White House: Biden's 'Summer of Recovery' Meant Construction, Not Jobs (Enough Said)

Fox News ^ | 9/13/2010 | fox news

[tobyhill]

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."

The declaration by the Obama administration in June that 2010 would mark the "summer of recovery" has drawn ridicule from Republicans as the election nears with unemployment hovering well above 9 percent for 16 consecutive months.

[ColdOne]

“stand up Chuck!”

[FlingWingFlyer]

So that explains all those goofy “Tiger” and “Summer of Recovery” signs that have been going up along the highways.

[radioone]

All the spinning this WH has to do makes my head spin.

[TexasFreeper2009]

lol

nice try Obama, but your still an EPIC FAIL

[tobyhill]

I think it’s great they finally came out and admitted it wasn’t about jobs, it was about making America into a third world nation.

[Nonstatist]

"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

So if a job ramps up and nobody new is working on it, is it still a recovery? What exactly would we be recovering from?

[bigbob]

So we have a jobless recovery, and new we have jobless construction projects?

[DirtyDawg]

Yeah that’s it, yeah yeah that’s what it was “construction” Yeah see that’s it

[The Brush]

We’re all now looking forward to the fall of Obama.

[NonValueAdded]

that has to go down to be as lame as “My dog ate my homework.” Series, did someone say that with a straight face? That had to take practice.

[TigersEye]

Construction of excuses?

[drypowder]

America’s Baghdad Bob.

[kevao]

So if a job ramps up and nobody new is working on it, is it still a recovery?

It's all very Zen, isn't it?

[Kartographer]

When asked for a comment Vice President Biden said: "Ahmmm..Ahummp...Durhmmm...Thadmum..."

[SharpRightTurn]

Actually, what Vice President Bite-me was referring to in his use of “Summer of Recovery” was 7 vacations for Michelle MaBelle, giving her time to rest up from the arduous work of planning her White House parties and eating lobster by the bucket load.

[The Sons of Liberty]

When asked for a comment Vice President Biden said: "Ahmmm..Ahummp...Durhmmm...Thadmum..."

The most intelligent thing I've ever heard from him.

[hinckley buzzard]

Austan Goolsbee will be as big a joke as his name suggests. Another Ivy League einstein with a career in academic hothouses and no experience in a real job in the real world. If this BS about "recovery Summer" is his opening best shot he will be a universal laughingstock in a short time.

[JPG]

And I thought that eels were slippery.

[jonrick46]

So we wicked rascal conservatives want to stop the recovery in mid “construction?” I ask, when did the environweenies worry about stopping something in mid construction to save some ass biting gnat?

We have a nation to save and it is a little more than a ass biting gnat. And we have history on our side that we are right.