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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Wayners who wrote (90500)2/22/2014 12:46:45 AM
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The stimulus package included tax cuts for families, money for teacher jobs, infrastructure and green energy projects and dollars for struggling state and local governments.

“What makes this recovery plan so important is not just that it will create or save three and a half million jobs over the next two years, including nearly 60,000 in Colorado,” Obama said when he signed the bill in Denver. “It’s that we are putting Americans to work doing the work that America needs done in critical areas that have been neglected for too long -- work that will bring real and lasting change for generations to come.”

Economists essentially agree the stimulus package helped end the recession, though some argue more money was needed.

The most recent report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, released in 2012,said the stimulus package essentially got a maximum 1.5 million more Americans working and added a maximum 1.9 million full-time-equivalent jobs.

“If the goal was to make things better, a clear majority of Americans would say it didn’t,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY., said Monday.

By mid-morning, the cross talk between Democrats and Republicans had turned into at least one direct response.

“GOP attacks on the Recovery Act are a perfect example of the delusional messaging that makes them appear out of touch to so many Americans,” White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said on Twitter.

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