Obama: ‘No Such Thing’ as a Shovel-Ready Job
source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-no-such-thing-as-a-shovel-ready-job/
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“It may be that regardless of what happens after this election, they [Republicans] feel more responsible, either because they didn’t do as well as they anticipated, and so the strategy of just saying ‘no’ to everything and sitting on the sidelines and throwing bombs didn’t work for them,” the president said. “Or they did reasonably well, in which case the American people are going to be looking to them to offer serious proposals and work with me in a serious way.”
The president has offered a number of his own “serious proposals,” not the least of which was the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. The underwhelming fallout from the $787 billion investment is one of many reasons the American public is challenging the Democratic leadership this year.
In reflecting on his time in office, the president laments that he looks too much like “the same old tax-and-spend Democrat,“ and realized that ”there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects.”
But the promise of these “shovel-ready” jobs was one of the Democrats’ main selling points in lobbying for the stimulus plan. In December 2008, the then-President-elect Obama pledged, “We’ve got shovel-ready projects all across the country that governors and mayors are pleading to fund. And the minute we can get those investments to the state level, jobs are going to be created.” Just one day later, the president-elect presented his ideas for a “bold agenda” of “shovel-ready projects,” promising the creation of 2.5 million new jobs when he took office.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-no-such-thing-as-a-shovel-ready-job/
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Oh, actualy there is one shovel ready job. The make work politician
whore's job of being b.o. himself. That's shovel ready shit. - 1 year ago
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mitekillem
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I love the poster. Seriously, I'm not being sarcastic. It looks awesome.
However the words at the bottom "shovel ready for socialized medicine", is wrong.
Other countries with socialized medicine, say, the U.K., how lower health-care costs than us, and provide better care than we currently have.
Facts are Facts. So, stop fear mongering, and start reading. - 1 year ago
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Although this is not spot-on about the topic, I think it is every bit as relevant:
Stop Bashing Business, Mr. President
~ an open letter from Ken Langone.Although I was glad that you answered a question of mine at the Sept. 20 town-hall meeting you hosted in Washington, D.C., Mr. President, I must say that the event seemed more like a lecture than a dialogue. For more than two years the country has listened to your sharp rhetoric about how American businesses are short-changing workers, fleecing customers, cheating borrowers, and generally "driving the economy into a ditch," to borrow your oft-repeated phrase.
My question to you was why, during a time when investment and dynamism are so critical to our country, was it necessary to vilify the very people who deliver that growth? Instead of offering a straight answer, you informed me that I was part of a "reckless" group that had made "bad decisions" and now required your guidance, if only I'd stop "resisting" it. [...]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704361504575552080488297188.html?m... - 1 year ago
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CitizenHill:
You 've likely figured out loooong before now that pinocio'bama
is the puppet of the status quo whose motto is " business as usual
even if it kills us, (and the USA too), because WE can't change." This
incompetent windbag disgracing the White House is like a homo sapiens
form of mockingbird. The actual mockingbird makes bird sounds.
But Nobama mocks the sincerity of his campaign speeches by making
more of the same 2 years later. It's as if the twit were still running for
election ! What a farce. Out of one side of his mouth Janus Nobama
denounces the special interests who've been destroying this country.
But out of the other side of his mouth, he advocates for those same
special interests, because he knows they're the ones who got him
placed where he lives today. We only elected him, a mere formality
for turncoats like Nobama. But the special interests erected him, like
a stone statue commemorating their stranglehold on power. Whenever
he stops bantering on about the special interests like a birdbrain mocking
We the People, and starts to act, watch out ! Because whatever he does
will invariably reflect the mala fide real pinocio'bama, and whatever comes
out the other side of his mouth. You'd don't need any talent to translate
doublespeak. The USA has been at War now since the 1937 Prohibition,
because of the Flunkie Bureau totalitarians who'd help that scalywag
grifter's enemies hang him up by his balls if he crossed them. You'd have
to be a fool to believe anything that shitbag says. What he does says it all. - 1 year ago
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Interesting that he'd say that, because he's wrong.
His stimulus created the only job growth in that period, a period when we losing tens of thousands oh jobs every single day. Demonstrably, it slowed the recession.
But despite what fiscal hawks have hollered at glass-shattering volume for months now, the stimulus really didn't spend all that much money.
I mean, who in their right mind thinks that congress can spend 750 billion to plug a whole somewhere between 3 and 7 trillion dollars big? That's a band-aid on gushing artery, what the fuck did you expect?
