David Price: “the President seems to want to claim that, but I have seen analyses, and they are readily available, that show there are…”

“the President seems to want to claim that, but I have seen analyses, and they are readily available, that show there are dozens of things that could be done in terms of middle class tax cuts, in terms of infrastructure improvements and transportation improvements, in terms of aid to the States that were so hard-pressed and still are hard-pressed. Extension of unemployment benefits to those who are still trying to turn their situation around, any one of those things would not only have been fairer in terms of the people affected, but it would have been a far more effective stimulus. Then to turn to my second point, have we been able to adequately fund our major priorities in this country? If you are going $450 billion into debt each year, additional debt, you would at least like to think you are getting some bang for the buck in terms of things we need to be investing in in this country. But yet at last report this House cannot even pass a highway bill, cannot even agree on investment in our infrastructure, which used to be a no-brainer around here, both Democrats and Republicans agreeing that nothing was better for the economy than having a healthy infrastructure and getting money out to the States to build highways and transit systems.”