billion dollar jobs package. brenda: hold on. out of a recession that we were coming out of anyway, david. brenda: there we go. the unseen hand of, i don t know, the market, right? it s going to happen anyway, right? we didn t have to do anything. we d be in a depression right now if we all listened to you guys. brenda: some people do believe that government hold on. pat shall the very polite pat, you get in there now. i ll take it back to a question voice add couple of moments ago, what do we do now? what we do, we have the political courage to change the debate from cheap political points around spending now and whether the stimulus is good or bad, bridges to nowhere and tackle the difficult stuff like social security, medicare and medicaid, that only a few lone voice ins congress are willing to talk about and very little discussed because it s difficult and because getting political support to cut those three programs is virtually impossible. and spend. and let s ch
is it healthy. 23 billion dollars that s the latest greatest amount they wanted a 150 billion a couple of weeks ago. the jobs bills are costing us billions and billions and billions more, in the meantime, we re bailing out greece, the eu, 325 billion from the imf. we re already broke, we need to stop spending and do things like cut back like greece or i don t know, maybe cut taxes and create real jobs and not keep spending and no real jobs created. well, david, we re on a spending spree a bit. you say, hey, take out the credit card, huh? hey, if we re stuck in a rut, which we are, we re trying to get out of the worst recession since the great depression, if i m driving my car out of a rut, a muddy rut and food on the accelerator and trying to get the car out and just about to get it out. do i take my foot out of the accelerator? no, gun it and get it out and that s what world economists all sides have agreed. first four month of 2010, if we continue in this pace job gro