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Will Obama, Pelosi, and Reid admit that their shovel ready construction stimulus didn’t create any new jobs?

February 27, 2010 by  
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100111/ap_on_bi_ge/us_stimulus_unemployment

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26 Responses to “Will Obama, Pelosi, and Reid admit that their shovel ready construction stimulus didn’t create any new jobs?”
  1. RockIt says:

    no they will just shovel more bs from one pile to another pile

  2. Right Wing Extremist says:

    No

    And even if we were to accept the number of Jobs they claim to have created,it adds up to about $400,000 per job.So either way that adds up to spectacular failure.

    RWE

  3. Jeff says:

    They’ll admit that about the time they admit the stimulus bill is a slush fund. NEVER

  4. Nikki says:

    We didn’t put ENOUGH money into it…we need ANOTHER stimulous…we’re gonna keep putting money into it till it worx!

    or we go broke.

  5. Your Bitter Half says:

    So all the construction just happened on its own? No people were employed at all? When people make statements like that, it just hurts their credibility.

  6. HEAD M&M IN CHARGE says:

    no they will never say that, but they want another one because the first one saved america from the brink lol

  7. Stephanie =( @ corporate fascism says:

    I seriously doubt it, they haven’t even spent all the money from that stimulus so they will probably just use that as excuse.

    They just had some dim witted “financial expert” on The Today Show a few minutes ago spewing that we need more stimulus money otherwise we are never going to create any jobs. Then he said the stock market is doing better so that indicates the economy is improving. Clearly the man is a dolt.

  8. CaptainFreon says:

    They will never admit to any wrong doing, they spew lies to support the political reward fest, back room deals that were generated with that spendulus bill. They are evil.

  9. Dina W says:

    Now be honest…

    I know for a fact that the Stimulus bill created a “negative” 3 million jobs.

  10. Gus says:

    Politicians never admit responsibility and errors. Obama said the buck stops here and then went on to blame the underwear bomber on Bush. Obama…what a joke.

  11. lrd00a says:

    Pelosi? Admit anything? She’s the one who was telling us that we have the most open legislative process EVER, blah, blah, blah, lie, lie, lie.

    The solution? Throw more money at what didn’t work the first time.

  12. rrm38 says:

    No. It wasn’t supposed to do anything in 2009 anyway. That was just hype intended to garner public support. Wait for it. You’ll see tons of cash dumped out there from the stimulus in 2010, as it was designed to do. They want the economy to look as good as they can for the mid terms. It’s all designed to look good around elections. I don’t know what’s worse… that they plan things like this so obviously or that ignorant people actually buy it and vote for them.

  13. lilly4 says:

    They want admit it, and there is no jobs, they used that money to pay off and pay back their campaign supports. Pork was also in that stimulus for their pet projects. . It is a big rip off by these people, they are thieves.

  14. wakingdreamz says:

    They will just blame Bush.

  15. 63vette says:

    They say that the stimulus created or saved several hundred thousand jobs at $400,000 per job.

    Just think how many jobs could have been created or saved if that had gone to many of the small businesses around the country. Instead of all the businesses going bankrupt and out of business, we could probably have created or saved 2 or 3 million jobs.

    Those three have to be the worst of any people we have in Washington representing us.

  16. Brandy says:

    WASHINGTON – Ten months into President Barack Obama’s first economic stimulus plan, a surge in spending on roads and bridges has had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, an Associated Press analysis has found.

    Spend a lot or spend nothing at all, it didn’t matter, the AP analysis showed: Local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless of how much stimulus money Washington poured out for transportation, raising questions about Obama’s argument that more road money would address an “urgent need to accelerate job growth.”

    the only shovel ready jobs they really created were thier press agents .here in florida obama claims to have saved 92,000 jobs in the school system he didnt save one all the money went to give raises and they claimed that saved jobs because people were quiting to take higher paying jobs ,thet twist the truth every chance they get

  17. Micheala3-#1 Fan of WDPLM?3 says:

    Which is exactly why rewarding irresponsible corrupt behavior with bail out money is a bad idea.

    From your article: “…. it doesn’t seem like it’s created very many. It may well be employing lots of people but those two things are very different.”

    “Obama’s stimulus is paying the salaries of dozens of workers, but local officials said the unemployment rate continues to rise and is expected to top 20 percent soon. The new money for road projects isn’t enough to offset the thousands of local jobs lost from the closing of manufacturing plants and automotive parts suppliers.”

  18. ChiGirl says:

    Yeah right, when Gore is ready to admit GW is a money-making cow he is still milking millions from.

  19. Paul Grass™ says:

    No they will lie their way around any admissions of truth

  20. TERRY BRO says:

    It seems that more jobs have been created by Mother Nature, than by Obama, this year.

  21. rsc3033 says:

    I drive a semi throughout the USA, and when I seen the signs Obama erected on all the projects I have been driving through for years, I was made sick.

    Bush and Clinton both allocated billions of dollars in spending into the budget, of which there is still money being used from that allocation until 2012.

    Obama administration taking credit for something they obviously did not do, appals me. It told me immediately after the election what kind of people these are.

    Now, they want to put more money, that is fine, we need it. I drive hundreds of miles a week on roads and bridges, hoping that this will not be the bridge that falls out from under me. You can spend whatever you want on roads, and never get every bridge, every tunnel safe enough to guarantee safety, but it helps if we try.

    That being said, I do not think it creates that many jobs, because the contractor bidding must be a union company, and must use American products only. This eliminates 90% of the small companies, and supports Obama’s union buddies only.

  22. raymond says:

    Admission of Guilt is only good for the soul if you have a soul to begin with.

  23. Dem Stuck at Top of Staircase says:

    no, but that is correct

  24. How do you like me now? says:

    The Jobs will appear in Sept . just before the election. You won’t be able to go any where without tripping over a shovel ready sign and project…………The Shame is that this election Ploy has cost taxpayersmillions more by losing there homes when they could be working now if the Jobs were created as a real people stimulus instead of a Democrat Campaign Stimulus!

  25. buckeye_12207 says:

    It’s not over yet, is it ? So isn’t it too early to say nothing happened with it ? Besides, according to your source (where it quoted Ray La Hood), “The transportation construction industry” is being maintained exclusively by stimulus spending. That’s not nothing.

    buckeye

  26. Ron R says:

    seems that the stimulus and bail outs “saved” mostly financial jobs and government jobs……..we didn’t bail out the banks..we biled out the paychecks of the ceo’s and top officials….

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