Ten months ago, California’s junior Senator praised the Senate for passing the so-called “stimulus,” noting that the “$787.1 billion economic recovery legislation” was “designed to save or create millions of jobs“. She cited a White House prediction “that the legislation will save or create approximately 400,000 jobs in California.” Well, since her vote for the bill, the Golden State has lost 342,600 jobs.
That means that before Ma’am again faces the voters, she’ll have to find a way of creating nearly three-quarters of a million jobs, 742,600 to be precise.
Wonder what plans she has to reduce the regulatory burden on small businesses, you know, those enterprises which create the most new jobs.
lord, you get queenier and queenier every day.
I want to thank Boob for coming to the defense of this senseless attack on the fine policies of Ma’am Boxer by showing you just how much good she has done for your fine state as of late. . . .
Okay.
No I don’t.
Boob is showing the Motto of the left.
When you have no legit defense, go for the personal attack that has nothing at all to do with the point raised.
now we know why he’s a boob.
I was thinking that if California reelects Barbara Boxer in 2010, after all the moronic things she’s said over the years, that California should be expelled from the Union. Then I remembered that Al Franken is our state’s junior senator and realized I probably shouldn’t talk. (Any chance Al Franken would ever cut off Barbara Boxer the way he cut off Joe Lieberman?)
the only way boxer [or any other senator] will be able to create jobs in any state is by
1] reducing the tax burden on business
2] taking the money that is to be spent on “health care reform” & put it onto the states to spend on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure
interesting thing is i read a few months ago in a certain trade magazine that if congress would appropriate just $5 billion as a down payment towards building a high speed rail corrider in the middle of the country, something like 500,000 jobs [direct & indirect] would be created in IL, IA, MO, AR, TN, KY, LA
if congress appropriated the exact same amount to the west coast & east coast corridors, a total of 1.0-1.5 million jobs [direct & indirect] would be created
if congress would turn to rebuilding our national power grid, which should be a greater priority than “health care reform”, they would create something on the order of 1 million jobs [direct & indirect]-& the majority of those jobs would stay since you still have to maintain the grid!
Well, brace yourselves for the latest “shocking” revelation. A study conducted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University reviewed the distribution of $157 billion in stimulus dollars based on publicly available reports and has concluded that: (1) the cash was awarded without regard to a district’s unemployment rate or how badly an area was suffering from job losses; (2) far more stimulus money was awarded to higher-income districts than lower-income districts; and (3) Democratic congressional districts received nearly twice as much money as that received by Republican districts.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/18/democratic-districts-won-twice-stimulus-gop-districts-study-shows/
Well, I for one am totally confused. If the purpose of the stimulus package was to create jobs, why wasn’t the majority of the money given to districts with high unemployment rates and low income rates? I don’t understand. It’s almost as if Obama just took billions and billions of dollars out of our pockets, claiming that if he didn’t spend it immediately, we would all end up unemployed and destitute, and then he turned right around and gave the money away to his BFFs in Congress to reward them for their loyalty (and in many cases I’m sure, their silence). Don’t worry, I’m sure it’s all a complete coincidence.
The one upside to this is that we get to look forward to the knee-slapping hilarity that is sure to ensue when Tano, gillie, boob, et al. start showing up to post ludicrous explanations, absurd denials, and passionate defenses of the stimulus package (Tano is particularly invested in promoting the “Obama saved the economy” myth, relying exclusively on the air-tight “it could have been worse” argument). I’m thinking that his daily talking points will be along the lines of, “See????!!!!! The stimulus was such an extraordinarily brilliant plan to create jobs that Obama didn’t even have to distribute the money to low-income areas with high unemployment for it to work! Wow! Obama’s the best! Yes we can!”