Obama $50 Billion Infrastructure Plan to Create Jobs in 2011

OBAMA: Combat over in Iraq.. as American troops are pulled right back into a combat mission days later
OBAMA LIES AGAIN.. will he need another vacation from this gaffe also?
Obama VS America

If 800 billion didn’t work (as Romer admits) how can 50 billion work?Answer: it won’t.Did this affirmative action mediocrity even take an economics class in college?We will never know- I bet that his undergrad transcript is littered with basket-weaving courses and easy A courses.Despite that he still couldn’t graduate with any honors or academic distinction.

Whatever happened to the 800 billions dollars already spent on jobs?

I know I have no future, but WHY does Obama have to make sure, MY KIDS, and grankids, don’t have a future either!?!

$50 Billion taxpayer funded spending will only add to the deficit. Obama and the Democrats have short range tunnel vision. Spending is all they understand. And they do it for one reason: it gets the engine sputtering for a little while so they can immediately trip over themselves and run to the cameras to get credit fora little bit of noise from the engine. But they’ll never get the engine running. In the long run what they’re doing is trying to jump start a gas engine with diesel fuel. It might run for a few miles – enough for the Democrats to exploit the gullible American, but will soon thereafter kill the engine.

Deficit peacocks are out of touch with the concerns and realities of our current situation.
Americans know a much bigger priority– the number one concern–is jobs.
Work opportunities.
Unlike Republicans, Democrats know the problem right now isn’t that the American worker is spoiled and lazy as the new styled Republicans suggest (check out what Sharron Angle has said)
The problem is the lack of work.
And , if the private sector can’t meet the demand for jobs, Democrats understand that the government has a role and that role is to lead– to note that the government can and should create jobs and opportunities for others to create jobs.

For those of you who are nieve to the fact that Dem,s and Rep,s are all in the same good old boy club. Note that highway and runway projects are ASPHALT projects, millions of gallons of OIL will be used to produce the blacktop and used in the paving equipment. Paving does NOT put many people to work. Note the same couple dozen of people paving mile after mile of roadway. Big OIL wins again.

Re: “$50 Billion taxpayer funded spending will only add to the deficit.”
So what. The wars add to the defict even more. Nopthing wrong with spending money so that Americans can work. At least workers pay taxes and buy goods, adding to our economy.

The boy is a complete idiot in running the country.I wish we could all see his schooling grades,why are they hidden? Why did he spend so much to keep them out of site. ? America wake up its later then you think.He is destroying this Nation.

Yes I CAN – Control the Media to trick you into believing what I want you to.
YES I CAN – Force healthcare down America’s throat that 76 % opposed
YES I CAN – Create the largest DEFICIT ever
YES I CAN – Create the largest BUDGET ever
YES I CAN – Make the largest number of BROKEN PROMISES ever
YES I CAN – Enable the largest number of HOME FORCLOSURES ever
YES I CAN – Create the largest number of AGENDA-SETTING FAILURES ever
YES I CAN – Make the largest number of SELF-SERVING SPEECHES ever
YES I CAN – Have a tax cheat for Secretary of Treasury
YES I CAN – Give ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
YES I CAN – Create less FREE SPEECH
YES I CAN – TAX, BORROW & SPEND
YES I CAN – Fail to PROTECT the American people
YES I CAN – Think what is best for everyone
YES I CAN – Run & Ruin YOUR life
YES I CAN – Spend YOUR TAX DOLLARS on failed programs
YES I CAN – Create more WELFARE
YES I CAN – Create more regulation
YES I CAN – Increase the size of government
YES I CAN – Create more wasteful spending
YES I CAN – Take in more ILLEGAL ALIENS
YES I CAN – Defend ILLEGAL ALIENS against the Contstitution of America
YES I CAN – Make a lawsuit against our own state of Arizona for defending itself from ILLEGAL ALIENS
YES I CAN – Increase GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION
YES I CAN – Take over the economy
YES I CAN – Bankrupt the USA
YES I CAN – Keep borrowing money we can’t pay back the to the communist Chinese
YES I CAN – Bow to other world leaders like a TRAINED FLEA
YES I CAN – Decry racism when an Arizona Governor enforces immigration laws
YES I CAN – Attempt to fill my cabinet with avowed Communist like Van Jones
YES I CAN – Turn the highest office of the land into a laughingstock of the world
YES I CAN – Sit on my PEElosi while millions of gallons of oil leak into the gulf
YES I CAN – Claim to run an office with transparency, yet keep making deals behind closed doors
YES I CAN – Give speeches with NO American flag in the background
YES I CAN – Give a great speech until the TELEPROMPTER goes down….
YES I CAN – Divide the USA like never seen since the Civil war
YES I CAN – Keep my main agenda to turn the USA into a SOCIALIST FAILURE
YES I CAN – Blame anything that goes wrong on my watch on the last administration
YES I CAN – Promise to end programs of entitlements, yet add more and more of them
YES I CAN – Appoint a known TAX EVADER to head the U.S. Treasury Department
YES I CAN – Continuously create more DEBT
YES I CAN – Create more TAXES
YES I CAN – Set RACE RELATIONS BACK 50 years
YES I CAN – Have the fastest DIVE IN POPULARITY ever for a President
YES I CAN- Create even MORE UNEMPLOYMENT!

