Rep. Boehner Feels the Heat After Lying About Stimulus Jobs »
Posted By metavirus 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
When U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner told a newscaster Sunday that not a single stimulus-funded road contract in his home state of Ohio had been let, he was wrong. The Ohio Department of Transportation has OK'd 52 stimulus-funded
road and bridge projects at a cost of nearly $84 million. Boehner is now under fire for willfully not telling the truth.
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deathray4 months, 3 weeks ago
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why, in the age where everything is recorded and researched, do politicians continue to spout untruths when they know they will be caught? i guess they believe that no one pays attention, or that we're to stupid to determine the truth for ourselves...
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Spadecaller4 months, 3 weeks ago
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HABIT is the one human characteristic that transcends intelligence, time, and all the best of all human virtues. And, House Minority Leader John Boehner is an habitual liar - a major disadvantage for people during the age of readily available computer data.
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beavith14 months, 3 weeks ago
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vor4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Here we go again. An absolute refusal to admit that members of your party are lying to the public at the very least "misstating" the facts. As long as it is a member of the GOP it's OK. You go off on another tangent instead of dealing with reality. I really can't stand Pelosi but if there is anyone who makes her look good its John Boehner. His fake tan, country club mentality is exactly the image I want you all to put forth in '10. This isn't the first of his missteps by a long shot. And it wont be the last.
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And as we have suggested numerous times he proves the Repubs have no new ideas. You cannot fix a wrecked economy with tax cuts. If people are not making income they are not paying taxes except possibly on their unemployment benefits and sales tax on purchases which of course are limited by their lack of income. What Boehner might as well say is "if we can just free up more income at the top, then the top will invest which will in time trickle down to the masses". If you still believe that I have some swampland I would like to sell you for residential development Greed being the missing part of the equation here. As most of us have learned by now.
You clearly don't understand how the stimulus is supposed to work. You don't fix an economy that is in shambles in 6 months. How insane is that kind of thinking? -
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Beau78904 months, 3 weeks ago
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Actually beavith, it is the very definition of hyperbole to say what Boehner said: that not a single stimulus-funded road contract in his home state of Ohio had been let. If he'd said not much has been spent on road contracts in his state, that'd be fine.
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Why does Boehner insist on stretching the truth to make his point?
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simonsez4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Beau78904 months, 3 weeks ago
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Look up the stimulus bill. There are PLENTY of tax credits and other tax incentives for small businesses, some for new hires.
http://www.readthestimulus.org
You might want to check these things out before making assumptions based on what right-wing bloviators tell you.
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flyonthewallzz4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Technical Schmecknical!
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I have worked in the construction industry for more tha 30 years.
Maybe I am dumb, but I have never heard of "letting".
I hate carefully couched political wording.
The intent of the word play was to lead folks to believe that nothing (0) has been done.
What folks percieved his words to mean differed from reality.
A year ago we tried stimulateing the economy just by slashing government revenue alone, and just about every type of chart you can look at showed a hard vertical line heading straight down.
More than 2/3 of the deficit is a drop in reciepts...
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tadair9194 months, 3 weeks ago
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government can't create jobs. every dollar it spends on a project is taken from taxpayers that would have used it for something else. that means every job it "creates" is taken from the private sector. at best, it is just a shift of resources. albeit, altruistic sounding.
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so lets look at what he actually said:
"In Ohio, the infrastructure dollars that were sent there months ago -- there hasn’t been a contract let, to my knowledge. And the fact is -- is I don’t believe it will create jobs."
so he qualified his statement by ending in "to my knowledge."
That's a pretty far cry than outright lying.
then he continues... "The fact is I don't believe it will not create jobs."
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Will13134 months, 3 weeks ago
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metavirus4 months, 3 weeks ago
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too bad boehner admitted his state is getting stimulus jobs a few weeks ago: "With Ohio’s unemployment rate the highest it’s been in 25 years, I’m pleased that federal officials stepped in to order Ohio to use all of its construction dollars for shovel-ready projects that will create much-needed jobs." http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/18/boehner-jobs/
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Wolfie20074 months, 3 weeks ago
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They are saying they have the money ready to send to Ohio to start jobs but I didn't notice the article saying which jobs had been started. So Boehner was right, no jobs yet in Ohio. What a ridiculous headline and story! This guy really had to scrape the bottom of the spin barrel for this one.
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metavirus4 months, 3 weeks ago
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"With Ohio’s unemployment rate the highest it’s been in 25 years, I’m pleased that federal officials stepped in to order Ohio to use all of its construction dollars for shovel-ready projects that will create much-needed jobs." -- John Boehner 6/09 - http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/18/boehner-jobs/
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NoWayMan4 months, 3 weeks ago
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first boner lies, then tries to cover it by blaming the process for being too slow, saying its been "absurdly slow moving" which is also a lie.
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its been approx. half a year from signing the stim pack to getting the money to shovel-ready projects on the ground. anyone whose ever negotiated a big contract knows that a 6 month turnaround is really really really fast, especially in govt terms.
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