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Topic: Obama Continues to Violate His
Own ‘Stimulus’ Law by Not
Releasing Quarterly Reports |
Obama Continues to Violate His
Own ‘Stimulus’ Law by Not
Releasing Quarterly Reports
Weekly Standard, by Jeffrey H. Anderson
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 1/26/2013 11:54:15 AM
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| Have you heard much about President Obama’s $787,000,000,000 economic “stimulus” (now estimated to cost $831,000,000,000) lately? In its last report, published in 2011, the president’s own Council of Economic Advisors released an estimate showing that, for every $317,000 in “stimulus” spending that had by then gone out the door, only one job had been created or saved. Even in Washington, that’s not considered good bang for the buck. Moreover, that was the fifth consecutive “stimulus” report that showed this number getting progressively worse. Alas, that was the last report
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
grayjay, 1/26/2013 11:58:25 AM (No. 9140585)
We all know by now that Obama is not subject to any laws, rules, or the Constitution. After all, he is King.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jgalt, 1/26/2013 12:33:18 PM (No. 9140646)
Well... since in America (a Nation of Laws) we are equal under the Law, I think this makes it pretty clear that each of us only has to follow those laws that he or she feels like following...
That´s my take away.
I am thinking that the law I like the least is the one that says I have to work for the government 4 months out of every year.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
OBX Pete, 1/26/2013 12:48:18 PM (No. 9140674)
As I have said all along, they should check ALIbama´s campaign donations and they will probably find a great deal of that money was doled out to his buddies and funnelled back into his campaign account.
I also think that they should check off-shore and overseas banks for personal accounts that were enhanced during the same period.
Just saying!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
uno, 1/26/2013 1:25:17 PM (No. 9140745)
The number getting progressively worse.
Well, isn´t that the progressive way???
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Grambo, 1/26/2013 1:38:37 PM (No. 9140766)
Once Obama and Bernanke have made the currency worthless, Hillary will be right, “What difference does it make?”
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Attila DiMedici, 1/26/2013 1:38:43 PM (No. 9140767)
The author does not understand the purpose of laws under Obama. The purpose of laws is not to determine what behavior is expected and/or acceptable. The purpose of laws is to punish those who dare to oppose Obama´s actions.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
judy, 1/26/2013 2:37:11 PM (No. 9140854)
Sue him...the courts appear to be more reasonable than the won...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bkt23, 1/26/2013 2:58:22 PM (No. 9140894)
The rule of law has been dead for a while and Obama´s actions prove it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
judy, 1/26/2013 3:14:38 PM (No. 9140925)
Biden was supposed to have all funds spent posted on the internet...waiting ...guess ole Joe Is busy...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ScarletPimpernel, 1/26/2013 4:01:29 PM (No. 9140999)
The list of 0bama´s impeachable offenses is getting quite long.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Italianlooks, 1/26/2013 7:45:58 PM (No. 9141259)
Just how dumb are we? The $787 trillion is reality is $3.1 trillion as it became part of the base line budget..Why can´t we understand this..Obama could have sent every man woman child more than $9,000 and that would have been a stimulus.
Just elinate the $787 and things would get better,
Baseline budgeting is the bame of of our economy!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
strike3, 1/27/2013 4:15:49 PM (No. 9142759)
That sure was an expensive election that he bought himself. No wonder the labor unions are fighting so hard to stay alive when they can get that kind of cash for doing nothing. Not to mention GM, who jumped into bed with barry at the first suggestion and has regretted it ever since. I´ll bet they didn´t even get a kiss in the morning.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Davids918, 1/27/2013 6:09:50 PM (No. 9142988)
It was supposed to be a one-time stimulus item not an on-going expenditure.
Republicans need to keep blaming Obama and the Democrats for deficits, debt and failure to budget.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DoktorFranken, 1/27/2013 6:14:10 PM (No. 9143002)
And the State Controlled Lapdog Media has been hot on this story for over a year. Obozo has been grilled CONSISTENTLY by them on this subject at ever news conference, interview, and campaign appearance.
Sorry for that LSD flashback. I lose track of Reality as much as a Pelosi when they occur!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
peterfleming, 1/27/2013 6:41:26 PM (No. 9143043)
Pelosi, Reid, Biden, Bloomberg, Feistein and
all of Congress and the Diane Sawyer media, admire the king´s golden suit. So, do all the welfare scrunges and non essential bureaucrats. But there are more people who see the king is wearing no golden suit !
He´s bear ass naked. How ridiculous he looks
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
wsdiego, 1/27/2013 8:49:18 PM (No. 9143205)
You can´t leave any fingerprints!
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