WH Spokesman: “Stimulus Goals Have Been Met” …Huh?

White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters today that the “goals” of the stimulus package “have been met.”
Really?

Barack Obama tripled the national deficit in his first year after the stimulus passed. When Speaker Pelosi took over Congress the national deficit was $162 billion. When she exited in January 2011 it was at $1.29 Trillion dollars. Next year the deficit will be even higher.

This chart was updated to reflect the recent news that the deficit this year will reach $1.6 trillion. (The Captain’s Comments)

The reckless spending of the Obama-Pelosi regime damaged the economy for years to come.

Spending was up 84% under Obama.

The democrats doubled the unemployment rate from where it was when they took over Congress.

(Source: US Misery Index)

If democrats were planning on destroying the economy then… “the goals have been met.”

#1 February 17, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Granny commented:

Exactly Jim – the “goals have been met” because the goal all along was to turn the United States of America, the most powerful and productive nation on earth, into a third world hole on the verge of bankruptcy.
#2 February 17, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:

White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters today that the “goals” of the stimulus package “have been met.”

Doesn’t anyone in those pressers ever challenge lies when they’re dispensed?
#3 February 17, 2011 at 1:58 pm
gru57 commented:

…………. next step is to declare martial law …………………….
#4 February 17, 2011 at 2:02 pm
∅ commented:

Urkel’s Underwear Gnome Government Stimulus Model:

1. Steal Taxpayer money
2. ?
3. Profit
#5 February 17, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Swifty commented:

And I believe I heard him say under his breath that there is now peace in the Mid east and we just won the war in Afghanistan. Mission accomplished all the way around. Drinks for everyone. Happy days are here again !!!!
#6 February 17, 2011 at 2:10 pm
dunce commented:

Goals as defined in orwellian speak or more accurately undefined. Obama has bragged that when he speaks on a matter, both sides leave thinking that he agreeed with them. He got to the white house on airy generalities,hope for what, change to what.
#7 February 17, 2011 at 2:11 pm
NickDeringer commented:

2+2=5
2+2=5
2+2=5
2+2=5
#8 February 17, 2011 at 2:26 pm
succotash commented:

Where exactly were they met? China? Anyone with 1/3 of a brain knows this is pure BS,yet the MSM let these lies go by without question. I am shocked that the majority of Americans who are paying attention aren’t heavily medicated on valium.
#9 February 17, 2011 at 2:32 pm
TexasFred commented:

Is there ANYONE in the Obama regime that isn’t a freaking MORON?
#10 February 17, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Paul in N. AL commented:

Of course they were met, their stimulus goals were to drive up unemployment.
#11 February 17, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Militant Conservative commented:

I agree with granny, The goal all along was Cloward and Piven to collapse America into a socailist net. Chaos around the globe is kinda helpful in this huh.

powder is dry
#12 February 17, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Betsy Ross commented:

No doubt about it, the new press secretary can’t put lipstick on the pig known as the failed stimulus plan, it’s still a pig that failed.
#13 February 17, 2011 at 2:39 pm
squeaky commented:

more money than we can wrap our brain around and a promised tracking system that doesn’t track – what could possibly go wrong. how much of it ended up in b’s cronies back pocket – a little walking around money.
[-- Swindlers, con men, and thieves could siphon off as much as $50 billion of the government's planned stimulus package as the money begins flooding the economy in coming months, according...]
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/stimulus-fraud-could-hit-50-billion
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_13425120
#14 February 17, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Dee in CA commented:

It’s amazing that the LSM (Lame Stream Media) goes along with the LIES coming out of this Administration, DAILY!! But then, the LSM is the ‘Government Media’ these days…
#15 February 17, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Granny commented:

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#14 February 17, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Dee in CA commented:

It’s amazing that the LSM (Lame Stream Media) goes along with the LIES coming out of this Administration, DAILY!! But then, the LSM is the ‘Government Media’ these days…
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Actually, the MSM is complaining rather vociferously that they are being locked out and that the WH is running it’s own state media organization using Facebook, Twitter and other social networking. (And they aren’t far wrong!)
#16 February 17, 2011 at 2:49 pm
flip - flop - flip commented:

We won’t need to hire any PR firms in 2012 – the Dems are writing our election ads for us. Wow.
#17 February 17, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Chrissy B commented:

The fact that Carney could say this with a straight face leads me to believe that he was snorting unicorn farts just before the press conference.
#18 February 17, 2011 at 3:08 pm
averagemelon commented:

And the recession is over too. So why the big budget Obambi?

