Just like in Ohio, many California jobs ’saved’ by stimulus funds weren’t in jeopardy
The Sacramento Bee is a liberal biased fish wrap. Yet, they report that up to one-fourth of the 110,000 jobs reported as “saved” by federal stimulus money in California probably never were in danger. In this case its probably safe to assume that this percentage is on the low side. The same BS about “Jobs saved” was revealed in Ohio.
The recession is over! Unemployment jumps to 10.2% – Actually the REAL rate is 17.5%
No its true! The recession is over says the likes of Ben Bernake, and anyone on the Obama team. The unemployment rate is just a “lagging indicator” of the economy. Well this lagging indicator just jumped 0.4% in ONE MONTH from 9.8% to 10.2%
the highest rate since April of 1983. And yet the $787 billion stimulus was supposed to create all those jobs and this rate wasn’t supposed to climb above 8%. So far the Porkulus has done nothing more than paying for GPS enabled choppers looking for rat droppings, study the Nancy Pelosi fish in San Francisco, etc. Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men 10.7%, Whites 9.5% Women 8.1%, Teenagers 27.6%, Blacks 15.7%, and Hispanics 13.1%. The unemployment rate for Asians stands at 7.5%
Graph courtesy of Gop.gov/accountability
Ohio’s 7,200 “saved” education jobs from porkulus were NEVER in danger of being lost
Last week, Obama claimed that the porkulus bill saved or created over 640,000 nationwide, and around 7,200 education jobs in the state of Ohio. According to the Columbus Dispatch, although a couple of hundred of those jobs were in Columbus City Schools, the district acknowledged yesterday that many of the “saved” jobs definitely wouldn’t have been lost in the first place, and others might not have been lost at all.
“I know we explained to (the Ohio Department of Education) what we were doing, and they told us what categories to use,” said Jill Dannemiller, director of federal programs for the Columbus schools.
Although other areas of the district’s budget might have suffered without the stimulus, district officials said, the jobs report nonetheless highlighted the fuzzy math involved in pinpointing a saved-jobs number.
Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands – some jobs credited to stimulus programs counted 4 or more times!
Remember that Colorado company that claimed it created 4,231 jobs with the help stimulus? Well, lets just say thats a bit on the high side. AP reports the actual amount is fewer than 1,000. In Florida, a child care center said it saved 129 jobs with stimulus money. Unless just giving pay raises existing employees counts as “saving jobs” then that number is BS too. Elsewhere in the U.S., some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two, three, four or even more times. Very ACORNish. Associated Press review of data released in the program’s first progress report shows these BS totals and that the government has overstated by thousands the number of jobs it has created or saved with federal contracts under the Obama’s $787 “stimulus”. Yes, as amazing as it may seem, the AP is actually reporting on this.
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$2 million of stimulus spent on hair dressers
Truely economic stimulating no? According to one of the most left-wing papers in the country (The St. Petersburg Times), $2.3 million of your tax payer money from the stimulus money has been grants to be targeted to train more hairstylists, nail technicians and masseuses in the Tampa Bay area. Clipping issue no? The stimulus money was also being spent to train hairstylists to craft a French braids! I mean, how could anyone in America go without French braids right?
Hows that stimulus bill working? Unemployment rate now at 9.8%
9.8% is a higher number than 8% right? Because we were promised by Obama and the rest of the corrupt liberal democrats that once the stimulus passed, the US jobless rate would NOT go above 8%. IF we didn’t pass the bill, it would hit 9%. With the employment rate at 9.8% percent in September employers cut far more jobs than expected, despite the “recession being over” like Obama and Ben Bernanke claimed. More from Fox News:
New jobless claims rise more than expected
Hows about that hope and change? Stimulus passed, unemployment isn’t going above 8% remember? Cash 4 Clunkers saved the car industry, yet GM and Chrysler sales were down over 40% in the month of September. The recession is over according to crook Ben Bernanke, yet first-time claims for jobless benefits rose more than expected last week, a sign employers are reluctant to hire and the job market remains weak. According to AP/Google, The Labor Department says initial claims for unemployment insurance rose to a seasonally adjusted 551,000 from 534,000 in the previous week. Wall Street economists expected an increase of 5,000, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.
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Blue Dog democrats cave on health care, just as expected
Again, there is no such thing as a “conservative democrat”. They proved this over the last 2 years of the Bush admin, proved this during the porkulus bill, and the 9000 ear mark bill. Today, they prove yet again what a bunch of spineless cowards they are caving on ObamaCARE. After days of intensive negotiations, a group of key moderate Democrats on Wednesday announced that they reached a health care reform deal with the White House and congressional leaders. More from Fox News:
The compromise would cut the cost of the $1 trillion-plus package by $100 billion, according to one member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition. The deal would also ensure that the proposed government-run insurance program would not be forced on anyone.
“We have reached an agreement that will allow health care reform to move forward,” said Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark.
Seven Blue Dogs had held up passage of the bill in the House Energy and Commerce Committee over concerns about cost and the speed at which Democrats were advancing the legislation. The committee is the only House panel that hasn’t voted on the bill.
Ross said four of those seven agreed to the compromise Wednesday. But that gives Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., enough votes for passage.
Many of the original groups behind TaxDayTeaParty.com are joining together for the Nationwide Recess Rally. This is a collaborative effort to make it known that we will not stand for socialized, government controlled healthcare.
Jobless claims rise to 554,000
Is it time to stick a fork in the whole notion that the porklus is “saving” or creating jobs? According to Yahoo:
The number of newly laid-off workers seeking jobless benefits rose last week, though the government said its report again was distorted by the timing of auto plant shutdowns.
