Let’s See How that Stinkulus Package is Working Out:
I found this excellent, well researched, and well thought out post over at Michael Eden’s blog “Start Thinking Right.” It’s well worth your time to read it in its entirety as it has some excellent little gold nuggets to throw at your Obamite sycophants:
Obama Reveals His Porkulus Was Bogus In His Own Bogus Claims
By Michael Eden – Start Thinking Right
Pardon my language, but the Obama stimulus bill was crap. It hasn’t produced squat. It was a gigantic $3.27 trillion socialist spending giveaway that has rightly been called “the Generational Theft Act of 2009.”
First we had Barack Obama, then Joe Biden, falsely claiming that they had the porkulus plan had created or “saved” 150,000 jobs. There is no proof that any such number of jobs have been created (the figure is actually merely an estimate of what Obama’s own economic advisers say they think the stimulus bill is doing, and not based on any evidence whatsoever of its actual effects). And for what it’s worth, I can claim that I “saved” 150,000 jobs – and you just try to prove that I didn’t.
Any rational human being has to mock Obama for claiming he “created or saved” jobs. The national media would NEVER have allowed George Bush to get away with such pinheaded partisan polemics. By contrast, the mainstream media wouldn’t even allow Bush to claim he kept America safe in spite of the obvious fact that he clearly did. Even five years after 9/11, fully two-thirds of New Yorkers said they were still “very concerned” about another terrorist attack on the city. Everybody thought we’d be attacked by terrorists again. Bush kept the American people safe by carrying the fight to the enemy on foreign soil. Yet the media that has blithely allowed Obama to claim he “saved” jobs has bitterly resisted allowing Bush to claim he “saved” lives.
Obama’s arguments that the stimulus worked have increasingly come to sound like Hitler’s claims that the invasion of the Soviet Union worked.
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11 July, 2009 at 9:02 am
Would like to thank you for posting this article of mine and to add one comment:
Conservatives NEED to do two things: 1) We need to be able to show that Democrats are largely responsible for what happened to the economy in 2008. When Democrats assumed control of both the House and the Senate in 2006, unemployment was 4.4% and the Dow was at 11,986. Why is it that Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and total Democrat control not responsible for the subsequent slide? And we can document that Bush and Republicans DID try to regulate the housing finance market at a time when such regulation would have averted the 2008 crisis – and Democrats TWICE blocked such regulation. 2) We need to show that the Democrats’ economic policies – which they said would fix everything – has in fact made the economy FAR worse.
I’ve got another article that people should read:
http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/biden-we-misread-the-economy-and-its-all-the-republicans-fault/
I’m not trying to claim that I’ve got the best arguments. But SOMEONE has to have a response to the Democrats (“We ‘inherited’ the economy from Republicans”) that marshals the facts in a coherent presentation. And that response HAS to get out to correct the liberal demagoguery.