Obama's $787 Billion Stimulus "Created or Saved" 20 Jobs in Connecticut, 28 Jobs in Vermont & 22 Jobs in New Hampshire
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, October 18, 2009, 5:30 PM
From the Obama government website—-
The Obama Stimulus “created or saved” 20 jobs in Connecticut.
Via Radio Vice Online and Recovery.gov
The Obama Stimulus created 28 jobs in Vermont.
The Obama Stimulus created 22 jobs in New Hampshire.
Via Recovery.gov
Obama would have done better if he would have opened a McDonalds in each state.
Is it too late to ask for our $787 billion back?
UPDATE: But don’t worry. The state-run media says that Obama is looking at all options to creating jobs.
UPDATE 2: 3.6 million jobs have been lost since Obama became president.
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DaveinPhoenix commented:
“Working beyond my wildest dreams” (or nightmares…)
Anon commented:
Well at least those states had triple the number of jobs saved in Rhode Island. RI had 6 jobs created. A whopping 6 whole jobs and unemployemnt there is close to 12%!
Make it Happen commented:
And yet you have some leftists advocating for a second stimulus. What a joke.
squeaky commented:
have to remember the jobs that lasted only a
week. the winking and nodding jobs vs the real
jobs.
http://reason.org/news/printer/stimulus-jobs-in-oregon-last-o
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Dr. Bulldog commented:
I saved or created thousands of jobs today with my own “stimulus” package”—by shopping at Walmart…
Hey, just like Obama, I can’t help it if most of my “stimulus” money went to the Commies…
Cheers
bear commented:
I save my own job every blinkin’ day by bustin’ my butt, while the obamster plays golf and megalomanic.
Craig commented:
Maybe the obama administration should listen to this great speech of Ronald Reagan. Brilliant and also funny.
Ronald Reagan Speech – 1964 Republican National Convention
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt1fYSAChxs&feature=player_embedded
bear commented:
Whoopsie, “megalomaniac.”
Stephen commented:
And the heavyweight states in Jobs Created:
Colorado–4,695
Washington–2,909
California–2,206
Florida–1,635
Texas–1,100
Georgia–1,046
And we were supposed to see some 1,400,000 nation-wide by now? Last I heard the figure was 30,000…of which 13,591 or 45.3% were in those six states. Failure doesn’t even begin to describe this.
Dell commented:
Oh, and one other insignificant detail that just didn’t make it into the statistical nightmare; 95% of the “jobs created” were minimum wage, limited in length, lacked full-time benefits and those same workers will be back on the public teat in just a few short weeks. Niccccce!
We LIKE those results; May we have another??
squeaky commented:
“It’s the biggest IOU Uncle Sam has ever written. Government figures out today show for the last fiscal year,” why good morning katie…
http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091018011615.aspx
TSB commented:
Pathetic and nauseating. Progressive delusions of grandeur.
WhoDat commented:
Apparently they couldn’t find enough minorities or ‘legal’ Americans to pick up trash, rake leaves, etc. to pad the books. Perhaps the monies were given to needy illegals to fill these jobs slots – jobs Americans wouldn’t do, blah blah blah. You can’t expect every penny to be accounted for can you?
ww commented:
Anyone having second thoughts now? Hmm? (clicking heals together) Is it 2010 yet?
squeaky commented:
Hmm? (clicking heals together)….. michelle does have a pair of ruby reds that obama uses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlDHl2NURUM
Stephen commented:
Trying to condemn the stimulus on the this basis borders on sedition.
Tragic remark–truly tragic. There is no shortage of ways to condemn this piece of trash. It has done nothing for the economy, indeed the economy got worse since it was passed. I take that back, it made the economy worse by increasing the national debt.
Furthermore, a sizable chunk of it was spent on things other than job creation and tax cuts–things like the ‘why pigs smell’ research and new government cars, just to list the most insane. Those things do nothing to help any part of the economy–they are special interest appeasement.
