the thing is, sean, let s talk about the answers to this. the answers you got answers. the government declared war on poverty and poverty won. you know poverty won? you mean, poor people won? government helping people in the end helped them more than hurt them? how so? people who are getting help are lazy? because the people who are did i say that? no, because that s your argument. i put on my website today, we re dealing with this later in the program, conservative solutions. we have more natural gas, more energy, more shale oil than the middle east combined and yet we re too stupid to tap into that. those are job creations, let me put up on the screen some things talk about the middle class. those are they need to create the jobs, you want to talk about tax cuts so they can do that, fine. what about the man that watches the working man that now
it s a war. the thing is, sean, let s talk about the answers to this. the answers you got answers. the government declared war on poverty and poverty won. you know poverty won? you mean, poor people won? government helping people in the end helped them more than hurt them? how so? people who are getting help are lazy? because the people who are did i say that? no, because that s your argument. i put on my website today, we re dealing with this later in the program, conservative solutions. we have more natural gas, more energy, more shale oil than the middle east combined and yet we re too stupid to tap into that. those are job creations, let me put up on the screen some things talk about the middle class. those are they need to create the jobs, you want to talk about tax cuts so they can do that, fine. what about the man that watches the working man that now
we ve got almost 11 million people in total now on social security disability. that is greater than the population of greece. greater than the population of tunisia. that s an all-time record high. 10.988 million people on disability. here is what happens, you get into your 40s and 50s, you re out of work. you exhaust your benefits. what s your options? you can t get a job, so you go on disability. that is an option. i can put it that way in this day and age. the fact you ve got nearly 11 million on disability shows the failure of president obama s job creations. if we were creating jobs the way we used to create jobs, you would not have this disability dependency problem. given the fact that they ve gotten rid of the long-term unemployment where you could get unemployment insurance for, what, close to two years, given that s gone away for at least right now, do you look for more people to sign up as a last
curious on the impact to the economy from this standpoint. look at the damage and repairs necessary. people just need to fix their homes and get them back to where they were before this. you consider the nature of recession we ve been in, which there is a lack of consumer nand the on the part of consumers. does this provide some impetus for people to start spending money, for consumers to start spending money in a way that might boost the economy at all? are jobs going to be created here? sure. they re on the heels of such disaster. did we see stores like home dep powe and lowe s sell out products like batteries, generators, flashlights? definitely. bear in mind, people are on lockdown. they re not up shopping for days. their gas prices are going up. that hurts their he disposable information. 8 million people out of power right now, they re not out there shopping. could there be a positive effect on some commodities and job creations? potential terribly.
the person making that case in public who is also writing this letter in private to the secretary of transportation asking for the terrible, horrible stimulus money to come to your district. stimulus money that, will provide much needed new jobs and economic growth throughout the region. that s what eric cantor wrote to transportation secretary ray lahood. after bashing the stimulus as pointless waste, here s eric cantor touting the benefits of stimulus money when it made its way to his district. we can create a lot of jobs, again, the estimates of job creations are 85,000 to 160,000-some jobs for common wealth. most of that in this area. there were a bunch of republicans who did this, and the issue here is not that there was going to be this money laying around and they didn t want that money to be around at all, but as long as it was there, you try to get some for your district. that s not the issue here. the issue here is that these guys were making a public case that this mon