Accomplishments of President Obama

[infinite monkey]

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[TheMercenary]

Not even close.

[TheMercenary]

Rut Row!

President Obama’s phony accounting on the auto industry bailout

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...efKH_blog.html

[TheMercenary]

Obama's "Millions of Shovel Ready Jobs" maybe not so shovel ready after all. Yuk, yuk, yuk. Really funny Mr. President, really funny. Not.

video:
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-...dy-we-expected

[TheMercenary]

Given how economists still vigorously debate the economic effects of the New Deal, it’s not surprising that they would differ over the 2009 stimulus as well. So remember the old joke. You might ask for a definitive answer about the stimulus. The best you’ll get back is conflicting opinions.

http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/2...ts-of-stimulus

[TheMercenary]

More evidence of waste of taxpayer money in the supposed Stimulus boondoggle....

The ARRA stimulus funds for broadband constitute “the largest Federal subsidies ever provided for broadband construction in the U.S.” An explicit goal of the program was to extend broadband access to homes currently without it.

Eisenach and Caves looked at three areas that received stimulus funds, in the form of loans and direct grants, to expand broadband access in Southwestern Montana, Northwestern Kansas, and Northeastern Minnesota. The median household income in these areas is between $40,100 and $50,900. The median home prices are between $94,400 and $189,000.

So how much did it cost per unserved household to get them broadband access? A whopping $349,234, or many multiples of household income, and significantly more than the cost of a home itself.

Sadly, it’s actually worse than that. Take the Montana project. The area is not in any meaningful sense unserved or even underserved. As many as seven broadband providers, including wireless, operate in the area. Only 1.5% of all households in the region had no wireline access. And if you include 3G wireless, there were only seven households in the Montana region that could be considered without access. So the cost of extending access in the Montana case comes to about $7 million for each additional household served.

http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/06/th...f-a-stimulus-s

[Fair&Balanced]

LOL.

The same silly simplistic math as the charge that every job created by ARRA funding cost the taxpayers $200,000+.

[TheMercenary]

I guess you get what you pay for, "Millions of Shovel Ready Jobs!"

[Fair&Balanced]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I guess you get what you pay for, "Millions of Shovel Ready Jobs!"

I understand that no Democratic program would be successful under your standards.

IMO, a program that contributing to creating 2.5 million jobs in the last two years is a good thing given how the economy was in free fall.

Not to mention the other components of the stimulus -- the $millions in tax cuts to small businesses to help keep them afloat and the $milions in extended unemployment insurance and COBRA coverage for those who lost their job in recession.

BTW, Rick Santorum claimed the stimulus was a failure because it only created 240 million jobs!

[infinite monkey]

I bet there are shovel jobs cleaning up the bullshit in this thread.

Start scoopin'!

[classicman]

Merc, Can you explain how those numbers add up? I thought ... that most of the stimulus went for things besides job creation and the title stimulus was really not as accurate as some would lead us to believe.

When looking at stimuluswatch.org it certainly doesn't paint a great picture, but still those are some seemingly outrageous figures.


ETA - They updated the site to http://stimuluswatch.org/2.0/

[chrisinhouston]

We had a huge section of toll road built totally with the stimulus money, the link connects our area of NE Houston to Clearlake TX which is south of Houston half way to Galveston. Our Republican congressman, Ted Poe has been totally against any of the stimulus plan and has taken to the house floor to lambast it numerous times. He also showed up to have his picture taken at the ribbon cutting when the road was opened and spoke about how this new road would help his constituents and the communities.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by chrisinhouston

We had a huge section of toll road built totally with the stimulus money, the link connects our area of NE Houston to Clearlake TX which is south of Houston half way to Galveston. Our Republican congressman, Ted Poe has been totally against any of the stimulus plan and has taken to the house floor to lambast it numerous times. He also showed up to have his picture taken at the ribbon cutting when the road was opened and spoke about how this new road would help his constituents and the communities.

My only question is how many people were actually helped and at what cost? Or is it just another land "bridge to no where"?

[Lamplighter]

Post No 1, Item No 4 on Radar's list will be crossed off soon...

CBS News
October 21, 2011 12:23 PM

Obama announces end of Iraq war, troops to return home by year end

President Obama announced Friday that the United States will withdraw
nearly all troops from Iraq by the end of the year,
effectively bringing the long and polarizing war in Iraq to an end.

"After nearly 9 years, America's war in Iraq will be over," said Mr. Obama.

He said the last American troops will depart the country by January 1
"with their heads held high, proud of their success, and knowing
that the American people stand united in our support for our troops."
<snip>

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Obama announces end of Iraq war, troops to return home by year end

What a load of horse shit.... he it trying to say this was in his agenda from his campaign promises, Bullocks! The only reason we are pulling out is because they Iraqi Government and our minions could not agree on a Status of Forces Agreement that would not make US Troops subject to Iraqi Law. Otherwise we would still have a few thousand quick reaction forces there for the forceable future. At least 10 years IHMO.