Saturday, July 11, 2009 Unreal. With Unemployment at 9.5% Obama Says Stimulus Is Working Who are you going to believe... Dear Leader or your lying eyes? Barack Obama in his Weekly Address today insisted that the $787 billion record Stimulus boondoggle is working. This is after he earlier promised that unemployment would not go above 8% if the bill passed. It's currently at 9.5%. The Hill reported: President Obama on Saturday defended his $787 billion economic stimulus package as having ended an economic free fall after a week of criticism from both ends of the political spectrum. Obama used his...