# Maxine Waters Says Budget Impasse Could Cost 170 Million Jobs! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 1, 2013, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxine-waters-says-budget-impasse-could-cost-170-million-jobs/651701 "2013-03-01T05:26:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxine-waters-says-budget-impasse-could-cost-170-million-jobs/651701/1 "2013-03-01T05:26:18Z")
Really? I am trying to understand how someone as stupid as this could ever be elected to Congress. Oh, I do remember her comments about the Mars Rover (how it could see the flag…planted on the moon. As always, people have the right to be stupid (SOS John Kerry says so), but Waters is a bit extreme. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxine-waters-says-budget-impasse-could-cost-170-million-jobs/651701/2 "2013-03-01T06:07:30Z")
Dumber than a bag of hair. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxine-waters-says-budget-impasse-could-cost-170-million-jobs/651701/3 "2013-03-01T09:18:05Z")
Here’s Waters quoting what Bernanke said about this number: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JfB5X2RzuCI/hqdefault.jpg "Maxine Waters: Over 170 Million Jobs Could Be Lost Due to Sequestration") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfB5X2RzuCI) Does anybody have an accurate account of what Bernanke said? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxine-waters-says-budget-impasse-could-cost-170-million-jobs/651701/4 "2013-03-01T09:22:06Z")
If you’re marvelling at stupid people elected to Congress, just go read the Stupid Republican Idea of the Day thread - the Tea Party folks are a gold mine for this sort of crap. As for Maxine Waters, would it have killed you to provide a link or some context for the remark? Since most of the links I found were along the lines of the WorldNutDaily, [here’s an actual clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfB5X2RzuCI) of her making the claim. But yeah, clearly she’s spectacularly misunderstood something Bernanke said and has failed to sense check it before opening her yap about it. ETA: Ninja’d by WW! ---
**Author:** ![FavreCo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a698b9/32.png) [@FavreCo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FavreCo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxine-waters-says-budget-impasse-could-cost-170-million-jobs/651701/5 "2018-06-26T23:21:22Z")
This low IQ, old bag is a ginormous walking pile of shit. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxine-waters-says-budget-impasse-could-cost-170-million-jobs/651701/6 "2018-06-27T02:09:38Z")
NOTE TO ALL: This thread is a zombie. Congresswoman Waters made this mistake in 2013. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxine-waters-says-budget-impasse-could-cost-170-million-jobs/651701/7 "2018-06-27T02:45:46Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > NOTE TO ALL: This thread is a zombie. Congresswoman Waters made this mistake in 2013. But she’s still black. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maxine-waters-says-budget-impasse-could-cost-170-million-jobs/651701/8 "2018-06-27T03:31:12Z")
**Moderator Action** > [@FavreCo](#): > > This low IQ, old bag is a ginormous walking pile of shit. This is better suited to the Pit. Since this is old enough to no longer be relevant, let’s put this poor zombie back in his grave. Thread closed. If Maxine has done something a bit more recent that anyone wishes to share, feel free to start a new thread.