Sam Brownback

Effectively, that is what you are saying, because they are not loaning money.

Despite the significant turnaround in growth, I would like to point out that our economy has only grown by $113 billion.

the world community is yelling at us about our fiscal policies, saying that, yes, we need to do some of these things monetary-wise

You need to have competitive workers with good skills. Otherwise, those jobs are going to go straight offshore.

So that one is a big impact in that quarter.

It seems this is a real mercantilist strategy on the Chinese part, that they stimulate and keep their economy going.

I can see that. It sure looks like to me we could start to raise interest rates some here.

The too big to fail banks are a major risk to our current economic situation.

It seems to me that is one of the areas we continue to have a consumer deleveraging, that the credit continues to decline even though there is lots of money out there.

I voted against a bunch of it, but it happened.

I think it is time we start looking at raising of interest rates, as the Australians have done

We have been unable to compete, unable to generate enough revenue from exports to pay for what we import.

The guy that is kind of new, I wouldn't put him a rock star, but he is a radio star in the Midwest, is Dave Ramsey.

I am not a VAT--I don't like a VAT for the way it is so hidden.

The key impediment to hiring and investment among small businesses is the lack of credit.

I voted against the $787 billion stimulus package because I viewed it as a largely wasteful use of taxpayers' dollars.

But we will be different when we get back. We are going through pain, but let's get on the other side and show something for it.

I was not favorable towards the stimulus. I saw it as a government stimulus, not an economic stimulus; and it just seems to me that the numbers have, unfortunately, borne that out.

People are just appalled by it. Because they just go, you know, these things have been building.

You may slow your job loss level, but you are not going to have much job creation.

I think the cap-and-trade idea is one you ought to pull away from.

I understand your position on it.

The biggest complaint I get is that people can't get credit.

The health care does it too. As people are trying to calculate, okay, what do I do?

I support the goals you both have laid out in your written testimony.