Hannity's No. 1 example of "reckless" stimulus "waste": A project his reporter acknowledges is "important"
March 12, 2010 11:23 pm ET
From the March 12 edition of Hannity:
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If this had happened on my watch? There would have been an investigation for Certain.
But not Dick Cheney, as those 13 Soldiers died that Coward was keeping America Less Safe.
5 Deferments Dick? Did you ever set one foot in Vietnam? Can you even Spell Disgrace?
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
A project his reporter acknowledges is "important"
What she ACTUALLY said is "No one says this project is not important", She's like anyone with a thinking brain suggests the timing is REAL bad. With over 17% of the population either unemployed or UNDER employed, the creation of 1.66 jobs is simply WRONG....
Cite please?
OTP went on: "or UNDER employed"
Cite please?
Please explain precisely what the term "under employed" means.
Go ahead and take your time OTP, but please back up your claims with some factual evidence or data, and if you would, be so kind as to put it right here.............................> *.
Thanks in advance.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Bottom right hand corner under Feb 2010....
Underemployment or u-6 means "U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force
You know, I can ALWAYS back my claims with RELIABLE information, NOT mmfa talking points... satisfied????
The problem is that he (President Obama) is doing NOTHING except trying to push through the government meddling "health care reform (with NO reform))....
JOBS, JOBS, JOBS .... or as Joe Biden said, "JOBS is a three letter word"....
First, our manufacturing base has been so decimated by multi-national coporations shipping jobs overseas to find cheap labor, that we don't have an easy time recovering jobs there. Our support services too have been outsourced. The tax benefits of out-sourcing have not been addressed in any fashion.
Then there is the military industrial complex, invested in war, which drains our coffers and maims and murders for profit.
With a stressed labor market, cheaper and cheaper wages versus inflation, you get higher debt. First credit card debt, then mortgage debt, and that well has run dry. If you want to blame the Obama administration and the Democrats, fine. But don't stop there.
You're spot on. Anyone can take quick google search about "bee population, pollination" and find many papers and sites talking about the issue of bee populations and the worry for crops, etc. It is becoming a major problem. And really, 9.3 for research is kind of low because the "technology" that will come from making a miniaturized anything can have many applications. It's not about the robotic bees, this could deal with nano-tech, manufacturing processes, etc. I do though agree, only 1.66 jobs is kind of a let down. But in the grand scheme of things eh. 1.66 for 9.3, but I don't know how many came from the new highway project in Dallas, but the amount of money give was greater. Hmm...I wonder what the average job creation per million spent is with the stimulus spending.
Each Stimulus dollar spent affects not just the recipient, but all Americans.
Worse than that, in a recent poll of Iraqis, better than 90% of those polled would vote for Saddam Hussein if he were alive today. In other words, Iraq will once again revert to a dictatorship after the US leaves, thus making Bush's little desert boondoggle the BIGGEST WASTE OF MONEY AND LIFE IN US HISTORY.
Randy
Bush is the past, "Move On"... OH maybe that only applies to Clinton and the blue dress....
In total the democrat party has WASTED 825Billion on NOTHING!!!!
Now, did you support the U.S. invasion of Iraq?
You still massively fail to see the hypocrisy, I see. So, that would make you a FOX propaganda shill, then?
Here's a hint: they are used for dramatic effect as a qualifier, not randomly.
But I "guess" you wouldn't "know things" like "that".
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But now that you've ATTACKED, how about dealing with the TOPIC....???
Ever been there???? Bet NO!!! prove your "poll" (wet dream)....
Randy (still doesn't belong in quotes, as this is my name)
So in other words, to cite a poll one must have BEEN in the place the poll originated. Does that mean if you cite a poll collected from ALL 50 states,that YOU have BEEN to EVERY state, because data is only valid if recited by a person who has tactile experience in a region?
I'm guessing logic isn't your long suit, and that debating is an even shorter one.
Randy
Actually it has NOTHING to do with MY logic. The LOGIC, if you understood LOGIC is that your poll numbers are either made up by you or FAKE....
Deflection, deflection, spin, lie....
Randy (no quotes needed, that is my name, not a pseudonym)
We can disagree about whether stimulus spending is the best way to create jobs, but to imply that the left doesn't care about the unemployed is just plain silly.
I'm not implying that the left doesn't care..... I'm stating it outright, If the left DID care they'd get the President off this miserable excuse for health care "reform" and onto creating JOBS....
and just exactly what is going to happen when the 825Billion runs out???? MORE job loss, that's what.....
Oh BTW have you noticed the price of fuel creeping up, all it does is add to the cost of goods and services..... DO SOMETHING, SOMETHING THAT COUNTS.... JOBS (and I don't need one)....
No Supreme Court appointment for you!
President Obama has a majority in the house AND senate (until recently a super majority in the senate).... He has the answers, so where are the jobs..... Lokks like "Wall Street" is doing pretty good, what with thier close ties to the President and franks, dodd.....
From what I read from you in this thread and in others, if a person doesn't make at least a six-figure income then they don't deserve to live. Well I don't make a six figure income and I'm living on disability and I have been disabled all my life and right-wing nuts like you treat me like crap because as far as you and your kind are concerned I should be either homeless or dead.
It was conservatives like you got the USA into this mess and don't want to help everyone that you guys screwed over for an immoral war in Iraq for nothing.
