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VIDEO RESEARCH BRIEFING:
THEY MESSED WITH JOE, PART
TWO
A
Week Long Stimulus Anniversary Retrospective
View This Research Briefing At GOP.com
OBAMA
PLEDGED
FEBRUARY 24, 2009: Obama Pledged That Joe Biden
Would Lead "Unprecedented Oversight Effort" For $862 Billion
Stimulus, "Because Nobody Messes With Joe." "Here in Washington, we've all seen how
quickly good intentions can turn into broken promises and wasteful
spending. And with a plan of this scale comes enormous
responsibility to get it right. That is why I have asked Vice
President Biden to lead a tough, unprecedented oversight effort -
because nobody messes with Joe." (President Barack Obama, Address
To Joint Session Of Congress, Washington, DC,
2/24/09)
OBAMA
DELIVERED:
Exaggerated Job Counts From
His $862 Billion Stimulus
School In Georgia Reported 280 Jobs Were
Created By Stimulus, In Fact None Were Created. "At a small college in Georgia, $100,000 in
stimulus funds paid for trucks for students to practice for
commercial driver`s licenses. Another $100,000 went for a modular
classroom. The school reported to the government that 280 jobs were
created. In reality, not even close. That's the number of students
who benefited. It has nothing to do with jobs." (CBS News's "CBS Evening
News," 10/29/09)
In
Florida, Pay Raises Were Counted As Stimulus Jobs. "In Cocoa, Florida, a childcare center
reported 129 jobs created by a stimulus grant. In fact, no jobs were
created. The money was really used to increase the compensation and
benefits of 129 existing employees." (CBS News's "CBS Evening
News," 10/29/09)
The Wall Street Journal
Reported White
House's Second Stimulus Job Count "Overstated By At Least
20,000." "The number of
jobs the Obama administration credits to federal stimulus money
could be overstated by at least 20,000 of the 640,000 claimed, a
Wall Street Journal analysis found." (Louis Radnofsky and Mauria
Tamman, "White House Appears To Overstate Stimulus Jobs," The
Wall Street Journal, 11/4/09)
Nine
Pairs Of Boots Supplied To Army Corps Of Engineers Counted As Nine
Jobs. "A Kentucky shoe-store
owner claimed to have created or saved nine jobs with an $889.60
contract to supply work boots to the Army Corps of Engineers. The
owner said he supplied nine pairs of boots and that the mistake
arose from confusion over the government form."(Louis Radnofsky and Mauria
Tamman, "White House Appears To Overstate Stimulus Jobs," The
Wall Street Journal, 11/4/09)
In
Missouri, Stimulus "Saved" Jobs That Were Not In Jeopardy Of Being
Lost. "In mid-August, a
seven-made team of divers from Kentucky spent four days retrieving a
broken steel turbine blade from the bottom of Stockton Lake.
... The diving company, which says it brought six full-time
employees and one part-time worker to southwest Missouri and hired a
local crane operator, reported on federal documents that the
stimulus project created or saved 7.5 jobs. ... Araya said none of
the employees who worked on the project were in danger of losing his
or her job, and if they didn't get the Stockton Dam job they would
have been somewhere else in the country on inland underwater diving
missions." (Chad Livengood, "Job-Creation
Figures In Doubt," News-Leader, 10/25/09)
OBAMA
DENIES
Now
Obama Claims That We "Have Not Seen Scandal Break Out" On Stimulus
With Biden Leading Oversight Effort. "[L]et me just say, by the way, give a
compliment to Vice President Biden. He and his team have
overseen the Recovery Act. You have not seen scandal break out on a
huge endeavor." (President Barack Obama, Remarks
At Town Hall Meeting, Tampa, FL, 1/28/10)
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