Political Quotes

“Mr. President, some believe that if you say something long enough, even if it is without any factual basis, people will start believing it. To think that banks--Wall Street--liked Wall Street reform is a stretch beyond our ability to comprehend. We needed to do something because Wall Street hurt America. They had a pretty good deal going there. They could use our money and gamble it--different than Las Vegas. They could gamble our money, and if they won, they kept it; if they lost, they came back to us for help. That is a good deal, and we have stopped that. Does anyone think we should leave things the way they are? That was a crisis waiting to happen again. George Bush's Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson, when this bill passed, said it was a fine piece of legislation. I am paraphrasing what he said. Knowing Hank, that is about what he said. He liked the legislation, and he should know. He was President Bush's Secretary of the Treasury when this collapse took place. This is all so quite interesting. My friend says that the stimulus has caused job loss. Again, that is without any factual basis. In fact, it is just the opposite. It saved or created 3 million jobs. Remember, we still have low unemployment because that started during the Bush years back in 2006 when the economy started faltering. As an example, in the last 6 months of the Bush administration, 3 million jobs were lost. Health insurance: Always they talk about health insurance.…”