FOXNews.com - Senators Confident They Have Votes to Lift Cuba Travel Ban

FOXNews.com - Senators Confident They Have Votes to Lift Cuba Travel Ban: "'The nearly 50-year embargo and travel ban restricting Americans' right to travel to Cuba has been a failure,' Dorgan said. 'The quickest way to bring democracy to Cuba is through travel and trade. Just as has been our policy with China, Vietnam and other communist countries, we should allow Americans to travel freely to Cuba.'"

FOXNews.com - Pelosi: Unemployment Checks Fastest Way to Create Jobs

FOXNews.com - Pelosi: Unemployment Checks Fastest Way to Create Jobs: "Talking to reporters, the House speaker was defending a jobless benefits extension against those who say it gives recipients little incentive to work. By her reasoning, those checks are helping give somebody a job.�

'It injects demand into the economy,' Pelosi said, arguing that when families have money to spend it keeps the economy churning. 'It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name.'"

Giving people money certainly helps the economy unless you consider the cost of getting that money -- then it hurts the economy.