Stimulus Money Quotes

#1. The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only doesn't stimulate; it actually reduces output.

Arthur Laffer

#2. According to government auditors, the stimulus money is being held up because there aren't enough government workers to oversee the spending. So follow me, in other words, government workers who aren't there are needed to spend money we don't have to create jobs that don't exist.

Jay Leno

#3. I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#4. I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

Rick Scott

#5. No, I'm not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

Paul Ryan

#6. Progressives wrote the Common Core standards, used money from the 2009 stimulus bill to bribe states into adopting them, and are now "vetting" the tests that will eventually shape the curriculum used by school districts all across the United States.

Glenn Beck

#7. And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.

Mark Kirk

#8. If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.

Thomas Sowell

#9. Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. The way the money was spent ensured that Spain's newfound wealth provided the entire continent with a monetary stimulus.

Niall Ferguson

#11. Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.

Christina Romer

#12. The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus.

Terry Savage

#13. What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.

Paul Ryan

#14. In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.

Dick Morris

#15. Any stimulus package amounts to taking money from the pockets of some Americans and placing it in the pockets of others who have better political connections.

Mona Charen