More People think Elvis is Still Alive than Believe the "Stimulus" Created Jobs!

By Steve Foley - Posted on February 16th, 2010
Tagged: Reporting
•A recent NYT/CBS News poll (#19) reported only 6% of Americans believe stimulus has created jobs.
•Meanwhile, when CBS News polled Americans in 2002 on the 25th anniversary of his death, 7% thought Elvis was still alive.
Here’s Minority Leader Boehner’s statement:

One Year of “Stimulus”: “Taxpayers Aren’t Getting Their Money’s Worth”

“The American people took on record amounts of debt to fund Washington Democrats’ trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ and a year later the nation’s unemployment rate is near 10 percent. Taxpayers aren’t getting their money’s worth from the trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ and struggling families and small businesses are rightly asking ‘where are the jobs?’
“Self-congratulatory ‘stimulus’ spin from this Administration is hopelessly out of touch with reality and has about as much as credibility as prior claims that unemployment wouldn’t exceed eight percent or that jobs would be created ‘immediately.’

“Over the last year, as job losses have continued to mount, the Obama Administration has doubled down on discredited ‘stimulus’ spin. The ‘jobs saved or created’ metric was quietly abandoned last year after it turned out that raises were counted as jobs and jobs were counted that simply didn’t exist. The ‘state-of-the-art’ website designed to track the ‘stimulus’ was also discredited after it depicted spending in dozens of phantom congressional districts. Today, fewer than one in 10 Americans believe the trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ has created jobs.

“The trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ was put together so fast and so secretively that no member of Congress had a chance to read it before it passed, and it shows. Yet, as poorly conceived and badly executed as the trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ was, President Obama and Democrats in Congress still think that Washington is the answer to everything. Democrats’ proposed government takeover of health care is already hurting small businesses by causing additional uncertainty and stifling job creation. The dismal performance of the ‘stimulus’ demonstrates the dangers of allowing Washington to take more control over our economy.

“Americans are asking ‘where are the jobs’ but all they are getting from Washington Democrats is more government, more borrowing, and more debt piled on the backs of our kids and grandkids. Republicans have proposed better solutions to harness the hard work and entrepreneurship of the American people and get our economy moving again.”