By Matt Holdridge
It appears that President Obama and crew are sticking to their story. “We have rescued this economy from the worst of this crisis…”
Their claim is that the $862 billion package is an unequivocal success that has created or saved millions of jobs.
Read more here.
Of course saying, “it would have been worse without it” is a clever rhetorical tactic that cannot be proven. It’s near impossible to prove a negative.
Fortunately, the American people are not as optimistic about the expenditure.
Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft and The Hill’s Walter Alarkon have found an interesting statistic in a week-old CBS/NYT poll: “just 6 percent of Americans believe that [Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package]created jobs, even though independent economists estimate that it has saved or created more than 1 million jobs.”
Read more about the poll here.