More people believe Elvis is alive than believe the Stimulus created jobs

[knuckleboner]

sure, but how many did we lose in those same three months?

what's your point? the fact is that the recession, which began in 2007, and lasted throughout all of 2008 was still causing job losses the second obama took office. (significant job losses - 741,000 in january 2009).

so yes, if we saved 2 jobs but lost 4, it sucks for 2 people. but isn't it better than losing all 4?

or is the assumption that if we had continued to do nothing, that somehow, miraculously, the worst recession since the great depression would've instantaneously fixed itself, and all of the damage it caused in the preceeding 14 months?

[kwame k]

Well, Greenspan's and Bernake's attitude towards the economy was laissez-faire and you see what that got us.

God help us if we actually put safe guards in place and regulate the industries that got in this mess.

[kwame k]

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[Hardrock69]

Would the Retardlicans rather we create NO jobs and just let the country die?

That has always been their platform.....ruin the country while waving flags and screaming about how patriotic they are....

[kwame k]

Would the Retardlicans rather we create NO jobs and just let the country die?

That has always been their platform.....ruin the country while waving flags and screaming about how patriotic they are....

Pretty much seems to be their goal all along.

[LoungeMachine]

Would the Retardlicans rather we create NO jobs and just let the country die?

That has always been their platform.....ruin the country while waving flags and screaming about how patriotic they are....

The RePukes have 2 mottos....

Government is broken [spoken right after they break it see also: FEMA]

And I want government made smaller....just small enough so we can drown it in the bathtub.



RePukes HATE America.

[kwame k]

The RePukes have 2 mottos....

Government is broken [spoken right after they break it see also: FEMA]

And I want government made smaller....just small enough so we can drown it in the bathtub.



RePukes HATE America.

Speaking of FEMA and Dubya hiring his unqualified buddy for that top spot......

FEMA didn’t do a heckuva job on its contracts under President Bush.

The disaster agency spent twice as much as it needed to for a building in Tennessee that smelled like sewage and had insects, roaches and bullet casings strewn over its floors, according to Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's report conducted by Foxx and Company.

The building was in such bad shape and so full of potentially harmful chemicals that one FEMA employee who ended up working there developed a rash that lasted for 3 months. A cleaning company told FEMA they'd need $1.2 million just to clean it up.

These problems and others — including wasting $3 million on Pedialyte that expired and buying mobile surgery units that were never used — were discovered in a damning investigation into an agency that has had its share of public relations problems since Hurricane Katrina. The report, dated Feb. 3, investigated contracts made under the Bush administration. It had not previously been made public.



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[Unchainme]

Would the Retardlicans rather we create NO jobs and just let the country die?

That has always been their platform.....ruin the country while waving flags and screaming about how patriotic they are....

Don't know.

either way the country is fucked if you think about it.

Spend and try to create government jobs and then at the same owe billions of dollars to the chinese as we spend our way into further debt.

I'm all for creating jobs, but there has to be a way to do in which we don't dig ourselves further and further into debt.

We need to cut spending BAD. period. stick to the bare essentials until we can get out of this mess.

[Unchainme]

Well, Greenspan's and Bernake's attitude towards the economy was laissez-faire and you see what that got us.

God help us if we actually put safe guards in place and regulate the industries that got in this mess.

the housing market should have been regulated better, of course.

[kwame k]

Yeah, I know all too well about that one .....