Boo Radley
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I've seen this inane talking point repeated over and over in here by libs that must think everyone is actually stupid enough to buy this crap.
Listen you can't base, and tout success on a presupposition of what might of, could of, or would have happened because these are things that you really can not know with any degree of certainty.
Second, the Obama economy has logged some 400K of unemployment applicants since as far back as I can remember in his Presidency. Now, if you really want to say that adding some 118K jobs is a positive then I would say that simple math disagrees with your spin....That by my calculations is still 282K in the negative.
Then, we have the stimulus that "Sheriff" Joe said was creating all these jobs, when the truth of the matter is that it really wasn't...And the jobs that it did manage to create cost the tax payer in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars to create one job that paid little more than minimum wage. Who got that money? hmmmm....?
And libs answer to all of this is that we didn't waste enough money? how insane is that?
j-mac
Well, you can if you're concerned about truth and not political gain. Ever sand bag for a flood? The water is raising, and we sand bag the banks. We don't stop the rising, but we slow down the damage, and while there is often still flooding, at the end of the day a reasonable person can look a see that the damage was less due to the efforts. Denying such is often silly.
We know, factually, some jobs were not lost due to the stimulus. You may argue the cost was too great, but you can't reasonably argue that soem jobs weren't saved.