By: AJ
In President Obama’s Labor Day speech he claimed that under President Bush, “Companies were rewarded with tax breaks for creating jobs overseas.” Oh really? Facts are inconvenient things… let’s take a look at who is doing more to “stimulate” other countries…
USAID for international/foreign assistance totals $173.5 BILLION, spent by President Obama and his Democrat-controlled Congress. The breakdown is as follows:
- FY2010 = $90.6 BILLION (60% increase since FY 2008)
- FY2009 = $82.9 BILLION (47% increase since FY 2008)
What did President Bush spend in FY2008? $56.5 BILLION. How about FY2006? $49.7 BILLION.
The $173.5 BILLION does not include funds that went to other countries via the $862 BILLION stimulus bill or many other “projects” the President and Democrats are financing overseas to create jobs in those countries.
In 20 months, President Obama has added $3.5 TRILLION to our national debt; it took Bush 8 years and 2 wars to add $4.2 TRILLION. Unemployment is at 9.6%; it was 7.4% when President Obama took office.
So rather than create an environment conducive to job creation in America, the President and Democrats are sending a record-breaking amount of our hard-earned tax dollars overseas to stimulate job creation there.
INSULT TO INJURY: Just when we thought it couldn’t get worse, it did. The President and Democrats are giving American jobs – right here in the U.S.A. – to foreign and illegal workers.
Roy Beck’s article, “DEFENDERS & DESERTERS of JOBLESS AMERICANS: We name the ’50 Worst Deserters’ Today,” spells it out for us and names names.
“During the last two years of a virtual jobs depression, these Worst 50 led Congress:
- …in allowing the addition of another 75,000 permanent working-age immigrants every MONTH
- …and in allowing about 7 million illegal foreign workers to keep their jobs in construction, service, manufacturing and transportation.
Recent government data show that 22 million U.S. workers who want a job can’t find one. But these 50 Members of Congress deserted those Americans in favor of increasing the number of foreign workers competing with them in the hiring line.
Here are the “50 WORST;” not surprising that Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Harry Reid (D-NV) are on the list:
In the Senate
- Bennet, Michael (CO)
- Feingold, Russell (WI)
- Gillibrand, Kirsten (NY)
- Inouye, Daniel (HI)
- Leahy, Patrick (VT)
- Mikulski, Barbara (MD)
- Reid, Harry (NV)
In the House
- Ackerman, Gary (NY 05th)
- Baldwin, Tammy (WI – 02nd)
- Becerra, Xavier (CA – 31st)
- Berman, Howard (CA – 28th)
- Chu, Judy (CA – 32nd)
- Clarke, Yvette (NY – 11th)
- Clyburn, James (SC – 06th)
- Conyers, John (MI – 14th)
- Cummings, Elijah (MD – 07th)
- Engel, Eliot (NY – 17th)
- Grijalva, Raul (AZ – 07th)
- Gutierrez, Luis (IL – 04th)
- Hastings, Alcee (FL – 23rd)
- Hoyer, Steny (MD – 05th)
- Jackson-Lee, Sheila (TX – 18th)
- Johnson, Hank (GA – 04th)
- Kucinich, Dennis (OH – 10th)
- Lewis, John (GA – 05th)
- Lofgren, Zoe (CA – 16th)
- Markey, Edward (MA – 07th)
- McDermott, Jim (WA 07th)
- Nadler, Jerrold (NY – 08th)
- Napolitano, Grace (CA – 38th)
- Olver, John (MA – 01st)
- Quigley, Mike (IL – 05th)
- Pelosi, Nancy (CA – 8th)
- Rahall, Nick (WV – 03rd)
- Rangel, Charles (NY – 15th)
- Rush, Bobby (IL – 01st)
- Sanchez, Linda (CA – 39th)
- Schakowsky, Janice (IL – 09th)
- Scott, Robert (VA – 03rd)
- Serrano, Jose (NY – 16th)
- Slaughter, Louise (NY – 28th)
- Stark, Pete (CA – 13th)
- Thompson, Bennie (MS – 02nd)
- Towns, Edolphus (NY – 10th)
- Tsongas, Niki (MA – 05th)
- Velazquez, Nidia (NY – 12th)
- Wasserman-Schultz, Debbie (FL – 20th)
- Watt, Melvin (NC – 12th)
- Waxman, Henry (CA – 30th)
- Woolsey, Lynn (CA – 06th)
Is there a brave journalist who will ask the President and the Democratic Party, “Since your actions show that you are not on the side of the American people, exactly whose side are you on?” Another burning question, “Did those work visa’s come with voter registration cards?”
Sources:
Fiscal Year 2010 Congressional Budget Justification for Foreign Operations
The D’s have been hi-jacked by the Progressive Marxist’s, so there’s no hope on the D’s side.
Very good point and one that I often forget because of my dislike of all of them that some of them are much much worse than others. Only a very few of them don’t stink at all and those are in danger the longer they stay in DC. I remember when Orrin Hatch was a good Republican.
Absolutely Pierre! And thanks for all you’re doing to keep the pressure on!
R’s might not have gotten the message yet, but thank goodness We The People were successful in many of the primaries and got people in that the R’s didn’t support. We’re cleaning house in the R camp so that it’s safe to go there. 🙂
Still lots to do, but we’re making great strides.
The D’s have been hi-jacked by the Progressive Marxist’s, so there’s no hope on the D’s side.
NancyJ my goal has been to keep the pressure on politicians in general since the R’s don’t seem to have gotten the message yet.
Simply put I don’t trust either “side” to do right.
I agree Pierre, his actions show that destruction is his goal.
He keeps pointing back to President Bush – even after nearly 2 yrs in office (including the first-ever “transition”) plus 2 yrs campaigning for the job.
The numbers and the comparison with President Bush’s numbers prove that he’s lying to the American people, and he’s hurting Americans by sending massive amounts of money overseas that our country doesn’t have… while 22 million Americans are hurting without jobs.
Hah Obama’s experience allows him to know that everything is proceeding according to plan. He planned on destroying the economy and he is accomplishing just that…never underestimate your enemy!
•FY2010 = $90.6 BILLION (60% increase since FY 2008)
•FY2009 = $82.9 BILLION (47% increase since FY 2008)
What did President Bush spend in FY2008? $56.5 BILLION. How about FY2006? $49.7 BILLION.
It is kind of embarrassing to see how much Bush spent on that nonsense isn’t it? Maybe we could make the point without pointing to that closet big spender?
I’m sure that Obama’s inexperience prevents him from knowing that companies flee America when the taxes are too high and when government regulations strangle their ability to do business in this country.
For a President who has never run a business, never had to make payroll, never had to deal with massive regulations imposed by the government, never run a city, a district, or a state, it’s not surprising that he hasn’t got a clue.