Now, a year and a couple of months later, you're a regular economic genius because you saw that it wasn't going to work. You understood the principle of why it wouldn't work. They went ahead on a one-party rule, without any Republican support, passed a bill that we knew wouldn't work, and now it hasn't worked. And now we've got over 10 percent unemployment. And they said, if you don't pass a bill, you'll have 8. I wish we had just stuck with 8, I suppose. But $700 billion of supposed stimulus.
W. Todd Akin: “Now, a year and a couple of months later, you're a regular economic genius because you saw that it wasn't going to work.…”
On the recordApril 21, 2010
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The speaker critiques the effectiveness of the stimulus bill and its impact on unemployment.
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