Nov 17, 2009 8:52am
Stimulus Glitch? Government Website Lists Inconsistencies
EmailOne of the great curiousities in Washington involves the economic stimulus program. How many jobs does it save? How many jobs has it created? There's a government website that is supposed to track those questions — region by region across the country. Our chief Congressional correspondent Jonathan Karl has been checking it — and has found it puzzling.
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Posted by: natale from mass. | November 17, 2009, 9:24 am 9:24 am
“inconsistencies” That’s the word used to describe fictitious places where supposed stimlus jobs have been created. I’m thinking a much different word would have been used if someone else was still president.
Posted by: s | November 17, 2009, 9:42 am 9:42 am
Where is the money?? Who is lining their pockets? I feel we must do an audit to account for every penny of the money the unknown districts received.
What happened to honesty is the best policy. You can not believe anything that comes from this administration.
Posted by: Glynda | November 17, 2009, 9:56 am 9:56 am
It is all smoke and mirrors, with absolutely zero substance.
Most of the money has been literally wasted, with most of it going off shore, either for manufacturing, or for imported workers, to work on projects here.
There has been little real benefit to American workers, whatsoever. A real travesty of waste.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | November 17, 2009, 10:00 am 10:00 am
Wow – this is change. They even created new congressional districts. Talk about progressive. What integrity. These guys are good.Actually the Dems may need those new conressional districts in 2010.
Posted by: jamescbuilder | November 17, 2009, 10:07 am 10:07 am
Think about this one..if the government has failed miserably at running the post office how in the world could they possibly run a stimulus program. IF they had given this money to taxpayers it STILL would have ended up in banks, perhaps via the indirect route, that is taxpayer spends money and business deposits it. The only jobs this program created were union jobs. Ok that’s fine if you’re an unemployed union member but most folks aren’t. Billions were doled out to banks when they would have been better spent bailing the average taxpayer out instead. When the company I worked for went belly up after I spent 12 years there I lost my shirt on the taxes I owed on a 401k loan that I had taken out. I could use some stimulus right now other than the lousy couple of dollars a week tax cut we received, which amounted to throwing the average American a scrap or two from the hog trough. Well meaning government programs are nice and all but they don’t work, AND they always favor the higher ups, not the working man.
Posted by: Alan | November 17, 2009, 10:13 am 10:13 am
They are simply confused and imposing
the confusion to already confused public
and patients who depended on them for
for honest information. When situation
is as it is now, close your eyes and block your ears and protect your best
interest.
Posted by: Kotoko | November 17, 2009, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm
Glitch?….curiosity?…inconsistencies? puzzling?
These are words to describe my PC acting up, not a socialist president who has scammed the nation with a $787 billion political slush fund that noone can account for…
It could only happen with the aid of a complicity leftist media including ABC, which never met a socialist/Democrat/progressive scam it was ever interested in enough to investigate.
Posted by: RM Edaps | November 17, 2009, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
Joe Biden said the website would blow us away and he was right.
If this government can spend a ridiculous figure on a website to toot its own horn . . . and blow that, it’s no wonder the stimulus has not worked.
Please, please America don’t let this government control your healthcare or tax your energy.
Posted by: Ed Taylor | November 18, 2009, 12:25 am 12:25 am