"We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed)."
"For every dollar (in the stimulus package) that is spent to help small businesses, $4 is being spent to help upkeep the grass on the lawns of Washington."
The stimulus bill includes "$300,000 for a sculpture garden in Miami."
Says a Congressional Budget Office report on spending by House Democrats in the economic stimulus concluded it "is just not stimulus. It won't help the economy grow."
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