two years. the president himself has been making the very argument that we should put the money in the hands of the middle class and folks who are in a lower class because they are likely the ones who are going to spend more. now, all of a sudden the president changes his tune because republicans made it perfectly clear they were not going to budge at all from that. in his news conference the following day he made the comment about this whole notion of they saw this as the holy grail. therefore, he decided to go along with the short-term extension of all of the tax cuts.gloria s point. i understand. democrats are angry because of the state tax provision. the house earlier passed the extension in terms of the certain cap $3.5 million for individuals, 7 million for a couple, the president in