And we are seeing this now with the stimulus package.

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With a recovery package of this scale comes a responsibility to assure every taxpayer that we are being careful with the money they work so hard to earn.

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What are the questions that we should be thinking about in the weeks ahead in sort of evaluating this bailout package and what impact it's going to have?

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So we're going to be putting -- Harry and I are working now on a jobs package for this year that's designed not -- it's no longer designed to grow the economy.

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And I think that there was an opportunity to do this with this recovery package because as I said, although there are some politicians who are arguing that we don't need a stimulus, there are very few economists who are making that argument.

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So there's money in this package to make sure that as we try to get the economy back on track, that there are resources for schools and for kids who are headed to college.

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