Posted by
Tom Anderson on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:43:56 AM
In a news conference today, Nancy Pelosi was asked about the effect of not having a stimulus package. Her response was incredible...
"For every month that we do not have an Economic Recovery package, 500 million Americans will lose their jobs."
What? When did our workforce, much less our population, get that big? Since we only have (roughly) 300 million people in the whole country, and only about 140 million in the workforce, it seems a little impossible to believe.
I can only assume that she meant to say 500 thousand people would lose their jobs. Even if that's what she meant, how many months have had 500,000 layoffs? I know times are bad, but I think she's stretching it just a little.
Maybe Speaker Pelosi needs to take some refresher courses in math, economics and history before she opens her big pie hole again...