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Peter Roff

Boehner, Republicans Sick the Dogs on the Obama Stimulus Package

July 02, 2009 02:52 PM ET | Peter Roff | Permanent Link | Print

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OBAMANOMICS

I see more Bush bashing, the Left needs to let that go we are 7 months into the debacle that is this administration, the Dems are mad with power & the Repubs as a whole won't take a stand.. I see new jobs the the Obama Kingdom, soon we will be like Iran a supreme cleric with the mullahs underneath them then hundreds of others hand picked by the mullahs THEN the "government"

Boehner has done evrything he can to keep it from working

Anyone with half a brain (I guess Boehner may qualify) can go out to the website called recovery.gov. It shows how much of the Stimulus Package has been spent.

The stimulus package is fine - it however has only had $54 billion spent so far (last time I looked). Much of that went to unemployment benefits, healthcare coverage for unemployed, and a few other departments. Much of the rest of it has not yet been spent. It takes time to receive, evaluate and award contracts, then for contractors to begin projects.

Also - the Republicans stripped out the infrastructure projects that would have created more jobs...so they can buy themselves mirrors if they are looking for someone to blame. It just means that we'll have to get another bill for infrastructure in a while.

The Right delayed those projects that would have really benefitted the unemployed. That plus the Bush economic disaster of 2004-2008 should be a reminder to Americans that the Right wants Obama to fail so much, they are willing to sacrifice America's recovery - and your standard of living.

Unemployment was at 4% only because we were fabricating liquidity with hot air and credit based on nothing. People were spending money they didn't have, living in houses they couldn't afford, buying cars and everything else on longer and longer credit terms, and Bush was taking tax revenues badly needed and sending it back to people to superheat the economy even more.

Capitalism is a great machine - it will force a correction eventually. That's what we are seeing now - a correction of huge excess. The hot air bubble that burst will cost us 15% of GDP - perhaps permanently. That automatically translates to around 12-15% unemployment during the adjustment, and 8-10% perhaps for decades.Obama never said 4% - he said he would maintain a certain number of jobs - which he has - that would have been lost without government asistance.

Boehner is a big talker with no solutions - He wants to go back to what made this mess in the first place??????

We followed Bush off the edge of the cliff into the Iraq war, ridicuous tax rebates and huge weapons systems that threw our budget surplus into a huge defiti. What did Boehner say during that time? Boehner said not a peep in 2006 and 2007 when it was well known that we were nose-diving into a recession (remember discussions during the campaign in early 2007 about not using the "r" word (recession?))

Boehner was no leader then - and can hardly be given credence now. It will take years before the economy is really right again. Obama is just trying to clean up Boehner's smelly socks...

MSM? I would love a definintion.

As far as I can tell, "MSM" is whatever news organization conservatives don't like. NY Times, Wash. Post, CNN, NBC, etc, all appear to be defined as MSM. Fox, WSJ, Limbaugh, etc are not defined as MSM. Are you saying that they are not mainstream? It can not be their audience size since Fox and Limbaugh are always bragging about how they are killing the competition.

thanks Roff!

bit by bit a little balance is coming back to the MSM

uhhhh

A stopped clock is right twice a day. That's twice more than Peter Roff and John Boehner have ever managed.

Come on USNWR, you can do better than this.

Housing Management Chose A Tenant Executive President Who Would Render The Task of Housing Management

Low and behold, "Alert Notices About Cable Billing Increase" were stuck under every one of the 215 apartment doors of the complex. "...tenants would pay $51.55 instead of $12.00 bulk rate, they'd been paying. "HUD" was the blame, read the notice. Well, the tenants were all stirred and upset with "HUD". How could "HUD" do this to a group of senior and disabled Americans?", asked the tenants. Who answered them? Not the Executive President of the Tenants Association. "Ya'll seem to know all the answers...", said the President of TA as he quickly, caught the first elevator, up."Isn't he the one who put the notices under our doors," asked a tenant. "Yes, he surely did."

Later, some of the tenants found the answer to why the price for cable was going up from $12 to $51.55. The housing management was getting $3.00 profit from the bulk rate deal the tenants were getting. HUD reinformed the housing management that they could not make a profit from a deal between Section 8 Tenants and a private company rendering a service paid by Americans getting federal funds/income or "something like that..." In other words, "HUD" wasn't trying to hurt the tenants already reaping most of its healthcare and welfare from the government. "HUD" was putting a stop to "the greedy" making 3x the benefit from federal funds intended to help poor, widows, disabled and senior Americans.

The political criticizers and haters of our new American President 44, USA, are mainly attacking the President because he empathizes and is reaching out to build humanitarian equality from the center (Middle-class), which is the very beginning of righteous good.

"HUD" must continue to find and correct the errors of past government representatives, who have, far, too long, allowed housing management to gain 3x as much from government benefits for and to the many needing Americans in the USA.

The Republicans need to look for ways to help President Obama save and replace USA dollars in the USA Treasury rather than criticize this different President from making a meaningful and righteous change in America for the benefit of humanity all across the earth.

Really who is to BLAME

These companies were laying people off even before Obama begain running for president and I believe it is a ploy/domino effect for all to jump on the lets layoff execuse that it is the economy.

I have been in the IT field the past 12 years(it's a wonder I stayed afloat as long as I did) and companies started laying off outsourcing back in 1999 putting a double effect on the US by sending a great deal of jobs out of this county and now by bringing a HIGH percentage of foreign workers here replacing a great deal of people here.

Another reason there aren't any jobs now a HIGH percentage of these big wigs are being exposed for gambling with people's investments and swindling people and then there is nothing left to pull from the company to stay afloat.

I been layed off since December 2008, it's all BS.

That was great

July 2nd is the day when Obama gets credit for the economy. His stimulus package that was more about funding state and local government programs than incentivizing the private sector to create real, productive jobs has been sniffed out for what it was by the American people.

I feel badly for all those who are unemployed due to the failed policy of the Obama Administration that emphasizes growing government rather than the economy.

He's seems sincere but dont they all

Hopefully he means what he says but has to prove it.. We need someone that will "buck the system" it may not be possible, but if the people of this nation dont start requiring legitimate representatives..we will become a nation of serfs and paupers.. Before we have no choice, lets unite

You can always count on Boehner

for lies parading as truth. We haven't spent the trillion, and a bridge to a burger is not the only progress in America this spring.

The AIG bailout, we also recall, was started under the Bush (Republican) Fed, so the world would not completely fall in on George's watch.

All this Boehner jerk wants is more tax cuts for the wealthiest people in the country. You can't find another thing in his policy wishes.

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Peter Roff is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. A former senior political writer for United Press International, he is currently a senior fellow at the Institute for Liberty and at Let Freedom Ring, a non-partisan public policy organization. His writing has also appeared on Fox News' Fox Forum.

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