The Democrats' proposal is more effective. I might quibble on some of the details, but it's completely focused on the short term.

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In 1993 we had an economy coming out of recession, we had unsustainable budget deficits in the projections and we had a budget package which people were afraid would dampen the recovery -- but it didn't. It had the opposite effect.

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The bulk of the resources [in the plan] are irrelevant to the current employment situation; they don't take effect until later.

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