OK, the Republicans are saying they'd love to vote for unemployment benefits, but those doggone Spendocrats just won't cut spending to pay for it because their secret evil plan is to drive up taxes because taxes are like heroin to us.
And the Dems are reading Krugman (who, unlike any Repub member of Congress, has a Nobel Fucking Prize in Economics), and rightly concluding that however right balancing the budget might be in normal times, right now doing so would be 1937 all over again.
And Angela Merkel, who really should know better...
...is even now at the G20 turning down Obama's request to take Krugman's advice instead of the Rethuglicans'.
What to do????????
Pay for the unemployment benefits by closing 1 US military base in Germany.
Who are we defending Germans from?
Why should we stimulate Germany's economy with our own deficit spending?
Have our US soldiers and airmen (uh, airpeople?) come home and spend their payrolls in some US swing state with a shitload of electoral college votes, preferably where there's also an especially close US senate race in 2012, instead of in Bavaria or Lower Saxony.
And call it the American Marshall Plan 2010 Down Payment Act.