Bob, Obama calling the middle class the working class is not only elitist, but ..after a certain number of months of unemployment, isn’t there a point at which you cannot call the working class..well, the “working” class anymore?

Would someone please send the US Marshals out to find Senator Feingold?
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Woody, Nephron, smartlilena– since you’re so concerned, he’s in Janesville at a Labor Day parade, but was in Milwaukee with Obama, Kohl, Solis, LaHood and others earlier in the day.

His whining about Republicans blocking his spendorama programs is nonsense
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Funny that you’d cheaply and flippantly call work creation programs, small business aid, middle class tax cuts and economy-rescuing, infrastructure-investing stimulus, scientific research, fair pay legislation, financial regulation reform, etc. “spendorama” programs.
You sound like Boehner, who just last year when the stimulus created construction projects in Ohio, acknowledged the Democrat measure he voted against was responsible for “much-needed jobs” for his constitutents (See Stimulating Hypocrisy: 114 Lawmakers Block Recovery While Taking Credit For Its Success) but who is talking complete nonsense– deficit peacock nonsense– again today, proving how little he cares about putting America to work and American labor.
Right now the number one concern of Americans is putting the country– Americans with a strong work ethic– back to work.
The Republicans haven’t successfully blocked anything. Stimulus, check. Health care reform, check. Financial regulation reform, check. Budget, check.
But Republicans have spread lies and propaganda, emphasizing skewed priorites, ginning up the citizenry and scaring centrists, while watering down legislation.
What the president said today is: “When it comes to just about everything we’ve done to strengthen the middle class and rebuild our economy, almost every Republican in Congress said no. Even where we usually agree, they say no. They think it’s better to score political points before an election than actually solve problems. So they said no to help for small businesses. No to middle-class tax cuts. No to unemployment insurance. No to clean energy jobs. No to making college affordable. No to reforming Wall Street. Even as we speak, these guys are saying no to cutting more taxes for small business owners. I mean, come on! Remember when our campaign slogan was “Yes We Can?” These guys are running on “No, We Can’t,” and proud of it. Really inspiring, huh?”
He’s pointing out that Republicans are not for the American middle class, the American work ethic, American innovation, the American can-do spirit.
They have anger and skewed priorities, and yes, they’re winning the message war– but then what will happen?
Nobody knows. But there’s certainly no evidence it’ll be good for the country or economy. Indeed, all the evidence points in the opposite direction.

Very “presidential” of him to mock the majority of Americans (latest poll shows only 44% approve of his policies) in his latest “campaign” speech. Great way to win over any independents who might still be on the fence for the mid-terms…..

