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White House Fights Back on Stimulus Spending

by Hugh Collins Sep 17th 2010 8:09AM
White HouseThe White House fought back against criticisms of the $814 billion stimulus plan, with a new report that highlights job-creating projects including bridges, roads and cancer research.

Vice President Joe Biden is releasing a report Friday called "100 Recovery Act Projects That Are Changing America," The Associated Press reported. The report points to projects it says are creating employment and boosting economic growth.

Republicans have fiercely criticized the stimulus, saying that high unemployment shows the spending plan was a failure.

The report points to projects including a $175 million plan to rehabilitate bridges and a parking field in New York City. The report says the project employs more than 120 people and boosts local economic growth.

Another stimulus-funded project mentioned in the report is the $150 million plus Cancer Genome Atlas project, a large-scale collaborative effort involving 15 different American research institutions. More than 150 researchers are working to characterize the genetic and genomic changes that occur in adult cancers.

The AP received details on 20 of the projects on Thursday.

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Suzanne

Whoever supports this administration should pay for the deficit for the next 1,000 years. Does that change your liberal mind?

September 20 2010 at 2:15 PM Report abuse +4 rate up rate down Reply
Randy

Subject: Get your facts right! Some people don't want to know the truth! The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009 -- it was actually January 3rd 2007. The day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives & Senate, the start of the 110th Congress. The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995. "For those of you who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault," think about this: January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress: At the time: The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77 The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5% The Unemployment rate was 4.6% George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION! http://www.ontheiss/ ues.org/celeb/ George_W_ _Bush_Jobs. htm Remember the day. January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee. The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy? BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES! THANK YOU DEMOCRATS for taking us from 13,000 DOW, 3.5 GDP and 4.6% Unemployment to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOS! (BTW: Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy). And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA & the Democratic Congress So when some idiot tries to blame Bush REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007 THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER! Bush may have been in the car but the Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel they were driving. Set the record straight on Bush! http://brucehough/. blogspot. com/2009/ 04/setting- record-straight- on-george- w.html "It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so." -Ronald Reagan

September 20 2010 at 1:49 PM Report abuse +6 rate up rate down Reply
Randy

What the Borat O'Bama Administration called stimulus was taxpayer dollars used for kickbacks, graft, and payoffs for the votes O'Bama bought during his campaign. Most of the money went into the bank accounts of Union Bosses, ACORN Leaders etc.

September 20 2010 at 12:30 PM Report abuse +7 rate up rate down Reply
dccwest

Profgessor Hannity say the best way to deal with the Bush Economic Collapse is to cut taxes for the wealthy. He says Stimulus doesn't work.

September 20 2010 at 10:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Randy

He's right! Just as he was about Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, etc. Thank God someone is attempting to properly vet these criminals!

September 20 2010 at 12:34 PM Report abuse +5 rate up rate down Reply
actionhero

175 million for 120 jobs, and 150 million for 150 jobs?

September 19 2010 at 8:50 PM Report abuse +6 rate up rate down Reply
urvc200

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September 19 2010 at 8:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
michael

TODAY OBAMA WENT TO CHURCH GIVE ME A BREAK HE LOOKED SO AWKWARD. HE JUST TRYING TO SHOW US HE GOES TO CHURCH. STOP THE B-LL-HIT YOU KNOW YOU DO NOT GO TO CHURCH YOU GO TO A MOSQUE

September 19 2010 at 7:28 PM Report abuse +8 rate up rate down Reply
michael

DO'NT LET OBAMA NEAR MY CHECK BOOK,THE MAN COULD NOT BALANCE A ACCOUNT IF HE TRIED.

September 19 2010 at 7:23 PM Report abuse +9 rate up rate down Reply
michael

AS USUAL THE MARXIST LEFT WING DEMOCRACTS OF THIS COUNTRY ARE TRYING TO BANKRUPT THIS COUNTRY BY PRINTING MORE MONEY AND SPENDING ON THERE AGENDA.

September 19 2010 at 7:22 PM Report abuse +7 rate up rate down Reply
Yosh

California's stimulus $110 millions, saved or created 55 jobs and lots more; NJ's stimulus,$40M's, saved or creates less than a hand full. and ON and ON and ON!!! As Obama said, without this stimulus it could be a worse but he just guessing! Pelosi once said, if Obamacares passes, "4" millions NEW jobs going to be created immediately(humm),only a 20,000 created. Sure knows how to make a RIGHT CALLS.

September 19 2010 at 4:44 PM Report abuse +2 rate up rate down Reply