I would agree that UI checks get spent quickly,and do get the money in the system quicker (if at all) by the "shovel ready" stimulus spending. When the Republicans suggested the UI extensions come from the stimulus package, the Dem's didn't like that. It's all political theater played for those that read the headlines only.

So unemployment checks create jobs, but why not simply create the jobs and skip the unemployment checks all together? I just can't fathom how anyone can get away with such comments without anything but these blogs to point them out. And to think Bush has an entire book of his "Bushism".

The answer to your question is they are incapable of creating jobs (they have demonstrated that).  The better question - If Unemployment checks create jobs, why not just give everyone an unemployment check?  Just think of the jobs created then?

She has been in an elected office since 1988.  That's 22 years!  I didn't realize that she's 70 years old!  The only reason she continues to get elected is the fact that she has money.  Her popularity has been in the negative for quite some time.  I'm not sure what ever happened to the whole CIA/waterboard lie she told but it just went away.  When I was in Grad School, a professor had a poster on their door of all the stupid things Bush said, now why is there no poster of all the retarded things that Pelosi has said?  I would buy several and mail it to certain people.  That would be another post: The stupid things that come out of the mouth of the neonate who is Nancy Pelosi.

As for the money comment, I am glad to see Alvin Greene get elected (*note I feel that what he is being accused of is wrong) with little/no campaigning or with little/no money.  I am not going to say that he, Alvin Green,  is dumb because I don't know him and people said the same thing of Bush (which I don't know Bush and I don't think he was dumb though).  I do feel his position on the polling box and his name probably were what contributed to him getting elected. 

Doc, you need to be careful in saying that because you sound like Bill Maher (I'm not trying to insult you either, so please don't take it as an insult.)  What you're saying could be taken as being an elitist, which I know you're not. 

I think most people are probably apathetic, uniformed, and just plain don't care.  Now, are their decision dumb?  Yes, some of the time. 

HA, that was funny!  I'm sure some of those people were nervous.  The 'hardest' one of those questions was who sewed the American flag. We are celebrating July 4th because its the 4th of July.  We obviously got our Independence from the 4th with General Churchill leading the charge in 1922. 

Speaking of who sewed the Flag, why was the man called a sexist for saying it probably was a woman?  Back then, men could sow but women did do the majority.  If Jay Leno said that to me I would have been 'thanks, you ethnocentrist!'

I did not know they caught me on TV!

Thanks for the laugh.  It is all too familiar.