Posted by guest , Dec 01, 2009 6:12PM

Uh, it's December 1st... not the 9th, time to beat up Greg Michaels after you go get him out of the unemployment line.

Posted by guest , Dec 01, 2009 6:13PM

@3 what a contribution to society you just made. tool.

Posted by guest , Dec 01, 2009 6:14PM

@3 the minor error was corrected but you're homoerotic comment lives on forever.

Posted by guest , Dec 01, 2009 6:19PM

That CBO report actually debunks only one the statements cited as having been debunked. The first 4 quotes are all statements of relative effect, which I guess one could argue either way but certainly aren't blown out of the water by the CBO report. Then you have "[The Recovery Act has not] made even the smallest dent in employment" where the CBO says it has had as much as a .9% positive effect so that is a small dent - debunked! The last statement, "The White House says the stimulus created as many as one million new jobs, but this is single-entry economic bookkeeping," isn't debunked at all - the CBO says the bill saved or created up to 1.6 million, I don't know what the "created" portion of that would be, but I'd have to guess it's less than 1 million. That's a pretty sloppy report, but I'm glad the whitehouse.gov is taking the people's business seriously.

Posted by guest , Dec 01, 2009 6:31PM

I think Jared is also The Subway sandwich guy. How are they figuring they created 1million jobs? because they hired everyone to work for the government?

I think the only important number here is the 4 million people who are out of work. Thats the same amount of unemployed as the govt has working for it if you include our armed forces. Something is wrong here.

If Obama wants to tout his 1 million in fuzzy math jobs then he can. I hope he continues to do that. Because come 2012. He will be joining the unemployed!

The govt is too big to fail?

Posted by guest , Dec 01, 2009 6:45PM

http://jalopnik.com/5416549/daughter-of-resigned-gm-ceo-attacks-new-gm-ceo-on-facebook

Posted by guest , Dec 01, 2009 7:05PM

@6 Please, when you have a moment, translate whatever you typed up there into something other than blah, blah, blah.
kthnx

Posted by guest , Dec 01, 2009 7:39PM

http://www.cnbc.com/id/34220598

Posted by guest , Dec 01, 2009 7:49PM

I'm still trying to figure out how Obama gets blamed for all this sh*t. I was pretty sure in my math classes they taught us 8 years > 10 months.

Posted by guest , Dec 01, 2009 7:54PM

I know Kindler since law school -30 years. He loves poking doing things like this just to get a rise out of people.He is a good guy who has done extremely well.

Posted by guest , Dec 01, 2009 8:41PM

@10 no one said he wasn't a good guy.

Posted by guest , Dec 01, 2009 8:45PM

Too bad you have to know him to love him. I think more than a few people would see this and think "asshole."

Posted by guest , Dec 01, 2009 8:57PM

@15 are you speaking as an employee?

Posted by guest , Dec 01, 2009 11:21PM

@9, how's this - the whitehouse.gov piece states that the CBO report debunks this statement:

"The White House says the stimulus created as many as one million new jobs, but this is single-entry economic bookkeeping."

Yet the CBO report actually reports that the stimulus did not in fact create as many as a million new jobs. Saying that the CBO report debunks this is what is often referred to as "lying".

Posted by guest , Dec 02, 2009 7:28AM

Cayenne Turbo? Ick.

Posted by guest , Dec 02, 2009 8:12AM

"Jared Bernstein " isn't quite a paragon of journalistic (or at least grammatical) integrity, either.

"Here what CBO found"

Oh? Whey'd dey find it?