As a part of my New Year’s Resolution, I’ve either lost or didn’t gain those 25 pounds, just as I promised myself. Never mind that I’ve packed on ten. It’s the 25 pounds that I’ve lost or didn’t gain that are important.
And crime in my area? Skyrocketing. But the police swear they’ve either apprehended or deterred at least 100 homicides this year so far. At least. I think they’ve only caught three, but it’s the other 97 that they’ve deterred that I’m happy about.
Eager to show action on the ailing economy, President Barack Obama promised Monday to speed federal money into hundreds of public works projects this summer, vowing that 600,000 jobs will be created or saved.
The administration plans to spend gobs of dough, all over again, and as a result… something will happen. What exactly, they don’t know. What will unemployment end up being when we’re done? Dunno. How many jobs will we be bleeding every month at that point? Dunno that, either.
But something will happen. It’ll either be a little something that maybe you can see, or a lot of something that maybe you can’t, but it’ll be there, no question about that.
“We’ve done more than ever, faster than ever, more responsibility than ever, to get the gears of the economy moving again,” Obama said.
What? Huh? Whazzat? We’ve burned through money… “more than ever, faster than ever” and have finally reached a point where… what? We need to spend “more than ever, faster than ever” all over again.
The left is a one-trick pony. If it’s not coming out of your wallet, they’ve got no answers.
Just how much of an impact Obama’s recovery program had on the pace of job losses is up for debate.
Obama initially offered his stimulus plan as a way to put people back to work, a promise that 3.5 million jobs would be saved or created. The administration’s predictions that unemployment would rise no higher than 8 percent already have been shattered.
Federal agencies will release billions of stimulus dollars to states in the coming months.
Translation: “We don’t know what the heck we’re doing, but we’ve got lots of your money, so we’re going to keep doing it until something happens.”
