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Reality Gets in Way of Charlie Bass' Kickoff Smear

by: Dean Barker

Wed Feb 17, 2010 at 16:27:49 PM EST


The BassMaster is back!
"Instead of spurring the economy  by supporting  private sector growth, Washington Democrats  piled up mountains of unsustainable debt through a trillion dollar  economic 'stimulus' package that did little to stimulate job growth - but plenty to stimulate the size of federal government."
From today's New York Times:
Judging Stimulus by Job Data Reveals Success

Let's say this bill had started spending money within a matter of weeks and had rapidly helped the economy. Let's also imagine it was large enough to have had a huge impact on jobs - employing something like two million people who would otherwise be unemployed right now.

If that had happened, what would the economy look like today?

Well, it would look almost exactly as it does now. Because those nice descriptions of the stimulus that I just gave aren't hypothetical. They are descriptions of the actual bill.

Just look at the outside evaluations of the stimulus. Perhaps the best-known economic research firms are IHS Global Insight, Macroeconomic Advisers and Moody's Economy.com. They all estimate that the bill has added 1.6 million to 1.8 million jobs so far and that its ultimate impact will be roughly 2.5 million jobs. The Congressional Budget Office, an independent agency, considers these estimates to be conservative.

You are entitled to your own opinions, Charlie.  You are not entitled to your own facts.

Adding: Is it too much to expect that someone in the state media actually will ask Charlie why his stimulus claims run counter to multiple independent analyses?

Dean Barker :: Reality Gets in Way of Charlie Bass' Kickoff Smear
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Charlie's a good Republican. The party line is that (0.00 / 0)
the stimulus has failed.  And, actually, from the Republican perspective, it has.  If only because the timing was all wrong.  Federal dollars are supposed to flow to the states in anticipation of elections.  Having them flow in an off-year is a waste of political capital.
What a silly idea to spend money where and when it's actually needed!  As far back as the mid-80s, Reagan/Bush had perfected the art of bribing the citizens just before an election.

DD has Bass pegged (4.00 / 1)

Pwnage!
* 18 months before 9/11, Charlie voted against an amendment to provide funding for the updating of Customs Service computers. (Budget Committee vote, 3/15/00)

* Charlie was one of only 3 (out of 435) Members of the House to vote to defund the "We The People. . . Project Citizen" civic education program to teach schoolchildren about the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. (Vote #376, 9/9/97)

* Charlie voted to slash $100 million from the Pell Grant program, and backed the elimination of the Direct Student Loan program. In a 2002 debate with Katrina Swett, Bass called the latter "a disaster for New Hampshire." (Vote #549, 10/28/99; House Budget Committee vote, 10/12/95 et. al.; WMUR/Union Leader 2nd Congressional District debate, 10/22/02)

* Charlie voted against pay parity for Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) employees, undermining the SEC's ability to investigate Bernie Madoff and other Wall Street criminals. (House Budget Committee vote, 3/13/02)

* Charlie voted to gut EPA funding, and weaken protections against arsenic in our drinking water. (Vote #288, 7/27/01 et. al.)

* Charlie voted to abolish LIHEAP. (House Budget Committee vote, 5/11/95)

* Charlie voted to eliminate the federal school lunch program, which provides hot meals to more than 30 million underprivileged children. (Vote #743, 10/26/95; Vote #812, 11/17/95)

* Charlie voted against an amendment to fund child nutrition programs with a reduction in corporate welfare expenditures. (House Budget Committee vote, 6/19/96)

 

www.KusterforCongress.com  

(Lurking in the shadows with a devilish grin on my face. . . . ) n/t (0.00 / 0)


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