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Pelosi Says Unemployment Rate Would Have Hit 14.5% Without 2009 Stimulus
Weekly Standard ^ | 7:28 PM, OCT 6, 2011 | JOHN MCCORMACK

Posted on 10/06/2011 8:40:03 PM PDT by newzjunkey

Nancy Pelosi refuses to use the word "stimulus" to describe the president's "American Jobs Act." But when asked today to name significant differences between the Jobs Act and the 2009 stimulus package, Pelosi didn't identify any...

"Without the Recovery Act and accompanying federal interventions, whether from the Fed, or Cash for Clunkers, or other initiatives, the unemployment rate last year at the time of the election would have been fourteen and a half percent, not nine and a half percent," said Minority Leader Pelosi. ....

(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: obamanomics; pelosi; stimulus; stimulus2
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Oh really? That's not what you guys said at the time.


1 posted on 10/06/2011 8:40:11 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: newzjunkey

It’s 20% right now. That will never be reported by the MSM.


2 posted on 10/06/2011 8:42:39 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: newzjunkey

I call BS but hey, whatever happened to that promised “no higher than 8%,” PelosiIdiot?! =.=


3 posted on 10/06/2011 8:43:10 PM PDT by cranked
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To: newzjunkey

If Zero and his lackeys didn’t control the statistics, the real actual unemployment rate would be 14.5 anyway. The 2009 stimulus didn’t create any PERMANENT jobs. Give aways to banks, failing clean energy companies, state bailouts, etc. but no NEW PERMANENT jobs.


4 posted on 10/06/2011 8:45:13 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: newzjunkey

The Unemployment Rate would have hit 25% without my buying a new car in 2009.

There, I can play this game too.


5 posted on 10/06/2011 8:45:48 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Romney as president will just destroy the country slower than Obama.)
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To: newzjunkey

She’s being modest. It would have hit 110%. Obama saved us all. [/s]


6 posted on 10/06/2011 8:46:27 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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To: newzjunkey
San Fran Nan is delusional. Well, I should say more delusional than she used to be, dementia is progressive.
7 posted on 10/06/2011 8:47:36 PM PDT by jazusamo (The real minimum wage is zero: Thomas Sowell)
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To: newzjunkey
As always, they are caught in their own lies.

Yea, yea, Pelosi...like we have to vote on it in order to be able to know what is in it.

Fact is, she's just continuing with her liberal/socialist/marxist mantra.


8 posted on 10/06/2011 8:51:23 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: newzjunkey

Did her face move at all when she pulled that out of her @ss?


9 posted on 10/06/2011 8:55:30 PM PDT by Grunthor (Heartless Bigot for Cain.)
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To: newzjunkey

Ms Pelosi,

It is a 100% certainty that 71.235% of all statistical references are made up.


10 posted on 10/06/2011 9:00:37 PM PDT by burroak
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To: buccaneer81

I heard that spaz Dylan Ratigan actually say that number today. I almost blacked-out.


11 posted on 10/06/2011 9:03:47 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: newzjunkey

Nan Nan Nan it is truly over 20% now so make up a better lie next time....


12 posted on 10/06/2011 9:07:23 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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Did her face move at all when she pulled that out of her @ss?

I was going to make a similar comment, but add if you are going to pull numbers out of your @ss, why not pull 20.3%? 31.762418%?

What a douche! I apologize that's not right, I mean douches have a purpose - SanFranNan, not so much!
13 posted on 10/06/2011 9:07:23 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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but of course, she once said that if we didn't pass obamma's first stimulus plan, then 500 million Americans would be unemployed..

http://nukegingrich.com/2009/02/03/five-hundred-meeeelyun-unemployed-americans/

14 posted on 10/06/2011 9:18:29 PM PDT by grandpa jones
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To: newzjunkey

Pelosi is the MINORITY leader. She should get her food stamps and go home.


15 posted on 10/06/2011 9:18:59 PM PDT by lwoodham (There are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: EEGator

There actually are some intellectually honest leftists. Ratigan and Schultz had a cage match on MSNBC earlier, and Fat Boy Ed was the usual loser.


16 posted on 10/06/2011 9:48:58 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: buccaneer81

That’s where I saw it. It was from the Drudge link.


17 posted on 10/06/2011 9:52:49 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: newzjunkey

Pelosi pulls whatever numbers she thinks sounds good out of her botox infused nether regions - she’s a habitual liar.


18 posted on 10/06/2011 10:00:40 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name.)
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To: newzjunkey

This is like that ridiculous “jobs saved” statistic.

Just pulled out of the ****ing air for idiots to hear and believe.


19 posted on 10/06/2011 10:02:04 PM PDT by denydenydeny (The moment you step into a world of facts, you step into a world of limits. --Chesterton)
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To: newzjunkey

Pelosi is a piker. She doesn’t think big enough. She could have said unemployment would have reached 50% without the Stimulus. Then you could truly say the people that supported the bailout saved us from disaster.

Pelosi is like Gaddafi. He ran Libya but only made himself a colonel.

You have to dream big, Nancy. Go big or go home.

On second thought, just go home.


20 posted on 10/06/2011 10:28:42 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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