GOP: 'Where are the jobs?' from big fed spending

AP / Yahoo ^ | June 27, 2009 | Will Lester

[Need4Truth]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans concerned about the Obama administration's big spending on economic stimulus, energy and health care are asking, "Where are the jobs?"

[Need4Truth]

Hard hitting stuff by Boehner. Keep asking, keep asking, keep asking. Maybe it will sink in.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

there’s a huge surge in new jobs. They happen to all be for hire resume writers.

[Dr. Ursus]

The Dems just throw out numbers and the media never calls them on it!

[cripplecreek]

Listening to Boehner yesterday I got the distinct impression that there will be jobs but they’ll all be bearucrats and inspectors.

[P.O.E.]

I’m guessing there’s jobs (or at least scads of overtime) at:

Federal Reserve Note printing plants.

Wheelbarrow and shovel importing (items used to dole out said Fed Reserve notes and to silence critics)

Socialism 101 classes (from European schools, preferably)

Velvet rope installers (to give the party faithful preferential entry to all government programs, such as health care, new car purchases, mortgages, credit cards, etc.)

I’m sure there’s plenty more, and more to come

[Concho]

If you think that there are any jobs out there, just go try to find one. If you are not a minority, female, live in a city and suck up to democrap politicos, you are not going to get near a job. Oh, try being more than 42 years old and get a govt job, it aint gonna happen. Remember, the hiring is done by those who are already in there, and you aint one of them, and furthermore, you aint gonna become one of them. After all, you have to work to pay taxes to pay for their $100,000+ per year jobs.

[tioga]

somebody somewhere is making a killing on kneepads......

[cripplecreek]

I especially like the fact that if you’re over 50 and lose your job the government will conduct a study. LOL

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Obama's stimulus plan reminds me of a man who upon losing his job decides to take his family on an expensive vacation to cheer them up.

After it's all over, there are only memories...and credit card bills.

I never cared for Larry Summers but thought that, as an economist, he was familiar with the concept of "spending multiplier effect." For example, some spending has a ripple effect on the economy in that it leads to growth. Other spending is like tossing quarters into the fountain.

In any stimulus plan, a savvy economist knows that all stimulus ideas need to be ranked with the highest being those which have the greatest "multiplier effect."

Economies always differ given their current state of atrophy and renewal, and the stimulus ideas and their ranking must be tailored to the specific economy at hand.

After all is said and done, the stimulus goes to those ideas which have the greatest positive impact on the economy.

The best and easiest way to make sure stimulus reaches the most productive and economically powerful ideas is to direct it to those economic activities that are currently most profitable and productive (i.e. those that are paying the greatest taxes)...hence tax rate cuts usually are the best delivery system for this process because they focuses stimulus on those enterprises (corporate and individual) that are most economically potent and sound.

[Carismar]

Excellent comment.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Thx!

[knarf]

From what I understand, nothing will happen untill 2010 and 2012 .. the election years.

Being a Christian, I have a world view based on spiritual knowledgs/values, and one scene is always with me;

When Satan appears before God in the book of Job, he accuses God of overly protecting Job and God allows Satan to do whatever he wants to Job, but he cannot take his life.

In my understanding of Revelation, there will be Anti-Christ which will at first be like a God to all people and half way through a seven year time of Tribulation, reveal his true, evil nature.

What I see is ... Evil will appear good and benevolent at first and the people will buy it, but evil will always be revealed for what it is and the people will die.

zero is so likeable now (to the blind) but will be revealed as the evil that destroys America.

Now, don't misunderstand, I am not saying zero is Anti-Christ, I AM saying he has learned the tactic of appearing to be a good guy (like with Job, he never actually did anything to Job, himself ... but he had free reign all around Job), and will be revealed for the evil that he is.

[FrankR]

"The Dems just throw out numbers and the media never calls them on it! "

The reality we must all face is that the press is not there for us, the press is one of them.

Therefore, we must all go around the media.

Contacting Washington seems to do no good, but, it does. Congress being contacted to the point of shutting down the email servers and phone lines, and with millions of snail mail letters, starts to take notice.

