CBO says stimulus a bigger success than expected
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reports that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known as the stimulus bill, has created millions of jobs and in fact has had an even bigger economic impact than expected.
“CBO estimates that in the first quarter of calendar year 2010, ARRA’s policies:
- Raised the level of real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) by between 1.7 percent and 4.2 percent,
- Lowered the unemployment rate by between 0.7 percentage points and 1.5 percentage points.
- – Increased the number of people employed by between 1.2 million and 2.8 million, and
– Increased the number of full-time-equivalent jobs by 1.8 million to 4.1 million compared with what those amounts would have been otherwise.
In March 2009, the CBO predicted that as a result of the stimulus, employment today might be as much as 2.3 million than it would have been without the law. The updated report puts that number as high as 2.8 million.
In other words, the stimulus that according to some hasn’t created one single job has been and continues to be an important success. Times are still hard, but without ARRA, millions of Americans working today to support their families would instead be on the unemployment line, collecting UI benefits.
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DebbieDoRight
May 26th, 2010
3:20 pm
Late to the fray but…..
mike: LOL. Nobody is talking about Iraq. I know that mindless partisans like yourself are incapable of moving past irrelevant talking points, but try to stretch yourself and actually discuss the subject at hand for once. I don’t think you can. All of your empty and off-topic rhetoric is clearly gleaned from bumper stickers.
All the talking points came from history books, (that haven’t been changed by Texas yet), news reports and diffrent news outlets. That’s one of the better parts about being in this century, instant access to information.
md
May 26th, 2010
3:22 pm
sfd – I see you have given up on “stay on topic” and decided to “join the crowd”.
Thogwummpy
May 26th, 2010
3:25 pm
Bookman (the man has probably never worked a day in a competitive field nor taken courses in Economics), curiously omits that the bulk of hiring has been in the public sector. What’s going to happen Jay-Bo when all those Census workers are no longer needed? Hmmmmm…. Indeed, some of the indexes are turning up slowly. But as an actual businessman who works with a variety of industries nationwide, the slight bump is attributable to pent-up demand to replace aged/shredded products, as well as some inventory re-stock. Moreover, with the $8k tax credit expired, home buying will fade and with it, the associated spending to feather one’s nest.
Folks, Bookman likes to cherry pick, and he really doesn’t understand market principals. For example, he’s part of that thick-skulled ilk that tells you that the Bush tax cuts caused deficits. Yet, for THAT to be true, then the cuts caused tax revenue short falls. However, the same CBO he waves in your face today, told you that from 2002-2007, those years produced record HIGH flows of tax revenue!!! Look, get your economic lessons from reading a business journal. Bookman’s grasp of the subject is somewhere on a kindergarten level.
md
May 26th, 2010
3:25 pm
“That’s one of the better parts about being in this century, instant access to information.”
Not too sure that’s a good thing. Folks seem to have a tendency to use their computers for quick stories but shy away from doing much digging. Digging tends to stop as soon as a “side” is supported.
Please Clarify Jay
May 26th, 2010
3:26 pm
Can you please provide more detail Jay, as to how many of those jobs are government jobs versus private sector jobs. My guess is that the government sector has MANY more new jobs than the private sector. This does not translate into real econimic growth.
stands for decibels
May 26th, 2010
3:26 pm
md @ 3.22, I did clearly ID my post as off topic. I have one more new off-topic post coming to me, don’t I, per Jay’s rules?
And seriously, what more is there to say about the CBO report? Nice cover? They didn’t really need a blank page after the ToC on that PDF file?
Heck, did anyone besides me actually open the thing and at least skim it?
Union
May 26th, 2010
3:27 pm
TaxPayer
May 26th, 2010
3:17 pm
I was hoping top kill was a video game where you fired chunks of tires and mud and stuff at BP executives every time their heads popped up out of a drilled well hole.
Why are you mad at the execs? it wasn’t one of them at the controls at the time of the failure.. thats like blaming obama for the accident..
Jefferson
May 26th, 2010
3:28 pm
Raise taxes on the weathy and unemployment will decline.
md
May 26th, 2010
3:29 pm
“md @ 3.22, I did clearly ID my post as off topic. I have one more new off-topic post coming to me, don’t I, per Jay’s rules?”
You certainly do. Just pointing out the difference between now and the other day.
