More Spending + Fewer Jobs = Recovery Summer?

Thursday, August 12, 2010 4:59 PM by Lauren Forbes

After the Vice President’s top economist took to the White House blog to try to make Republican Leader John Boehner’s home district an example of supposed “stimulus” success, the Ohio Republican took him to task on the numbers, issuing a press release that illustrated the full fallacy of government recovery by “stimulus”: Since the “stimulus” bill was signed into effect in February 2009, Ohio has lost over 130,000 jobs. Boehner also noted that as of June 2010 the Butler County unemployment rate was at a staggering 10.1% while Ohio was at 10.5%, a full percentage point above the national average.

While the White House continues to prop up its failed policies, stories continue to surface as to why the “stimulus” has failed to produce any tangible economic benefits. In Utah $1 million of the “stimulus” will go toward providing 1,600 high-school students at a single high school with iPods, creating exactly zero jobs.  In Washington, D.C., residents who are trying to quit smoking will receive a taxpayer-funded phone on the premise that it allows access to hotline services, courtesy of a $500,000 “stimulus” grant.

Millions are also being allocated to promote the “stimulus” itself. On top of the millions spent on “stimulus” signs and the hefty price tag for jet-setting White House officials who have traveled across the country to advertise “stimulus” projects, a small business firm in Maryland received $363,760 to author a report such as Stimulus Money Puts Students at the Forefront of Research” and “Stimulus Helps Fund Science Experience for Young Women.”

Taxpayers who are left to foot the growing bill for this atrocious spending waste are not fooled. As Boehner pointed out, with all of this spending, deep into the “Recovery Summer” Americans are still left wondering: “Where are the jobs?”

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