A lot of those jobs came from the federal government. Texas received more than 16 billion dollars in federal stimulus money. You know, the stimulus that didn’t work. The stimulus that didn’t create jobs. Yeah, that stimulus. Oh, government spending, why are you so useless?
“The stimulus is a disaster.” - Fla. Gov. Rick Scott
Oh CBO, why are you trying to fool us with your math and facts? We already know the Stimulus is a complete failure. We know this because Stephen Colbert’s gut tells us so.
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Anyone that says that it [The Stimulus Bill] hasn’t created the jobs, they should talk to the 150,000 people that have been getting jobs in California.
This is a hundred and fifty thousand people that are going home today with a check, that are providing for their family, that can buy textbooks for their kids, that are feeling wanted and needed and feeling productive,” he exclaimed. “A better job isn’t just a job, it’s all those things.
“Well, you know, to me I find it interesting that you have a lot of the Republicans running around and pushing back on the stimulus money and saying this doesn’t create any new jobs,” “Then, they go out and they do the photo ops and they are posing with the big check and they say, ‘Isn’t this great?’”
”(R) Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger calling out his colleagues’ hypocrisy.
video at rawstory
Today, the Wall Street Journal reported on more than a dozen Republican lawmakers who voted against the stimulus last year but subsequently “supported stimulus-funding requests” submitted by their constituents to federal agencies.
Fox News’ Neil Cavuto pushed her [Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH)] on her hypocrisy.
continue reading… thinkprogress
a douche much of the time but gotta give Cavuto some props here, pretty fair and balanced.