Sarah Palin
May 26th, 2010
3:31 pm
I shoot ilk from my helicopter.
md
May 26th, 2010
3:32 pm
As for Barrygate – seems Sestak has painted himself into a corner – he either alters his story and looks bad doing it or he comes clean in a “he said she said”. The sharks of DC smell blood in the water.
stands for decibels
May 26th, 2010
3:34 pm
Just pointing out the difference between now and the other day.
Dude. Are you by any chance talking about how I complained about the guys who OPEN with an off-topic post and go from there?
I see no inconsistency whatsoever. Topics do get stale. It’s been three hours, 300+ comments; I wasn’t griping about thread drift in circumstances like that.
Outhouse Gokart
May 26th, 2010
3:37 pm
Barry needs to come clean regarding all this Sestak cover-up. He and his co-conspirators…
Union
May 26th, 2010
3:37 pm
sfd.. you are OFF topic talking about being “off topic”..
stands for decibels
May 26th, 2010
3:39 pm
you are OFF topic talking about being “off topic”..
nuh-uh! it doesn’t count if you reply to another guy’s off-topic post! so there!
stands for decibels
May 26th, 2010
3:40 pm
Anyways, might be back later, otherwise, be excellent to one another. Try not to top-kill anything while I’m away.
md
May 26th, 2010
3:43 pm
“Dude. Are you by any chance talking about how I complained about the guys who OPEN with an off-topic post and go from there?”
Dude. Does it matter where an off-topic is posted? Who cares if it’s the first or the last?
TaxPayer
May 26th, 2010
3:45 pm
Union,
I’m not mad at the executives. I just don’t think they did their jobs. Perhaps they should have put more emphasis on safety and leak prevention than on meeting deadlines or coming in on a certain budget or paying off regulators and legislators or whatever they did. As far as I’m concerned, the attitude of their workforce is a direct reflection of the attitude of the leadership.
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
3:45 pm
Hang onto that Sestak is in trouble tripe.
I ( in not very going out on a limb fashion) predict that he is gonna decimate whatever poor schmuck runs against him…
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
3:46 pm
I counted five blank pages in the report – a complete waste of taxpayer money – and that cover – UGH – no color! Completely boring.
Whine
May 26th, 2010
3:49 pm
There are some whiny people on here.
TaxPayer
May 26th, 2010
3:50 pm
Here is some more info on their plans to plug the leak.
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
3:54 pm
Taxpayer,
So, is that thing pumping the mud into the pipe?
DebbieDoRight
May 26th, 2010
3:59 pm
My guess is that the government sector has MANY more new jobs than the private sector. This does not translate into real econimic growth.
Isn’t a job, a job, a job? Government jobs seem to have more security and last longer than “private sector” jobs anyway. The people who work for the government hardly ever get laid off if the CEO’s bonus was too big to sustain the rest of the company…….
md
May 26th, 2010
3:59 pm
“Hang onto that Sestak is in trouble tripe.
I ( in not very going out on a limb fashion) predict that he is gonna decimate whatever poor schmuck runs against him…”
Depends on how ugly it gets (or doesn’t get).
md
May 26th, 2010
4:01 pm
“Isn’t a job, a job, a job?”
Deb – where does the money come from to sustain the gov’t?
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
4:06 pm
Okay, okay, okay, okay – CNN has called in Bill Nye the Science Guy to explain the top kill? What?
TaxPayer
May 26th, 2010
4:07 pm
Bosch,
I cannot tell what the live feed is showing.
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
4:08 pm
This damn top kill had better work.
If it doesn’t, its time to round up a bunch of BPers, MMS boys and assorted neo-cons and chop them up into just the right consistency. And then using massive downward pressure use them to plug the end of that pipe.
The ultimate junk shot…
Kamchak
May 26th, 2010
4:08 pm
Deb – where does the money come from to sustain the gov’t?
China.
Another episode of one-word answers to simple questions.
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
4:11 pm
Kamchak,
Good one.
And in more important news: Brian Ching got cut from the WC team! That surprises me.
Department of Homeland Job Security
May 26th, 2010
4:12 pm
We are here to help.
Listen to the smart and patriotic Debbie Do Right. A government job is better and more satisfying.
DO NOT LISTEN to Ron Paul.
