Posted on 09/23/2011 12:24:42 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Senate GOP leaders may be trying to cast the president’s latest jobs proposal as another “failed” stimulus measure, but not all Senate Republicans agree that the 2009 government spending spree was such a political disaster.
Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe are sticking by their votes in favor of the original Obama stimulus from two years ago, and both Republicans said last week that the law created jobs, though it could have been more effective.
“I don’t think [the stimulus] failed. Virtually every study I have seen has given the stimulus credit for the creation of between 1.3 million and 5 million jobs,” Collins said.
“I think people forget that more than a third of the stimulus was spent on tax relief,” she continued. “I have always wondered why that has gotten lost in the debate.”
“Nevertheless, I believe the stimulus would have been far more effective if the money had gone for infrastructure, and that is what I advocated,” Collins said.
Snowe also said the 2009 stimulus had merit in preventing the economy from collapsing and created jobs in some areas of the economy but not in others.
“Nobody in 2009 was arguing against a stimulus,” she said.
As Snowe sees it, the stimulus was supposed to give the private sector a breather from the economic downturn.
But it didn’t exactly work out that way. She blamed big-government solutions to issues, such as the president’s push for a health care reform law, for impeding private-sector rejuvenation.
She added that the administration and Congress didn’t pursue the issues that would have been important for reinvigorating the economic environment to be conducive for capital investments, hiring more people and creating the overall conditions for economic growth.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
so obamacare was a big time government intrusion according to her, but the never-shovel ready jobs nearly a trillion dollar stimulus WASNT?
Wonder if there is anybody in Maine smarter than these two dudds..
Maybe NoT!...
Really? I didn't know the vote was unanimous!
Are any Freepers from Maine?
BS!
Yes she has played that role many times.
Yes... hopefully not dumb ones..
Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe stand by every half-witted, progressive scheme. Don’t feed the RINOs.
The Lenin sisters are liberal idiot RINOs and have to be removed from office. Hopefully a real conservative will challenge both next time they are up.
Yes.
Geez, if we tried chasing down the things that befuddle Susan Collins, we'd be busy for ten lifetimes.
I saw a bumper sticker on a car with maine plates yesterday : “Susan Collins is our favorite lesbian”...who knew she needed stimulus??
I saw a bumper sticker on a car with maine plates yesterday : “Susan Collins is our favorite lesbian”...who knew she needed stimulus??
I saw a bumper sticker on a car with maine plates yesterday : “Susan Collins is our favorite lesbian”...who knew she needed stimulus??
Prove it.
What jobs, where?
Unemployment is just under 10 percent. How did the stiulus create jobs???
When you put it that way, it makes the old Maine biddies seem mentally ill or something.
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