Jobs are needed today, but if we don't have invest in the future then the USA is dead.
What you think is a waste is a LONG term investment (something you probably don't understand) in the country's future something that could pay off in spades beyond President Obama's term and possible second term.
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Just take a look at the facts, dems in control of the congree, BAD employment numbers, which ALWAYS improve when repubs take over....
My goodness arithmetic 101, or 10% is 10%.... duh!!! OH I forgot the mmfa left-wing nut spin, spin and more spin......
BTW exactly who are the rich, bill gates, soros, kennedys, jobs (steve), clintons, al gore.... funny who the "rich" are.... left-wing nuts feeding of the public.....
But wingnutz don't process logic...it goes right over their heads.
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Also, are there any non-blonde women at Fox?
On the second point: seriously! It's really beyond ridiculous at this point. Well, there's Sarah Palin, and I think there might be a brunette on Red Eye (maybe?), but I'm honestly hard-pressed to think of another non-blonde woman. This isn't even to mention the number of minority women there.
RACISM DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
Two things. First is Aryan. and second WTF are you talking about?
The dumbest thing about this: generously allowing that the government "wasted" $5bn in the stimulus, that's less than 1% of the entire bill. For someone who cheerleaded the "reckless spending" of $4 trillion in the Iraq War and $2 trillion in the Bush tax cuts, this strikes me as being pretty trivial - and utterly hypocritical.
Not to disagree with your overall post, but this actually seems to have saved scores of jobs. It should have been done better (e.g., full nationalization and government-mandated restructuring, depending on the case), but the collapse of Wall Street - which was eminent when TARP was passed - would have led to at least double the current unemployment rate, and TARP was a necessary evil. Like I said, I totally disagree with the management of the funds, but it certainly staved off a total depression.
2010 Military Budget- 681 billion
2008 Veterans Administration Budget 48 million
2010 Veterans Adminstration Budget 114 billion
What world are you living in OTP? The military budget has been the largest budget item since 1980 when Ronnie started the out spend the Commies till they disappear policy.Every president since has continued this policy.Obama has more than doubled the VA budget in 1 year.FYI Bush cut the VA budget 4 years in a row from 04-08 to help fund the very war that was creating such a burden on the VA How does a left wing socialist spend more on his returning troops than the president that sent them in harms way to begin with? You need to quit spouting about Main Street and start living on it.
While spending taxpayer dollars to destroy infrastructure and maim and kill people gets a pass from these folks.
As far as the idea that these sorts of grants lead to tyranny, I'm not exactly convinced, to put it mildly. First of all, it's totally consistent with the role of the Congress to give these grants. Second of all, there's a clearly established process: one has to demonstrate that one has the capability to perform the research to get the grant.
"You also can't say, 'Oh, metaphorically someday down the road we'll all be better because of these bees.' It doesn't work that way."
It actually sort of does. That's the point of making laws. This viewpoint hardly undermines the enumeration of powers, since it doesn't claim unlimited power in promoting the general welfare.
Finally, as the last administration made so clear, if America does devolve into tyranny, it will be due to deliberately fraudulent elections (ask black voters in Florida during the 2000 election) and excessive military power in a unitary executive, not a legislative and executive emphasis on social democracy. FDR was nowhere near a tyrant, whereas W. Bush came closer than any other president. I don't claim that he was a tyrant, but hundreds of innocently imprisoned Muslims probably have a different opinion.
17% (16.8%) UNDERemployment ugg!
Hey, it's a brilliant system if you're in the top 1%, until it crashes and threatens the economy of the entire world. The funny (pitiful) part? They're still arguing that these are sound principles by which to run our country.
You can teach a Faux Con, but you can't teach 'em much.
Actually, you know what? Go ahead. Claim that Reagan inherited 10% unemployment in 1983 from Carter (whose presidency ended in 1981), but that somehow Obama didn't inherit 10% unemployment in 2009 from Bush.
Actually, you know what? Go ahead. Claim that Reagan inherited 10% unemployment in 1983 from Carter (whose presidency ended in 1981), but that somehow Obama didn't inherit 10% unemployment in 2009 from Bush.
Even gwb did better than this after a MAJOR fascist-terrorist attack....
Socialist.
Okay, seriously, leaving aside the fact that you apparently think letting bin Laden escape and spending your great-great-grandchildren's money on a war in a completely unrelated country constitutes "did better", I have to ask... how was 9/11 "fascist"? Do you have ANY IDEA what that even means? At all?
Oops, that's right, you actually provided no evidence of your bogus claim and your bogus insult.
The issue is NOT whether it's important BUT what's MORE important, JOBS, or research on robotic bees....
the anti-logic of liberalism....
What is actually humorous is that just because President Obama and his ilk, were caught funding "robotic bee" research with money that suppose to be used for JOBS, you all will DEFEND the indefensible until they lock the comments... Then you'll just hope it'll go away and not resurface....
So which is it, you really believe it's more important to fund "robotic bees research - thumbs down, or fund JOBS for you fellow Americans - Thumbs up.....
Randy (still doesn't require quotes, as this is my actual name)
yet another specious item by media matters... do they even listen to the audio and videos they post?... hannity's reporter did not "acknowledge" the project is important, she "reported" that others felt it that was... just another example in the long series of liberals watching fox news not being able to discern fact from opinion...
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