10% unemployment is roughly 30 million people out of work, not including the underemployed and those kicked off the list. That's not something you solve with 750 billion dollars, it takes a lot more than that. I mean, just paying that many people twenty thousand for one year, which is around minimum wage, is 600 billion dollars. So imagine what it would cost to permanently get them back to work doing decent jobs, since plenty of them were probably highly skilled and middle class.
As for not having shovel-ready jobs, that's pretty fucking hard to believe. There's plenty of places that need schools, roads, bridges, repairs, telephone lines, internet service, train stations, airports, alternate energy like wind farms or dams, etc, you telling me that they'd reject the infrastructure? You're telling me something like that wouldn't pay for itself?
He's just piping up the centrist rhetoric, either that or he's really lost it and actually believes it.
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ImConcerned:
I'm sorry man, I have some bad news for you, there are no people like that.
We live in dark political times. Like the Gilded Age, there just won't be anyone like that coming, not until the system completely collapses like it did during the Great Depression.
Here, George Carlin said it best.
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ImConcerned:
Love the South park reference at the end.
You ask some very good questions and sound pretty reasonable. wish I, or anyone for that matter, had the right answers. I just think we are fucked and nothing will stop it or change it. Good luck to you
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Saladin:
+^d Guy reminds me of Mark Twain.
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Saladin:
Yep, old George sad it best!
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ImConcerned:
You just answered your own question.
You have no money, no influence and no political ability. And most Americans are either selfish, jaded or too individualist to band together with others.
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ImConcerned:
Because like brain dead people we've trusted in Monopoly for the
past 100 years, though the USA was founded by fathers designing
it for Plurality. Theodore Roosevelt struggled with John D. Rockefeller
(Can you say NWO ?) and his Standard Oil Monopoly from 1900-1908.
To give you an example of JDR's financial means, he " donated " 100
Million dollars of Gold(one z = 20 real dollars back then) to his foundation
(ie, to himself likely to avoid paying taxes on it).The USA finaly, officaly
went on the Gold Standard in 1900 thanks to President T.Roosevelt. Yet
his cousin, President Franklin Delanore Roosevelt was forced to take the
USA off the Gold Standard in 1933 because both Republicans & Democrats
mindless little drones that they are, backing the Big Oil Monopoly too, had
also created the undoing of our Treasury in the " Fed " and it's system of
fiat counterfeit money. Though all the beginnings of real change you can
believe in had arrived also in 1900 with Nicolas Tesla's patent on the
electric induction motor and solar powered designs, the 41 year old by
then status quo of World Big Oil Monopoly supressed those inventions.
Tesla's papers revealed that " if the industrialized nationsw of the earth
continued to rely on finite fossil fuels instead of constantly recyclable
electric power, they would soon exhaust all their Capital and be Bankrupt.
It only took 70 years for the Big OIl & Fed Monopolies to do that in 1970.President T.Roosevelt started his own political party called the Bullmoose
Party to run against Taft. But the Big Oil Monopoly had corrupted the
Republicans so heavily with big money by then. Like orphans, the voters
went for anything that was put on their plate, silently uncomplaining. Fast
forward to 2010 from 1900. The electric car, which GM had perfected in
1997 for Los Angeles, with its Environmental Vehicle 1, then schredded
overnight after their puppstmaster Big OIl pulled their strings. is finaly
again making its return with the BMW Mini Cooper, and the Nissan Leaf.
By 2011, all gas/diesel engine cars are outlawed from the roaqds of
Portugal. By 2020, in Germany. Yet where are the obsolete Repugnant
Cons and DemolitionCrats ? They're planning to make all cars 40 MPG
by then when gas is expected to reach $10 a gallon, where it has been
in England for a long, long time. Which, after you crunch ALL the numbers,
puts us where the USA was back in 1974 after the Arab Oil Embargo.
Hence it's taken them 36 years of their dead weight passivity to plan for
the USA to be in 2020 where it was in 1974. Would you call that progress ?Americans are mind controled to accept gassing up cars like heroin junkies.
That's where their self destructive faith in UnAmerican Monopolies has
brought them. The solution is obvious. We the People need 2 new political
parties who aren't the Punch & Judy marionettes of the Corporation Party.
When SCOTUS tell us that Corporate money greasing those puppets is
legitimate, then it's 102 years past time for us to demand change we realy
can believe in. It will require many honest Journalists and the Free Press
writing editorials to back people like RonPaul, Dennis Cucinich, Rep. Grayson
Jesse Ventura, Arnold Schwartzenegger, et al who don't yet have name
recognition, in urging them to start new political parties like the Labor/Peace
Party and the Independence Party. But it will happen. And when it foes, there
will be new political parties like the Social Democrats, to join the Green and
Libertarian political parties. Many countries govern by a coalition of factions.