I love how the left says the stimulus saved the economy. If it did, then it only took around $100,000,000,000.00 to fix the economy, as virtually all of it is yet unspent, thus the concept of massive interventionism doesn’t work as we all know. However these same people say spend more, the most colorful of which being Biden’s “we need to spend more to avoid bankruptcy” (which is the dumbest thing I have heard anyone say about anything–ever).
You can’t have it both ways. If it worked, then you don’t need to spend a ton. And we all know that you don’t need to spend anything to fix the economy–remember the early 80s and 2000s?
Solaratov commented:
Trying to condemn the stimulus on the this basis borders on sedition.Joe Steel
October 18th, 2009 | 5:42 pm
Blow it out your commie bung-hole, joey.
The only good communist is a dead communist.
squeaky commented:
“The assistance will range from assessment and counseling to rapid re-housing through aid such as rental subsidies, utility bill help and security deposits, said Geraldine McCafferty, acting housing director..”
http://www.masslive.com/chicopeeholyoke/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-23/1254212610103280.xml&coll=1
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/massachusetts_needs_outweigh_i.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/11/massachusetts-spending-millions-earmarks-kennedy-legacy/#
Mike W commented:
The question begs to be asked and answered. Which is the biggest hoax the so-called stimulus or balloon boy?
As to balloon boy versus global warming hoax global warming wins in a landslide.
President Mop commented:
B-b-but Booooooooosh!
Government is one of the the least efficient means of doing anything. That’s why the Founding Fathers limited its scope.
DanO commented:
Whoa! Mike W, I think you just stumbled into The Metaphor to describe the stimulus:
like a certain bag of gas that floated aloft and then crashed, there was really nothing to it….
ar05075 commented:
Solaratov
October 18th, 2009 | 6:00 pm
Trying to condemn the stimulus on the this basis borders on sedition.Joe Steel
October 18th, 2009 | 5:42 pm
Blow it out your commie bung-hole, joey.
He does make me laugh tho.
Hypogean commented:
Joe Steel isn’t a real liberal commenter, but if he were, he’d be tearing his hair out at what’s coming in the next election:
Last year America elected a president who, in attitudes and policies, is closer to the elites of Western Europe than any of his predecessors. Yet in the nine months that he has been in office ordinary Americans have been moving away from those attitudes and policies and have increasingly embraced positions that over the years have made Americans distinctive from those in other advanced Western democracies…
My explanation is that until November 2008 Americans did not have any reason to contemplate what a more European approach would mean in real-life terms. Now, with Obama in the White House and a heavily Democratic Congress, they do. And they mostly don’t like it.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Unlike-Obama_-Americans-reject-European-model-8397573-64576077.html
It took Obama to make us realize how unique this country is. The majority of us want to preserve our freedoms, which means bye-bye to the Democrats.
Joanne commented:
It would actually be funny, if it weren’t so sad.
thebronze commented:
O’Bama has supposedly “created” 2,240 jobs in California.
At a cost of $500k per job.
FAIL.
TheScribbler commented:
Here’s a thought…how about Obama resigning? That’s one job that I’ll gladly give him credit for creating! If he’ll take Pelosi and Reid with him I’ll give him bonus points.
Make it Happen commented:
It took Obama to make us realize how unique this country is. The majority of us want to preserve our freedoms, which means bye-bye to the Democrats.
I’ve said on numerous occasions that Obama would be the worst thing that ever happened to the left, for the exact reasons you’ve outlined above. Americans now have a “real life” sample of what the left’s vision of America looks like, no longer just an abstract concept.
Thanks Barry, you’ve managed to unveil for all Americans exactly where the agenda of the leftwing lies, more taxes, more spending, more government programs, more dependency, more radical economic policies rooted in junk science, more affirmative action, and on and on.
Craig commented:
If Obama would have taken that 787 Billions dollars and divided it equally to the 306 millions citizens, you would all be rich and the economy would be skyrocketting.
jas commented:
I checked my area, 1 recipient $328k for cabin demolition? ZERO (0) jobs.
nader paul kucinich gravel commented:
5 dancing Israelis arrested on 911 in NYC demand the US start & fight more wars for Israel.
