States Report Stimulus Is Working
October 28th, 2009, 10:29 AM EDT
A USA Today review of 33 states and Puerto Rico shows that 388,000 jobs have been created or saved.
That total, based on a USA TODAY review of reports from 33 states and Puerto Rico, includes teachers, construction workers, and others whose jobs were funded by stimulus money awarded to states. The administration plans Friday to release reports from all 50 states, providing the broadest accounting yet of the stimulus plan’s impact.
Take the NYC/Washinton blinders off and look out into the real world.
This says it better …
http://slopeofhope.com/2009/10/obamas-job-creation-miracle.html
I read somewhere that federal withholding taxes have declined 20% this year. That reflects the bigger picture and says more than any other statistic.
Green shoots, my arse.
Rocky the Liberal Rottweiler Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
You didn’t need to post the link.
Just mention the title of the chart on that page “Obamas Job Creation Miracle” and we know exactly what we’re going to see.
And so authoritative! Wooooooo……..
anonymouse Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Here’s a better source …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/28/public-sees-a-tilted-play_n_337424.html
… save the bankers, the rest of us can eat cake?
October 28th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Heres a basic eco-101 lesson.. The stimulus package is expensive .Yes, that goes without saying. BUT, it’s owed to ourselves and keeps Americans working building American projects in..of all places..America. When you send everyone a check for three hundred bucks, it goes to a new TV and then to China
burqa Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
The righties live in fear that good things will happen to americans. They conservatives have doubled down on misery and are insistent that is the only thing Americans experience the next 3 -1/2 years.
They want to pretend that having the banking system collapse as well as the automobile industry would not have made things any wirse than they are now.
American prosperity is the chief feature of Republican Hell….
October 28th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Alan, wake up from your dream world and smell the damn coffee. Your premise that things could be worse only reinforces the fact that liberals are beginning to grasp at straws in their support of Obama policy which are actually failing miserably.
EricG Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
You need to wake up and smell the horse-poo your party left in place of a economy and the sinful insanity that your lord-and-master Bush gave us, two wars.
You people did this.
Bernie has blood on his hands and took part is the rape of the economy.
Now you all assume to step into the discussion and even to smear the current president.
Disgusting.
Take responsibility for your actions or get the hell out of my country!
October 28th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Luv, before declaring that we owe ourselves the money we spent on the stimulus you ought to check with China. The last I saw they own about 20% of our national debt which would be about 3-4 trillion dollars.
luv2lift48 Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
you completely missed my point..but if it makes you happy.. “Oh yes..I DID notice all those Chinease people repaving the turnpike”..There..happy? Oh and yes..the economic situation is so much worse then when George was prez..
October 28th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
The Stimulus is working?
You won’t hear that on FoxNews (GOP-TV).
October 28th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/home.aspx
Colmes’ regular declarations that “happy days are here again” is beginning to sound oddly familiar.
Mission accomplished?
The only real jobs saved have been the bankers’. Everyone else is still on the ropes but I hear real estate sales in the Hamptons are picking up as the Wall Street fat cats are once again flush with cash.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
A USA Today review of 33 states and Puerto Rico show that 388,000 jobs have been created or saved.
5,800 of those jobs were in Minnesota. The state put about 6000 kids to work during the summer. Cost ‘em $16.6 million.
Further, the White House estimated that they would create 66k jobs in Minnesota by now. Total so far? 35,000.
Not really what I would call a success.
Rocky the Liberal Rottweiler Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Minnesota doesn’t need jobs.
It’s got Michele Bachman.
John Galt Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Minnesota doesn’t need jobs.
Okay, so now we know you don’t care about Minnesota. How many other states out there have promises made to them by the White House that haven’t delivered?
anonymouse Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
The biggest problem with the stimulus package was its size. It wasn’t big enough. It should have been twice as large as it was and it should have been directed 100% internally at people who need the help instead of swerving off into “tax cut/free-market/globalist” land.
“John Galt” policies got us into this mess. “John Galt” stood in the way of the recovery plan and failing its defeat you only managed to throttle it down and direct too many of its limited benefits to your betterment instead of the nation’s.
“John Galt” is still the problem, not the solution. You made the mess and now that someone else is finally mopping the floor your only contribution is to whine we aren’t mopping fast enough.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
“While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed through the worst — and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There has been no significant bank or industrial failure. That danger, too, is safely behind us.”
Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, May 1, 1930
October 28th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
“Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.”
Herbert Hoover, responding to a delegation requesting a public works program to help speed the recovery, June 1930.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I welcome some data to sink my teeth into because the current field of knowledge I have says this is a jobless recovery which is not recovery. It’s just getting a lot money into the hands of people who never hire anyone and never do anything but give themselves a pay-raise (Wall Street).
burqa Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
How many recoveries can you find where unemployment tracked right with other economic upturns?
Wait for a year or so, then declare a “jobless recovery.”
The term entered the popular lexicon in 1992 when unemployment continued to be high long after the recession ended, and that one was not as severe as this one.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Well this must all be just propaganda from the ..what was it he called it? Oh yes..”the state run drive by media” Poor Rush.. As we all remember him muttering over and over again the day Obama took office..”I hope he fails” He must be choking in his own bile.
burqa Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
He’s America’s anchorman!
Conservatives have hitched their wagon to misery and want nothing else for Americans, because then Obama would get the credit, and they have their priorities.
The fun part for the rest of us is the conservatives have no idea how they ended up investing in disaster and how Limpbaugh, Manatee and LeFin boxed them in to where they wish America ill….
October 28th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
And somewhere Donovan Mcnabb and Michael J. Fox are doing the “high five”..
I love it
October 30th, 2009 at 11:31 am