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Was the Stimulus a Jobs Bill, or Special Interest Spending? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

 

Was the stimulus (A) a job creation bill or, (B) a liberal spending wish list? A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) study suggests that option B is closer to the truth. Small wonder it did not bring unemployment down.

Obama publicly argued that America needed the $862 billion bill to create jobs and singled out “green job” spending as the key to an economic recovery. The stimulus itself, however, looked a lot like not letting “a good crisis go to waste” and pouring public money at liberal special interests.

Remember all the green jobs weatherizing homes that Obama said the stimulus would fund? Because Obama would not waive regulations that benefit unions the Department of Energy has weatherized just 1 out of every 65 homes they planned to.

The Davis-Bacon Act (DBA) requires contractors on all federal construction projects to pay “prevailing wages.” In theory, those prevailing wages are supposed to be market wages. In practice, the Department of Labor uses slow, error-ridden, and unscientific methods to estimate them. As a result Davis-Bacon rates typically echo union wage scales: an average of 22 percent above market wages. By law the government hires four construction workers for the price of five.

Unions love this. No one can charge taxpayers less than they do. Jobs that would otherwise go to nonunion workers instead go to them at wages no one else would pay.

via blog.heritage.org

ANOTHER E-MAIL FROM AFL-CIO

My husband received this today - as I said in previous posts, he is a firefighter, and the IAFF (firefighters union) is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, which is why he gets these e-mails.  Just trying to get the word out on what their agenda is.  

Dear XXXX, Wall Street banks threw our economy into crisis. Bailing them out cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. Now, with unemployment at 10 percent, those same Wall Street banks are planning to give six- and even seven-figure bonuses to the executives who created this mess. It's time to say enough, and send the banks a final notice. Payment is past due on the harm they've done to the economy. Payment is past due on all the ways they've mistreated their customers—from excessive credit card fees to risky mortgages. We're letting the bankers know—since they won't rein themselves in, the government is going to have to do it. And we're letting our senators know we want the banks to face consequences for their actions: President Obama's proposed financial crisis responsibility fee on the largest banks will help get back the taxpayer money that bailed out those same banks, without penalizing community banks and small firms. We need a consumer financial protection agency to provide strong oversight so banks can't play Russian roulette with our economy again, and to protect customers from being bled dry. Tired of banks loading you up with fees while taking taxpayer money and giving executives huge bonuses? Send a final notice—payment is past due and it's time for the government to rein in the banks. Click here to let the bankers know this is their final notice. Your message also will go to your senators to urge them to rein in the banks. In solidarity, Marc Laitin AFL-CIO Online Mobilization Coordinator P.S. Yesterday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told us the Massachusetts special election results demand harder, faster, smarter action from us on working family issues. Sending this final notice to the big banks is our first step. Take action now! Visit the Web address below to tell your friends about this.   Tell-a-friend! If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for Working Families e-Activist Network. If you would like to unsubscribe from the e-Activist Network, or update your account settings, please visit your subscription management page.

The Message of Massachusetts - WSJ.com

Whether or not Republican Scott Brown wins today in Massachusetts, the special Senate election has already shaken up American politics. The close race to replace Ted Kennedy, liberalism's patron saint, shows that voters are rebelling even in the bluest of states against the last year's unbridled pursuit of partisan liberal governance.

Tomorrow marks the anniversary of President Obama's Inaugural, and it's worth recalling the extraordinary political opportunity he had a year ago. An anxious country was looking for leadership amid a recession, and Democrats had huge majorities and faced a dispirited, unpopular GOP. With monetary policy stimulus already flowing, Democrats were poised to get the political credit for the inevitable economic recovery.

via online.wsj.com

Ponzi Schemer Supt With Obama, Dems

A political fund-raiser turned ponzi-schemer wanted by the Feds had dinner with a bevy of top-notch Democrat lawmakers, including US President Barack Obama, the night before he was arrested by authorities.

 

The shocking revelation of the self-annointed “Jewish Avenger” and Chabad fundraiser, Scott Rothstein, was made by Republican strategist and pundit Roger Stone on The Bob Grant Show on January 10th.

Stone later wrote about the event on his blog

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