{"id":695,"date":"2009-07-15T07:49:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T11:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2009-07-15T07:49:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T11:49:02","slug":"obamas-dismal-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/economy\/obamas-dismal-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Dismal Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The democrat&#8217;s &#8220;stimulus&#8221; bill has been proven to be what it was labeled when it was rammed through congress and down the throats of the American people, a &#8220;porkulus&#8221; bill.  It was supposed to boost the economy, but has had the predictable, opposite effect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/public\/content\/article.aspx?RsrcID=50971\">House Republicans, attempting to regain the mantel of fiscal responsibility after screwing that pooch, point out the failure of the democrats porkulus sceme<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe report we got from the Department of Transportation is dated July 3rd,\u201d said Mica at the Capitol Hill press conference.  \u201cIt indicates how much money of the $48 billion [allocated to the Transportation Department] they have control over has gone out &#8212; that\u2019s $523 million \u2013 1 percent, approximately 1 percent. And the top 10 states of unemployment, our leading states, including the District of Columbia, only $83 million has gone out to those states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis stimulus package was sold to the country as being an infrastructure bill,\u201d said Rep. John \u2018Jimmy\u2019 Duncan (R-Tenn.), \u201cand yet only somewhere between 7 and 8 percent of it was aimed at or provided for infrastructure in the first place.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n \u201cRemember, the stimulus promised 3.5 million jobs was being created, and yet 2 million jobs \u2013 additional lost jobs \u2013 have been lost. Dismal failure.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stimulus promised,\u201d said Diaz-Balart, \u201cand we were told that in the budget committee and we were told that publicly by the administration, that unemployment would not go above 8 percent if that stimulus passed. Look at the numbers now.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course the democrat&#8217;s porkulus bill isn&#8217;t helping the economy.  That isn&#8217;t what it was intended to do. <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipseweb.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/goals-priorities.html\">The goal of the Obama administration is not to fix the economy, but to fundamentally change the role of government in the United States of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The democrat&#8217;s &#8220;stimulus&#8221; bill has been proven to be what it was labeled when it was rammed through congress and down the throats of the American people, a &#8220;porkulus&#8221; bill. It was supposed to boost the economy, but has had the predictable, opposite effect. 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