The Chicago Tribune has an interesting story that shows that Obama’s $787 billion stimulus really didn’t do much by way of creating any new jobs in Illinois. Though Obama is counting “jobs saved” as …
Read Original Story: Stimulus Stimulated Much of Nothing in Illinois – Canada Free Press
Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama signed a combined nearly $1.5 trillion in federal spending in the attempt to correct the nation’s economic tailspin, but with unemployment soaring over 10 percent, Congress is gearing up to pass …
Read Original Story: Congress scrambles to write economic 'jobs stimulus' 3.0 – WND.com
Nancy Pelosi is contemplating another budget busting stimulus package. In Pelosi’s infinite wisdom she believes the American public longs for yet another failed stimulus wrapped in the guise of jobs creation. The $787 billion original package wasn’t …
Read Original Story: A Second Bite of the Apple – Annuit Coeptis (blog)
Your story on Saturday about the stimulus money in Portsmouth is seriously in error, starting with the headline, "City stimulus jobs found to be overstated — White House estimated 29 for project; real number is 3." First, the White House has not …
Read Original Story: Herald report on city stimulus jobs missed mark – Seacoastonline.com
Well, well, so the Obama administration created recovery.gov to keep us informed about the results of the stimulus bill, jobs created/saved, reporting waste/fraud/abuse in the system. So let’s see, hundreds of jobs created/saved are showing up in …
Read Original Story: Says Obama numbers odd – Hudson Star Observer
Attempts to paint the economic stimulus package as a failure begin with wordy paeans to budget austerity and end with anecdotes of Spanish wind turbines and prison inmates. Responsible Republicans claim to have proposed a more effective alternative to …
Read Original Story: Creating Saved Jobs – Huffington Post (blog)
Last week, as the national debt topped $12 trillion for the first time in US history, one influential policymaker said, “I think it is important, though, to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt … that at some point, …
Read Original Story: America Needs More Jobs, Not More Debt – Big Government (blog)
Lawmakers say they’re moving fast to get a job-creation bill to Obama by January. It’s unclear how much of the effort would be funded with deficit spending. By Peter Nicholas Reporting from Washington – Troubled by the rising jobless rate, …
Read Original Story: Democrats work on multibillion-dollar jobs package – Los Angeles Times
Slipshod accounting for federal stimulus spending is flatly unacceptable. Taxpayers deserve to know where their money is going, and policymakers need the information to judge the effect of such spending. So the Obama administration needs to provide …
Read Original Story: 'Stimulus' error – Press-Enterprise
The Obama administration claims that its $787 billion economic stimulus program has "created or saved" 640329 jobs across the country, with more to come. That breathtaking figure includes 24448 jobs in Illinois. Really? Those employment claims are …
Read Original Story: Stimulus snow job – Modesto Bee