The problem is that citizens are thinking to much for themselves. Why trouble yourself?
We are paid to fix your problems. Leave the worrying to professionals. Of course our expertise comes with a price. These times call for patriotic sacrifices. As per the brilliant Jay Bookman, your taxes are at an all time low. It will be necessary to increase them for the collective good.
Pay no attention to naysayers. We have ways to remedy this problem.
Remember, we are here to help. And with your sacrifice, we will do this.
uhoh
May 26th, 2010
4:17 pm
Sure, they’ve help create some (Govt/Union) jobs. Ask Greece how that works for them?
JB
Jason T
May 26th, 2010
4:27 pm
One only has to look at the CBO’s track record. Hilarious.
Please Clarify Jay
May 26th, 2010
4:27 pm
Deb, you are clearly misinformed. Government jobs last longer most of time because the government does not have to make a profit. This is because they have the authority to seize (tax) and print money. When you have an endless supply of cash, why would the jobs ever go away?? This is a key difference between public and private sector jobs. The fact that private businesses must make a profit to survive is what fuels the economy. I hope you are getting this Deb….
jt
May 26th, 2010
4:32 pm
Department of Homeland Job Security -
How preposterous. Even if you are joking, its pretty funny.
In case you are not, I got something for your mooching Azzzzzz. And AmVet would appreciate this too. Whoever views this, TAKE YOUR HAT OFF, if wearing one.
http://www.picsearch.com/imageDetail.cgi?id=1-zEjhUPz–9wTFk1uGTZILL2nHr-zNlU6GGfzuqFwU&width=1407&start=145&q=Ronald%20Reagan
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
4:33 pm
“Government jobs last longer most of time because the government does not have to make a profit. This is because they have the authority to seize (tax) and print money. When you have an endless supply of cash, why would the jobs ever go away??”
OMG, I’ve fallen into that “stoopid is normal” rabbit hole again.
Kamchak
May 26th, 2010
4:35 pm
Bosch
Brian Ching? Hadn’t heard that yet. Injury related? Gonna hafta look that up.
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
4:36 pm
Update on top kill:
Nothing has changed….still pumping…..more updates to follow………carry on.
Please Clarify Jay
May 26th, 2010
4:37 pm
Bosch…please come out of your rabbit hole and expand on your thought….please, enlighten us all.
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
4:37 pm
Kamchak,
Here ya’ go:
http://worldcup.si.com/2010/05/26/findley-makes-world-cup-team-ching-cut/
Apparently it was a speed related issue.
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
4:39 pm
DDR, md…
I’m not sure Guttenberg was a good idea, myself. My own kids claim I belong in a medieval scriptorum with a quill and parchment!
300,000 teachers on the breadline? That stiumulus is shore workin real good…
Sestek and Barrygate…so? What else in new?
BP…well, let’s just hope this works…out to lunch today with some co-workers and one says she would have tar-ball gumbo…good thing that lunch was in Georgia and not Arizona though or I might not be here tonight…well, on second thought, that’s a matter of opinion some would say…
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
4:40 pm
Please Clarify Jay,
Well, for one thing — it’s a pretty known fact that government jobs don’t produce a profit. I mean that’s one for the duh – so therefore to attempt at making that the cause for people staying in their govt. position is pure nonsense.
“This is because they have the authority to seize (tax) and print money. When you have an endless supply of cash, why would the jobs ever go away??””
And that statement just doesn’t even begin to make any sense whatsoever….and ever. Again, you are attempting to force a cause and effect relationship on two totally irrelevant variables.
Please Clarify Jay
May 26th, 2010
4:47 pm
Bosch – FYI. Private sector jobs are lost (much of the time) due to an inability to afford to pay that person any more…when I say pay, I mean the act of giving someone cash for their time. In governement, the cash supply is endless, there is no real or enforeceable budget that that could get blown which could lead to job cuts…just a question for you, the US is +/- $13T in the red, correct? Why is Congress asking for another $100B?? Answer: b/c it can print and seize money, i.e. no budget. If any private company ran its business like the Federal governement runs this economy, that private company would be bankrupt. Please respond with specifics Bosch, not a bumch of hollow words….
