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Dennis Hastert's Deep Thoughts

By The Daily Dish

Feb 3 2009, 10:19 AM ET

Yep: this man was actually Speaker once:

Basically, a big part of that (stimulus package) went for extending unemployment. It's a nice thing to do, but when you extend unemployment, you take the incentive away from people to go out and get a job. So it almost has a counter negative effect.



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