Brief Thoughts on the Third Anniversary of the ‘Stimulus’

Posted by in Blog, Featured, Politics on February 17, 2012 9:48 am / 3 comments

Three years ago today, President Obama signed the stimulus bill designed to kickstart the economy. It failed. Unemployment is still above 8 percent, and it is predicted to stay there until 2014. Under the administration’s own predictions we are worse off than if the stimulus was never passed.

Long term unemployment is over 40 percent – the highest since 1948. Further, the number of Americans in poverty is up as well. And while we may be seeing some anemic recovery now, remember that the stimulus ended a year ago, the economy only started to rebound after the GOP won the House and fought the President’s tax and spend policies tooth and nail.

What’s more, the Democrats refuse to even pass a budget.

Three years later, the stimulus has failed and so has Obama. Only 262 days until Election Day 2012. “One term proposition,” indeed.

 
 

3 Comments

  1. SHARKSBREATH says:
    February 17, 2012 at 2:13 pm

    Everything you stated is true. The only thing I don’t understand about Republicans is that you act like this is Obama’s fault.

    Your country is in the toilet because of Republican policies. We didn’t have any of these problems when Bush came into office.

    Your the party that said deficits don’t matter and the surplus was a bad thing.

    When we were spending 800 billion in Iraq no Republican was complaining about the the deficit.

    Na matter how bad the economy is it’s in better shape because we have a Democratic president.

    When Bush came into office unemployment was at 4%. When he left it was 8% and we were losing a million jobs a month.

    But I know. That’s somehow Obama’s fault.

    I guess if you don’t believe in math you can make a case for putting a Republican back in the WH.

    Even though the math shows Obama has lowered the unemployment rate. Something you can’t say about any Republican President in 30 years.

    Sucks to be you making shit up all you life.

  2. RB says:
    February 17, 2012 at 2:35 pm

    I was going to “fisk” this stupid comment point by point… then I realized it would be a waste of time with this dullard.

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