He failed to create even close to the jobs promised in the stimulus, yes a slush fund form more jobs/ahh hem democrat payoffs is exactly what's needed.
I could come up with a plausible argument that spending this money on job creation will indeed result in deficit reduction. It's a fairly straight line. More jobs means more taxpayers (and fewer collecting unemployment benefits). More taxpayers means more revenues. More revenues means less deficit. QED.
When was the last time democrats gave back tax money in form of tax cuts?? Seriously? has it been 20-30 years?
About 10 months, actually.
great point....correct me if i'm wrong....but i don't think even half the stimulus has been spent....yet the president is already eyeing billions more from money that HE signed on as going to go directly to reducing the deficit...
wtf does he need more money if not even half the stimulus has been spent?
the left is still claiming Obama cut taxes when he altered the withholding schedules.....you will have to wait until the reaction comes to the reduced tax refund checks next spring before you will get them to awaken to the fact it wasn't a tax cut......
LOL, omg he was not talking about that was he? wow
About 300 billion in tax cuts. There were more tax cuts than actual stimulus in the "stimulus" bill actually. But unemployment would be at the great depression equivalent for this point in time, rather than 10%, had we not passed the stimulus.
When was the last time democrats gave back tax money in form of tax cuts?? Seriously? has it been 20-30 years?
piker!.....if $400 billion is good, $4trillion would be better.....so, let's spend $6trill......then we could put three or four hundred million Americans to work......shucks, we could save a billion jobs
Which tax cut was that?About 10 months, actually.
And if we had the missing Iraq reconstruction billions we were defrauded out of by corrupt senior military, that could save even more jobs.
"In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The exact sum missing may never be clear, but a report by the US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) suggests it may exceed $50bn, making it an even bigger theft than Bernard Madoff's notorious Ponzi scheme.
"I believe the real looting of Iraq after the invasion was by US officials and contractors, and not by people from the slums of Baghdad," said one US businessman active in Iraq since 2003.
In one case, auditors working for SIGIR discovered that $57.8m was sent in "pallet upon pallet of hundred-dollar bills" to the US comptroller for south-central Iraq, Robert J Stein Jr, who had himself photographed standing with the mound of money. He is among the few US officials who were in Iraq to be convicted of fraud and money-laundering."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/a-fraud-bigger-than-madoff-1622987.html
/yawn......standard answer....we don't have to be concerned about what is happening now, since it happened once before.....why don't you just admit you didn't give a fuck about it then, you don't give a fuck about it now and you won't give a fuck about it in the future.....
What I give a f*ck about is the billions of dollars we pissed away in bush's illegal, immoral war, and how people like you don't give a rat's ass about cleaning up his Augean stables as long as you can excoriate the new guy because his decisions are opposite your partisan slant.