Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Making up the numbers

Tony Fratto, CNBC, The White House "Jobs-Saved" Deception.

P.S. FBI targets TARP fraud. Your latest corrupt government program.

More: GOP Rep. Eric Cantor on the need for accountability. In part:
It was rather stunning that earlier today, while speaking about the nearly $800 billion stimulus bill, Vice President Joe Biden told business leaders in New York that the administration knows that “some of the money is going to be wasted.” As if this wasn’t enough to make taxpayers cringe, Mr. Biden went on to note that, “Some people are being scammed already.” Is this the unprecedented oversight and accountability we were promised? [snip]

First, we developed an innovative stimulus plan to preserve, protect, and create twice as many jobs as the bill that Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid rammed through Congress. During the debate, well before the President signed the $787 billion spending bill, House Republicans made clear our belief that any stimulus action must be laser focused on jobs.

But in the months since the president signed the $800 "stimulus" bill, we continue to read about waste, delays, and job losses. The administration offered a budget that imposes more debt on our young people in 6 months than in the previous two hundred years combined.

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