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Tam

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The un-employment rate topped over 10% at 10.1% accord to Gallup tonight.

So what happen to all the talk about the Stimulus creating or saving millions of jobs.
 

hypocritexposer

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Tam said:
The un-employment rate topped over 10% at 10.1% accord to Gallup tonight.

So what happen to all the talk about the Stimulus creating or saving millions of jobs.


Maybe some of the funds still have to be distributed. I'm sure obama and Biden are working on it over the weekend.

give it some time Tam, give them a chance to get their feet wet in thier new roles. The election is a less than a month away, and I wwould hate to see you become disillusioned and do something crazy like voting for a Republlican. :wink:


Indiana still awaits Obama's promised green recovery


More than a year after the president visited to announce a new era of green jobs, the grant he promised has not materialised and unemployment is high


Suzanne Goldenberg guardian.co.uk, Thursday 7 October 2010 14.16 BST

One summer morning when he had been out of a job for 17 months, Kelvin Jacobs turned on the television to watch Barack Obama touring the factory that once belonged to his former company.

It was a strange experience. By the time of Obama's visit in August 2009, Jacobs had spent three months in a homeless shelter. Around him, Elkhart county was in economic freefall.

His old company, which made RVs – "recreational vehicles", or mobile homes – like just about every other factory around, had gone bankrupt. One in five people were out of work, one of the highest jobless rates in the country.

And here was Obama offering a way out with his multibillion-dollar economic recovery plan. Posing in front of the sleek contoured glass of an electric delivery van, the president announced a $39m grant to jump-start a new green era of manufacturing jobs that would replace the lumbering, gas-guzzling RVs.

"Just a few months ago, folks thought these factories might be closed for good," Obama told a carefully selected audience of factory workers. "But now they're coming back to life."

Jacobs, watching on television, felt relief. He had supported Obama, and felt pride at having an African-American president. "I thought: OK, they've got a plan. They are going to try something new."

Then he thought: "Where are these so-called green jobs at and what kind of education do I need to get one?"

Fourteen months on, fewer than a dozen of the 700 promised jobs have appeared – and there is no sign of the promised $39m grant. An additional $44m in government loan guarantees has also failed to materialise.

The recovery funds that did flow in, such as the $4m for a 1,800m (6,000ft) runway for a local airport that gets no commercial traffic and is only open to private jets, have come under attack from conservatives.

But it is the sharp disparity between Obama's grand vision of green jobs and 13.5% unemployment that has soured Elkhart's view of the president and his fellow Democrats now running for election in Congress and in the state.

"He came here making big promises and people believed he would deliver on the promises he made here, and green industry hasn't followed to any great extent," said Gregory Halling, editor of the local newspaper, the Elkhart Truth. "There is a lot of disillusion with the president."

Navistar, the trucking giant that took over the bankrupt factory, said it had hired just 10 or 12 workers to build the electric vans. It has built 10 or 11 so far.

That's nowhere near the 700 jobs it promised and nowhere near the grand vision articulated by Obama in his visits to Elkhart as candidate and president.

"Orders just haven't been there. It is very slow," said Roy Wiley, the company spokesman. In a follow-up email, he added: "We have not received a single cent from the $39m grant and will not start receiving payments sometime in the future."

The spotlight produced by Obama's presidential visits also attracted a number of clean energy scam artists – willing to set up shop to Elkhart, but only if they got stimulus funding first.

"We received a lot of people migrating to the money, thinking that we had all this money to give away because of all the publicity," said Dorinda Heiden-Guss, president of the economic development corporation of Elkhart county.

Obama paid more attention to Indiana than any other presidential contender since Bobby Kennedy in 1968, turning up during the election campaign to play basketball with kids at the local school. The attention paid off. He was the first Democrat to carry the state in a presidential election since 1964.

For younger supporters such as Summer Sellers, the Obama victory marked the first time she felt any sense of ownership in a presidential election. "People think about elections in this area that it is always left up to the adults," she said. "It was really kind of cool to have all of us younger people in one spot hoping that this person would win."

She was grateful for the attention when Obama chose Elkhart for his first trip outside Washington as president, and again in August 2009 to reiterate his vision for America's economic future, a transition to new clean energy manufacturing.