Cindy, “working class” is not only oxymoronic, as you point out, when the true unemployment rate may well be 15% when you count those who’ve given up.
It’s also the language used by Labour in the U.K. and by the socialist New Democratic Party (NDP) in Canada, who use such code expressions as “ordinary working people,” “corporate welfare bums,” “creeping privatization,” and, best of all, the slyly pejoative “American-style,” which is a secret slur, e.g. “We don’t want ‘American-style’ healthcare here.”
Those of us who have lived in countries such as the UK or Canada have long known what Obama represented; he’s a social democrat at the least.
Fortunately, others are figuring it out as well, and listening to his ghastly Labor Day “post-partisan” speech (and does he share Hillary Clinton’s accent coach, y’all?) only makes it more clear.

Posted by: Mary | Sep 6, 2010 5:08:25 PM
So what I actually said @4:30:37 PM was you all sound like Boehner. The point was to point out Boehner’s hypocrisy– and how empty it really is to sound like him.
Right now the number one concern of Americans is putting the country– Americans with a strong work ethic– back to work. See recent Newsweek polling.
Americans prefer efforts at job creation to deficit peacockery by significant margins.
In addition, according a recent CNN poll, most Americans blame Republicans and Bush for the economy, and most Americans leaning toward Republicans don’t– that is– do not consider that a message to Obama; they are not sending Obama a message– so they’re breaking for the GOP, because ….???
They don’t seem to know why. 49% of all Americans have an unfavorable view of the Republicans and an equal percentage said they felt the same about the Dems.
Slightly more than one in five questioned said they dislike both parties.
And nobody seems to understand the Republican agenda– which is actually contradictory and split. See WSJ’s Parsing an Ascendant GOP’s Economic Prescriptions. Short version: Republicans aren’t offering anything that will benefit the economy. Or if they are they’re keeping it a well hidden secret because there are deep divisions within the party and they don’t want to stir things up prior to the election.

Cara: “They don’t seem to know why.”
Of course they do. It’s apparently only rocket science to Progressives with a narrow, elitist worldview. I just stated the reason in my earlier post, which is supported by a lot of polling. Voters don’t like having legislation they oppose rammed down their throats, especially when it’s done in a hostile way without transparency and without regard to ultimate cost to the taxpayer.
Democrats are wholly responsible for all legislation enacted since Obama became president. Now it’s time for Democrats (and RINOs) who ignored and betrayed their constituents to pay the price in November. Enjoy the show!

“It’s apparently only rocket science to Progressives with a narrow, elitist worldview.I just stated the reason in my earlier post.
I’ve read several of your posts and have found you not to be a reliable source. If you want to mention the polling outside of Rasmussen, then please do, and we’ll see.
Posted by: Mary | Sep 6, 2010 6:21:48 PM
Amusing to be called out as an elitist by the biggest snob on the comment threads. Excuse me while I take a few minutes to chuckle about that one.

In regards to Rasmussen, Nate Silver drives home the problem with them, when he tweets, “Odd that Rasmussen has polled the SD and ND at-large House districts — tough Democratic holds — but not the tough GOP hold in DE.”
Its not odd at all. Its their method of using polling to drive narrative.

Thanks, jacaranda, for pointing out that often ignored fact. It was the idiots in Congress, not Bush, that caused more of the financial mess than the White House. People give far too much credit to the President when in fact,Congress passes the legislation and spends the money. In regards to Cara, I’m just going out on a limb here, but I’m guessing she doesn’t work for the wealth-producing private sector….

…If you spend money on job creation, it means unemployed people are put to work and therefore paying INCOME TAXES! More people paying income tax means MORE REVENUE for the government. It also means more people are spending more money for goods and services. This increases profits for businesses and may eventually lead to even more people being hired, which in turn will lead to more people paying income taxes.
So whatever we spend to create these jobs (which, btw will be paid for by closing tax loopholes for multinational corporations), we will get back through income taxes paid by the new workers.
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Good post, Lynn. I agree. Work–Putting America to work–is the number one priority of Americans.
Democrats care about workers , small business and the middle class and repeatedly proves it by working hard to provide legislation that aids and benefits both.
Republicans vote no to stimulus, job creation, small business aid, middle class tax cuts– and on and on.
Too many of our fellow Americans are out of work or underemployed, thanks to over a decade of economic mismanagement and screwy priorities.

