It’s hard to imagine, but this AP article via Yahoo News FACT CHECK: Examining Obama’s job, pork claims , By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer Calvin Woodward, Associated Press Writer – Tue Feb 10, is not very kind to Pres. Erkle.
WASHINGTON – At least Route 31 is a road to somewhere. President Barack Obama had it both ways when he promoted his stimulus plan in Indiana and later at a prime-time news conference. He bragged in Indiana about getting Congress to produce a package with no pork, yet boasted it will do good things for a Hoosier highway and a downtown overpass, just the kind of local projects lawmakers lard into big spending bills.
No Pork, that is joke #1. The Stimulus Bill is one big Pork Package. Bridge To Nowhere qnyone?
Obama’s sales pitch on the enormous package he wants Congress to make law has sizzle as well as steak. He’s projecting job creation numbers that may be impossible to verify and glossing over some ethical problems that bedeviled his team.
They expect us to believe that they put this thing together since November 4th, that is joke n#2. This piece of crap has every pork meal that the liberal demoncrats have been putting together for years. The Messiah has not added anything to this bill, he only knows what parts of it contain.
This thing was put together by Pelosi and Reid and their mignions. They are using The Chosen One to pass all of the crap they have wanted to impose on us for years, if not decades. All he cares about is that it is spending, a lot of spending. The only way he can get what he wants is to have the printing presses on steroids printing new money. He has to drive the worth of the dollar as far down as possible. He is sliding Socialism into America under a stelth blanket.
OBAMA: “Not a single pet project,” he told the news conference. “Not a single earmark.”
THE FACTS: There are no “earmarks,” as they are usually defined, inserted by lawmakers in the bill. Still, some of the projects bear the prime characteristics of pork — tailored to benefit specific interests or to have thinly disguised links to local projects.
Erkle either flat out lied, or he is truly one of the dombest people on the planet.
OBAMA: “My bottom line is, are we creating 4 million jobs?” he told the news conference.
He said in Indiana, “The plan that we’ve put forward will save or create 3 million to 4 million jobs over the next two years.”
THE FACTS: Job creation projections are uncertain even in stable times, and some of the economists relied on by Obama in making his forecast acknowledge a great deal of uncertainty in their numbers.
The president’s own economists, in a report prepared last month, stated, “It should be understood that that all of the estimates presented in this memo are subject to significant margins of error.”
Beyond that, it’s unlikely the nation will ever know how many jobs are saved as a result of the stimulus. While it’s clear when jobs are abolished, there’s no economic gauge that tracks job preservation.
There is no stipulation in this bill to have any jobs they are lucky enough to create or save will go to citizens. Plus the US govenment is forcing GM to cut ten thousand non union jobs. That is a cute pay back to the union support.. If you perform and move up through the ladder of advancement, they are saying “Screw You!”
OBAMA: “We also inherited the most profound economic emergency since the Great Depression.”
That is joke #3. The reason we are in this mess is because of the Demoncrats, Frank and Dodd lying and pushing Freddie and Fannie down our throats with the help of lamestream hype. They managed to sucker Bush into signing the bank bailout, which never should have happened, shame on Bush.
THE FACTS: This could turn out to be the case. But as bad as the economic numbers are, the unemployment figures have not reached the levels of the early 1980s, let alone the 1930s — yet. A total of 598,000 payroll jobs vanished in January — the most in nearly 35 years — and the unemployment rate jumped to 7.6 from 7.2 percent the month before. The most recent high was 7.8 percent in June 1992.
And the jobless rate was 10.8 percent in November and December 1982. Unemployment in the Great Depression ranged for several years from 25 percent to close to 30 percent.
Give Erkle and the Demoncrats a little time qnd those numbers could be small potatoes.
I just heard that the Senate passed this piece of crap with the help of three Rino’s Specter, Snowe and Collins, a pox on them for bucklling under to the pressure. I’m a little surprised that Rino McCain did not vote for it.
We are now under Socialized Medicine, now this new huge burocrocy they have created will now decide who gets treatment and what kind. At my age and health issues in the past, they will deny me treatment because my treatments have gone over 2 million so far.
It is vital to Erkle and the Dems, for this recession to turn into a full blown depression. What the free market would most likely have fixed is now up to massive money printing that will cause inflation like we have never seen. I thought Carter was bad, this bunch of fools make Carter look like a conservative.
I’m going to clean my guns and stuff some money in the mattress.