The first two spending bills didn’t work, so we just need to keep trying harder to spend our way out of debt!
Check out this story from Reuters. (H/T Gateway Pundit)
Excerpt:
U.S. leaders should be open to the possibility of a second stimulus package to jolt the economy out of a recession still causing job losses, House of Representatives Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday.
…President Barack Obama led the charge for a two-year $787 billion stimulus package that his fellow Democrats who control Congress pushed through the House and Senate in February and he has argued it would help create or save up to 4 million jobs.
Create 4 million jobs? He’s lost 2.5 million jobs so far. Maybe he doesn’t know what the word create means?
Michelle Malkin lists a few more of the Democrats in favor of more government spending.
Excerpt:
As you all have heard, Laura D’Andrea Tyson, the Clinton economic adviser now on Team Obama, has floated a second stimulus plan. Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island has echoed the call. Other Democrats are open to it.
Only 10 percent of Porkulus One has been spent, misspent, or gone untracked, but who’s counting?
I’ve uploaded two documents for your perusal this morning: The first is a GAO report on stimulus spending by states and localities, which will be released this morning at a House oversight hearing.
You can read the whole thing here.
Bottom line: The funds are not being spent on what they’re supposed to be spent on. States made up their own criteria for spending. School and transportation bureaucrats preserved their own jobs instead of “stimulating” others.
The second document is a GOP memo dissecting the failures of Porkulus One.
You can read the whole thing here.
Michelle lists a few of the key findings from the second document.
Why didn’t the massive Democrat spending spree work?
This is lesson one of Economics 101. When government spends money, the money comes out of the private sector. Government is not even close to allocating capital and producing wealth as efficiently as the free market system.
Here’s where we get into the “saved or created” dodge of the Obama administration. The Porkulus money may have “saved” jobs, but they were government jobs, not the private sector. Most government employees have union representation, primarily by the SEIU. The only jobs Porkulus may have saved were those of bureaucrats in state government, and mostly to make sure the unions stay on the side of the Democrats.
None of that money went into promoting growth in the private sector, which is why unemployment skyrocketed. Capital stayed out of the market, in part because of fears of confiscatory tax increases and in part because of the amount of regulation threatened by the Obama administration, and what capital was left will get eaten up by the cost of Porkulus eventually. And the GAO says it will take months just to get effective reporting on how that money gets spent, regardless of where it goes.
Obama’s support is now virtually 50-50 according to Rasmussen Reports.But he won’t care, because he’s the Obamessiah! As long as the left-wing fascists and terrorists love him, who cares what economically-literate peons like us think?
WINTERY KNIGHT 