Recovery Summer...........

[Dazey Mae]

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[NC YIPPIE]

Help the GOP win to recover? That's hilarious. Thanks for posting!

[mary51802]

Good post!  Yeah it is a joke and now all the news is reporting with his new "infrastructure" program it will take up to a year to create those shovel ready jobs.

Good luck with that. The last money for shovel ready was put toward states deficits and no one used it.

Funny he was trying to rally union workers on TV and say the jobs are coming. What do they have to worry about ? They have jobs at great pay? I am so tired of his sound bite, rah rah speeches. Tell us something real!!!

[natvrabit]

Good post!  Yeah it is a joke and now all the news is reporting with his new "infrastructure" program it will take up to a year to create those shovel ready jobs.

Good luck with that. The last money for shovel ready was put toward states deficits and no one used it.

Funny he was trying to rally union workers on TV and say the jobs are coming. What do they have to worry about ? They have jobs at great pay? I am so tired of his sound bite, rah rah speeches. Tell us something real!!!

Well, I happen to know for sure the recent intersection improvement project at 751 and O'Kelley Church Rd. happened as a result of those monies. It had been placed on the back burner by the state until the "shovel ready" appeared.
Not saying I agree with much that has taken place lately in DC, but just saying I know this was a needed project that got accomplished and the folks doing the work were glad to be doing it.

[djkelly]

That's an example of how the stimulus funds should have been used.  Projects that were needed and already planned.

Unlike other projects where it was more of a here's some money now what can we do with it.  The sidewalk along 15-501 above Cole Park was one of those.

[SBB]

In my travels across the US this summer I saw a lot of road work being done with the stimulus money.  It was especially needed in the Yellowstone and Glacier national parks.

[Silk_Hope]

But where are all the jobs the stimulus money promised?

[SBB]

But where are all the jobs the stimulus money promised?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/08/who_can_we_blame_for_job_losse.html

"How much unemployment can we blame on the Obama administration? Economist Rob Shapiro dug into some Bureau of Labor Statistics data and came back with the best numbers I've seen on the subject. He separated job losses into two buckets: Those that happened before the stimulus, which was Obama's major effort to deal with joblessness, and those that happened after the stimulus. Here's what he found:

From December 2007 to July 2009 – the last year of the Bush second term and the first six months of the Obama presidency, before his policies could affect the economy – private sector employment crashed from 115,574,000 jobs to 107,778,000 jobs. Employment continued to fall, however, for the next six months, reaching a low of 107,107,000 jobs in December of 2009. So, out of 8,467,000 private sector jobs lost in this dismal cycle, 7,796,000 of those jobs or 92 percent were lost on the Republicans’ watch or under the sway of their policies. Some 671,000 additional jobs were lost as the stimulus and other moves by the administration kicked in, but 630,000 jobs then came back in the following six months. The tally, to date: Mr. Obama can be held accountable for the net loss of 41,000 jobs (671,000 – 630,000), while the Republicans should be held responsible for the net losses of 7,796,000 jobs.

"

[SBB]

http://politicalcorrection.org/factcheck/201008300002

CBO: The Recovery Act Created Jobs, Lowered Unemployment, And Boosted GDP.  According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, through the second quarter of 2010, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:

•Raised the level of real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) by between 1.7 percent and 4.5 percent,
•Lowered the unemployment rate by between 0.7 percentage points and 1.8 percentage points,
•Increased the number of people employed by between 1.4 million and 3.3 million, and
•Increased the number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) jobs by 2.0 million to 4.8 million compared with what those amounts would have been otherwise. [CBO, 8/24/10]

[SBB]

http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=2442
August 6th, 2010 by Karina

"But July marked the seventh straight month of private sector job growth with 71,000 private sector jobs created last month (and 630,000 private sector jobs this year). That's a sharp turnaround from the end of the Bush administration, when we were losing nearly 750,000 jobs a month. At the recession's peak, job losses totaled 8.4 million–the most since World War II as a proportion of total payrolls:"

private sector by , on Flickr


"Private sector employment has increased for seven straight months.
American manufacturing is the largest single contributor the U.S. economy, generating about 12% of our GDP, and is central to our economic recovery. Thanks to the recovery efforts by the Obama Administration and the Democratic-led Congress, America's manufacturing base has now grown for 11 straight months–with more than 180,000 manufacturing jobs created over the last seven months:"

[mary51802]

2 things wrong here SBB....

This is from Peolsi's site who always touts jobs are great no matter what.

And look at the graph. The date of the graph on the bottom says 5/6/2010. How can they have July's numbers?

This is scewed. Try getting the info from a non agenda site.

[RJLeeb]

Thanks to the recovery efforts by the Obama Administration and the Democratic-led Congress, America's manufacturing base has now grown for 11 straight months–with more than 180,000 manufacturing jobs created over the last seven months

Thanks to me, the sun rose this morning.

What evidence do I have for this?  You see the sun's up, don't you?

[snowcamper]

Since we're throwing up pretty pictures:



Job gains during Bush's presidency (Jan. 2001 to Jan. 2009):  1,080,000
Job losses during Obama's presidency (Jan. 2009 to Aug. 2010):  3,238,000
Job gains when Republicans controlled the House of Representatives (Jan. 1995 to Jan. 2007):  20,689,000
Job losses since Democrats took the House (Jan. 2007 to Aug. 2010):  6,757,000

from http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/09/graph_of_the_day_for_september_22.html

[chrstnhsbndfthr]

Snowcamper,

You know how unfair it is to use facts against Democrats......they just can't handle that stuff.  Electing a Democrat Congress was a DISASTER for our country. Electing a Democrat president just made it that much worse. The facts are clear enough for anyone to see if they just look.  I trust we have a couple of Dems on the BBS who will be here any moment handing out blindfolds to the faithful, though.

[snowcamper]

Just those liberals and their preference for controlling time-frames.

Global Warming, Unemployment, tax revenues, spending, or bus ridership... if you limit the time horizons you can prove anything, and the parrots will spout the lies, hoping repetition will turn into truth.

The longest recessions of history have been overseen by Democratic Presidents and Democratic Congresses.



But if you stick your fingers in  your ears and start humming, you can believe whatever you want, regardless of the actual facts.

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