The Stimulus was a lie
This is an update to this post
Brooks: Hey, Obama told me shovel-ready jobs didn’t exist last year "When can we expect the media to run with 'Obama lied and the economy died'?" "By the way, here’s the administration still claiming progress through shovel-ready jobs on June 17, 2010, and on the first anniversary of Porkulus. In December 2009, Obama insisted that he was ensuring that shovel-ready jobs were actually shovel-ready"
Tax, Spend, and Shovel "Back in early 2009, President-elect Barack Obama was asked on Meet the Press how quickly he could create jobs. Oh, very fast, he said. He’d already consulted with a gaggle of governors, and 'all of them have projects that are shovel-ready.'"
"In interviews, job summits, and press conferences, it was shovel-ready this, shovel-ready that. Search the White House website for the term 'shovel-ready' and you’ll drown in press releases about all the shovels ready to shove shovel-ready projects"
"In fact, he still thinks he got all the policies right. Baker writes that Obama is 'supremely sure that he is right,' it’s just that the president feels he didn’t market himself well."
"This is an old progressive lament: Our product is perfect, we just didn’t sell it convincingly to the rubes."
"Meanwhile, Washington is now spending 23 percent more than it did two years ago."
"Maybe it’s unfair for people to think Obama is just another tax-and-spend Democrat. After all, some tax-and-spend Democrats are actually competent at it."
"When trying to build it" means they knew from the start they had none. How many times has he said the "shovel ready" LIE since they spent the trillion dollars, more in one pen stroke than in eight years of war with Iraq? He lied to the nation for a year on what should have been the most important legislation of the first half of his term, all as he promised jobs were his concern.
Were you or someone you love looking forward to those shovel ready jobs, or waiting for the "stimulus" built and sold on the speed of it getting you or a loved one a job over the last year? Because the Democrat regime, apparently from Obama to our Congressional rulers to Democrat Governors knew it was a lie all along.
It was a slush fund for the friends of the Democrat Party. Don't hold your breath waiting for the average Democrat to show the integrity to criticize Obama and the Democrat ruling regime for lying to them for a year, a year of false hope. Their only question for their masters is why they aren't far left enough.
This is further proof, to me complete proof, that the Cloward-Piven strategy is their plan. It proves they are deliberately digging us all into debt. That was the only goal of this LIE of a "stimulus" other than throwing a trillion dollars of your grandchildren's money at Democrat power bases. You can't sell me on incompetence when he says as they were building it they couldn't find the very projects the Communisty Organizer in Chief promised from then and for a year.
It is further proof that they do not care about creating jobs. How does anyone claim they care about job creation when they spend a trillion on stimulus they know isn't stimulus, and while claiming food stamps and welfare are the solutions? They want a nation of dependents.
In light of those two facts, is there still any non-Liberal who doubts health care won't be single payer, socialized medicine within a few years, as Obama has said is his desire, and from that to further control our lives? Is there any non-Liberal still so clueless or delusional as to believe "cap-and-trade" won't be a direct assault to raise our taxes, pay into Democrat coffers and further control all of our lives?
Meanwhile, a note on the Republicans for any non-Liberal, especially GOP readers.
Given we just found out the NYT admits they knew for a year that Obama was lying regarding a trillion dollar piece of legislation the entire Democrat Party sold as the solution to our economic woes, where is the national ad campaign hitting every television screen in the nation? I want this Brooks quote followed by OBama saying "shovel ready" a dozen times to hit prime time. Most people get their news from the lockstep Liberal state media so probably won't hear much about this, at least without massive spin. Where is the GOP screaming this from the rooftops as Democrats scream every criticism they can find or make up?
The answer is the GOP is run by Ruling Class Republicans who are little better than the statist left, all of whom on both sides think they are royalty deserving of rule. They expect to kick back and gain power through disgust at the Democrats.
How many more seats could they win if they actually fought? If you are in the GOP maybe you should ask. Right now. They heard you when they were about to pass "immigration reform". It couldn't hurt.
If the GOP does gain enough seats to halt this global socialist statist train, the time is well behind us to start putting their feet to the fire. Literally. Hopefully with a barrel of hot tar and a bucket of feathers nearby when they are lazy.
The every day Democrat is incapable of the integrity and ethics to demand truth or positive results from their leadership. This is obvious. They want to be the rulers or the ruled just so long as they can steal from those they envy. That means it's up to non-Liberals to hammer the GOP non-stop now and going forward.
He lied. For a year. About the economy during the worst recession since the Great Depression. What else are they lying about?
