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Monday, July 25, 2011

Huffington: ‘The stimulus package failed’

Arianna Huffington: ‘The stimulus package failed’

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Yes, Arianna says the $787 stimulus package hasn't worked. And you'll never guess why! Go ahead, guess.

"During the online 'Green Room' segment of ABC's 'This Week' on Sunday, Huffington said

"The stimulus package failed because it was all over the map... It was not a targeted, clear jobs creation program."

I didn't know this was still questionable. Huffington argued:

“When you consider that infrastructure is crumbling and we have 20 percent of construction workers unemployed, surely there is something we can be doing.”

Well, that was precisely what, according to Obama, the stimulus $$ would be used for in large part - repairing crumbling infrastructure. So what happened?

#Would Obama's Infrastructure-Stimulus Proposal Spend Money in the ... www.newsweek.com/...Sep 8, 2010
#Critics to Obama: Spend the Stimulus Money Already - ABC News Jul 10, 2009
#New Obama plans: 'spend our way out' of downturn www.breitbart.com
#YouTube - Limbaugh: Where Did The Dead Spend Their Stimulus Money ‏ 4min - Oct 8, 2010

That's right. Almost all of it went to reward his friends, and create more strangling government.. EPA received more than $7 billion in stimulus funds. Most of it was directed to 4,687 projects, many of which purchased signs. And do tell me, when was the last time EPA created anything that did not undermine industry?

Why am I bothering?

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6 comments:

toadold said...: Perhaps one of the most famous make work projects of the FDR years was the Civilian Construction Corp. One cynical veteran of that program told he thanked the Lord that it became unnecessary and was shut down. I can't remember the exact wording but he said they regularly said the FDR prayer. "Our Father who art in Washington....
One problem with government make work projects is that they can become permanent. In Japan the central government slotted money for construction projects in rural provinces to keep that money flowing the provincial leadership had to keep coming up with projects. The results are that the primary job occupation the provinces is not farming ,manufacturing, or tourism but working for the construction companies. Also they were cutting the tops down to fill the valleys, damning every trickle of water they can find, and lining everything in between the damns with concrete beds. They've got roads to nowhere that have spider webs across them because of lack of traffic. As for tourism the scenery is pretty much encased in concrete. It is a pretty scam between construction companies, the central government, and the rural governments. I forgot the Yakuza is in with the construction companies as facilitators also. The tax paying voters on the other hand.....; 7/25/11, 3:06 PM
Anonymous said...: The EPA sign money would have been better spent printing tee shirts with "I am a job killing bureaucrat" for each EPA employee.
I would prefer "asshole and parasite" instead of "bureaucrat", but we want them to wear the tee shirt, after all.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick; 7/25/11, 3:15 PM
Anonymous said...: "Why am I bothering?", indeed. As you said earlier today, I too am tired of seeing some new insult every day. There's just too much.
mary; 7/25/11, 3:21 PM
Anonymous said...: mary, I'm with you. I've gone from disaproval to disgust to loathing to a visceral hatred of that infantile buffoon and his fellow travellers.
WV = behead. How appropriate.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick; 7/25/11, 3:37 PM
toadold said...: Ah yes that feeling of being nibbled to death by ducks, only they aren't ducks but knee walking turkeys, who poop over everything, squawk at you, peck at you, and don't have the brains to leave you alone, and yet expect us to feed and water them. We may be having an early Thanksgiving this year. We may have to compost the leftovers though.; 7/25/11, 5:11 PM
Anonymous said...: "The results are that the primary job occupation the provinces is not farming ,manufacturing, or tourism but working for the construction companies."

Come out to Jersey some time. Towns give huge breaks to developers to erect strip malls, promising extra revenue, that are later unaffordable due to taxes. Route 95/NJTP is one of the heaviest traveled roads in the country, The only problem is money is spent on BS work in lighter traveled areas than those which need it. Can't have dem supporters...I mean union workers do too much.
IrateIrishman; 7/26/11, 4:16 AM

Monday, July 25, 2011

Huffington: ‘The stimulus package failed’

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