June 8, 2009
How does a president save or create jobs, exactly?
Obama is ramping up stimulus spending in order to “create or save” jobs:
President Barack Obama is announcing Monday that he is ramping up stimulus spending exponentially in the next three months, allowing the administration to “save or create” 600,00 jobs — four times as many as during the first 100 days since he signed the bill.
The spending plans include National Parks, summer youth jobs, veterans’ medical centers, police and teachers.
Obama will make the announcement during a late-morning Cabinet meeting, when Vice President Joe Biden will present a Roadmap to Recovery, which the White House calls “an Administration-wide effort to accelerate implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in its second 100 days.”
I’m just waiting for some real breaking news, like how this money is going to “create or save” jobs in the first place. Or, better yet, how will this be measured? I’m tired of our president making claims that can never be proven. I could claim that I’m creating and saving jobs, too. That doesn’t mean I actually am. In a month when Obama claims how his ramping up spending accomplished this goal, how will the validity of these claims be tested? Quite simply, they can’t be.
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I can without reservation, and I can prove it, that I am responsible for creating one job. I have been able to do this by stimulating myself to get up and going to work every day – something Obama cannot seem to do.
Comment by dave christensen — June 8, 2009 @ 1:56 pm
By waving his magic wand, silly, and summoning the job-birthing unicorns forth from the secret stimulus cave.
Comment by Obi's Sister — June 8, 2009 @ 5:20 pm
The Boy In The Whitehouse is an economic ignoramous and cannot be trusted with a checking account let alone the Treasury of The United States of America.
This overspending binge he is on has one design: Bankrupt the Government in order to Nationalize the economy.
End of story. End of Country. But he will fail. It is too evil to go on much longer.
PRODUCE THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE, NOW, SOETORO!!!!
Comment by Bear1909 — June 8, 2009 @ 5:21 pm
I am reminded of the claims made by The Politburo about the success of each and every Five-Year Plan. We old Cold Warriors used to look forward to them because we were always guaranteed a good laugh—Oh, those crazy Commies!
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Comment by Bob Belvedere — June 8, 2009 @ 7:11 pm
Barry reminds me of Nick the bartender in the alternate world of “It’s A Wonderful Life”, ringing the government cash register repeatedly and saying “Hey, get me – I’m handing out jobs!”
Comment by Calvin Dodge — June 8, 2009 @ 8:55 pm
What an utter fraud O is. Thanks for the great post.
Comment by Jill — June 9, 2009 @ 9:23 am
[...] How exactly does one prove that a job was not lost because of something that Obama did? The answer is he cannot. But he has a complicit media telling everyone he is doing such a great job with the economy. Wonder if the media will continue down such a path when they lose all their jobs? It is the equivalent of us saying; today Scared Monkeys saved the world because it did not spontaneously combust today. It would seems about the same type of tested accomplishment, sarcasm intended. Share This [...]
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