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千亿美元之后，他说‘我不停提到的那些项目根本不存在’
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Shovel-Ready Jobs: No Shoveling at Harvard Law School
By Jeff Poor | October 14, 2010 | 00:44
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It’s quite remarkable to think about and unfortunately it is true.
Throughout the 2009 stimulus debate early in his term, President Barack
Obama and other Democrats argue it was time to put America to work with the
aid of the government and so-called “shovel-ready jobs.” But in a
startling admission in an interview with The New York Times’ White House
correspondent Peter Baker, Obama said “there’s no such thing as shovel-
ready projects.”
So after the American taxpayers were sold a stimulus bill that was supposed
to repair the country’s ailing infrastructure and stem the rise in
unemployment, the president’s economic policies haven’t lived up as
advertised. On the Oct. 13 broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report
with Bret Baier,” syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer offered a spot-
on explanation.
“Well, that is quite an admission,” Krauthammer said. “A year-and-a-half
and half-a-trillion dollars later he says, ‘Well, these things I talk about
endlessly don't exist.’ It's not surprising that he doesn't know a shovel-
ready project didn't exist because having never worked in the private sector
he wouldn't sure what a project is and there isn't shoveling in Harvard Law
School, so I can understand.”
Krauthammer said the president’s admission could prove costly for Democrats
in upcoming elections.
“This is one of the greatest ‘oops’ in American history,” he continued.
“And it’s going to be hard for a Democrat when you show, you know one tape
against another, and you’re going to say, ‘You supported $1 trillion
offered by a president who didn't know that this is not going to happen?’
And that is probably why – since everybody expected it would affect
unemployment and didn't this is probably one of the reasons why – things
weren’t shovel-ready.”
Also in the Baker interview, Obama discussed his appearance to the American
people. However, Krauthammer suggested this was proof the White House was
more concerned with appearance and less with real policy.
“The other admission I think is even worse – the one of which he said he
ended up looking like a tax-and-spend Democrat,” Krauthammer continued. “
Obama and his staff really think this is all about appearances and
communication – that he isn't a tax and spend Democrat, but he didn't
communicate it or as the vice president said today, ‘It's too hard to
explain,’ meaning, that the American electorate is too thick to understand
it. He is a tax-and-spend Democrat. He spent a trillion dollars and we’re
going to have to borrow or tax it on the stimulus. He will spend $2-to-$3
trillion on health care. He’s going to have to borrow or tax it. Cap-and-
trade is spending that you’re going to have to -- that's what he is. That’
s why electorate is against him. It’s not appearances. It's substance.” |
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