A verbis ad verbera
Posted on 07/09/2009 6:30:30 PM PDT by pissant
Remember all that talk last winter about the historic awfulness of the inherited economy and how urgently the new Obama administration needed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's economic stimulus bill to get through Congress and the president flew all the way out to Denver to sign the $787-billion bill because, well, because they didn't have an Air Force One photo shoot for New York that day?
And how it was absolutely, really, essentially important to start spending all that money ASAP so that it would create good, solid, strong, patriotic American jobs right here in America? And keep the jobless rate maybe somewhere around 8-8.5%?
Which seems really pretty good today now that it's already at 9.5% and predicted to exceed 10% for much of the next year, which takes us right up close to -- oh, oh, look out! -- the 2010 midterm elections.
In fact, back in April at one $3.4-billion spending ceremony for the media, Vice President Joe Biden, who's got a lot of private meetings to attend but was still assigned to drive the stimulus spending hard, said: "This is jobs -- jobs!" Creating or saving a gazillion-point-five jobs used to be the main goal.
Not anymore.
More change. That was April. This is July. And the spending sujet du jour has moved on to....
...healthcare reform, which is absolutely essential to get through Congress ASAP because the economic recovery depends on it as do millions of Americans who, the president promises, will face disastrous medical cost increases if we don't spend several hundred billion more, though some of that will be covered by savings, he also promises.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Paging Christopher Hitchens!
He may need to write a sequel called “No One Left To Lie To Part II: The Obama Years.”
Good Piece. Hint to all — you’ve got to read this as FAST as he is writing it and as fast as Obama is shoveling stuff at us. And, from the LATimes - remarkable. Thanks, Pissant.
This guy pointing out the lies of Hopey Changey.
The democrats cannot bring themselves to do that simply because half their constituents do not pay any, or pay very little, taxes. Nothing to cut there.
Stimulus is a corrupt bribe to democrat voters but it cannot cure the recession. As they say" Go ahead, Wear yourself out."
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