In 2009, liberal United States Senator Debbie Stabenow told Michiganders that she would be supporting Barack Obama’s $825 billion stimulus, because it was a “jobs” bill that would help repair America’s aging roads and bridges.
After the bill passed the House of Representatives it was revealed that only 5 percent of the so-called stimulus was spent on infrastructure. It was then revealed that billions of dollars were given to tax cheats and millions of dollars were spent in fictitious congressional districts like a $156,000 project in Michigan’s 83rd Congressional District.
Now that it’s been widely accepted that the first $825 billion stimulus was a boondoggle that never ‘saved or created’ 100,000 Michigan jobs, Debbie Stabenow now wants a do-over as Democrats in the Senate will be voting on a $50 billion infrastructure stimulus later this week.
As The Hill reports:
President Obama’s proposal to create a national infrastructure bank and spend $50 billion on transportation to stimulate job growth will be up for a vote in the Senate this week. … The president incorporated it into his proposal for a $447 billion jobs act, which the Senate is now voting on in pieces after its rejection as a package.
“Debbie Stabenow said that the first $825 billion stimulus would be used on infrastructure projects, but rather than explaining what went wrong, she wants another $50 billion in government stimulus so she can have a mulligan. With our country’s debt at nearly $15 trillion, Michigan simply cannot afford the job-killing, tax-and-spend experiments of Debbie Stabenow.” Jahan Wilcox, NRSC Spokesman
BACKGROUND
Stabenow Promised The Stimulus Would ‘Create or Save’ 100,000 Michigan Jobs With Funds Being Used For Infrastructure Projects
UPPER MICHIGANS SOURCE: “Senator Stabenow said stimulus dollars will create over 100,000 jobs across the state, 70 percent dealing with construction and manufacturing. She said it’s hard to pinpoint an exact number of jobs coming specifically to the Upper Peninsula. However, new renewable resource initiatives, like Cliffs renewal fuel plans and summer road construction projects, will take that number well into the thousands.” (Heather Sawaski, Stimulus status, Stimulus Status, Upper Michigans Source, 04/16/09)
Stabenow Said Democrats “Passed A Recovery Plan That Really Does Focus On Jobs.” STABNOW: “First of all, I applauded the fact that they came in aggressively into office. They’ve been in seven weeks now, this administration. We’ve passed a recovery plan that really does focus on jobs, helping those who are unemployed with additional unemployment benefits, helping them with their health care, jobs in construction rebuilding America and the new green economy.” (MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” 3/12/09)
