Quote of the day

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY):

“There’s sort of an anomaly here — people want us to do stuff on jobs but they don’t want to see a lot of government spending."

One sentence which perfectly captures everything wrong with left-wing economic thinking. As Andy Roth of the Club for Growth comments:

Is Schumer that dense? Where's the anomaly? Economists could probably rattle off dozens of "cost-free" ways to increase jobs. Reduce regulations, pass free trade agreements, kill the minimum wage. Of course, all of these ideas would reduce the size of government so Democrats are reflexively against them. And that is why Congress is going to pass another ugly, anti-growth bill...yet again.

Dead on.