Bill Clinton Still Supports Failed Stimulus But Says It Wasn’t Big Enough
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 5:32 AM
And, just think…
He’s supposed to be the “smart” democrat.
Bill Clinton told reporters this week that the $787 billion failed stimulus was not big enough.
But, back in 2009 he said he liked the stimulus and urged bipartisan support for the plan.
The Politico reported:
Former President Bill Clinton said he likes the economic stimulus – it just wan’t big enough.
“I think the stimulus did as well as it could have done — there just wasn’t enough of it,” Clinton told reporters on Tuesday.
President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill, signed into law in 2009, has since being a rallying point of contention for Republicans and conservative tea party activists.Clinton has made his support for the stimulus package clear in the past, telling Fox News in 2009: “I think the stimulus package is well conceived. A lot of it puts money in people’s hands, with the unemployment benefits and the food stamps and the tax cuts. A lot of it keeps the states and local governments from laying off a million more people or having big tax increases with the aid to education and health. And then I think the energy and the infrastructure investments will create the jobs the president wants. So I like the conception of that.”
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bg commented:
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OT..
Sowell: Is Democracy Viable?
[The media have recently been so preoccupied with a Congressman's photograph of himself in his underwear that there has been scant attention paid to the fact that Iran continues advancing toward creating a nuclear bomb, and nobody is doing anything that is likely to stop them.
[..]
A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians — risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has — is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic.
[..]
In other words, people who are willing to give government more arbitrary power can give up their birthright of freedom without even getting the mess of pottage. Worse yet, they can give up their children’s and their grandchildren’s birthright of freedom.]
tell US about it.. like i said, we need
tabloid mentality intervention..*sigh*
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RedBeard commented:
Of course. Libs spend other people’s money. It’s just what they do, like scorpions stinging people or horses depositing road apples. They can’t help being what they are.
Ginger commented:
That scumbag in the picture above that likes to unzip his pants in the Oval Office is the reason I switched from democrat to republican and if Sarah doesnot run for president and win I will switch to Independent! Right now the corrupted republicans makes me SICK! TRAITORS!
∅ commented:
It’s as if zero’s “shovel ready wasn’t as shovel ready as I thought” statement didn’t happen! WTF world do these people live in?
Ruebacca commented:
Yep. Bigger government bureaucracies with more 100k paper pushers/porn surfers would get the economy rolling again. Lets go down to 4 students per teacher too.
big L commented:
“…but wasn’t big enough.” Someone should tell the ex-President Clinton that the topic was economics not weiner-nomics…
BarbaraS commented:
What he really means is he didn’t get his fair share of this money.
chicago commented:
he’s definitely flaky!
Carbon Pootprint commented:
Needed to be bigger, more wasteful putting us over the edge? What’s the matter Bill your Cloward and Piven riots haven’t started yet?
Ginger commented:
bg…………..Every day I have to deal with my thoughts of guilt because I pray and pray hard for God to rid us of that evil scumbag and his evil scumbag followers. The so called leaders who are not in on this treason to take us down as a country are the lowest life form that I can think of. How in God’s name can a person take rewards knowing that they are sending their loved ones to their deaths! All the FBI… Secret Service people that have sworn to protect us is in on the taking down of America.
Do they really think they will be allowed to continue their wonderful life style? Hey whitey….you will be the first to be taken down! You will not longer be needed! Why do you think that the kenyan fraud has his muslim cousin in every part of any form of our government? TO SPY ON YOU because he does not like nor trust Whitey!
The actions of the little black boys doing their stealing and beating up white people is I believe part of the conspiracy to make us afraid and hide in our homes. The closer it gets to election day there will be an awful event happen where the kenyan fraud will call Martial Law and there will be no elections!
Every one keep an eye on all those hundreds of mosques that they are building in our America. I bet they are loaded with the kenyan frauds cousins and ammo!
Ginger commented:
Fox reported that the pervert Weiner is back in rehab!
chuck in st paul commented:
That’s pretty much been the Marxists’ meme – if it didn’t work it’s only because we didn’t do it BIG enough! The corollary is that the guys who tried it before and failed just weren’t as smart as us.
Liberalism IS a mental disease. QED.
#1AMERICAN commented:
bill take your ugly POS wife and get the HEL& out of our country…we have had enough of the 2 of you for good
bg commented:
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Who are they? No, who are they really? And why did
they write the $800 billion stimulus bill last spring?
[Billionaire George Soros is the key player in the group since it was
formed and funded by the Tides Center (Soros) but he's joined on
the Board of Directors by:
Leo W. Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers of America
Gerald Hudson, Executive Vice President of SEIU, the labor union
responsible for interdicting the town hall meetings this summer.
Terence O'Sullivan, President of the Laborers'
International Union of North America
Nancy McFadden, former apple polisher to Vice President Al Gore.
John Podesta, radical utopian socialist and
former apple polisher to President Bill Clinton.]
Van Jones
Apolo Alliance
[A director of New York State’s chapter of Apollo Alliance is Jeff Jones
(no relation to Van Jones). AA’s website describes Jeff Jones as
someone devoted to “cleaning up toxic pollution in inner-city and rural
neighborhoods and revers[ing] global warming.” The website does not
mention that in the 1970s Jones was one of the four key leaders of the
Weather Underground terrorist organization, along with Mark Rudd, Bill
Ayers, and Bernardine Dohrn.]
Van Jones, Samantha Power, Susan Rice & Bill Clinton invite you
to the 2011 Campus Progress National Conference. July 6, 2011
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StrangernFiction commented:
Good vs. Evil and there is no accomodating evil.
Mark commented:
Clinton, go away. No one even wants to remember you were president.
