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Barack Obama Admits That “By Design” You Remain Unemployed
Red State ^
| February 2, 2010
| Erick Erickson
Posted on 02/02/2010 12:41:27 PM PST by Stoat
Barack Obama Admits That By Design You Remain Unemployed
Barack Obama refused to help get unemployment down in 2009 by design so he could get credit in the 2010 election year instead.
Many of us have been saying it for a while. The White House intended that the stimulus money, which the White House intended to use to save or create jobs, would not really be spent in 2009 as unemployment soared to over 10%.
On page 9 of Obamas budget proposal, we find that, in fact, the White House is now admitting this fact. You are still unemployed by government design.
Barack Obama writes,
All told, as of the end of November 2009, about 50 percent of Recovery Act fundsor $395 billionhas been either obligated or is providing assistance directly to Americans in the form of tax relief. By design, the bulk of the remaining 50 percent of Recovery Act funds will be deployed in the coming months of 2010 and during the beginning of 2011 to support additional job creation when our economy continues to need a boost. Many of the programs slated to receive additional funding in the near future are those with significant promise of job creation. These include more than $7 billion in broadband expansion, approximately $8 billion in funds to lay the foundation for a high-speed rail network, and continued funding for other transportation projects. All told, the Recovery Act is on track to meet the goal of disbursing 70 percent of its funds in the first 18 months of its life.
(Budget at p.9)
So wait? Even after 18 months all the money wont be spent?
To put this in perspective, consider what the President said in his State of the Union address:
One year ago, I took office amid two wars, an economy rocked by severe recession, a financial system on the verge of collapse, and a government deeply in debt. Experts from across the political spectrum warned that if we did not act, we might face a second depression. So we acted immediately and aggressively. And one year later, the worst of the storm has passed.
But the devastation remains. One in ten Americans still cannot find work. Many businesses have shuttered. Home values have declined. Small towns and rural communities have been hit especially hard. For those who had already known poverty, life has become that much harder.
This recession has also compounded the burdens that Americas families have been dealing with for decades the burden of working harder and longer for less; of being unable to save enough to retire or help kids with college.
So I know the anxieties that are out there right now. Theyre not new. These struggles are the reason I ran for President. . . .
For these Americans and so many others, change has not come fast enough. Some are frustrated; some are angry. They dont understand why it seems like bad behavior on Wall Street is rewarded but hard work on Main Street isnt; or why Washington has been unable or unwilling to solve any of our problems.
What the hell? This man says last week that we acted immediately and aggressively and this week says by design, the bulk of the remaining 50 percent of Recovery Act funds will be deployed in the coming months of 2010.
That is not immediately and aggressively. He says one in ten Americans still cannot find work but also says in his budget, the Administration moved rapidly to sign into law, just 28 days after taking office, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the Recovery Act) to create and save jobs, as well as transform the economy to compete in the 21st Century. (Budget at p.8)
Obama is trying to have it both ways. He admits his stimulus money is dragging out and that even after 18 months it wont all be spent. At the same time, he tells the public at the State of the Union that the reasons there is still 10% unemployment is bad behavior on Wall Street is rewarded but hard work on Main Street isnt and Washington has been unable or unwilling to solve any of our problems.
Well, he has the last bit right. Washington was unwilling to solve the problems because 2009 was not an election year and 2010 is. The President of the United States refused to help get unemployment down in 2009 by design so he could get credit in the 2010 election year instead.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: education; government; healthcare; jobs; military; obama; stimulus; unemployment
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Barack Obama
refused to help get unemployment down in 2009 by design so he could get credit in the 2010 election year instead.
I would say impeach him now, prosecute and jail him, but do I want Biden as Prez? I think that it can indeed get worse....
Let's see if ANY of the MSM pick this up at all.
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posted on
02/02/2010 12:41:27 PM PST
by
Stoat
To: Stoat
Good luck getting anyone to report this.
To: Stoat
Biden is a clown and will have no respect.
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posted on
02/02/2010 12:44:11 PM PST
by
wiggen
(Never in the history of our great country have the people had less representation than they do today)
To: Stoat
Barack Obama and Progressives, by design, are dismantling and destroying Capitalism (and thereby America) by their agenda.
Can you say New World Order?
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posted on
02/02/2010 12:44:30 PM PST
by
Lucky9teen
(A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is just putting on its shoes.)
To: Stoat
I have to wonder, is there anyway that the public sector will be able to blunt the loss of jobs in the private sector given the scope of the tax increases that are in his budget?
To: Stoat
I am unemployed by my design and not Boama. It is called a planned retirement! I am lucky enough to still be on course and not like the millions that had their dreams destroyed by Boama and Biden.
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posted on
02/02/2010 12:48:28 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(concerned conservative.)
To: FlipWilson
I bet the Dem’s are banking on a resounding NO in answer to your question.
To: Stoat
The Lame Stream Media will not pick up on this - it doesn't fit their agenda.
Obozo's plans are to "create" government jobs to address unemployment? Putting more people on the government payroll, even by extension of government contracts for transporation expansion/construction/repairs, does not create new jobs. The taxpayer will be made to foot the bill of paying for these government "created" jobs, which will only result in more national debt not less. Too bad the liberal demoncRATS in Congress are incapable of understanding that which JFK and Reagan knew - tax cuts creates new jobs.
