Obama, Biden declare 'Recovery Summer'

politico.com ^ | 06/17/10 | Mike Allen

[TornadoAlley3]

Vice President Joe Biden today will kick off the Obama administration’s “Recovery Summer,” a six-week-long push designed to highlight the jobs accompanying a surge in stimulus-funded projects to improve highways, parks, drinking water and other public works.

David Axelrod, a senior adviser to the president, said: “This summer will be the most active Recovery Act season yet, with thousands of highly-visible road, bridge, water and other infrastructure projects breaking ground across the country, giving the American people a first-hand look at the Recovery Act in their own backyards and making it crystal clear what the cost would have been of doing nothing.”

Biden, President Barack Obama and other administration officials will travel to more than two dozen Recovery Act project sites in coming weeks. On Friday, the president will travel to Columbus, Ohio, to mark the groundbreaking of the 10,000th Recovery Act road project to get under way.

[unixfox]

Where are the F**KING HI-TECH JOBS which offshoring was supposed to provide, by freeing up money for the big corporations to innovate?

Those would be the "virtual" jobs.

[mellow velo]

I guess it can now be said that this administration purposely kept its boot on the neck of the U.S. economy for over a year prior to Obama’s version of “the surge” (in stimulus-funded projects).

[Zeppo]

David Axelrod, a senior adviser to the president, said: “This summer will be the most active Recovery Act season yet, with thousands of highly-visible road, bridge, water and other infrastructure projects breaking ground across the country, giving the American people a first-hand look at the Recovery Act in their own backyards and making it crystal clear what the cost would have been of doing nothing.”

And as we all know, there were never any highly-visible road, bridge, water and other infrastructure projects in America before Barack Obama came on the scene...

Morons...

[popdonnelly]

Socialism generally fails.

[catnipman]

These people are sick: David Axelrod, a senior adviser to the president, said: “This summer will be the most active Recovery Act season yet, with thousands of highly-visible projects breaking ground across the country, giving the American people a first-hand look at the Recovery Act”

Notice that “highly-visible” is the central adjective in this quote. Not “vital to our nation”, “vital to our well-being”, or “vital to our ecomony”, but “visible”.

Yes, my friends, the most important attribute of the jobs being “created” by spending almost a trillion dollars of non-existent money is that they give visibility to the Recovery Act. Inadvertently, Axelrod reveals what’s most important to the Obamunist Administration, namely themselves.

[Texas Eagle]

Obama, Biden declare 'Recovery Summer'

Yeah? Well, I'm not getting my hopes up this time.

I still remember when The Beach Boys promised an "Endless Summer" and THAT didn't come true.

[nascarnation]

I really don’t think this will work for the Baraqqis.

Unemployment is still going to be 10% going into the Nov elections, despite all the TARP, census, etc.

Small and medium businesses have “gone Galt”.

Praying for gridlock in 2011.

[neodad]

We already got the Social Security fan letter. I just wonder how much that four page glossy cost them!

In dollars or yuan?

[KC_Conspirator]

(Pulling hair out with both hands) WHAT RECOVERY!!!!

[KC_Conspirator]

Maybe he should just declare this a “Unicorns, Rainbows, and Gumdrop Forests Summer” and then maybe it will happen.

[ScottinVA]

“This summer will be the most active Recovery Act season yet, with thousands of highly-visible road, bridge, water and other infrastructure projects breaking ground across the country, giving the American people a first-hand look at the Recovery Act in their own backyards and making it crystal clear what the cost would have been of doing nothing.”

We saw it coming. A bald-faced ploy by boy zer0's regime to strategically dump the rest of the TARP/Porkulus dollars into make-work projects to fool the sheeple into thinking an actual economic recovery is underway. Using OUR tax dollars to manipulate the coming election.

[Michael Barnes]

"It'll be a great recovery! Look at all the construction going on!"

Man, don't get me started. If I understand correctly, Fed funds are going to work on PA 76 turnpike. It's already a toll road and rotten to the core as to its hiring practices. Now its getting Federal funds too?? I'd be fine with it; IF they dropped the toll due to the influx of fed funds.

[Biggirl]

Dems are SCARED BIGTIME because they KNOW that 2010 will make 1994 look like a picnic.

[GlockThe Vote]

Yuk. We should have work camps for people like that. You dont work, you dont eat.

[Rennes Templar]

These infrastucture jobs will run out in September, as will the census jobs, setting things up for the November elections.

[Lonely Bull]

I guess it’s not going to be the Summer of George this year.

Severance package...The Americans are giving me three months full pay for doing nothing.

...I'm really going to do something with these three months.

...I'm gonna read a book. From beginning to end. In that order.

...I'm gonna play frolf.

...Frolf, Federal Register golf, Joe. Golf with the Federal Register. This is gonna be my time. Time to taste the wagyu beef and let the juices drip down my chin. I proclaim this: The Summer of Recovery!

[BobP]

WAKE UP AMERICA!

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[RetroSexual]

[BP2]

Although I'm a firm believer in positive thinking and the law of attraction,
DELUSIONAL thinking does nothing but set them up for the big EPIC FAIL:

[GonzoGOP]

Nero WAS eventually dethroned.

And like Obama he would have preferred to be a Rock Star or a Musician. And Rome would have been much happier had he pursued either of those careers.

The fall of the Julio-Claudians is almost perfectly aligned with out current world

Augustus = Reagen - Ushered in an era of peace and prosperity after decades of civil war and riots caused by the collapse of the Roman Republic. Understood the value of bold leadership and personal honor.

Tiberius = G.H. Bush: Old line patrician. Got the job only because it was handed him by his predecessor. Didn't continue Augstus's projects, but since all the enemies had been defeated and the economy was booming he could get away with it.

Caligula = Clinton: Little boots was a party boy and the equal of Slick Willy in every way. Loved at fist because he showed Rome a good time. Later despised as the true depths of his debauchery became evident.

Claudius = G.W.Bush: Everyone thought he was stupid because he had a speech impediment. But misunderestimating this Roman Emperor was a bad move. Conquered Britain and expanded the empire both in territory and economics. But was never popular with the patrician class.

Nero = Obama: Illegitimate. Used money for the improvement of Rome to build himself a palace. Bankrupted the empire. He tried to create an army of actors and prostitutes and send it against the enemy. Last words were "What a great artist the world will lose in me". The damage he did was so bad that the entire dynasty was brought down and never again trusted with the power to rule. He plunged Rome into years of civil war until the seventh son of a mule skinner from the unfashionable hill country took over with the idea that perhaps competence and common sense would be a good idea in leadership.