Jack Kingston: “I certainly am going to support this bill. All I have to say is here we are with high unemployment, with economic…”

“I certainly am going to support this bill. All I have to say is here we are with high unemployment, with economic disaster happening, and yet we are spending time debating a bill which is going to pass by 435 votes. It is a good bill. It is a noncontroversial bill. It will pass. It should be voice voted. But why are we spending time to do this when we have millions of unemployed Americans and other people who are on the brink of getting laid off? We have a stimulus bill that the Democrats are very proud about. It has about $830 billion price tag at the moment. It creates 3.7 million jobs. Now the Republican alternative is half the cost and twice the jobs. I want to repeat that. Twice the jobs and half the cost. It is a bill that targets small business job creation. It targets Main Street, not Washington, D.C., not Wall Street, but Main Street, so that the jobs could come from the bottom up rather than centralized bureaucratic governmental planning here in Washington, which failed in Moscow. The Democrat bill costs $280,000 per job in a country where the household income, on an average, is $50,000. Just 7 percent of this money goes to public works, roads, bridges, highways, things that actually put people to work with shovel-in-hand, only 7 percent of their money.”