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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: In 2009 Rep. Eric Cantor co-signs a letter of support for a grant application to the Department of Transportation for a high speed railway program because it will provide “much needed new jobs.”

Notable because this letter is bookmarked by Rep. Cantor’s comments like, “What we see in this budget, frankly, is an attempt, again, to try and stimulate the economy through government expenditure. And, you know, at best what that can do is redistribute wealth. It can’t create jobs; it can’t create wealth. We’ve got to get back to focusing on job creation and creating prosperity,” as Cantor said on ABC’s This Week in March 2009, or, “Government doesn’t create jobs and build wealth; entrepreneurs, risk takers and private businesses do,” as he wrote in the book Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders later in 2010.

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   It’s a tough thing to create jobs out of nothing. Government grants and bank loans are given to entrepreneurs and risk...

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   More than a little bit hypocritical, given this:...(from Letters Reveal

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    Politicians are always being so quality.

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    This is excellent. I’ve been saying forever we need something like this.

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    Puh-leeze. Birmingham, too, is not far from Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis, the beach, or the mountains. I would love to...

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    A little late to the game Newsweek. Still important.

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    YES. This country needs high speed railways. Seriously.

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    Government can’t create jobs, except when it makes Republicans look good!

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    Oh snap.

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    I think a high speed railway would totally change the game in America. My boyfriend and I talk about this constantly- it...

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    ahahah whata hypocrite

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    Cantor is such a hypocritical, lying ******************** politician.

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    Notable because this letter is bookmarked by Rep. Cantor’s comments like, “What we see in this budget, frankly, is an...

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