One thing for sure. Obama has proven he’s just as full of it as any other politician who came along making all sorts of promises.

The only think I could think of while watching Captain Clueless this morning was “Elmer Gantry.” All show, no go.
The Tsunami is coming…………

Skip,stop lying. Then Democrats have controlled the Congress since 2006, the White House since 2008.It is all their fault.

from Fox: Capping a flurry of economic proposals — with an eye on upcoming elections — Obama to announce plan to allow businesses to write off 100 percent of investment in growth, but time may have run out on getting the plan through Congress before November….Obama using the republicians ideas that they wanted put in the stimulus…then Obama said NO
Obama VS America

Nephron -
Bush and the Republicans had 6 years (more for the Republican congress) to build a strong, stable American economy. What happened? It collapsed like a house of cards. It was built on debt, and it had nothing to do with the Democrats.
“As early as 2006, top advisers to Mr. Bush dismissed warnings from people inside and outside the White House that housing prices were inflated and that a foreclosure crisis was looming. And when the economy deteriorated, Mr. Bush and his team misdiagnosed the reasons and scope of the downturn; as recently as February, for example, Mr. Bush was still calling it a “rough patch.”
“The result was a series of piecemeal policy prescriptions that lagged behind the escalating crisis.
“There is no question we did not recognize the severity of the problems,” said Al Hubbard, Mr. Bush’s former chief economics adviser, who left the White House in December 2007. “Had we, we would have attacked them.”
Looking back, Keith B. Hennessey, Mr. Bush’s current chief economics adviser, says he and his colleagues did the best they could “with the information we had at the time.” But Mr. Hennessey did say he regretted that the administration did not pay more heed to the dangers of easy lending practices. And both Mr. Paulson and his predecessor, John W. Snow, say the housing push went too far.
“The Bush administration took a lot of pride that homeownership had reached historic highs,” Mr. Snow said in an interview. “But what we forgot in the process was that it has to be done in the context of people being able to afford their house. We now realize there was a high cost.”

President Barack Obama, in one of his most dramatic gestures to business, will propose that companies be allowed to write off 100% of their new investment in plant and equipment through 2011, a plan that White House economists say would cut business taxes by nearly $200 billion over two years.

Steve wrote:”Obama policies are one’s they support.”
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Thats why they are hoarding cash, holding back on borrowing, hiring, expansion, etc. Yeah, thats the ticket.

Everyone relax. This new spending, uh I mean stimulus, yeah stimulus, will keep unemployment under 8%. Just wait for the new Tim Geithner column too…

President Obama recommends $50 Billion to fix America’s crumbling infrastructure…and Republicans are mad. Republicans spend $44.6 Billion to fix Iraq’s infrastructure…and Republicans are happy… LOL… Go figure!!
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Why didn’t a Democrat controlled Congress and Dem WH put a stop to this? Go figure indeed…

Uhhmmm, “Duhh”…maybe because the money for the project (titled “the Iraq Security Forces Fund”) was approved and funded back in 2005, when we had a Republican president and congress.
Look up Iraq Security Forces Fund.
You’re right, “Clueless in DC”.
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It can’t be stopped! Man, you really fell for it this time. Next thing I’ll hear is how only Republicans believed in WMDs…Keep figuring Baucus, you’ve got experts to do your job…

Dig a hole, fill it in… Obviously this guy never read “Economics in One Lession”.
Let alone probably never even showed up to class.

$50 Billion here $60 Billion there
What you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
“Obama also took the opportunity with a partisan crowd to swipe at Republicans.” – ABC News
[sarcasm]
Ah, the political savvy of this man is stunning.
He has obviously figured out that he will lose the House in November and maybe the Senate so he’s already looking to improve his working relationship with the Repubs.
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“When it comes to just about everything we’ve done to strengthen the middle class to rebuild our economy, almost every Republican in Congress says ‘no.’” – President NoBo
Clue Flash for Barry!
When your ideas are really bad it’s very hard to get nonpartisan representatives to go for them let alone partisan ones.
Take a good hard long look in the mirror and ask the same of your Liberal Demo friends.

