Did you know that in section 1513 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, or what is better known as the stimulus), there is a clause that requires the executive branch, of which "Dear Leader" Barack Hussein Obama is head, to submit a new report describing how the stimulus is doing every three months until September 30, 2013. The law states:
In consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisers [CEA] shall submit quarterly reports to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives that detail the impact of programs funded through covered funds on employment, estimated economic growth, and other key economic indicators."
Guess when the most recent quarterly report was issued? June 2011. I don't think that's even close to being current. What happened to the four 2012 reports that CEA was supposed to issue? Could these facts, and the effect they could have had on the 2012 election, have had anything to do with the reports not being released?
- Fewer than fifty nine percent (58.6%) of Americans are currently employed; down 2.4 percent from the time of Obama's first inauguration. By the way, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) chart illustrates just how effective the "stimulus" was in terms of increasing employment. Sure, the chart shows job losses before Obama was inaugurated. But he and the CEA said that the jobs situation would rebound if only the "stimulus" was passed. As Henry Morganthau, Treasury Secretary under Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), said, "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work... I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" Morganthau said that in May 1939, but it is quite appropriate for Obama's administration.
- Obama's own CEA said for every $317,000 in "stimulus" spending, only one job had been created or saved.
- Christina Romer, the first CEA head, said the "stimulus" legislation was needed to keep unemployment below 8 percent, and that, by 2012, the stimulus would have caused unemployment to fall below 6 percent. But, the unemployment rate surpassed 10 percent after the "stimulus" was passed. The unemployment rate stayed above 8 percent for more than three years. The BLS managed to get it under 8 percent just before the 2012 election, and the MSM ate it up.
- The most recent CEA report was the fifth consecutive "stimulus" report that showed this number getting progressively worse.
Could releasing the required reports have given the "low information" voters the information they needed in order to make an informed vote?
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— go to most recent comments1 - Jet Gardner
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•The most recent CEA report was the fifth consecutive "stimulus" report that showed this number getting progressively worse.
The Weekly Standard:
Moreover, that was the fifth consecutive “stimulus” report that showed this number getting progressively worse.
2 - Jet Gardner
"not"...
Alas, that was the last report we’ve seen. Never mind that Section 1513 of the “stimulus” legislation, which Obama spearheaded and signed into law, requires the executive branch to submit a new report every three months. It reads:
“In consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisers shall submit quarterly reports to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives that detail the impact of programs funded through covered funds on employment, estimated economic growth, and other key economic indicators.”
The Weekly Standard:
Alas, that was the last report we’ve seen. Never mind that Section 1513 of the “stimulus” legislation, which Obama spearheaded and signed into law, requires the executive branch to submit a new report every three months. It reads:
“In consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisers shall submit quarterly reports to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives that detail the impact of programs funded through covered funds on employment, estimated economic growth, and other key economic indicators.”
3 - Jet Gardner
"not"...
Hillary Clinton: "What difference does it make?" By the way, Clinton made that remark when testifying about why the American people were purposefully misled about the Benghazi terrorist attacks. Some believe that the Benghazi cover up was orchestrated solely to protect Obama during his re-election.
The inquisitur
Hillary Clinton... “what difference does it make” for the reasons that the American people were purposefully misled on the Benghazi terrorist attacks. Some people believe the difference lies in whether or not the Benghazi cover up was arranged in order to protect President Obama during his re-election.
4 - Jet Gardner
The People's Cube
Quote from the site he took the photo From...
I am still waiting for Dear Leader to authorize post-womb abortions on these monkey-men, but I suppose ensuring they don't breed is a start.
5 - Not the liberal actor
Re: comments # 1-4, Jet, Did you go to the James Carville school of commenting? You cannot attack the message, so attack the messanger.
6 - Glenn Contrarian
Um, Warren -
If I'm doing something that makes me look bad - like if I've got something draining out of my nose, or if I've got toilet paper stuck on my shoe, I really appreciate it when someone kindly points it out.
That's what Jet did for you, and he insulted you not at all. Whatever you think of him or he may personally think of you, you owe him your thanks, because he was doing you a real favor.
How was he trying to help you? Let me give you a hint or two:
Did you know that among writers, it is considered bad form to copy what someone else writes and put their words in your article without crediting them for their effort? This is called 'plagiarism'. If you were making money off your article, it would also be strictly illegal and would open you up to a rock-solid lawsuit.
And changing one or two words doesn't excuse you from being found guilty of plagiarism, either. Unless what you write are truly your original thoughts, what you must do at a minimum is to credit those whose words or research you are using. This is considered good form.
