From Today's Heritage Briefing:
Desperate to shift blame away from her economic policies, Speaker Pelosi released a statement Friday blaming President George W. Bush for the economy's anemic recovery: "Today’s report shows our teachers, police officers, firefighters, and nurses are still feeling the worst of the Bush recession." Notice how Speaker Pelosi is only concerned about the economy's effect on government and unionized workers: teachers, police officers, firefighters and nurses. If you happen to work for the government, Speaker Pelosi is prepared to move heaven and earth to make sure your pay isn't cut. But if you work for the private sector, Speaker Pelosi has nothing to offer you but higher taxes.
Speaker Pelosi can try to play the blame game all she wants, but the facts of her economic record are rapidly catching up with her. Since becoming Speaker in 2007, Pelosi has embarked on an unprecedented deficit spending spree, including a $700 billion financial bailout, a first $186 billion stimulus, a second trillion dollar stimulus, a $1.5 trillion health care expansion, a $447 billion omnibus spending bill and a $15 billion doc fix/Medicaid bailout. All told, since Speaker Pelosi first took the gavel, discretionary spending has jumped 25%. The results of the Speaker Pelosi Spendapalooza? Since Pelosi became speaker in 2007, the nation's unemployment rate has risen from 4.6% to a high of 10.2%, to today's 9.5%.
Pelosi blames Bush, VP Pinocchio says the Stimulus is working and Barry always, always says that we are going in the right direction. Since when is DOWNHILL the right direction for an Economy?
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