In Weekly Address Obama Praises Plant Where Failed Stimulus Created ‘Green’ Jobs at $2 Million Per Job
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, August 13, 2011, 9:56 AM
And, you wonder why we were downgraded? With leadership like this? Seriously?
President Barack Obama toured a vehicle battery plant in Michigan on Thursday. During his visit Obama touted his administration’s focus on green technology and jobs. Thanks to the Obama-Pelosi failed stimulus bill this same corporation has created “green” jobs at a cost of about $2 million in federal subsidies per job. This is Barack Obama’s definition of success.
Today in his Weekly Address, Barack Obama praised this same battery plant as the way forward.
From this week’s address:
On Thursday, I visited a new, high-tech factory in Michigan where workers are helping America lead the way in a growing clean energy industry.
They were proud of their work, and they should be. They’re not just showing us a path out of the worst recession in generations – they’re proving that this is still a country where we make things; where new ideas take root and grow; where the best universities, most creative entrepreneurs, and most dynamic businesses in the world call home. They’re proving that even in difficult times, there’s not a country on Earth that wouldn’t trade places with us.
That doesn’t mean we don’t face some very tough economic challenges. Many Americans are hurting badly right now. Many have been unemployed for too long. Putting these men and women back to work, and growing wages for everyone, has got to be our top priority.
But lately, the response from Washington has been partisanship and gridlock that’s only undermined public confidence and hindered our efforts to grow the economy.
And, of course, Obama blamed political bickering for the current economic crisis and downgrade.
Don’t expect the democrat-media complex to report on this.
They’re too focused on the political bickering.
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Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
Lately I’ve been having a problem telling the difference between the POTUS and a POS.
Gimme a Break, I'm just a Hobbit commented:
Obama is a miserable failure.
Swifty commented:
He is still clueless. He is a damn disgrace.
Major Kong commented:
What’s that annoying noise? Oh, never mind, it’s just the man-child trying to sound relevant and credible.
tj commented:
More redistribution of wealth… from taxpayers to union members and the handout crowd.
tarpon commented:
Have a bong, el Bongo man. Chill out.
The guy is beginning to be a funny little caricature of a real president.
Rose commented:
And now the OBAMA ADMINISTRATION is investigating S&P for INSIDER TRADING – because OBAMA PUPPETMASTER GEORGE SOROS GAMBLED AMERICA IS FAILING??????
tommy mc donnell commented:
a country where the most creative entrepreneurs and dynamic businesses can work to make the politicans rich. modern fuedialism.
FurryGuy commented:
With Carter we had President Malaise. With Clinton we had President Bubba.
President Downgrade is making me long for the days of Clinton and, yes, even Carter.
patman commented:
Give me $2mill and I’ll turn it into $10mill.
That’s why I love my country.
I took my dad’s lawn mower and I turned it into two college degrees, a stint on Wall Street, a company that employed many, and an amateur race car career.
Now I am starting over.
God bless America!!! And eggs and gyros meat. And Safeway coffee…
Happy Saturday everyone!
Eddie Willers commented:
He really is becoming irrelevant. The truly sad part is he probably thinks in the free market venture capitalists actually should invest 2 million per job.
As Krauthammer said he’s the Anti E.F. Hutton… “When B.H. Obama speaks nobody listens”
Rose commented:
#3 August 13, 2011 at 10:15 am
Swifty commented:
He is still clueless. He is a damn disgrace.
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DISGRACEFUL he is.. but CLUELESS???? SERIOUSLY??????
ACCOMPLISHING EVERYTHING HE HAS OPENLY WORLED FOR – FOR 32 YEARS AND NEVER ACCIDENTLY DOING ANYTHING THAT FALLS TO AMERICA’S FAVOR??????? A SINGLE TIME?????????
AND HE is the one who is CLUELESS???????????????????????????
He’s a damned effective foreign agent, if you ask ME!
And if “looking Stupid” is the price he has to pay for what he is doing while living the most Creme de la creme lifestyle – I’m sure he is really suffering!
WE are the one treating him like he is some Inspector Cleauseau and he is destroying everything in his path like 7 brigades of German Sherman Tanks
And you think he is that old war joke going “tankity tankity tank!” as he rolls along. LOOK AT THAT WAKE!
LOOK at what he TAUGHT ACORN to do!
CLUELESS?????
WHO IS STANDING BY WATCHING HIM DO IT WITHOUT THROWING ANY [EFFECTIVE] OBSTACLES IN HIS PATH!!!
HadEnough commented:
Hey Barry you clueless bobble headed f*ck………..if an idea smacked you upside your head it would probably snap that scrawny neck of yours. Just go on vacation for the next 1 1/2 years and let somebody else lead this country the way it should have been led.
Mark commented:
This is not a leader, but a commissar.
gus commented:
I’m starting a BATTERY COMPANY.
I’ll call it GUS’S GREEN BATTERY COMPANY.
First I’m writing a check to Obama’s campaing.
then……I’M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!! ON YOU SUCKERS!!
rbosque commented:
The government has no business picking winners and losers especially at such a staggering cost. This should not escape proponents of big government as an example of gov’t inefficiency and incompetency.
