Lets bring up some facts to the conversation since you liberals love facts so much. When Obama signed the stimulus bill in 2009, he promised it would provide “help for those hardest hit by our economic crisis.” Clearly, it did not. The states hurt the most, the ones with more foreclosures, unemployment and bankruptcy, got less money than richer states closer to power. Washington, D.C. got the most stimulus money: $7,602 per capita. Rich Democrat donors also got payback. The farcical “green” energy company Solyndra defaulted on more than half a billion dollars of our money, while Obama mega-donor George Kaiser finagled his interest ahead of ours. Other beneficiaries of Obama’s largesse for dubious deals include Larry Page and Sergey Brin (if you Google them you will find they founded Google) for Tesla Motors, NRG Solar owners Warren Buffet and Steve Cohen, and Siga Tech owner Ronald Pearlman. All told, more than 75 percent of stimulus grants and money for such “businesses” found their way to big Obama supporters. Some examples -------------------- $11 Million To Provide Rebates For Ohioans To Buy Energy-Efficient Appliances Sent To A Texas Company That Outsourced Work To A Call Center In El Salvador. $835,000 To Study The Ecology Of Plankton $772,709 To Study Bacteria On Squid $700,000 To Collect Lost Crab Pots ... and my favorite $600,000 On Signs Touting The Stimulushttps://gop.com/the-real-obama-stimulus/https://www.ocregister.com/2013/03/26/ron-hart-where-did-the-stimulus-money-go/
Can't Stump the Trump wrote:
DiscoGary wrote:
They promised that IF that stimulus was passed then unemployment would stay under 8%. They predicted that without it unemployment would hit 9%. They got their $800 billion slush fund, spread it around to their friends and cronies, and unemployment went to 10%!.
Very little of the money went to infrastructure improvements, and said projects were probably never completed anyway.
All talk no action.