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GOPers to Biden: Stop Using Stimulus Jobs Numbers

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:52:42 +0000

ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe and Rick Klein report: Amid the growing outcry about inaccuracies in the Obama administration’s claims of stimulus job growth, top Republican lawmakers today wrote to Vice President Joe Biden asking the administration to stop promoting jobs “saved or created” by the ...

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Trade Health Care for More Stimulus?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:38:38 +0000

The weekend “victory” in the Senate has Pyrrhic written all over it as 2000 pages of proposed legislation is on its way to being held hostage by the likes of Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson et al. What we have now is an abortion of a bill that will only get ...

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Fiscally Responsible Stimulus With Front-Loaded Infrastructure Investments

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:55:00 +0000

On a call with bloggers earlier today to talk about job creation policies, Nancy Pelosi outlined a smart idea for “front-loading” infrastructure projects so as to give them a stimulative effect in the short-term while also coping with valid concerns about the medium-term fiscal situation. ...

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Seven Big Lies about the Stimulus -- By: Stephen Spruiell

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:46:02 +0000

There have been dozens of news reports exposing tens of thousands of stimulus jobs as frauds -- David Freddoso and Mark Hemingway of the Washington Examiner put the number of phony jobs at about 75,000. They found more than 100 separate incidents, but these incidents can be grouped into seven ...

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ABC’s Bill Weir: Voters Sent Senator Landrieu to Washington to ‘Get as Much Sausage’ as Possible

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:53:50 +0000

Good Morning America’s Bill Weir on Sunday defended the $300 million in pork that Senator Mary Landrieu acquired for her state, spinning, " The people of Louisiana, sent her to Washington to get as much sausage as they could, you know, she could." Landrieu provided the 60th vote on ...

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Democrats Considering Direct Jobs Program — Will Deficit Fearmongering Prevent It?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:44:09 +0000

Ryan Grim at the Huffington Post reported today that “as desperate Democratic lawmakers cast about for ways to create jobs from Capitol Hill, a 1970s-era jobs program is getting a fresh look”: Known as CETA — the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act — the program ...

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Stimulus funds finally flowing to weatherization | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/22/2009

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:40:00 +0000

After getting out of the Army in 2006, Brian Smith kicked around from job to job. He worked as a security guard. He was a retail supervisor. He spent some months at a warehouse. Nothing seemed to last. Now, Smith is among a small group of veterans who make up the first class of ...

Eschaton found this 2 days ago on philly.com

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The People Who Sell Their Forecasts to Paying Clients Believe the Stimulus Is Working

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:44:13 +0000

Only those who make their nut one way or the other by pleasing Republicans claim that it isn't. Jackie Calmes and Michael Cooper are on the case: Jackie Calmes and Michael Cooper : Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their ...

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Stimulus job-count guidelines frustrate

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:24:43 +0000

Forgive the average citizen if the federal stimulus does not appear as transparent as promised. The federal government says the stimulus has directly created or saved 5,658 jobs in Nevada. The state puts it at 5,080. Sen. Harry Reid’s office says it’s 6,134.

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Stimulus fund job benefits exaggerated, review finds

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:14:18 +0000

Revere spent $485,500 in stimulus funds to install solar panels on the roof of the Beachmont School and claimed to have created 64 jobs on the project. Revere spent $485,500 in stimulus funds to install solar panels on the roof of the Beachmont School and claimed to have created 64 jobs on the ...

CNSNews.com Headlines found this 13 days ago on boston.com

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News reports: So far, over 10 percent of stimulus jobs doubtful or imaginary (UPDATED)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:48:49 +0000

By: Mark Hemingway and David Freddoso Washington Examiner 11/16/09 12:20 PM EST More than ten percent of the jobs the Obama administration has claimed were "created or saved" by the $787 billion stimulus package are doubtful or imaginary, according to reports compiled from eleven major ...

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Businesses Hiring Fewer Workers Thanks To Expanded Unemployment Benefits In Stimulus Bill

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:30:53 +0000

Again and again liberals have insisted that one of the best ways to help with America’s unemployment problem is to expand unemployment benefits. In fact, expanded unemployment benefits were part of the “stimulus” spending spree that was supposed to create more jobs . ...

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Podcast: ObamaCare news, "Saved & Created" Jobs, Cory Maye's New Trial, Guantanamo Bay Detainees, Guest: Mike Hassinger

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:50:21 +0000

On November 16th, the national debt for our nation broke the $12 trillion dollar mark . Jason , Brett and Doug had joked on Twitter about getting together to “celebrate” this accomplishment by having a few drinks. Since geography prevented us from meeting together in a physical ...

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Stimulus official: Can't certify job stats

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Chief federal oversight official can’t certify if number of jobs “created or saved” by stimulus funds is accurate.

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White House adviser is open to additional economic stimulus

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:22:29 +0000

By Alec MacGillis In a sign of the gathering momentum for additional economic stimulus, a top White House economic adviser on Thursday expressed openness to the possibility of additional aid to local governments to prevent layoffs or even to the creation of a new public jobs program to spur ...

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Stimulus Goes to the Dogs

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:12:06 +0000

Katherine Mangu-Ward | November 18, 2009 President Obama in a speech to the National Conference of State Legislatures on March 2009: Now, no plan is perfect. And I can't stand here and promise you that not one single dollar will slip through the cracks. But what I can promise you is that we ...

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GAO finds fault with stimulus jobs data but touts transparency

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:08:19 +0000

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75,343 Bogus jobs 'created or saved' by the Stimulus

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:24:21 +0000

View Bogus jobs 'created or saved' by the Stimulus in a larger map More from David Freddoso News reports: So far, over 10 percent of stimulus jobs doubtful or imaginary For economic stimulus, California turns to...garter snakes? AP buries the lede: Obama will push additional tax hikes ...

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Dems To Claim Offense On Stimulus

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:25:42 +0000

Dems will spend next week trying to claim the offensive on the economy after rising unemployment rates in recent months have driven Pres. Obama' s approval ratings to new lows. Party strategists see a Saturday front page story in the New York Times as a landscape-altering moment. The story ...

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Botching The Stimulus Calendar

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:14:41 +0000

Here’s a headline in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer: “Stimulus funds finally flowing to weatherization.” It’s the kind of headline that makes one first blink, then dumbly nod, then wonder: What were these guys thinking? This money, along with $700 billion-plus ...

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