Wry Catcher
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On Feb. 13, 2009, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 at the urging of President Obama, who signed it into law four days later. A direct response to the economic crisis, the Recovery Act has three immediate goals:
Create new jobs and save existing ones
Spur economic activity and invest in long-term growth
Foster unprecedented levels of accountability and transparency in government spending
The Recovery Act intends to achieve those goals by:
Providing $288 billion in tax cuts and benefits for millions of working families and businesses
Increasing federal funds for education and health care as well as entitlement programs (such as extending unemployment benefits) by $224 billion
Making $275 billion available for federal contracts, grants and loans
Requiring recipients of Recovery funds to report quarterly on how they are using the money. All the data is posted on Recovery.gov so the public can track the Recovery funds.
I suggest those who want to be informed read the link to Recovery.gov and not take Fox News and Foxfyer as the final word. Cherry picked stats and facts may fool some of the people all of the time (a shout-out to CrusaderFrank and Stepanie) but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
I'm willing to bet there isn't a single con who posts here who has ever gone to Recovery.gov. They believe it's all lies. They also won't read the extensive analysis done by Greenbeard. That would mean their beliefs that Obama & Co sit in the White House and dream up Socialist/Communist plots in order to form a new social order might not be true. They might have to admit that, in fact, they had no choice.
LOL I GO TO RECOVERY.ORG every day. It is from that site I got most of the INFO on how almost all the "JOBs" Created are temporary Jobs.
Try again.
Maybe you need to go read that whole site.
lol
Maybe you need to define "temporary jobs". Building a bridge or a highway or a buiding is a temporary job, once the project is built, however, other jobs are necessary to maintain or operate the finished project.
All construction jobs are temporary, are they not?
Either the conservatives on the MB are stupid (or stupid liars, Rep. Boehner, a fine example on MTP today) or actually believe the bull shit put forth by the Republican leadership, Limbaugh, Boehner, McConnell and Murdoc, which makes them willfully ignorant.