Ben Johnson,The White House Watch If you were regularly described as one of the most “brilliant”leaders in our nation’s history and were poised to launch a 16-month-long crusade to convince the nation to re-elect you,how would you sell your dismal economic record? Barack Obama gave his answer in a press conference yesterday,[...] Matt Cover,CNSNews.com Twenty-eight months after Congress passed President Obama’s signature economic stimulus law,and nearly one year after he declared the summer of 2010 to be “Recovery Summer,” 1.9 million fewer people are employed. In February 2009,the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 141.7 million people were employed. By the end [...] Judicial Watch In the latest outrage involving President Obama’s disastrous stimulus,a federal probe has determined that thousands of companies that got cash under the fraud-infested program have cheated the government out of hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. At least 3,700 recipients of stimulus money owe Uncle Sam more than $750 million in [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com The media enthused when Barack Obama bloviated during his State of the Union Address,“We need to out-innovate,out-educate,and out-build the rest of the world.” They now enthuse that the president has appointed members to his new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness allegedly designed to cut down inefficient [...] Our regular contributor,Tom W. Pauken,provided this testimony in writing to the Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Improving Efforts to Help Unemployed Americans Find jobs on February 11,2011. As chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission,Pauken has played a pivotal role in a state that has weathered the Great Recession better than [...] Ed Morrissey,Hot Air Via Reason,the economists at e21 take a long look at a new study by Daniel Wilson at the San Francisco Fed on the effect on employment from the Obama administration’s stimulus plan,which indicates that the impact was a lot less than advertised. Instead of adding two [...] Judicial Watch In yet another delusional assessment of the administration’s disastrous stimulus program Vice President Joe Biden claims that fraud and abuse has been kept “to a surprisingly low level” thanks to rigorous oversight. The laughable estimate comes just a few months after Biden made a fool of himself touting a scandal-plagued welfare program [...] | |
