An American Tragedy -or- Obama's Job Stimulus Failures
Fri, 11/20/2009 - 8:35pm
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+ Stimulus Funds for Green Energy Projects Going Offshore along with Other U.S. Manufacturing / Canada Free Press: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/16615 "... with wind and solar projects ... the majority of the manufactured components are being built offshore in either Asia or Europe ..." + 84% of Green Job Stimulus Money is Going Offshore / The Economic Populist: http://www.economicpopulist.org/cont...going-offshore "Of the $1.05 billion in clean-energy grants handed out by the government ... a total of $849 million – has gone to foreign wind companies." + Expert: Stimulus Job Creation Hits Wall of Red Tape / Newsmax: http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/sti...06/189329.html "... a brick wall of bureaucracy and business as usual – dangerously delaying the job creation touted to be at the heart of the recovery." + Florida's federal stimulus cash in red tape / GoSun Solutions: http://gosunsolutions.com/home/content/view/344/1/ "'It's a struggle right now just getting the funding down to where it needs to be spent. It seems we have a logjam or a bottleneck,'..." + The Phantom Jobs Stimulus / Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...776158046.html "How many Americans does it take to make nine pairs of work boots? ... an $890 shoe order for the Army Corps of Engineers, courtesy of the stimulus package, created nine new jobs at Moore's Shoes & Services ..." "Up to $6.4 billion went to imaginary places in America ..." +Stimulus job boost in state exaggerated, review finds / Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/business/artic..._review_finds/ "... federal money that recipients already receive annually - subsidies for affordable housing, for example - was reclassified this year as stimulus spending, and the existing jobs already supported by those programs were credited to stimulus spending." + Obama Stimulus Job Count Under New Criticism / ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/scrut...9075257&page=1 "... a sanitation department in Douglas County, Wis., that admitted to a typo that resulted in an estimate of 100 jobs saved or created, when the actual number was five." "... the Texas recipient of a $26,174 roofing contract reported erroneously that 450 jobs were created or saved when, in fact, six were." + Where's the Truth? Stimulus Jobs Reporting More Slippery than Greased Eel / North Carolina Capitol Monitor: http://www.capitol-monitor.org/nc-st...mulus-jobs.php "... of the 30,383 jobs attributed to federal contracts (300 in North Carolina), 'some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced.'” + Cities, towns find limits on stimulus cash / MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30269030...s-life/page/2/ "There's some money to hire police officers, but no money to rebuild the stations they work in. The opposite's true for firefighters. No money to hire more, but at least some funding to improve firehouses." "... Congress ... created a confusing hodgepodge of rules ..." 
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The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, the sad thing is you can be a real elegant speaker and so many americans will buy into what ever is stated with out looking into any of it. We have created such a debt for our children and grandchildren they will never see their way out of it.
Bush didn't give it a good start with his war for oil now did he?
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Palehorse you are right, But Obama should not be adding to the problem.
Oboomer triple national debt in 10 months he be the man Hope and change you all voted for it you got it
We are no longer a republic we are now SOCIALIST
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Oboomer triple national debt in 10 months he be the man Hope and change you all voted for it you got it
We are no longer a republic we are now SOCIALIST You are so right Rusty, I am all for helping those who need it, that by no choice of their own they can not work, however I was not and am not in favor of bailing out Big Banks or Autos.
$934,597,680,006 and counting!
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$214,161,000.00 - per casualty incurred. (Not counting the death benefit paid out to 4,364 surviving families, and counting).
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