American Cancer
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preponderance of it go to union payoffs? and goodies for oBama's supporters?
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Did the money for "shovel-ready" jobs actually create jobs or did the
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Lear45 Continued
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Looks like the $787 Billion was just enough to create 574,000 jobs by the government's own website on where the money went! Wonder what that works out to per job created? LMAO!!!
Armchair Goddess #1
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You can find out how the Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (a.k.a., "stimulus") was distributed state-by-state and how each state's governors or other officials made use of each dollar at recovery.gov.
The fact that states made decisions with some autonomy, even though they did have to answer to the oversight team on how these dollars were being used to STIMULATE the Republicans' shriveled to a mere trickle economy, means that the governors and other state officials had to make the decisions in their respective states, so your question and its intended animosity is misdirected.
Would you have an objection to the blowhard Governor Perry (R-TX), who claimed so irresponsibly while grandstanding for TV cameras that Texas "would secede if he was 'forced' to take even one penny of stimulus dollars," taking the billions and promptly spending up to $20 MILLION on the renovation of his Governor's mansion? He did that. He also bilked the taxpayers out of more than $1600 a month for rental of a luxury apartment while stimulus dollars were used to pretty up his mansion...what a LOSER!
More than 95% of American workers making less than $250,000 a year got a TAX CUT to generate consumer spending that would GROW our shrunken economy---a cut that went into effect on April 1, 2009...are these the "oBama supporters" of whom you speak? Several cities had projects that were put on hold when the full-blown recession hit in 2006 and 2007 as the housing and credit markets imploded. By "shovel ready," these supposed projects had been approved by whatever planning commission or board had to give approval, but then the funds dried up and the projects did not go past the planning or permit stage. I know of several projects on roads and bridges in the State of Missouri that were put on indefinite hold during the Bush/Cheney years, but once President Obama was elected and we also chose ourselves a Democratic Governor for our state, work got underway almost as soon as the money was distributed. Over the summer of 2009, stimulus dollars were used to renovate public school buildings nation-wide (I witnessed many of these renovations personally in Illinois, Arkansas, and Missouri).
The fact that states made decisions with some autonomy, even though they did have to answer to the oversight team on how these dollars were being used to STIMULATE the Republicans' shriveled to a mere trickle economy, means that the governors and other state officials had to make the decisions in their respective states, so your question and its intended animosity is misdirected.
Would you have an objection to the blowhard Governor Perry (R-TX), who claimed so irresponsibly while grandstanding for TV cameras that Texas "would secede if he was 'forced' to take even one penny of stimulus dollars," taking the billions and promptly spending up to $20 MILLION on the renovation of his Governor's mansion? He did that. He also bilked the taxpayers out of more than $1600 a month for rental of a luxury apartment while stimulus dollars were used to pretty up his mansion...what a LOSER!
More than 95% of American workers making less than $250,000 a year got a TAX CUT to generate consumer spending that would GROW our shrunken economy---a cut that went into effect on April 1, 2009...are these the "oBama supporters" of whom you speak? Several cities had projects that were put on hold when the full-blown recession hit in 2006 and 2007 as the housing and credit markets imploded. By "shovel ready," these supposed projects had been approved by whatever planning commission or board had to give approval, but then the funds dried up and the projects did not go past the planning or permit stage. I know of several projects on roads and bridges in the State of Missouri that were put on indefinite hold during the Bush/Cheney years, but once President Obama was elected and we also chose ourselves a Democratic Governor for our state, work got underway almost as soon as the money was distributed. Over the summer of 2009, stimulus dollars were used to renovate public school buildings nation-wide (I witnessed many of these renovations personally in Illinois, Arkansas, and Missouri).
George Smith
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There are no shovel ready jobs - so the later is correct.
Obama couldn't even get some of the money to the shovel ready jobs - despicable!
Obama couldn't even get some of the money to the shovel ready jobs - despicable!
Barry's Change
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It went straight to mid eastern terrorist.Mostly in Libya
dougavatar
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That would depend on what is meant as shovel ready and what kind of shovel as the price of gold boomed so did gold mining!!!
the blunt truth!
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Barry's union masters benefited heavily but nobody else did, except of course, George Soros.
Obama bites the big one
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unions 100%.
clean truck
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0bummer supporters got 80% of the cash and they will donate much of it back to the democrats for elections and the money laundering cycle keeps getting bigger and bigger. The only way to break the cycle is to vote out as many liberal democrats as humanly possible as fast as possible.