"We're never going to decrease the deficit until we create jobs, bring revenue into the Treasury, stimulate the economy so we have growth. We have to shed any weakness that anybody may have about not wanting to be confrontational on this subject for fear that we'd be labeled not sensitive to the deficit. … The American people have an anger about the growth of the deficit because they're not getting anything for it.... So if somebody has the idea that the percentage of GDP of what or national debt is will go up a bit, but they will now -- and their neighbors and their children -- will have jobs, I think they could absorb that.... If we pull our punch, as they did in the mid-30's, we shouldn't be surprised if history repeats itself."
—Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
Exactly. I hope the White House is paying attention.
Remember 1937.