Also, when writing a serious article, it is also considered bad form to reference sites that are far from the mainstream, which is what Jet was pointing out in comment #4.
Jet really did do you a favor by pointing out the literary toilet paper stuck to your shoe, and he did so without insulting you at all. You owe him a sincere thanks.
7 - Not the liberal actor
Glenn and Jet, I know I'll never convince y'all, but other readers will see comments y'all offered, so: I did NOT consult, or look at, other web sites when composing this article.
8 - Jet Gardner
Warren the message and the messenger speak for themselves. You've repeatedly proven conclusivley that attacking either is a waste of time because you don't listen to anyone who doesn't agree with you and your right-wing and/or racist sources.
The "dear Leader" and monkey remark and your attitude make me suspect that you made that comment yourself under another name-either that or he's one of your heroes.
9 - Jet Gardner
I've proven without doubt that #7 is an out-and-out lie.
Warren I've given you all the attention you deserve...
nuff said
10 - Not the liberal actor
BTW, Jet, you forgot to mention this source and this source. Does your non-exhaustive source list mean that ANY source I read is poison as far as you (and Glenn) are concerned?
11 - El Bicho
When the messenger is using someone else's message without credit, they deserve to be attacked. Jet's comments do make it clear for all readers what's happened here.
Plus, you give yourself away claiming you "did NOT consult, or look at, other web sites when composing this article" only to then cite a couple of sources a few hours later.
12 - Glenn Contrarian
Incredible. Absolutely freaking incredible. Jet shows that Warren's sentences are taken almost verbatim from those sites, and Warren apparently expects us to believe that it was pure coincidence that the sentences are near-carbon copies of each other!
13 - John Lake
Your "facts" were so obviously false, I took a look:
Recovery-gov TRACK THE MONEY
As to Sect Clintons statement, do you not catch the significance of "four guys walking down the street?" that says it all. In any case, jihadists intentionally fabricate al-Qaeda ties to enhance their status, and the status of al-Qaeda.
14 - Jet Gardner
Warren, when you start out with a really great girl, but then repeatedly fuck over her, eventually all you're left with is a bitch.
The same holds true for the truth.
15 - Costello
Was Warren's writing style not revealed over six months ago? At this point it's not Warren who should be chided but the editors.
16 - troll
assuming Warren's honesty for a moment - what would then be remarkable would be the extent to which he has been incorporated into the hive-mind...picking up phrases and such in the wind
17 - Jet Gardner
A fart-faced Borg Troll?
18 - Baronius
Jet's trying too hard to prove that every word is plagiarized. But read the Weekly Standard article on which this one was based and decide for yourself whether BC is breaking copyright law.
19 - Jet Gardner
Where did I say anything about copyright law?
He "borrowed" and rewrote sentences and phrases out of context -punctuation hyphens and all - from several sources into something he calls original-I sited three but there were more.
Baronius I almost typed that I'm surprised rhat you're defending something so blatant, but then I'm not, since you agree with him to the point of wearing blinders, and I predict that he will fall all over himself to thank you for your bromantic support...
He absolutely believes he's "justified" and he doesn't think he's done anything wrong-and since you share his hatred of the president, you take his side no matter how radical it is.
He has no conscience-He's so fixated on "spreading the word" that he has no concern for his sources as long as they agree with him.
Use of "Dear leader"- means he wants everyone to think Obama is a Socialist Hitler Nazi. Something radical right-wingers have been spouting for years.
Use of "Hussein" means that somehow Obama is an illegal African Muslim dictator in disguise out to ruin America's "christian" values.
Over and over and over-every article is the same.
He doesn't care what anyone thinks of his racist propaganda (#comment 4)-all he cares about is getting out the word, and bragging to like-minded friends that he got this garbage published in Blogcritics.
20 - Clavos
I dislike Obama as much or more than Warren, but I asked management to cancel his writer privileges.
He is no longer a BC writer.
21 - Clavos
Oh, and Jet:
"Dear Leader" is a reference to Kim Jong-il, the deceased father of the current dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, not Hitler or the Nazis.
22 - Jet Gardner
Hitler was also referred to as Dear leader-and referenced to at a lot of rightwing rallys by posters of Obama with a hitler mustache
23 - Jet Gardner
Clavos-the link in comment 4 proves he was refering ro Obama
24 - Clavos
Clavos-the link in comment 4 proves he was refering ro Obama
Of course he was; and comparing him to Kim Jong Il...That entire web site's references are to Commies, not Nazis.
25 - Jet Gardner
Clavos-this different and independant link disagrees with you