re: #32 Walter L. Newton

How dare Tapper ask those questions.
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He presses Gibbs:

GIBBS: But, again, let’s focus on the larger picture. Let’s focus on the fact that we have $275 billion in tax cuts to put money directly into the pockets of hard-working Americans that will spend that money and get our economy moving again. Let’s focus on the fact that there’s $550 billion in spending that will put people back to work. But as we get focused on this number and that number, and 0.02 percent, and all this kind of stuff, understand what we’ve seen in just the last 48 hours: 70,000 people, since Monday, have gotten pink slips from the companies that they work for, right? The unemployment figures that came out just yesterday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found every state in the countries — every state in the country saw job loss, every state in the country. The layoffs continue today with Boeing announcing an additional 10,000 jobs that will be shed over the course of the year.

TAPPER: But that’s precisely my point. Wouldn’t it better to take that $75 million, instead of sending it to a smoking cessation program, to send it to these people that are out of work?