There are too many stoopid people running and rooting for this idiot in charge.
#19 February 17, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Valerie commented:

#9

short answer- no. There are smart Democrats in this country, and they are not the political appointees made by this administration.
#20 February 17, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Bk commented:

“the goals have been met,” or stated otherwise, dare I say it ——

The Economy, Mission Accomplished!
#21 February 17, 2011 at 3:47 pm
jomojava the infidel commented:

Straight from the Democrat instruction manual:

Regardless of how disastrous a policy decision or program turns out to be, just “Declare Victory and Move On”.
#22 February 17, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Carter II - You're Busted Back to Community Organizer 2012 commented:

Using the arguably more honest way of calculating unemployment (i.e., the way it was done before Bill Clinton’s administration cynically decided to ‘update’ the measure of unemployment, making it underreport and therefore unreliable), Obama has put us at depression level near 25% unemployment. Yes, that’s 1 out of every 4 Americans out of work and out of hope under Obama’s economic policies. That’s the reason all your friends, family and neighbors can’t find work – there is none, and Obama’s recovery is almost as elusive as his honesty and modest temperment.

Yes folks, Obama turned a leftist housing policy triggered recession into a great depression, and in office all he’s done is murder the private American economy and with it the standard of living of current and future Americans. His incompetence and malevolence are simply astonishing. Heaven help us if this man gets a 2nd term…

Using the older more honest way of calculating inflation, Obama’s pushed it to 10% (not the circa 2% officially reported)- astronomically high, and predictable, given Obama’s guaranteed-to-result-in-inflation policy of monetizing the debt. That’s why gas and food costs so much nowadays, and one more Obamanomics driven reason why smart people are not hiring, or moving production offshore.

Stats / Info from:

http://patriotstatesman.com/2011/02/america-the-apathetic-2/

Who also states, totally accurately in my estimation:

“…Of course I understand that the president is going to present things through the prism of rose colored glasses, he cannot just come out and say that America is in the crapper and I led us here. But it is irresponsible for President Obama to go before the American people, like he did on Tuesday, and tell what can only be called a bald-faced lie when he said “my budget puts us on a path to pay for what we spend by the middle of the decade.” In fact it never comes anywhere close to balancing the budget, is loaded with massive new tax increases, and doubles our already unsustainable national debt (to which he’s added more to than any president in history) to more than $26 Trillion. In short, he is going to collapse our economy if Congress does not put a stop to his seditious actions right now…”

See also:

http://www.shadowstats.com/

http://www.shadowstats.com/article/employment
#23 February 17, 2011 at 4:05 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

you mean now that they have reached their goal they are going to stop doing things to destroy this country?
#24 February 17, 2011 at 4:16 pm
AuntieMadder commented:

If democrats were planning on destroying the economy then… “the goals have been met.”

And there you have it.
#25 February 17, 2011 at 4:24 pm
Obama Worshipping Idiot commented:

Peace is war.

“The Labor Department said that 410,000 people sought unemployment assistance last week, a jump of 25,000 from the previous week. The rise was much larger than economists had expected.”

Slavery is freedom.

I can wait until 1984.

Been down so long it looks like up to me.
#27 February 17, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Scott commented:

Not unlike former Obama-mao budget director David Orzag who answered “what deficit” when asked about the nearly two trillion dollar 2009 budget deficit…These people treat the American people with utter contempt as they spin the most outrageous lies…
#28 February 17, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Scott commented:

Never forget that Bill Clinton and Senate democrats narrowly defeated the balanced budget amendment passed by House Republicans circa 1995…Now, we watch as a confirmed communist who never held a real job in his life spends this nation into default…
#29 February 17, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Scott commented:

The federal reserve through “Quantitative Easing” is buying US Treasuries with printed money…This is not unlike a company that continues to sell stock with no commensurate increase in earnings, or real value…The company’s stock is watered down and devalued by the market. This is what the desperate fools in Washington are doing with our money. They are destroying the currency rather than rein in their profligate spending. Such cowards!
#30 February 17, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Iconoclast commented:

Carney seems to be one of the few individuals in this regime as clueless as his former boss, the VP and as dishonest as his present one.
#31 February 17, 2011 at 9:44 pm
No Man commented:

Madoff is doing 83 years hard time for doing less.
#32 February 18, 2011 at 6:39 am
Scott commented:

By any measure, the Unites States is the richest country in the world…We as Americans should not let the media and the government project their “bankrupt” mentality on the rest of us. Yes, our government is bankrutpt…But, that does not mean that America is bankrupt. Yes, we have severe unemployment relative to past measures and yes this is a time of crisis. Still, most Americans are quite well off. We just need to guard against the government stealing more of our money and destroying our currency in a bid to save their spendthrift ways.
#33 February 18, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Zack commented:

The depiction of the budget deficit is misleading. The final fiscal year for which George Bush was responsible was FY2009, which had a deficit of 1.4 trillion dollars. Obama’s first budget shrank the deficit to 1.2 trillion dollars. He isn’t solely responsible for the increase in the budget or the deficit, he’s been working with the financial situation left behind by his predecessor. Of course, what are facts when they don’t fight in with your political narrative?
#34 February 18, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Chisum commented:

Zack,

Speaking of inconvenient facts, Bush never signed off on the 2009 budget because the dem controlled House never presented it to him for signature. They preferred to wait until BO was sworn in. BO added more spending and signed it behind closed doors.

Look it up.