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So? And a Republican wouldn't have created a stimulus package? McCain wouldn't have? Obama handled the stimulus very poorly. It could have been used much more effectively. He could have done something about those shovel ready jobs which weren't shovel ready if he had actually focused on jobs instead of just giving lip service and saying over and over for a whole year that he got it, he got that we cared more about jobs than about what he was doing, and he'd definitely get around to jobs as soon as he got done with the regulation-heavy healthcare law which he squandered his political capital on. He wasted time and extended the uncertainty and let the stimulus fizzle. He didn't pay attention to his mortgage rescue program. He took his eye off the ball.
People have trudged along and found jobs and created jobs in spite of Obama, not because of him.
Oh come on. Are you really going to say it isn't a big deal that a single bill created 3 million jobs? That's weak. What exactly made him handle it poorly? No I don't believe a republican could have done the stimulus. The republican solution is tax cuts. Ones mainly directed at the wealthy. Those have been proven to be poor economic stimulators in today's economy.
It did not create 3 million jobs. "Supports 2.9 million jobs" is not "created 2.9 million jobs".
McCain would also have had a stimulus package. He wouldn't have sat around and done nothing while people clamored for action.
What made Obama handle the stimulus poorly was that he didn't make sure that it was going where he said it was going to go. There was poor oversight and faulty implementation. Lip service was paid to infrastructure, but the work wasn't done which was needed to get the money to where it could be put to best use. My governor used the money in an ephemeral way to postpone making meaningful budget decisions. Jobs were supported -- briefly -- and then they evaporated when the stimulus money ran out. Obama giggled about the shovel ready jobs not being shovel ready. It wasn't funny though. He could have had teams out there helping agencies get their proposals ready to go, helping them get through the miles of paperwork which stands in the way of infrastructure projects. He didn't. He just laughed about how empty his words were, while he was creating another costly boondoggle which has become the symbol for government incompetence.
No that is not true. The stimulus created over 3 million jobs but since that time a few were lost but 2.9 million remain. That is exactly what that means.
Yes the stimulus fell short of expectations but that hardly matters at this point. We lost 8 million jobs. We got all of them back thanks in part to his stimulus package.