They parlay, make compromises, and move forward like Portugal & Germany. - 1 year ago
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Yup looks like a bunch of pissed off loosers trying to consol themselves with their lameness. You have no power in this country any more. It is a great thing to behold. you will not retake either chamber of congress and you will loose the next election ... and all the while I wil be here on curren Laughing and laughing and laughing. All while you grow smaller in number and ever less powerfull and influencial till you no longer threaten the safety of humanity with the sickness that is your convert or die cults. Do not worry I seek the end of all the faiths of Abraham that have become death cults seeking only the end of the world and some fairytale utopia. All of you fanatics Christian, Muslim, and Jew will be stopped before your genocidal prophcy can be fulfilled.
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hombre76:
I will bet ya that the Republicans win one of the 2. Put up or shut up.
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Ihatethemall:
And what will the Republicans do if they win? I haven't heard any ideas out of their camp except cutting taxes for the rich and getting rid of medicare and social security! You know those entitlement people that worked all their lives making someone else rich, and think if they worked all their lives they could at least have social security and medicare. My good friend, the times are just going to take another giant step backwards if we vote the party of no back in. But hey, you know me I'm looking forward to the day when the streets run blood red!
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kennymotown:
I hear ya bud. Looking forward to that day too. Not saying what they will do will be good or bad just saying they will win it. There really isnt that many folks who would disagree with me at this point. Not ones that are being honest with themselves anyway
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Ihatethemall:
Good hearing from you, my brother!
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Why am I not surprise.
Well, anyways......... teaches you something at least.
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There is no such thing in most of what Obama says !! If his mouth is moving chance are he is lying again, or as they call it stretching the truth. What he says one day he changes the next. 2 million dollars per job, that is shovel ready for all of us TAX PAYERS. He has dug a grave we will never get out of, as long as he has control. Vote them all out of office.
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Haha nice post. I guess the only shovel ready job ill be getting from the government will be digging my own grave.
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ibrake4rappers13:
yeah but that will still require an inheritance tax to be paid if you are leaving anyone any money
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ibrake4rappers13:
consider that as part of obama's stimulus package...you landed a job
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take anything from the blaze (can't believe he's trying to jack that stoner phrase) with a grain of salt. Remember, this is Glen Beck's recently started "news" source for all of his loyal fans.
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timetide:
Hey fool this article was actually from the NY times. Its an actual interview he did. So what it was on the blaze. BFD. doesnt mean it isnt true. wake up before its too late.
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Ihatethemall:
funny, I often think the same thing about your corporate party...
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timetide:
I belong to no party and have no affiliations to anyone so WTF are you even talking about
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timetide:
and I see you have no actual comment that it was a real interview he did AND admitted there was no such thing as shovel ready jobs.......which is what he said some of the money was going to. your shithead in charged lied to you and you have nothing to say other than to run Glenn Beck into the ground, pretty sad dude pretty funny. actually. doesnt it make you wonder what else he lied to you about? If it doesnt you are bought and paid for thanks to the DNC. how does that feel?
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timetide:
IHATETHEMALL hates them all. He has no politcal party, and if you dont know that than your a cherry.
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oppressed1:
Wow, all this time I thought Ihatethemall just hated everybody and now you're saying it's a political statement and he has no party affiliation.
Yeah, I don't believe that.
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Stever_B:
I guess MSNBC didnt report it so you dont believe it. Let me call Rachel madCOW and if she agrees to report it then you will believe it. I forgot I am dealing with sheeple who only believe what they hear on MSNBC
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Ihatethemall:
Hahaha, I guess you don't understand how quotations work. You didn't notice how the only words in quotations were "there's no such thing as a shovel-ready job" and "the same old tax and spend democrat?" You know why they didn't post the whole sentence? That's because they took it out of context. If he actually meant what they're insinuating he did, they would have quoted the whole sentence. Have you read the actual interview? I know you didn't because it hasn't been published yet. It's actually an interview that will be in the next TIME. Maybe you should wait until the actual interview comes out before you start to reference it.
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toastyguy11:
I've read the entire interview. I know how it was said and what was meant. I find it sad that your only concern is where the friggin quotations were. typical liberal.
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Ihatethemall:
did you realy just try to insult him by complaining about how he caught you altering the interview?
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he spent all that money on kickbacks for his union buddies.
next they steal all the houses for his banker buddies
then he will mandate insurance for his insurance buddies..
am i forgetting somebody.
yeah the people who have to pay for this bullshit........ - 1 year ago
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hunzedog:
we will never forget..............we are the ones paying for it
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hunzedog:
your noon dose of thioridazine?
