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Don't insult our intelligence Obama!
Posted on 09/13/2010 8:26:11 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
White House: Biden's 'Summer of Recovery' Meant Construction, Not Jobs
Published September 13, 2010 | FoxNews.com
Vice President Biden wasn't talking about jobs when called this the "summer of recovery." He was talking about construction projects.
That's the explanation top White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee gave when asked about the more than 280,000 jobs lost over the past three months.
"The vice president was talking about the summer of recovery in reference to the Recovery Act, that you would see the creation of a series of infrastructure and other projects ramping up over the summer," Goolsbee said on "Fox News Sunday." "And you did see that."
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I call BRAVO SIERRA on this crap.
GooBeeDoobieDoo!!!!!!!!!!
Regular Joe’s just so smart, and we just didn’t understand him.
His Mission Accomplished moment. (Of course, the crew’s mission WAS accomplished, but, you know...)
Hopefully it is the summer of recovery.....when we recover the house and senate.
It's right up there with, "It's true that I called your wife a drunken, two-timing, ugly, psychopath with bad breath -- but my remarks were taken out of context."
This administration is equivalent to the Ministry of Silly Walks.
The Stimulus: How to Create Jobs Without Them All Going to Skilled Professionals and White Male Construction Workers
By Robert Reich, Former Labor Secretary in the Clinton administration and professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
January 08, 2009
The stimulus plan will create jobs repairing and upgrading the nation’s roads, bridges, ports, levees, water and sewage system, public-transit systems, electricity grid, and schools. And it will kick-start alternative, non-fossil based sources of energy (wind, solar, geothermal, and so on); new health-care information systems; and universal broadband Internet access.
It’s a two-fer: lots of new jobs, and investments in the nation’s future productivity.
But if there aren’t enough skilled professionals to do the jobs involving new technologies, the stimulus will just increase the wages of the professionals who already have the right skills rather than generate many new jobs in these fields. And if construction jobs go mainly to white males who already dominate the construction trades, many people who need jobs the most — women, minorities, and the poor and long-term unemployed — will be shut out.
What to do? There’s no easy solution to either dilemma. But there’s no reason to think about “green jobs” as simply high-tech. Many low-income and low-skilled workers — women as well as men — could be put directly to work providing homes and businesses with more efficient and renewable heating, lighting, cooling, and refrigeration systems; installing solar panels and efficient photovoltaic systems; rehabilitating and renovating old properties, and improving recycling systems. “Green Jobs Corps” teams could be trained to evaluate and advise homeowners and businesses on these and other means of conserving energy.
People can be trained relatively quickly for these sorts of jobs, as well as many infrastructure j0bs generated by the stimulus — installing new pipes for water and sewage systems, repairing and upgrading equipment, basic construction — but contractors have to be nudged both to provide the training and to do the hiring.
I’d suggest that all contracts entered into with stimulus funds require contractors to provide at least 20 percent of jobs to the long-term unemployed and to people withincomes at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. And at least 2 percent of project funds should be allocated to such training. In addition, advantage should be taken of buildings trades apprenticeships — wich must be fully available to women and minorities.
http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/01/stimulus-how-to-create-jobs-without.html
right.................its so pathetic that they come out with this bull.
...for Republicans!!
Bwahahahahahahaha!
He talks as if the Recovery Act is the goal, and not what the act was intended to do. Who gives a damn if the mechanics of an act--"ramping up"--are occurring? Who would care about a speech about that?
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/18/biden-lay-out-plans-for-recovery-summer/
In explaining "Recovery Summer," Biden cited a dramatic increase in the number and scope of recovery act projects, ranging from roadwork to clean energy initiatives. As examples, he noted that 1,750 highway projects were underway in summer of 2009; this year would see 10,000 such projects. Last year, 100 clean-water and drinking-water projects were underway; this summer will see 3,000 similar projects.
The vice president went on to assert that the stimulus funding would create a positive ripple effect in the economy as a whole: "It means a lot more lunch breaks at the local diner . . . and a lot more trips to the barbershop, to the movies, to the department store -- helping those businesses . . . maintain their employment base and increase their employment base."
So was he talking about "Recovery Summer" being important because it would lead towards more jobs, or just that this specific act was being carried out? If the second--what the hell was it being enacted to do?
I seem to remember Biden saying by the end of the summer 500,000 jobs a month would be created.
Well the media did claim this Goolsbee was the “funniest guy in the administration.”
White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee gives a prime example of pissing on our leggs and telling us it is raining.
In checking the Illinois section of the recovery website, there were MANY multi-million dollar construction grants where there were "0" jobs created or 0.46 jobs created on one project.
I have yet to identify ONE firefighter or police officer where a community received a targeted grant - from the recovery program - to hire or re-hire laid off public safety personnel.
This administration is getting to be a long, drawn-out, dirty joke.
Obama Administration
Don't insult our intelligence Obama!
And that's sayin' something.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/04/biden-predicts-economy-will-cr.html
He started out predicting 500,000 jobs a month, but by the end of his statement, he got it down to “between 250,000 jobs a month and 500,000 jobs a month.”
And, knowing Biden, that means, “between 0 jobs a month and 250,000 jobs a month.” It could even mean we’ll continue losing jobs every month as fast or faster than we were when he made the statement.
Typical of statists. “The truth is what we say it is.”
“There are big negatives from the people temporarily working on the Census, which led to huge positive in the hundreds of thousands (of) job additions earlier in the year followed by negatives as the census workers stopped taking the Census,” Goolsbee said.”
shaking my head....
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