First let’s look at what the stimulus actually does. The bill has a lot There is a lot of generalized anger in this country. Many Americans are The knock on Obama since the Republican upset in Massachusetts is that he pursued health care reform in 2009 to the exclusion of job stimulus. I don’t get it. The government passed a $800 billion stimulus plan over wide Republican opposition and bailed out Detroit for $50 billion (not to mention the Federal Reserve’s trillions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nof items, but 40 percent of the ARRA went to something Americans tend
\nto like a lot: Tax cuts — about $250 billion for individuals and $35
\nbillion for businesses. Another big category was about $180 billion of state aid<\/a> to avoid deficits that would have resulted in hundreds of thousands of job losses. Another $100 billion went to education<\/a>. Another $70 <\/a>billion
\nextended unemployment insurance and health care for recently laid off
\nworkers. The overall goal of the stimulus might have been to juice
\nproduction, but much of it went to give Americans more money to spend, and give states more money to maintain payrolls.<\/p>\n
\njuxtaposing the high unemployment rate, frustrating health care reform
\nprocess and bank profit headlines and concluding: Obama ignored jobs.
\nThey’re telling pollsters things like “the stimulus was a waste” and
\nalso, “unemployment is too high for government inaction.” The message
\nseems to be: The stimulus was a waste, we need more stimulus!<\/i>
\nObama has to respond to that anger, even if he thinks it’s confused. He
\nneeds to remind Americans where the stimulus money went, how future
\nstimulus spending will target joblessness even more exactly, and why
\nhealth care reform fits into the narrative of our long term economic
\nrecovery.
\n
\n 
<\/a>
\n 
<\/a>
\n 
<\/a>
\n 
<\/a>
\n 
<\/a>
\n 
<\/a>
\n 
<\/a>
\n
\n<\/a>
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/)