Atlas Shrugging
May 26th, 2010
4:48 pm
From Singapore…Obozo, the commander-in thief, master of the obomonation, lord of the under achieving parasites, is headed down below 40%. If it weren’t for minorities and far left liberals he would already be at 30% or below.
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
4:49 pm
Please Claify Jay,
If “the guvmint” and all the “guvmint” jobs were all from one place I’d say you might, just might have a point – but considering there are local, state, and fed “guvmint” jobs that are by your logic paid for out of the same kitty – that makes no sense.
And in case you’ve been living under a rock for a while and haven’t read the news – government jobs are getting slashed too.
Kamchak
May 26th, 2010
4:50 pm
Bosch
Too much inexperience up front. Bradly made a mistake dropping Ching for three that have little international experience. Brian’s a big target for set pieces around the box. If Bradley doesn’t get us past group stage, it’s time for a change.
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
4:52 pm
Yes, the government has the right to “seize” your money.
The same way they have the right to seize your sorry ass when you run afoul of John Law. In theory any way, but various exclusions (like for the wealthy and men who run multi-nationals) apply…
jt, who could have known back in the gawdawful 80s (worst decade of the last century?) that the often horrific, criminal and boobified Ronnie would otherwise look pretty good compared to what was to follow him in the GOP?
Dusty
May 26th, 2010
4:52 pm
Are there any reports yet that the national debt has been reduced? We need a PLUG on that to stop the trillions spilling over & over & over.
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
4:53 pm
Kamchak,
“Bradly made a mistake dropping Ching for three that have little international experience. ”
That was my thinking too. And plus, dang, I like Ching!
Please Clarify Jay
May 26th, 2010
4:53 pm
Bosch – I’m talking Federal jobs…not state and local. The Federal level is where the hiring is taking place. Have a look at the unemployment rate in D.C. vs the rest of the US….this isn’t a coincidence Bubba…
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
4:54 pm
Holy crap! I just clicked back on the camera view and they’ve either changed views to show the leak or the damn thing exploded. I hope it’s the former.
Who
May 26th, 2010
4:57 pm
Bosch, is your first name Terry. I think I know who you are.
Jimmy62
May 26th, 2010
4:59 pm
Almost all the jobs are in government. Just what the people against the stimulus really wanted, bigger government.
I know the Tea Party arguments are too sophisticated for you to understand, but surely you at least get that we’re against bigger government, and the stimulus made government bigger, at the expense of the private sector, which is the actual driving force of our economy.
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
4:59 pm
Tar ball gumbo; yummy!
josef, can I have mine with a little gumbo file please?
Oil? What oil? I can’t see any oil? Can you see any oil, Andy?
London, England (CNN) — Britain has a total nuclear arsenal of fewer than 225 weapons, with 160 currently operational, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Wednesday.
The governor of Texas, Rick Perry responded by calling them Limey wimps who have less than we do!
Pogo
May 26th, 2010
4:59 pm
Basically all stimulus jobs are government jobs therefore they really don’t count. The only jobs that matter are private sector jobs that pay for government spending and that pay for the stimulus jobs. And in the private sector, the un-employment numbers are nearer to 15-20%. Jay’s whole little smoke and mirrors game here is a lie.
Disgusted
May 26th, 2010
4:59 pm
I hope it’s the former.
I’m seeing the “mud” going in on the right side and the oil continuing to gush.
ncgreybr
May 26th, 2010
4:59 pm
Saul: How dare you? Ronnie was prematurely red!
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
4:59 pm
Please Clarify Jay,
“I’m talking Federal jobs”
Well, why didn’t you say that to begin with?
“The Federal level is where the hiring is taking place.”
Well good. Now families can pay their rent and feed their families.
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
5:00 pm
“Bosch, is your first name Terry”
No.
Amazing
May 26th, 2010
5:01 pm
Bosch – you’re a liberal Kook.
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
5:02 pm
Agreed, unemployment is egregious. And underemployment has been a dirty little (massive) secret for 10 years or more.
One can only ponder if unemployment might not be 20- 25% under a McCain/Palin administration by now.
The War on the Middle Class has reached maturity…
Amazing
May 26th, 2010
5:02 pm
AmVet – so are you.
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
5:03 pm
Disgusted,
I think the pressure has got to even out – it’s gonna take a couple days.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Amazing,
Maybe, but I like it when people can feed their families and pay their rent – if that makes me a liberal Kook then so be it.
