Posted on 02/18/2010 12:35:33 PM PST by SmithL
Hey Scott Brown. You may be the truck-driving new senator from Massachusetts, but Mayor Gavin Newsom says he can teach you a few things about job creation.
Brown, you may recall, made the comment earlier this month at his first Senate news conference that President Obama's stimulus program "didn't create one new job."
That's not what the Congressional Budget Office says, estimating the recovery program saved or created 600,000 to 1.6 million jobs in the third quarter of 2009.
"You can not, in good faith, make the argument that his (stimulus program) has not created a job," Newsom said Wednesday on the sidelines of a press briefing marking the one-year anniversary of the stimulus program. "That's an offensive statement. It's laughable on the surface." Newsom, saying he was "happy to point out thousands of people in this city that directly have been impacted, that have jobs today... because of the stimulus program," then offered to do just that.
"Any of those Republicans that want to challenge me on that, bring it on," Newsom said. "Bring on Scott Brown. Tell him to come out to San Francisco if he wants an education on the stimulus program."
We're still waiting to hear back from Brown's staff on Newsom's offer.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
The weasel words “saved or created” in there invalidates the whole thing, since it is essentially impossible to verify “saved” jobs as being saved by the stimulus (if they were saved at all).
All that product that Gavin’s using on his hair is clearly leaching into his brain.
Newsom just wants Senator Brown to come to San Fran so he can make a pass at him.
Paging Chuck DeVore
Brown, you may recall, made the comment earlier this month at his first Senate news conference that President Obama’s stimulus program “didn’t create one new job.”
That’s not what the Congressional Budget Office says, estimating the recovery program saved or created 600,000 to 1.6 million jobs in the third quarter of 2009.
It;s really easy to figure. Even a liberal or “progressive”....SCREW IT. SOCIALIST Can figger this one out.
What was unemployment the day before Barak swore the oath?
What is it NOW?
Thank you.
Why not ask Bayh the same question
The best one can say, about a “stimulus” program financed by debt, is that it shifts some jobs from the future to the present. When the debt is repaid (if ever), that will depress the future economy.
Maybe he should take up this issue with Evan Bayh.
After all, he’s been closer to the action than Brown and 3000 miles closer than Newsom.
“Tell him to come out to San Francisco if he wants an education on the stimulus program.”
Only a bathhousehomozombiedemorobot could say that with a straight face.
Newsom, tell us please, who got or kept these jobs? I think we’re going to be looking at temp contractors (some of which got scrod out of longer term unemployment benefits because of it) and assorted gummit clerk types. But none of us little people.
Has there been a net job gain or loss during the period? How does one quantify “jobs saved”? A liberal invention if I’ve ever seen one, yet millions of people will buy into it, hook, line and sinker.
The communist Obamanation sucks, big time.
Does the sight of Scott Brown’s truck make him horny or sumfin?
Ok, Gavin, I will give you that the stimulus created A job.
“A” job. I can believe it may have created “a” job. Meaning one.
For everyone else, we’ve just been plain “jobbed”.
“still waiting to hear back from Brown’s staff”
I don’t think Brown wants to find out.
Knew I should have bookmarked the article I saw yesterday; now I can’t find it. It showed how many hundreds of thousands of jobs had been lost since the stimulus bill was signed. It showed payroll figures for number of jobs in Feb 2009 and Feb 2010. It showed the figures for manufacturing, along with total workforce and unemployed persons. By all measures, it was clear that we have lost over a million jobs under the stimulus in spite of the fact that the stimulus did appear to help create a few hundred thousand GOVERNMENT jobs.
If you were to ask the CBO precisely where they got those job numbers from, it would become abundantly clear. They got them from the same place that Mayor Newsom’s favored constituents spend most of their waking hours thinking about.
how many of those jobs were U.S. jobs?
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