Brooks: Hey, Obama told me shovel-ready jobs didn’t exist last year "When can we expect the media to run with 'Obama lied and the economy died'?" "By the way, here’s the administration still claiming progress through shovel-ready jobs on June 17, 2010, and on the first anniversary of Porkulus. In December 2009, Obama insisted that he was ensuring that shovel-ready jobs were actually shovel-ready"
Tax, Spend, and Shovel "Back in early 2009, President-elect Barack Obama was asked on Meet the Press how quickly he could create jobs. Oh, very fast, he said. He’d already consulted with a gaggle of governors, and 'all of them have projects that are shovel-ready.'"
"In interviews, job summits, and press conferences, it was shovel-ready this, shovel-ready that. Search the White House website for the term 'shovel-ready' and you’ll drown in press releases about all the shovels ready to shove shovel-ready projects"
"In fact, he still thinks he got all the policies right. Baker writes that Obama is 'supremely sure that he is right,' it’s just that the president feels he didn’t market himself well."
"This is an old progressive lament: Our product is perfect, we just didn’t sell it convincingly to the rubes."
"Meanwhile, Washington is now spending 23 percent more than it did two years ago."
"Maybe it’s unfair for people to think Obama is just another tax-and-spend Democrat. After all, some tax-and-spend Democrats are actually competent at it."
"When trying to build it" means they knew from the start they had none. How many times has he said the "shovel ready" LIE since they spent the trillion dollars, more in one pen stroke than in eight years of war with Iraq? He lied to the nation for a year on what should have been the most important legislation of the first half of his term, all as he promised jobs were his concern.
Were you or someone you love looking forward to those shovel ready jobs, or waiting for the "stimulus" built and sold on the speed of it getting you or a loved one a job over the last year? Because the Democrat regime, apparently from Obama to our Congressional rulers to Democrat Governors knew it was a lie all along.
It was a slush fund for the friends of the Democrat Party. Don't hold your breath waiting for the average Democrat to show the integrity to criticize Obama and the Democrat ruling regime for lying to them for a year, a year of false hope. Their only question for their masters is why they aren't far left enough.
This is further proof, to me complete proof, that the Cloward-Piven strategy is their plan. It proves they are deliberately digging us all into debt. That was the only goal of this LIE of a "stimulus" other than throwing a trillion dollars of your grandchildren's money at Democrat power bases. You can't sell me on incompetence when he says as they were building it they couldn't find the very projects the Communisty Organizer in Chief promised from then and for a year.
It is further proof that they do not care about creating jobs. How does anyone claim they care about job creation when they spend a trillion on stimulus they know isn't stimulus, and while claiming food stamps and welfare are the solutions? They want a nation of dependents.
In light of those two facts, is there still any non-Liberal who doubts health care won't be single payer, socialized medicine within a few years, as Obama has said is his desire, and from that to further control our lives? Is there any non-Liberal still so clueless or delusional as to believe "cap-and-trade" won't be a direct assault to raise our taxes, pay into Democrat coffers and further control all of our lives?
Meanwhile, a note on the Republicans for any non-Liberal, especially GOP readers.
Given we just found out the NYT admits they knew for a year that Obama was lying regarding a trillion dollar piece of legislation the entire Democrat Party sold as the solution to our economic woes, where is the national ad campaign hitting every television screen in the nation? I want this Brooks quote followed by OBama saying "shovel ready" a dozen times to hit prime time. Most people get their news from the lockstep Liberal state media so probably won't hear much about this, at least without massive spin. Where is the GOP screaming this from the rooftops as Democrats scream every criticism they can find or make up?
The answer is the GOP is run by Ruling Class Republicans who are little better than the statist left, all of whom on both sides think they are royalty deserving of rule. They expect to kick back and gain power through disgust at the Democrats.
How many more seats could they win if they actually fought? If you are in the GOP maybe you should ask. Right now. They heard you when they were about to pass "immigration reform". It couldn't hurt.
If the GOP does gain enough seats to halt this global socialist statist train, the time is well behind us to start putting their feet to the fire. Literally. Hopefully with a barrel of hot tar and a bucket of feathers nearby when they are lazy.
The every day Democrat is incapable of the integrity and ethics to demand truth or positive results from their leadership. This is obvious. They want to be the rulers or the ruled just so long as they can steal from those they envy. That means it's up to non-Liberals to hammer the GOP non-stop now and going forward.
He lied. For a year. About the economy during the worst recession since the Great Depression. What else are they lying about?