Oh man, I first read about this on HotAir. Obama is going around lying (surprise, surprise) about Caterpillar offering to hire people back if the Stimulus package passes. Apparently Obama forgot that CEOs usually have, you know, like TVs and the Internets and stuff. Now the CEO is setting the story straight.
EAST PEORIA, ILL. — President Obama today repeated the claim we asked about yesterday at the press briefingthat Jim Owens, the CEO of Caterpillar, Inc., “said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.”
Daschle and Geithner’s tax problems and now another problem with a cabinet member, although this one is resigning because he is a Republican and does not agree with Obama’s handling of the “Bailout” plan. Oh well, we cannot expect much from a President who has no real work experience. All of this, you know, responsibility must be really challenging for him!
WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire abruptly withdrew his nomination as commerce secretary Thursday, citing “irresolvable conflicts” with President Barack Obama’s handling of the economic stimulus and 2010 census. “We are functioning from a different set of views on many critical items of policy,” Gregg said in a statement released by his Senate office.
We all know this country is full of Obama-bots with their hands out and mouths open, but yesterday’s (staged?) request from a homeless lady for a new house and new car has garnered a lot of attention. Apparently this overweight lady…. Yes, the fact that she is overweight IS relevant because the US is one of the few places on earth where our “poor” are overweight…. Anyway, this OVERWEIGHT lady tells Obama that she and her unemployed son need a house and bigger car…. apparently on the taxpayer’s dime.
First, I think this lady was planted. It was just too convenient. Second, if this lady really does need a job, why is she spending her day waiting in line to attend an Obama speech. But then again, you really can’t be surprised when someone who is permanently unemployed has their priorities out of whack…..
So what is the solution? Simple! Raise taxes on the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil, hated “rich people” and give handouts to everyone else! After all, if it were not for the eeeeeeeeeeevil, hated, corrupt rich people, we wouldn’t be in this situation, right? That is how liberals think, and sadly that is how most of America thinks these days.
For all of the “change” that was promised, it is politics as usual in Washington. The liberals are using our bad economy to spread fear and threaten us into believing that we have to accept their massive increase in Government spending, or else. Don’t be fooled, this is no “economic stimulus”. This is a massive expansion of government. This is the New Deal, Part 2.
I have said it before, but it is worth repeating. Liberals love a bad economy because nothing is guaranteed to usher in more government spending than a bad economy. Talk about a conflict of interest….
Just in case you aren’t convinced this unprecedented expansion of our Federal government is anything but that, here is just a partial list of the pork and earmarks in this “economic stimulus” bill.
$2 billion earmark for FutureGen near zero emissions powerplant in Mattoon, IL
$39 billion slush fund for “state fiscal stabilization” bailout
$5.5 billion for making federal buildings “green” (including $448 million for DHS HQ)
$200 million for workplace safety in USDA facilities
$275 million for flood prevention
$65 million for watershed rehabilitation
$200 million for public computer centers at community colleges and libraries
$650 million for the DTV transition coupon program
$307 million for constructing NIST office buildings
$1 billion for administrative costs and construction of NOAA office buildings
$100 million for constructing U.S. Marshalls office buildings
$300 million for constructing FBI office buildings
$800 million for constructing Federal Prison System buildings and facilities
$10 million to fight Mexican gunrunners
$1.3 billion for NASA (including $450 million for “science” at NASA)
$100 million to clean up sites used in early U.S. atomic energy program
$10 million for urban canals
$2 billion for manufacturing advanced batteries for hybrid cars
$1.5 billion for carbon capture projects under sec. 703 of P.L. 110-140 (though section only authorizes $1 billion for five years)
$300 million for hybrid and electric cars for federal employees
$198 million to design and furnish the DHS headquarters
$255 million for “priority procurements” at Coast Guard (polar ice breaker)
$500 million for State and local fire stations
$180 million for construction of Bureau of Land Management facilities
$500 million for wildland fire management
$110 million for construction for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
$522 million for construction for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
$650 million for abandoned mine sites
$75 million for the Smithsonian Institution
$1.2 billion for summer jobs for youth
$412 million for CDC headquarters
$500 million earmark for NIH facilities in Bethesda, MD
$160 million for “volunteers” at the Corp. for National and Community Service
$750 earmark for the National Computer Center in MD
$224 million for International Boundary and Water Commission – U.S. and Mexico
Great job, Obama. Not even a month on the job and you have already checked out and handed the reigns over to the old-school washington Beaurocrats that you were supposed to “change”. Not surprisingly, they are doing what they do best -spending our money on crap.
And the Douche Bag of the Day Award goes to….. liberal nut job Chuck Schumer for this little foot-in-mouth idiocy:
“And let me say this, to all of the chattering class, that so much focuses on those little, tiny — yes, porky — amendments: The American people really don’t care.”
New highways… new school buildings for districts that don’t need them… a whopping$13 extra dollars per week on the paychecks of middle-class workers and no real breaks for the upper class workers. Oh, and pork and earmarks out the you-know-what.
We all know this country is full of Obama-bots with their hands out and mouths open, but yesterday’s (staged?) request from a homeless lady for a new house and new car has garnered a lot of attention. Apparently this overweight lady…. Yes, the fact that she is overweight IS relevant because the US is one of the few places on earth where our “poor” are overweight…. Anyway, this OVERWEIGHT lady tells Obama that she and her unemployed son need a house and bigger car…. apparently on the taxpayer’s dime.