Unemployment insurance claims have declined steadily since the spring, but most private economists and the Federal Reserve expect jobs to remain scarce and the unemployment rate to top 10 percent by year-end.
The Labor Department said Thursday that its tally of initial claims for unemployment insurance rose by 30,000 to a seasonally adjusted 554,000. That was above analysts’ estimates of 550,000.
More porkulus absurdity in Pennsylvania Ken Snyder $9,090 a month for “publicity” work of the porkulus
As if the $1.2 milion for ham, and $1.5 million for cheese from the porkulus wasn’t bad enough, how about payments of $9,090 per month for “publicity” of the porkulus to old democrat hack, and former worker eD Rendell campaigns worker Ken Snyder? From the Morning Call:
”Obviously it is important to educate the public about where the recovery dollars are working in the commonwealth,” PennDOT’s Chizmar said. ”The public deserves and has a right to know.”
Sure it is! Like the $1.2 million for ham, $1.5 million for cheese, $350,000 for a dumbwaiter, etc.
What does $1,191,200 in stimulus buy you? 2 pounds of frozen ham (sliced)
Hey, don’t just take my “neocon”, “right-wing extremist” word for it, for this joke for yourself from Recovery.gov.
Surely CLOUGHERTY PACKING, LLC must be part of the vast right-wing conspiracy right? I wonder how many jobs that $1,191,200 created (or saved)? How many people does it take to make a career out of slicing 2 pounds of frozen ham? Anyone? Anyone?
Either there is something terribly wrong with this porkulus plan, or the details being provided on the new $18 million re-designed website aren’t complete. How about $1,562,568 for MOZZARELLA CHEESE?
Obama vs Obama on stimulus
Obama changes course on the stimulus. Where are the jobs? House Republicans put this video out of Hussein contradicting himself on the Porkulus bill. My question is, what took so long for this video to be created?
Oh wait. NOW I get it! The porkulus bill wasn’t meant to “stimulate” the economy at all, but rather “stabilize” it..
Obama’s backpeddling on the intended goal of the stimlus continues
Obama said in The Washington Post that he never envisioned that his stimulus package would afford quick relief to the American economy, but would do so only after it had run its two-year course. Joe Biden the moron vice President has said “they misread the economy”, and has admited at least 30% of the money from the stimulus can be wasted (this on top of the waste of liberal pet projects such as Pelosi’s San Francisco Rodent). This is quite a different tone than before the passage of the stimulus in which “we had to pass this bill NOW to avoid the worst collapse since the Great Depression”. Well since the porkulus bill has passed, his lies have been exposed. With unemployment now at 9.5% and expected to go as high as 11-12% by the end of the year, this completely refutes his claims of no nigher than 8% unemployement if the bill passed. in which it wasn’t supposed to go above 8% with the passage of the bill. He claimed it would “create or save” 600,000 jobs, yet the economy has lost AT LEAST 450,000 jobs every months since the bill’s passage. But as his polls numbers continue to drop, he still has political capital to work with. There is talk of Porkulus 2, and of course the impending passages of the socialized health care bill and Crap and Tax.
Colorado DEMOCRAT Governor Bill Ritter gives ex-employer stimulus money
Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has awarded some of the state’s first stimulus money to his former employer in a no-bid contract, according to CBS4Denver.
Porkulus Part Deux
Michelle Malkin’s syndicated column covers the dawn of Generational Theft Act II aka Porkulus part deux. Yesterday, Botox Nancy Pelosi purportedly walked back her rhetoric. While saying she was “committed to the first stimulus, and to giving it time to work,” she then turned around and floated another extension of unemployment benefits and a giant new highway bill. Republicans and Democrats are now squabbling about making each other pay a “steep price” for opposing or supporting the stimulus.
$18,000,000 to redesign website that oversees stimulus spending (Recovery.gov)
Your tax dollars at work yet again. According to ABC, for those concerned about stimulus spending, the General Services Administration sends word tonight that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov Web site. The new Web site promises to give taxpayers more information about where their money is going than the current version of the site.
$18 MILLION dollars to design a government website. Now thats stimulus we need! (at least for the company getting the $18 million).
Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat-R.I – 2nd Stimulus probably needed
Because the first stimulus has worked so well, has it not? Today on “Top Line,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat-R.I., said a second stimulus is “probably needed,” and predicted that Congress is likely to act before the end of the year to inject even more federal dollars into the economy.
Idiot Joe Biden: ‘We Misread How Bad the Economy Was’
I wonder if real man of genius also misread how bad his daughter Ashley Biden’s drug problem is too? The Obama administration “misread” the depth of the economic troubles it inherited and still expects more new jobs in the long term as the spending pace from the $787 billion stimulus plan quickens, Vice President Joe Biden said. According to Fox News:
Unemployment rate now at 9.5% – Hope and Change!
Turns out the jobs cut for June was a little lower than Bloomberg’s posted estimated yesterday of 473,000, but still larger than expected at 467,000 jobs, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. Congrats to you Obama/Biden/Democrats and your stimulus!
Nearly 5 months after the porkulus – Where are the jobs? Boehner also calls the Crap and Tax bill a pile of sh*t! (perfect description)
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today delivered the weekly Republican address. The address comes as unemployment rises while Washington Democrats continue to pursue policies on the economy, health care, energy, and the environment that will destroy more American jobs and drive future generations into deeper debt. Watch the video below, there is also mentions of the Crap and Tax.
When asked why he read portions of the cap-and-trade bill on the floor Friday night, Boehner told The Hill, “Hey, people deserve to know what’s in this pile of s–t.”
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