Joanne commented:
Who cares what Clinton has to say anyhow.
bg commented:
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re: #14
Apolo Alliance = Apollo Alliance
following links & more via CB
“One World Socialist”
not funny, please watch & listen..
sad to have to state this, but none of the above (and so
much more) is new, we just aren’t an “informed” nation..
however, in order to not only maintain the indoctrinated tabloid
mentality, but prevent catastrophic mass withdrawals, more on
Wieners weenie at 11.. /how stupid are we sarc/
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bg commented:
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re: STF #15
irony throughout history is, evil repeats itself..
“what the fascist left have been aiming for is to “equate” good with evil..
that’s the only way they can appease their conscience in the face of the
harsh reality they are trying to escape from because it does not fit in with
their ideological utopian matrix.. if there is no good vs evil, then all is good
even if [the] all is evil..” – bg
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Wayne commented:
Clinton is smart like Obama is smart. With is to say not very. I wish something could be done about the bias in the MBM. It’s the media that perpetuates this kind of BS and there are too many sheeples in this country that unfortunately believe their crap.
bg commented:
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re: #19
STF = SnF
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RedBeard commented:
The only way Slick Willie looks good is in direct comparison to Obama. Objectively, he’s still a degenerate, a leftist, an opportunist, and a liar.
Slick needs to shut up and sit down, unless he intends to pass up Jimmy Carter as the worst ex-president in history.
Eddie Willers commented:
Sir Bedevere to the witch hunting mob:
And what else do you burn apart from Witches?
Answer from Village Serf # 3: MORE WITCHES!!!
You see everything I need to know about Progressive Liberals has already been acted out by the cast of Monty Python or Seinfeld…
Jerry C commented:
“A lot of it keeps the states and local governments from laying off a million more people or having big tax increases with the aid to education and health. And then I think the energy and the infrastructure investments will create the jobs the president wants.”
Finally, the truth. Save the government non-wealth-creater workers and inefficient / costly / wasteful government bureaucracies at the expense of private wealth-creaters. Of course, throw the private sector a bone but only if they do work on gov projects. This admin is worse than an outstanding enemy army at our gates. They’re inside tearing us apart.
Old Fan commented:
Yeah, but we will see someone, even someone misguided from the right, try to tell us how “centrist” the Clinton con job is again.
Hillary has been a disaster as Secretary of State, and she has been pushing mindless “collectivism”, even “communist” concepts as she has traveled the Globe.
The Clintons remain one of the biggest pieces of fraud ever sold to the USA and the World – and their disastrous offering continues to sink all.
Chris in N.Va. commented:
Saying the O-Zone-Man doesn’t have a big enough stimulus (and ol’ Slick Willy is pretty well versed in Oval Office stimuli!) sounds like a code-word racist slam, doesn’t it? Sure it does.
What next? “You show me your stimulus and I’ll show you mine!” ??? (Wee Willy’s willy wheees!!!)
Captain Clinton’s (as well as our Clothes-less Emporer’s) solution for the Titanic would simply be to drill a bigger hole in the bottom to let all the water out.
burt commented:
FDR use the same tatics. It didn’t work then either. It was not until World War II that FDR’s disasterous policies ended, and the country started to sell weapons to Europe.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Bill Clinton told reporters this week that the $787 billion failed stimulus was not big enough.
Ha ha ha, it’s easy for someone to run his big mouth when it ain’t his ass on the hot seat.
JPeden commented:
“Amos and Andy” analyzes our situation:
Kingfish: Hey, Sapphire, I’ve been thinking, don’t Clinton’s thoughts on life only prove that Alzheimers disease has done struck all dem.”Black” and both dem., er, radical Islamist Presidents right along up until today?
Sapphire: Why, Kingfish..swoon..I’ve never heard you think before….Yes, dem. ol’ demokkkrat mouths, they never ever stops moving, and I’ve heard their Progressive Religion even calls it their “life after death”.
Kingfish: You mean…gulp…they’re Zombies?
Sapphire: More technically, Arukaloo.
Kingfish: Sapphire, honey!, shoudn’t we be, er, getting back to Africa right about now?
Sapphire: Huh?
Mutnodjmet commented:
I would argue he is. After what Team Obama did to the Clintons in 2008, Bill wants Barry to be a complete, utter, and historic failure. What better way than to encourage Obama to go down the path of complete, utter, economic oblivion. If it happens soon enough, the Clintons may still be able to primary Obama. At this point:It’s like the 1930′s met the 1970′s and had a LOVE CHILD!. I know the former President is smart enough to see this. Go Bill!
JPeden commented:
The Big “O” Man’s done Obamboozled his own bad self into thinking rubbing elbows with “the Stars in Hollywood” is the goal of life, hence we heretics simply shall not exist except to “serve” if we bend, over! He’s endowed himself with the Marxist throw-back “false consciousness”, you know, so the small fry don’t ever know it’s wet – as is par for the course in the case of the Progressive Regressives.
I’m even beginning to suspect that if we took away his
remaininggolf balls he wouldn’t be able to fool himself at all via intermittently practicing up his b.s. and living out his fantasies on the Course, since he’s apparently also done been euniched right from birth. He’d be exactly what he wants us to be, and he almost knows it.As it stands he’s only the latest Super-flake among flakes. But he’s probably not even “corn fed”, like Dave Dixon of St. Louis’ own 1600 am KATZ of the past was always alleging about the great Albert King. Conclusion, No Contest!
tommy mc donnell commented:
of course he like the stimulus, he’s a communist. politicans should spend all of the money.
Bawney Fwanks commented:
He got his bigger stimulus while in the White House. Moncia Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers, etc.