After being asked when the public should begin judging the success of the nearly $800-billion stimulus plan, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs answered, "I think we should begin to judge it now."
Let's take his advice.
The administration warned that if we failed to support a stimulus package, unemployment would hit a dire 9 percent by 2010. With the stimulus, unemployment, it claimed, would stay in the 8-percent range.
This week, the Labor Department announced that the jobless rate jumped to 9.5 percent, higher than any time since August 1983.
It's not as if the administration was close. As the New York Times notes, "the difference between the situation that the Obama advisers predicted and the one that has come to pass is about 2.5 million jobs. It's as if every worker in the city of Los Angeles received an unexpected layoff notice."
Don't get too dejected, though. We still have an economic plan with a heaping dose of hope.
You have to remember..the people that put Obama in office would have:"Put the devil himself to avoid putting the GOP in office." To quote cracker...
An analogous quote was made by Winston Churchill upon the German invasion of Russia. Churchill and Stalin were bitter enemies throughout their lives; upon learning of Operation Barbarossa Churchill stated that had Hitler invaded Hell he would have to find something nice to say about Lucifer before the Parliment....
Hopenchange for all! BOHICA, baby. We'll all get what we deserve for allowing such a collectivist, individual freedom-destroying administration to pervert the nation's guvmint.
Originally posted by RRR52: Hopenchange for all! BOHICA, baby. We'll all get what we deserve for allowing such a collectivist, individual freedom-destroying administration to pervert the nation's guvmint.
Nice try, but the guvmint was full of perverts when he got there.