YES I CAN…Replace Carter as the worse President in modern times….
On a personal observation, I don’t blame Obama, I blame those who voted for him, who campaigned for him, who DIDN’T DO THEIR RESEARCH ON HIS RESUME, who didn’t put the good of the country ahead of their “guilt.” There was only one person who could have lifted us out of economic chaos, one man who knew and knows the workings of our economy better than any candidate running…And he was an candidate running as an Independent. I voted for him…..Do Your Research….

Strange that Feingold didn’t mention he was with Obama this morning if that really was the case, don’t you think?
Posted by: Woody | Sep 6, 2010 8:38:33 PM
He didn’t appear with him, but he was in Milwaukee with him, prior to public appearances, and Kohl did appear with him.
Sorry it doesn’t fit your meme, lena, but those are the facts.
Have you read NYT’s 10 Q’s with Feingold? He doesn’t come out swinging against Obama.
Check it out.

you sure don’t sound like the voice of the intelligent America I grew up in.
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You don’t sound like you work for Goldman Sachs.

“Funny, I didn’t hear you cry when the Bushs bought oil land in IRAQ!”
Really? Cite some proof of that. Thanks.

Posted by: raptor dude |
“Elitist” condescension, much? Are you claiming those in construction, welding, electricity and those who would do the updates to air traffic controllers aren’t “educated”? How would you know?
Furthermore, will this benefit those you deem as “educated” in your opinion, or can’t you see how that works either: On Wednesday will introduce a $200 billion tax cut giving businesses across the country an incentive to buy new equipment in the short term, this will be in addition to a $100 billion permanent extension of the business tax credit for research and development

Actually, I liked the President’s speech, and I like his and the more progressive Dems’ focus on American workers,the middle class, American small business, research and innovation, and infrastructure.
Here’s one of the good parts, imho:
“These are the folks whose policies helped devastate our middle class. They drove our economy into a ditch. And we got in there and put on our boots and we pushed and we shoved. And we were sweating and these guys were standing, watching us and sipping on a Slurpee. (Laughter.) And they were pointing at us saying, how come you’re not pushing harder, how come you’re not pushing faster? And then when we finally got the car up — and it’s got a few dings and a few dents, it’s got some mud on it, we’re going to have to do some work on it — they point to everybody and say, look what these guys did to your car. (Laughter.) After we got it out of the ditch! And then they got the nerve to ask for the keys back! (Laughter and applause.) I don’t want to give them the keys back. They don’t know how to drive. (Applause.) ” –President Obama in Milwaukee

Posted by: dawn_marie | Sep 7, 2010 1:02:55 PM
Is Nobama still pitching the tired “car in the ditch” analogy? Apparently he hasn’t seen polling that the majority of Americans believe The One’s policies have either had no effect or have made our economic problems worse. Apparently he hasn’t seen polling that 70%+ of Americans believe Prez Solid B+ should move on from blaming others for current economic situation.
Get some new material already…

“And we got in there and put on our boots and we pushed and we shoved. And we were sweating and these guys were standing, watching us and sipping on a Slurpee. ”
Those guys watching were waiting to see if the driver, Barney Frank, would be rescued.

Get some new material already…
Posted by: tjp612 | Sep 7, 2010 3:36:38 PM
Regardless of the portion about driving into the ditch, I think it can’t be said often enough that they’ve been sitting their drinking slurpees, and will continue to do so if they become the majority.
While the Dems have shown us that they advocate for the American worker, the small business owner, the scientist, innovators, health IT, the sick, the elderly, the school children, the middle class, strong infrastructure, etc, etc. the Republicans have voted NO on job creation, middle class tax cuts, small business aid and credit lines, jobs for firefighters, cops and teachers, research and innovation, infrastructure, providing children who need it with insurance, reforming insurance regulations for those with pre-existing conditions, curbing medical costs through the pilot programs in the health care reform bill, preventing another crisis by enforcing financial reform, fair pay legislation, investing in alternate energy…
They are do nothing slurpee drinkers.
The only thing they are good at is warmongering. Problem is that this time they’re waging their war of aggression against us– Americans who aren’t part of the economic elite.