Dusty
May 26th, 2010
5:03 pm
Bosch,
Was it Ching, the CBO, the oil well or your head that exploded? You do jump around. I once had a rabbit…oh nevermind….
Amazing
May 26th, 2010
5:04 pm
Bosch – Maybe, but I like it when people can feed their families and pay their rent – if that makes me a liberal Kook then so be it.
Even at the tax payers expense? Good stuff. Guess you haven’t heard of a country called Greece? Get with it buddy.
Amazing
May 26th, 2010
5:06 pm
With comments like that…you make me feel all warm an fuzzy….perhaps you should ad the letters S and T to your handle. That way, you could be St. Bosch….
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
5:06 pm
Poor mystery meat…
As Dean Wormer said, “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
5:07 pm
Oh Dusty, Dusty, you know you love me.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Amazing,
We all benefit from tax money — You gonna be the one to make the cuts? Good luck with that.
Pennsylvanian
May 26th, 2010
5:07 pm
Amazing – You ain’t seen nothing yet. Wait ’til Bosch get cranked up talking about cruising with a handsome young man in a really cool light blue mini-van.
Amazing
May 26th, 2010
5:08 pm
Bosch – benefit yes, live on, no. Again, you’re missing the mark….
ncgreybr
May 26th, 2010
5:09 pm
Can you imagine, for a minute, if the CBO had come out with the exact OPPOSITE apprasial? The Republicans would be saying how accurate they are and the Dems would be saying how innacurate they are….
You can read anything into anything…..
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
5:10 pm
BTW
Has anybody checked to see how much of BP is owned by Queen Bessie the Frump?
Normal
May 26th, 2010
5:14 pm
HEY! NO FAIR!! I want to be called a liberal kook, too!
Normal
May 26th, 2010
5:16 pm
I had a rabbitt once, too…but he got stewed, sigh…
Dusty
May 26th, 2010
5:18 pm
Bsoch,
Well, now you have been made a saint!! A saint! I did not think that was possible with an Episcopalian!!
But I do love you anyway, ’specially since the tree fell right smack on you. Then you started hollering SQUIRREL!! But it’s OK. Yes! Now be nice. And no profanity! Remember. U R a saint!!
md
May 26th, 2010
5:18 pm
“The fact that private businesses must make a profit to survive is what fuels the economy.”
They must also make enough profit to carry the mooching gov’t. What some folks here don’t seem to understand is that the more companies don’t make a profit, the more in the red the gov’t gets. Creating gov’t jobs is a short term boost and must eventually be paid for through taxes.
And ask CA why they are laying off thousands of workers – because their gov’t got too big.
jt
May 26th, 2010
5:18 pm
AmVet———–
jt, who could have known back in the gawdawful 80s (worst decade of the last century?) that the often horrific, criminal and boobified Ronnie would otherwise look pretty good compared to what was to follow him in the GOP?
Sir Ronnie was too decent for criminal, but the rest may be true.
Sad but true.
Normal
May 26th, 2010
5:19 pm
BTW, I want to brag to the night crew. My 7 year old grandson, got the Presidents award for academic excellence, a math award and a advanced reading award! The little dude is deeply into my pocketbook now.
Pogo
May 26th, 2010
5:19 pm
J62, don’t waste your time with these people on arguments about the private sector and such. They believe what they believe and they don’t care about reality and they don’t care about what it is doing to the country. To them, ideology is king. La-la land is real to them.
Nacho Daddy
May 26th, 2010
5:20 pm
…has anyone seen my slippers?
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josef nix
May 26th, 2010
5:25 pm
Norm–
Congrats to him…also St, Elsewhere…
Dusty
May 26th, 2010
5:26 pm
Normal,
You evil guy, eating your rabbit. I carried my rabbit to Girl Scout camp and he learned how to swim. Made his tail a little droopy. He did not earn a swimmers badge because he did the dog paddle. Life is not fair, is it?
Kamchak
May 26th, 2010
5:26 pm
To them, ideology is king.
Yeah, because Democrats are the ones that did the ten point purity pledge thing.
jt
May 26th, 2010
5:27 pm
Ya think Cheney and company were bad. DO NOT get in the way of a democrat’s war industry stock portfolio. We DO NOT have the need to know.
