Interesting list of Promises and Reality  

I have heard that only 1/3 of that money has been spent. I've also heard several mutterings on tv and on radio (conservative, of course, so it's biased) that a chunk of the remainder will be used to ensure the dems maintain a majority in 2010.

Unemployment is almost double what they say when you include the millions who have given up hunting for a job, those that have accepted part time jobs and those that have taken jobs at less than half their former pay that don't use the skills they are trained for--like the engineer that takes a stocking job at Walmart or the couple that each have two part time jobs to make ends meet.

Enough of stimulous !!!!

I agree with it all 100% and unless the average American Joe smartens up and starts voting the spendthrifts out then we may as well face the fact that the country is going to fall. In all honesty I think Obama is trying to make this country financially unstable so that a foreign power of his choice can take it over. I also think it is more than possible that Obama is being paid by someone to do this. In my opinion, things have just been too coincidental to be totally unplanned.

I have to admit I hate politics because it is NOT an honorable profession. Politics is all about abusing power and personal gain and as such I find it totally deplorable.

The signature at the end says it all - Michael Steele, the same Michael Steele who said $1 million isn't a lot of money! I think rather than calling this all a bunch of lies I'd say it's a bunch of spin. Two different people from opposite sides can see a totally different picture from the same scene...or something like that! Before the stimulus we were losing jobs at the rate of 700,000 per month; now it's around 20,000. That's still 20,000 too many but it is an improvement. Over 100 members of congress who so vocally opposed the stimulus and claimed it wouldn't and then that it hadn't created a single job have sung a totally different tune in their home districts as they touted the funds "they'd" secured for their constituents which would create from hundreds to thousands of jobs depending on the lawmaker and the district. Many of these lawmakers wrote letters to various Administration agencies requesting funds. These letters have been obtained by the Wall Street Journal, hardly a liberal publication.

Annie

Hiya whiteheather,

The only way I can say is I seem to have heard the same speech in Spanish? This is exactly what Mr. Zp. says give or take a few alterations here and there way down the line next to a couple of other Countried we have the worst unemployment record to date in Europe I mean there are other Countries not in the European thing that are even worse. For as long as I can remember there have ever been two jobs advertised in the local Paper. Along came the temporary Contracts and then it got even worse People bravely took on a Flat then realising they were risking their neck and now they are looked down on with disdain by those who think they are better than others just because they have money in their pockets. Not that I would like to see those same People in the same situation but they will only realise so much prejudice against people in debt is useless when they find themselves in the same situation. This place is full of stone throwers who quickly hide their hands thing to do not listen to them and ignore them nothing lasts 100 years but it sure seems like this will last forever. People who unwittingly get into debt are sadly very sadly treated almost like they have got the plague or almost criminals. I could go on but the real truth is those kind of speeches make for more social unrest than rest and more negative activities on a big scale.
I hear this in the local Shops a lot well I would not have done this that or the other those tongue waggers are the stone throwers and hide behind the Mr. Zp. supporters of which I am not actually the opposition does not inspire me very much either.

I was just reading this.
and I still think the dumbheads ought to impeach him and get him out of ther and sort of go back to lowering some taxes on small businesses so they can come back in to all the abonded buildings around town .
Lots of places here empty for they couldnt stand up to the big taxes that was laid on them.
For they are very small.
Want to know whre all those jobs are that was promiced to be created.
Prez spent so much time on take over and shoving obama care down out throats that nothing has been dont o create jobs for the poeple .
Just wonder where the He** he thinks money is going to come from to build up America if things dont change back to something that is reasonable to the American people!
COngress need to clean up thier act too and start working for us not the other way around!

This is a very interesting topic. If you take a close look at Obama's campaign promises and how many of them he has kept or fulfilled, one would say he's either a profound liar or a dismal failure, or both.

What is amazing to me is that, even faced with these facts, a good portion of people still think he's doing a good job or are still not sure. I guess they're still basing their opinion on what he says and not what he does.

Any way you look at it, the economy has gotten steadily worse since Obama took office. His policies are anti-business so it's hard to imagine how he's going to revive the economy that way.

They claim to have created jobs but the only jobs that can be proven to have been created are government jobs and creating more government is not going to help, indeed it will do more harm than good. We need jobs in the private sector.

The Obama administration continues to spend money like it's going out of style and they think they can do so without consequence. This will lead to the total collapse of our economy, not just a recession or even a depression, but a total collapse.

Anybody that doesn't think this can happen is deluding themselves. Our present course, if we don't change it, will take us nowhere but down and the Obama-Pelosi-Reid team seem determined to stay on the path to destruction.