Ben Johnson,Floyd Reports
The cornerstone of Obama’s Labor Day speech before a union audience was a $50 billion transfer of wealth from taxpayers to Big Labor. Porkulus 3.0 will not create jobs for years (if at all),but it will raise gasoline prices
Aside from taking time to feel sorry for himself,Obama unveiled a proposal to spend $50 billion on roads and infrastructure,which he promised “will not only create jobs immediately,it’s also going to make our economy hum over the long haul.”
His administration immediately admitted he lied. A senior Obama official,who would speak only anonymously,said: “We’re not like trying to put out an idea today that in October 2010, this is going to create a lot of jobs. This is not what this is.”
The Washington Times added,“Senior administration officials said measures for economic progress will take effect mostly in the long run and likely will do little to lower the 9.6 percent unemployment rate anytime soon.” (Emphasis added.) Even if it is passed,“Congress might not authorize funding for the six-year plan until after November and that no more jobs will be created until 2011.”
Most of those jobs would be staffed by the people behind him on the stage:union thugs and Democratic Party donors. The AFL-CIO and SEIU together have devoted $88 million to the 2010 midterms, which is $20 million more than unions spent in 2008. They have already spent $14 million in California alone to support Democrat Jerry Brown. Obama’s payback to the unions is by no means coincidental.
However, the plan Obama is selling to cure unemployment today (“immediately”) will not be in effect fully until after his second term (or,we pray, his successor’s first).
Reading the fine print reveals something else:the price tag is not really $50 billion….