~would have been too darn expensive to remove all that asbestos from the twin towers~
Modern day warrior
Mean mean stride
Today’s Tom Sawyer
Mean mean pride
Though his mind is not for rent
Don’t put him down as arrogant
His reserve a quiet defense
Riding out the day’s events
Oh river!
What you say about his company
Is what you say about society
Catch the mist catch the myth
Catch the mystery catch the drift
sybilll commented:
I am sure THESE people were counted in jobs saved/created. Working for $11/hr to support ObamaCare: http://tinyurl.com/yjokgy7
bg commented:
++
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that, my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
–Dr. Adrian Rogers
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Margo commented:
Colorado has one of the lowest unemployment rates.
While New Hampshire has one of the highest unemployment rates.
So how is that helping the states with the highest unemployment?
Hypogean commented:
nader paul kucinich gravel
October 18th, 2009 | 8:35 pm
5 dancing Israelis arrested on 911 in NYC demand the US start & fight more wars for Israel.
I am shocked–shocked–that when someone puts all the flavors of crazy into his user name, his posts turn out to be… crazy.
Craig commented:
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.” – Milton Friedman
Craig commented:
“How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an Anti-communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
– Ronald Reagan
Limousine Liberals Stink commented:
0bama:
“What is problem?”
“Sure the economy has lost over quarter of a million jobs since I took office – maybe even a half million if you include under employed people. But, I have hired 403 new Whitie House staffers and 42 Czars at GS-15 pay level or about $57 per hour plus limousine service… and lush medical benefits.”
“I have instituted a new Cash for Convicts program to pay criminals in Massachusetts’ jails. These are the type of people who can sift through the Taxpayer’s medical records to find waste and fraud.”
“Sure, it looks like a huge waste of Taxpayer money – and it is. But, the bigger waste is the $533,000 of Taxpayer money it takes to save one ACORN job.”
“When I ‘organizing in Chicago, we realize the best way to get money is to act like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson and use the CRA to shake down banks and crakkker depositors.”
“It’s great to know that the Typical White Taxpayer is easy to fleece. If these crakkkers don’t give me their money I just call them RACISTS. It works every time.”
“My limousine is running and I have a meeting with SEIU. We have to get more able bodied people on the dole in Los Angeles so that our SEIU in home care providers will have more clients to scam (most of them are fresh out of rehab). I cannot answer any actual questions. I must go. Good Day.”
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Solaratov commented:
I am shocked–shocked–that when someone puts all the flavors of crazy into his user name, his posts turn out to be… crazy.
Hypogean
October 18th, 2009 | 9:11 pm
Now. Now. You must know that, “never in the history of the world has fire melted steel.” (RO’D)
Doesn’t it make much more sense, considered in that light?
:>)
Hypogean commented:
Solaratov
October 18th, 2009 | 10:57 pm
Now. Now. You must know that, “never in the history of the world has fire melted steel.” (RO’D)
Indeed, fire has never melted steel. Except in 2007.
http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2009/07/with-video-tanker-truck-explodes-on-i.html
And on September 11, 2001. And throughout the Industrial Revolution. But otherwise, Rosie is correct. It’s never happened.
Joe Steel commented:
Why are my comments being deleted?
Too tough to handle?
Your comments are going to spam, for some reason. They have to be manually released.
Moderator
Chisum commented:
Hey Joe,
Maybe it’s your Etch-a-Sketch website.
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Joe Steel commented:
Going to spam?
I assume that means they’re being held for review.
Why is that? They’re on topic, courteous and quite intelligent.
Something in your post is triggering the site’s filters and depositing your comments into spam. No comments are being held for review. As far as to your claim of “quite intelligent”, no comment.
Moderator
Joe Steel commented:
“No comments are being held for review.”
OK.
Thanks.
Solaratov commented:
It’s interesting that joey’s comments are tripping the spam filter; considering that spam is made from leftover parts, from eyeballs to a$$holes.
Just sayin’.