And just GET OVER any promises Obama made.
“The Obama administration’s crackdown on leaks to the press has snared a high-profile conviction of an FBI linguist, who was sentenced to 20 months in prison Monday after pleading guilty to giving classified information to a blogger.
The sentence for Shamai Leibowitz is likely to become the longest ever served by a government employee accused of passing national security secrets to a member of the media. His case represents only the third known conviction in U.S. history for a government official or contractor providing classified information to the press.
“If Thomas Drake is convicted and sentenced to jail, this will be the first president to send two leakers to prison in his term in office. That’s never happened before,” said Schoenfeld, author of the book “Necessary Secrets.” “You wouldn’t have expected the Holder Justice Department to be particularly hawkish in these matters.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37721_Page2.html#ixzz0p4aQVCbN
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
5:27 pm
AmVet
“As Dean Wormer said, “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.””
But on the other hand, not a bad way to go into old age!
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
5:28 pm
Dusty–
So, yours is the rabbit that attacked Jimmy Carter?
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
5:31 pm
jt
Shamai Leibowitz, eh…hmmm…there’re a couple of posters hereabouts who must be, well, smacking their lips with glee,,,
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
5:33 pm
jt, technically Ronnie wasn’t I guess. He just allowed one to operate unimpeded out the White House basement!
And then feigned ignorance.
Sheesh…
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
5:37 pm
“You ain’t seen nothing yet. Wait ’til Bosch get cranked up talking about cruising with a handsome young man in a really cool light blue mini-van.”
That really tore up Pennsylvanian, didn’t it? What people get obsessed with is beyond me. But to each his own.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Amazing,
“benefit yes, live on, no. Again, you’re missing the mark…”
Nah, I’m not missing the mark – I know what your point is, but that’s kind of the crux of the problem – what to cut? I mean what politician wants to break the news to federal employees that their jobs are getting cut? And as a society, most of those jobs have been deemed as important – so we need to really decide what we want and what we don’t and what we dont’ want to pay for. It’s a little more complicated than saying the government is just too damn big.
“that the more companies don’t make a profit, the more in the red the gov’t gets. Creating gov’t jobs is a short term boost and must eventually be paid for through taxes.”
And I certainly do not disagree with that.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And congrats Normal!
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
5:37 pm
jnix, LOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2G-DKOGFbc
AmVet
May 26th, 2010
5:40 pm
Normal, MANY congrats on the little one!
To the extent you get a say, make sure he grows up to be a good one….(I know you will)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFl0nlHaWa4
Bosch
May 26th, 2010
5:41 pm
Oops! Sorry Dusty – I let a “bad” word slip – I guess I’m not a saint after all.
Dusty
May 26th, 2010
5:42 pm
Josef,
Yes, that was my rabbit that swimmingly attacked Jimmy Carter. He got the medal of honor for his bravery.
.
Then he joined the CIA and is now known as Sean Penn. I have disinherited him.
josef nix
May 26th, 2010
5:56 pm
Bosch–
Aw, shucks, and after hearing about a blue mini van, there I was, all ready to declare you the Episcopalian St. Francis A Sissie..
AmVet
Just can’t trust those people…loved the link!
Dusty–
Heh, heh!
James
May 26th, 2010
5:57 pm
Pissdawg, just like every other right wing kook will always find a reason to find something wrong with everything the administration does. Without the stimulus, unemployment would be at 12%. Then they’d be complaining he should have injected money into the economy to stimulate it. Also, bet Pissdawg has no problem with the $500 million that is being sent to secure our borders. Don’t hear any kooks screaming find a way to pay for this before it’s approved. Why aren’t they holding this up, like they did emergency unemployment benefits? You people are sad!!
Dusty
May 26th, 2010
5:59 pm
Normal,
Congrats on your grandson’s achievements. Sounds like he, too, had a “stimulus”. I bet it was grandpa.
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New thread! The dismal DOW. It must have been over STIMULATED..
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Dinner time! My marvelous mix of the mundane meatloaf! Mucho grande!
Dusty
May 26th, 2010
6:02 pm
JOSEF! ST. FRANCIS a SISSIE!!!! ooooooooo awwww let me outta here…
Normal
May 26th, 2010
7:22 pm
Thanks y’all on behalf of my grandson…