To: Lucky9teen
It’s not a new world order - it’s socialism wrapped in “progressive” speak.
To: Stoat
That’s assuming the money government buys votes, which it likely won’t buy anything. Everybody knows, well maybe not the dense Obama voters waiting for their free gasoline, knows the government can create any jobs.
After doing a fair amount of federal contracting work, when the contract ends so do the jobs.
Who else thinks government money buying jobs feels a little icky. Sort of like getting a street walker at a sale price.
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posted on
02/02/2010 12:51:44 PM PST
by
Tarpon
( ...)
To: johniegrad
Good luck getting anyone to report this.Reported or not, people know when they are unemployed, and it looks loke a rough November for Dems.
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posted on
02/02/2010 12:53:26 PM PST
by
ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
(Pat Caddell: Democrats are drinking kool-aid in a political Jonestown)
To: Stoat
"but do I want Biden as Prez? "
At least that would take the "race card" out of play.
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posted on
02/02/2010 12:53:55 PM PST
by
FrankR
(The ones of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
To: FlipWilson
I have to wonder, is there anyway that the public sector will be able to blunt the loss of jobs in the private sector given the scope of the tax increases that are in his budget? Agreed.
I don't buy the premise of this article. Each 'stimulus' job, funded by taxpayer money, probably costs >1 private industry jobs (the jobs that provide the tax revenue)...
The only way to get employment up, is to get the economy healthy -- and that comes with cutting taxes and slicing down the government overhead ...
Present Obama doesn't have a magic wand to create permanent jobs. He can run his shell game of creating a temporary spike of some government funded jobs - but this will cost more private industry jobs in the long run...
The only thing to be assured of is that Obama will continue to grow the misery index...
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posted on
02/02/2010 12:55:05 PM PST
by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
To: FlipWilson
Nope, unemployment will increase, Repubs will get the House, probably not the Senate, and then we will have 2 more years of slow collapse. It will be very ugly as in a depression. If we survive it, progressive will become a very dirty word for sometime to come.
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posted on
02/02/2010 12:56:36 PM PST
by
east1234
(It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
To: Stoat
State controlled American media (SCAM) Headline?
Total jobs created, saved, planned, and likely to be planned: 15,000,000
Fastest New Job Pace in History
"Obama is the 'jobs president,'" say TV, newspapers journalists
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posted on
02/02/2010 12:58:53 PM PST
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: Stoat
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posted on
02/02/2010 1:00:00 PM PST
by
Gilbo_3
(Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
To: Stoat
The plot becomes a bit clearer everyday...
All this time of incessently blaming Bush for everything, he has been setting the stage for his big 2010 "comeback tour", and will use the 'stashed TARP/Stimulus' money to pay off the Unions, ACORN and SEIU to steal the 2010, and probably the 2012 election.
This is why congress has gone full speed ahead, damning the torpedoes of loss of office...obama has assured them that he will "buy" their re-election, or pay them off handsomely for their sacrifice on behalf of his communist agenda.
Folks, we're in for a hell of a ride...buckle up.
There was a post yesterday that the unions were going to "quash" the Tea Party movement...a terroristic threat if you ask me, of course, I'm not a lawyer.
However, in the grand scheme of things, when you compare the numbers the union thugs, ACORN, SEIU, et al...against the rest of us (about 2/3rds of the country) they are a fart in a hurricaine.
All we've got to do is man-up and turn out in numbers so vast that we overwhelm them. So far, comrade obama doesn't have his complete brownshirt corps in place, so if we're going to do it, this is the year to do it.
Onward Christian Soldiers...the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.
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posted on
02/02/2010 1:02:26 PM PST
by
FrankR
(The ones of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
To: wiggen
He may be an incompetent clown,
but is Biden as bent on the destruction of America as Zero is?
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posted on
02/02/2010 1:04:18 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: SoldierDad
You don’t think all the nationalizing (and socializing) this government is doing, isn’t leading to a bureaucratic collectivist one-world government?
During the 20th century, many statesmen, such as Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill, used the term “new world order” to refer to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power after World War I and World War II. They all saw these periods as opportunities to implement idealistic or liberal proposals for global governance only in the sense of new collective efforts to identify, understand, or address worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual nation-states to solve. These proposals led to the creation of international organizations, such as the United Nations and N.A.T.O., and international regimes, such as the Bretton Woods system and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which were calculated both to maintain a balance of power as well as regularize cooperation between nations, in order to achieve a peaceful phase of capitalism.
In the aftermath of the two World Wars, progressives welcomed these new international organizations and regimes but argued they suffered from a democratic deficit and therefore were inadequate to not only prevent another global war but also foster global justice. Thus, activists around the globe formed a world federalist movement bent on creating a “real” new world order. A number of Fabian socialist intellectuals, such as British writer H. G. Wells in the 1940s, appropriated and redefined the term “new world order” as a synonym for the establishment of a full-fledged social democratic world government.
It may seem “conspiratorial” but if you look at that, as the end game for these “progressives”...it all makes sense what they are doing. Class warfare, nationalization, bailouts, government control, et al = Government Takeover.
Interesting reading here: http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/
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posted on
02/02/2010 1:05:24 PM PST
by
Lucky9teen
(A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is just putting on its shoes.)
To: wiggen
And BO has respect?
At least Biden is American born & raised.
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