Posted on 02/17/2010 3:29:59 PM PST by topfile
U.S. President Barack Obama says the massive economic stimulus bill he signed one year ago has prevented another Great Depression and kept millions of Americans working. The president is celebrating the anniversary of the bill's signing.
President Obama says the $787 billion Recovery Act is working. "It is one of the main reasons the economy has gone from shrinking by six percent to growing by about six percent. And this morning we learned that manufacturing production posted a strong gain. So far, the Recovery Act is responsible for the jobs of about two million Americans who would otherwise be unemployed," he said.
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With health-care reform in jeopardy and financial regulatory reform on hold, the stimulus is the only one of the president's legislative priorities that he has signed into law
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There is no such thing as a saved job. There is no statistical measurement. It is a a completely made up number. They could say 15 million, they could say 200 million, there is no limit to what they can SAY.
They cannot prove that they have saved so much as ONE job.
The only number that matters is this: did the Economy ADD jobs or LOSE jobs?
The Economy LOST jobs in the millions.
Obama and the administration are making up numbers that don’t even exist and giving them a name.
Its Bulls***. 100%
ROTFL!!!! That's funny. I don't care who you are. That's funny right there.
I can haz ponzi?
no thinking person actually believes this...
HAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!! Does he think we are ALL stupid??? Just his voters are.
I wanted to reach through the TV this morning when he got so cocky about telling us stoopid Americans that he had saved us. Does this @ZZhole ever listen to his condesending speeches before he spews this trash talk?
This putz disgusts me to no end...I will send this but he’ll probably not believe it.
So, according to my numbers, Obama spent $393,000 per job to “save it”? He lies!
Can't claim credit for preventing something that "might have happened."
"We will create 4 million jobs..."
"We will create or save 4 million jobs..."
"We will imagine creating 4 million jobs..."
"Did I mention that George Bush caused this entire mess?"
gummit droid jobs that would be unlikely to have been axed in the first place. that does not help you or me, the little people.
I was thinking more along the lines of de Nile is not just a river in Egypt, but I like yours, too.
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