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On the recordOctober 4, 2011
That's a great point. What's amazing to me is you put out those very staggering numbers, and every American should just be horrified at those numbers, but I've actually heard Members of the other side of the aisle actually say the stimulus wasn't big enough. I think most people listening today have heard that: The stimulus just wasn't big enough. Okay, well, I disagree, but fine. Theoretically, let's say it wasn't big enough. So what do we need, another $2 trillion, $3 trillion stimulus, a gajillion dollar stimulus, because then everybody can go back to work? But the President puts a $450 billion stimulus. The only argument I have heard that has any credence--and it doesn't--is that it wasn't big enough. That's why it didn't create jobs. So stimulus 2, which is smaller, has got to do what the large stimulus 1 never did. The insanity of the things I hear is staggering. We've got to get people back to work. That's what it really comes down to. I think everybody agrees about that.…
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Adam Kinzinger
Republican · Illinois

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