Conservative Ken commented:
The United States has no President. The individual calling himself such is impeachment fodder, if the Republicans have the guts to go after him.
tommy mc donnell commented:
how long before this plant goes out of business or moves to china. that seems to be what a visit from then myth causes.
Old Fan commented:
It was all predictable, the enormous failure, it is the Democratic Partisan way.
And they still want to give the rights of US Citizens to Terrorists and try them in Our US Courts.
The Democratic Party is a disaster.
gus commented:
Face it folks. Obama is a fvcking clown.
#1AMERICAN commented:
biggest POS mooslum destroying this country…
Major Kong commented:
The one good thing that can be said about being delusional, I suppose, is that it protects the sufferer from the realization of how much it totally sucks to be you.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/morning-jay-president-has-no-idea-what-do-himself_588228.html?nopager=1
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/12/us-obama-leadership-idUSTRE77B5G920110812?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Politics+News%29
rbosque commented:
It would have been cheaper to cut everyone a check for $100,000 to the employees. And just think, Obama will be asking for QE3 soon. Does anyone here think he’s going to take that money and use it wisely?
There’s no question he’s going to have us borrow billions and the money will either be flushed down the toilet, given to his union pals and supporters, and (yet again) prop up some other failed socialist wet dream green project.
Patty commented:
Whomever is writing this crap for Obama needs to be fired. As I cannot imagine a President believing this. But of course it is the Obama after all.
Swifty commented:
Yes, he is still clueless. His total lack of understanding on what it takes to help create jobs, not actually create them, comes out everytime he talks about jobs.
SeniorD commented:
The Lame Duck Walking (aka Hillary’s Target) must continue to spew the Trust Fund Socialist line regardless of how dumb he looks.
cal rifkin commented:
…and the media completely and efficiently covers every damn thing up. The government media complex is still alive and well. Any nation that’s similarly afflicted won’t remain free for long.
2centsworth commented:
To put money into a safe bet, I would wager that this non-corporation green plant (which is absent of all human interaction!) is loaded with non-Wall Street investors (right!) who happen to have links to our vain-glorius leaders in Washington, their families and friends.
The stimulus, like global warming, is nothing but a big slush fund for friends of__________(name your insider here, ie Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Donald Trumpka…)
StrangernFiction commented:
Barky admits that his supporters are a bunch of fools:
“When I ran in 2008, I think that a lot of folks believed we elect Obama and suddenly we’re going to fix politics in Washington,” Obama said.
http://www.politickerny.com/2011/08/12/obama-compares-himself-to-cuomo-weinstein-calls-andrew-an-angel/
lol commented:
did he ride off on his unicorn after touting the mythical green jobs crap. maybe just maybe he should focus on manufacturting jobs. (real jobs) blah-blah-blah green jobs, blah-blah-blah blame the republicans again. 2012 can not get here soon enough.
Mitch Rapp commented:
And, How much MONEY did Johnson Controls spend on lobbying Obama, donations to his Campaigns or flowers and cake at his many vacations? perhaps, it was just a set of golf balls that made Obama so generous,
In the meantime, have you looked at your power bills? add ons, mandates, political posturing and graft has my last kw at 40cents
big L commented:
He is not clueless. He is running dn the uSA to a eurosoviet style country. These green jobs are his five-year plan.
Can you say S-o-l-y-n-d-r-a. That was the plant in calif that was to have 1000 greeen jobs. biden was there- so was Arnie. Solar Panels. Moved Plant to N.C. Closed the calif plant, after spending millions on it. Dollars. Clsoedthe NC plant. There was supposedly $500 million bucks waisted on this ‘green job” five-year plan…
and the owner? never saw a name but he was a bundler of donations for Obama ’08 campaign reportedly…But what the hey wealthy people support Obama-what is the harm in that?
MamaGrizzly commented:
That doesn’t mean we don’t face some very tough economic challenges. (WHICH I CREATED) Many Americans are hurting badly right now. (THANKS TO ME)
Many have been unemployed for too long. (CUZ’ I’M SUPER BUSY DESTROYING AMERICA)
Putting these men and women back to work, and growing wages for everyone, has got to be our top priority. (PLEASE DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO THIS STATEMENT–IT WAS JUST FOR SHOW)
Gotta go–vaca time, and I’m needing my golf fix.
Coasta commented:
This is truly petty but cannot help it. Those little fingers of his making the “pinch” all the time really gets on my nerves! Like we are being half scolded or something because he certainly can’t directly point, it would be too aggressive.
Doug Edelman commented:
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-st-louis/the-democrat-downgrade More info on the “Democrat Downgrade”
By the way, the Downgrade Logo I created (which GWP has posted with permission) is available on gear at http://www.cafepress.com/rightthunder if you’re interested!!
don abernathy commented:
Let me C…….shovel goobs of taxpayer money at the corporation…. and then complain that they don’t pay enough in taxes……..
IT MUST BE BARRYWORLD
ROFLMAO