The left is mesmerized by "chants"...you know, like "hope and change"; it's like in those old Tarzan movies where they gather around the fire and say the same thing, over, and over and over, ad infinitum; well, they say that repetition is the best teacher, and it sure fires them up to take action.

Anyway, I think at all future "Tea Parties", on the internet, in email/snail mails and on phone calls that WE start chanting something like, "IN-CUM-BENTS OUT, IN-CUM-BENTS OUT" over and over. In fact, I'm adding it to my tagline now.

A meaningful tagline that even politicians can understand. Oh, we might want to put an "ALL" in front of it, just to let the RINO's know they don't get an automatic pass.

It might not be a bad idea to vote all incumbents out at every election...fresh blood tries harder and doesn't have the "experience" to know how to "go around" the Constitution and hamstring us all with commie/socialistic B.S.

The Kennedys, Pelosis, Reids and obama's don't own this country, the People DO. They are trying their best to take our souls and money...but let's beat them to it. Kick them out soon, and often. It's our only saving grace.

[mathluv]

media - dims - redundant

[Entrepreneur]

The best and easiest way to make sure stimulus reaches the most productive and economically powerful ideas is to direct it to those economic activities that are currently most profitable and productive (i.e. those that are paying the greatest taxes)...hence tax rate cuts usually are the best delivery system for this process because they focuses stimulus on those enterprises (corporate and individual) that are most economically potent and sound.

Remember, all of the Obamabots are Keynesians and buying into the paradox of thrift 100%. They consider savings a bad thing and see savings as removal of money from the economy rather than investment. A Keynesian, with total focus on the demand side, never looks at investment multipliers and, in fact, doesn't seem to believe they exist.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Yep...they are all theory, no experience!

[mo]

“The Dems just throw out numbers and the media never calls them on it! ....”

this basically affects ANYBODY..Republican or Democrat that stays in DC for any length of time. There are 535 Congressman, 100 Senators. Each Congressman has a staff of hundreds, each senator, of thousands. Those staff members, while some are originally from the local district, all settle in the DC area...and stay there..because life is so good...compared to home. The Depressions and Recessions generally bypass the Washington Metro Area...because each national economic tragedy is an impetus for another Federal Program which boosts local employment and local spending.

It is Never-Never Land there..and as time goes by, increasingly, our elected Representatives reflect the worldviews of their staffs...and not of the American Heartland. which is how an insane fiction that is the C&T bill can even make it to the floor of the House.

[Iron Munro]

WHERE ARE THE NEW JOBS?

Check out a Census Bureau operation called the Census Bureau Partnership Program. This is an existing program that has received a big shot of stimulus money and is being greatly expanded. It is supposedly a pet project of the Obamassiah himself. This is the vehicle they have decided to use to pack the census count.

Many new jobs there.
The Census Bureau is on a big, short notice, hiring spree to staff this stimulus pork-baby.

Front line field positions are entitled Partnership Specialists and Partnership Assistants among others. Of course there is a complete administration and support hierarchy. The high level movers and shakers of the program have been burning up the airways between the Census Regional Centers and Washington, DC setting their unwritten agenda.

The program expansion is funded by stimulus money, hires almost all minorities, especially experienced minority activists, community organizers, La Raza and Acorn types, etc. A small percentage of token whites are hired to make it look a little less racist. The program forms “alliances” with existing organizations who, supposedly help ensure a more complete census count.

As an example, ACORN is a “Partner,” (but they refuse to “Partner” with patriotic groups, anti-illegal groups etc.)

http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2009/may/judicial-watch-obtains-obama-commerce-department-documents-detailing-acorn-partnership

The stated goal of the program is “To increase census response.” But the real agenda is twofold: to provide jobs for minorities and to squeeze out the maximum census count for minority populations.

By the way, the Census Bureau’s new code word for minorities is the “Hard To Count” population.

This expanded Partnership Program is a well funded, serious effort to skew census numbers toward minorities to help in gerrymandering the upcoming reapportionment of the House of Representatives when the new 2010 census numbers are in.

For more info just GOOGLE “census bureau partnership”

[autumnraine]

Affirmative action is also alive and well in government jobs.

[Concho]

Yes, it is obvious, it extends right up to the top chair.