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W. Todd Akin: Reclaiming my time, it seems like what I'm hearing from the Democrats and Republicans is that people look at this from a…

On the recordFebruary 11, 2009
Reclaiming my time, it seems like what I'm hearing from the Democrats and Republicans is that people look at this from a totally different point of view. What I keep hearing the Democrats saying is we've got to stimulate spending. Most of the people I know, if they had money, they would love to spend it. They don't need to be stimulated to spend the money. And it seems like what you are saying is that it's not that we need to stimulate spending, what we need to be doing is stimulating productivity, that we need to be having those jobs created by small business or larger businesses and that those jobs then put money in people's pocket and then they're going to spend naturally. I yield.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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Discussing economic stimulus and the need to focus on productivity and job creation.

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