Is it “baloney” to say Obama promised unemployment wouldn’t go over 8% if the stimulus bill passed and it eventually rose above 10%? Of course not, it’s a fact.
(CNS News) — Public pensions have not dragged down state budgets, and the “mantra that the Recovery (stimulus) Act did not work is such baloney,” Democrat Party Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Monday morning.
The Florida Democrat was plugging President Obama’s jobs plan on Fox News. She said the plan would be paid for by “closing corporate loopholes,” bringing jobs back to the U.S., and by raising taxes on the “wealthy and more fortunate.”
“At the end of the day, we have to make sure that we don’t continue to deepen our problems by laying off more teachers, firefighters and police officers. We have to make sure we put construction workers back to work like the American Jobs Plan would do by investing in the infrastructure we need, and we have to make sure that this is paid for by folks who are not paying their fair share now, making sure that the wealthy and more fortunate step up to the plate, and that’s how we’re going to get this done.”
Schultz said the Democrats’ $787 billion Recovery Act was credited with “creating 3.6 million jobs in this country, and it made sure that we didn’t have tens of thousands of teachers, firefighters and police officers and other first responders laid off — left twisting in the wind.