PolitiFact | Scott Brown says stimulus 'didn't create one new job'
The stimulus bill "didnt create one new job."
Which is hilarious since Scott Brown lobbied and received stimulus funding to install broadband Internet where his constituency is at.
StimulatingBroadband.com: Feds Award $160 Million in Broadband Stimulus Funds
Ron Paul, who once wrote a letter to CNN calling the stimulus a waste of money, signed onto a request asking Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood to "give full consideration" to a $81.3 million stimulus request for a railroad improvement project in the Houston area. According to Paul:
"The project proposed by the GCFRD application will facilitate freight movement in the Houston region, which will enhance economic development, safety, livability and sustainability benefits."
Paul's request also stated that the project would helping to eliminate railway congestion issues that cost Houston area shippers $429 million a year.
Center for Public Integrity: Stimulus opponents... | Gather
Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) slammed President Obamas recovery and reinvestment plan.
AND THEN:
This provision will have a real impact in Missouri, especially for low-income, working families in need of safe and affordable housing. Bonds amendment will save more than 700 housing units and create 3,000 new jobs in Missouri.
Republicans take credit for the stimulus plan after they voted against it.
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Do I really need to go any further? We all sit in front of the Internet. It's easy to do searches. Actually, anyone here can do a search and find out which Republicans FROM THEIR STATES are taking stimulus or have already created jobs.
Do a search from any search engine using phrases similair to: GOP takes credit for stimulus
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https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy....,cf.osb&fp=d4bbda87bf5c44b5&biw=1742&bih=882
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So the next time USMB Republicans say the stimulus created no jobs or was a failure, then please explain why so many of your leadership took hundreds of millions of dollars and created thousand and thousands of jobs.
In fact, how many of your presidential candidates took stimulus money? If you know about your candidates, how many took Obama's help? If you're going to vote for them, at least know what they are doing. Do I have to find out for you?
The Stimulus was mishandled.
It was like heroine used to get a prostitute to do your bidding. Once you get them hooked they start feeling withdrawal pains when the money stops coming in. It was meant simply to generate dependence.