As he goes out campaigning for Democrats in these elections, Obama continues to talk up Elkhart as an example of the potential for greening America's economy.

But even Obama's biggest supporters in town, such as the mayor, Dick Moore, concede there is no way he could win a presidential election in Indiana again.

Elkhart remains, after all, traditional Republican terrain, a mix of manufacturing towns, where Obama drew his support, and postcard Americana farm land, with corn fields, weathered barns and black and white dairy cows.

The Democratic congressman, Joe Donnelly, is fighting off a Republican candidate backed by local Tea Party activists and the party is braced for heavy losses in industrial heartland states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana.

Elkhart has recovered slightly since Obama's last visit. Unemployment is now 13.5%, still above the national average and a calamity for an area that had a jobless rate of 4% before the current recession. But the modest upturn owes more to old standbys – like RV manufacturing – than to the blossoming of a new green economy.

"We talk about diversification all the time but the truth of the matter is that Elkhart will recover quicker with the RV industry than it will with the new green or hi-tech jobs," Moore said.

Since Obama last came to town, Sellers has lost her job doing internet marketing for RVs. The lay-off was her second in five years. She does not blame Obama.

Jacobs eventually found work, a temporary job at an antifreeze factory. He still supports Obama but is wondering where the green jobs are.

They may materialise. This week, the makers of the Think electric car moved into a factory on the edge of Elkhart that will eventually serve as its North American manufacturing headquarters. But it is unclear whether the workers who lost their jobs with Jacobs when the RV industry collapsed will be in line for the hi-tech jobs if and when they do arrive.

In the public library, many of the manufacturing workers coming in to use the free computers and internet to file for unemployment benefits online did not know how to use a computer until they lost their jobs.

Halling suggests that Obama, though consistent in his message of a green economy, had yet to really think through his plan for Elkhart. That, he said, is fuelling popular anger. "It is not as if you can flip a switch and began using computerised equipment," he said.

"It is almost crushing to find out that in the end the guy you hoped would be your hero turns out to be someone who barely knows you. That is a big reason why people are disillusioned with the president. He wasn't as advertised."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/07/indiana-awaits-obamas-green-recovery
 

Tam

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I doubt anyone can consider me becoming disillusioned :wink: as I knew from day one Obama was too inexperienced and incompetent to be President of the US. FGS He was a JUNIOR Senator that spent more time campaigning than actually learning what it would take to be President. :roll: The guy never ran so much as a lemonade stand and he thought he could run the most powerful country in the world. :x Obama is a guy that can Talk the Talk over and over and over as long as he has his trusty teleprompter by his side, but when it comes to Walking the walk not so good, he*l he is like a drunk stumbling down the street and falling on his face. Come Nov. he will be walking OK, his party right off a gang plank :wink: I can't wait to see the Republicans tell Pelosi and Reid WE WON WE WRITE THE BILLS. And I hope the first thing the Republicans do is start an investigation into Pelosi's lieing to the Congress. I would love to see that dingbat go down with the rest of the Democrat swamp scum. :twisted:
 

hypocritexposer

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Tam said:
I doubt anyone can consider me becoming disillusioned :wink: as I knew from day one Obama was too inexperienced and incompetent to be President of the US. FGS He was a JUNIOR Senator that spent more time campaigning than actually learning what it would take to be President. :roll: The guy never ran so much as a lemonade stand and he thought he could run the most powerful country in the world. :x Obama is a guy that can Talk the Talk over and over and over as long as he has his trusty teleprompter by his side, but when it comes to Walking the walk on so good. Come Nov. he will be walking OK, his party right off a gang plank :wink: I can't wait to see the Republicans tell Pelosi and Reid WE WON WE WRITE THE BILLS. And I hope the first thing the Republicans do is start an investigation into Pelosi's lieing to the Congress. I would love to see that dingbat go down with the rest of the Democrat swamp scum. :twisted:


You'll get a kick out of these 2 videos. They both hit the Dems. pretty hard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj-MpP5n3uE&feature=player_embedded


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6weDMH-SCOE&feature=player_embedded


:D
 

woranch

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Angusgord said:
:D :D Do you think the unemployed are all the idiot bankers that gave money to homeowners that never in their F'ing lives could have afforded it? :D :D :D


The idiots are the people who signed a loan they could never pay for ... :roll: :roll:
 
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