Posted on 10/13/2014 9:01:08 PM PDT by grandpa jones
Remember 2009?
The Obama regime promised a miracle economic recovery if only Congress would pass their mammoth economic stimulus bill. Shovel-ready jobs. Green, renewable energy. Smart Policies. Yada, yada, yada.
This occurred to me as I saw some of the new Democrat ads blaming the GOP for Ebola. “Cuts Kill,” or something.
Some $80 BILLION in the stimulus package was devoted to green energy, much of which was directed to campaign donors and other friends of the regime.
In short order, many of those same companies began to fail. As Ashe Schow notes:
So far, 34 companies that were offered federal support from taxpayers are faltering — either having gone bankrupt or laying off workers or heading for bankruptcy.
If you’re keeping score: almost $8 Billion of the 2009 Obama stimulus bill went to campaign friendly green energy companies which are either failing, or in bankruptcy.
That’s enough to fund the CDC entirely for 15 months.
(Excerpt) Read more at nukegingrich.com ...
And the media never, ever, followed up on the impacts of Porkulus. They never investigated any problems, or reported on problem companies, except for Solyndra. But even in the case of Solyndra, there was no blame administered to Obama for passing Porkulus or steering money to Solyndra.
Which reinforces the idea that nothing is ever the fault of Obama or his administration or his policies. Everything can and must be blamed on problems inherited from previous presidents, or some other outside force in the world. Even a bad snowstorm in the northeast can be blamed for pulling down all of the national economic indicators. They must find some reason for things happening, other than the policies of Obama not working.
Bfl
The whole purpose of shoveling porkulus was for those companies to work for a short while, hide all the money then file for bankruptcy. The money would be used for mainly one thing — keep the Democrat Party machine well oiled.
Remember when Obama was at some Event and an open mike caught him joking about the Shovel Ready Jobs that weren’t, yuck yuck?
Haven’t seen that little video in Years.
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