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hunzedog:
Pinocio'bama is such a sleeze. He thinks the Gummint knows better
how to spend the money you earn than you do. His stimulus amounted
to diging a ditch, then filling it in. He's actualy worse than Bush in too many
ways. The " new direction " he wants to take the USA into is only down. - 1 year ago
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They will be waiting for you
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You forgot his Union buddies who are exempted from his healthcare scam.
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PressCore:
I hate to break this to you but he is now after all retirement accounts.
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no such thing as truth from this prez
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Out here in liberal Oregon there are plenty of shovel ready jobs. Don't blame the president if your neighbor is quicker at applying for them than you are.
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UndoInfluence:
He admitted in an interview that there were no such things as "shovel ready jobs" what part of that didnt your liberal mind understand? All of it maybe?
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WOAH WOAH WOAH!!!
I thought this idiot told us we had to give him a trillion dollars in stimulus money to get these shovel ready jobs moving?
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oppressed1:
Looks like he should have added a few dollars for the shovels.
the only thing this fool is shoveling is BULLSHIT. Luckily for the liberals theres plenty to go around
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Ihatethemall:
"the only thing this fool is shoveling is BULLSHIT"
Nice
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mindcruzer:
and its being shoveled by the truckload.
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This fuckin moron, you all voted for and loved, finally admitted there was no such thing as "shovel ready jobs" some of us knew it the rest of you all were....yet again....duped by the shithead in charge of screwing up this country. When will you learn?
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Ihatethemall:
Pinocio'bama, is just another Prohibitionist Racketeer from Chicago, the
home of the Prohibition Rackets. The main difference between nobama
the suit, and Al Capone is that Al Capone knew he was a crook. I'm sure
nobama knows he's a practiced, pathological liar. But his delusion is that
being a collossaly crooked liar is OK so long as one can immerse it in politics.
For a Marxist who ran with radicals committing themselves to bombings as
terrorists, I'm not surprised that pinocio'bama has been carring out the
Flunkie Bureau of Insects' antiConstitutional aganda...They failed to blackmail
JFK and RFK. They must have a dossier on their puppet b.o. as wide as
the Mississippi River. The list of whom he's not a puppet for must be a lot
shorter than those whom he is a puppet for. Namely, all those special interests
who greased the 2 faced hypocrit's palms with. The scalywag grifter wouldn't
be where he is without them. Well we had his carpetbagger partner disgrace
that office achieved by Voter Fraud in 2000 and 2004. Nobama the poser is
every bit the disgrace that Hitler Bush Jr. was/is. His trophy doesn't absolve him
from the same complicity that Bush had..And his Show Biz act doesn't fly anymore.
We'll vote him out of office in 2012 unless his scandles finish him before that. - 1 year ago
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PressCore:
I agree almost 100% and yes I know Chicago politics. Thats where I was born and raised. Both parents are in Politics in ILL. Old man is an elected official in Northern ILL
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Ihatethemall:
Yes, I was duped. The man is a great speaker (his speech against lobbyists is my fav) and IMHO a great face for our country. I quickly learned of my mistake from Guantanamo and his appointment of former lobbyists ( which he promised NOT to appoint)
It is not that I was duped but the whole country duped into this WWF style political arena.
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dwb2585:
All pinocio'bama's duplicity will eventualy come back to bite him in the ass.
The voters won't let that louse destroy all the good things built up in the USA. - 1 year ago
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dwb2585:
What I find extremely odd is that you find a speech he made as your fav but you admit he never lived up to it.
I guess I understand that you agreed with what he said but you are aware that he never lived up to what he said
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The great Obama speaks ~! How many lies in this clip?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jam6hOGXgd0&feature=player_embedded
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Ihatethemall:
First of all , I agree with you 100% and, yes, I am aware that he never lived up to his speeches. I was simply saying that he was a great speaker and that is why I voted(was duped) for/by him and still think he is a great face for our country- That is all any president is, a face, and after voting for Obama and watching policies and overall agenda stay the same, I have realized that.
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Too many lies. In the old West, townfolk would see Nobama as a snake oil
saleman, selling colored water for a Silver dollar a bottle because he promised
falsely it would remedy many ills. All it remedied was the lack of money in the
grifter's pocket because he was too lazy/shiftless to serve others by performing
an essential job. Those fly by nights usualy had to have fast horses and well
greased wheels to escape all the people they defrauded. Because nobama
would have been run out of town on a rail after they tarred & feathered him.
Too bad we, nowadays, are too " civilized " to practice this effective custom. - 1 year ago
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