Posted on 09/10/2009 10:53:14 AM PDT by newbie2008
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — It was just five months ago that Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. made the New Flyer bus factory here a symbol of the stimulus. With several cabinet secretaries in tow, he held a town-hall-style meeting at the factory, where he praised the company as “an example of the future” and said that it stood to get more orders for its hybrid electric buses thanks to the $8.4 billion that the stimulus law devotes to mass transit.
But last month, the company that administration officials had pictured as a stimulus success story began laying off 320 people, or 13 percent of its work force, having discovered how cutbacks at the state level can dampen the boost provided by the federal stimulus money.
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No way! The WH just said that they created 1 million new jobs... /s
But they did! Just not these jobs!
Whatever, what a bunch of idiots. Amazing how these people can talk so fast and so much out of both sides of their mouths.
“ST. CLOUD, Minn. — It was just five months ago that Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. made the New Flyer bus factory here a symbol of the stimulus. With several cabinet secretaries in tow, he held a town-hall-style meeting at the factory, where he praised the company as “an example of the future””
LMAO!!!!!!!
Any reporter with the testicles to ask him about this?
How could ANY job ever leave Mn.? All the pols ever have ran on the “ Bring good jobs to the area” line.
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