Shortly after Barack Obama became President, liberal United States Senator Sherrod Brown quickly locked arms with him and became one of the fiercest supporters of his $825 billion stimulus.

Brown went to the airways to tell Ohioans that the stimulus would help repair the Brent Spence Bridge – which it never did, nor will it in Obama’s second stimulus – and even sent out a press release claiming the stimulus would create 133,000 jobs but since this massive spending experiment became law, Ohio has lost over 94,000 jobs.  To add further pain the City of Toledo has now been declared the poverty capital of the country.

As the Toledo Blade reports:

The concentration of poor people living in Toledo’s poorest neighborhoods grew by more than 15 percent in the past decade, giving the metropolitan area the unenviable distinction of No. 1 among American’s largest metro areas.  More than 46,000 people reside in neighborhoods with poverty rates of 40 percent or higher in the metro area — which includes Lucas, Fulton, Ottawa, and Wood counties — with all but one of the 22 poor neighborhoods located within the borders of Toledo, according to a Brookings Institution study of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the country.  Deb Ortiz-Flores, director of Lucas County Job and Family Services, said she was not surprised at the city’s top rank for impoverished people living in extremely poor neighborhoods. … Ms. Kneebone attributed the downturn in the economy among the reasons for increased poverty growth. (Mark Reiter, Toledo area poverty rate worst in U.S., Toledo Blade, 11/03/11)

“President Obama and Sherrod Brown said the whole point of their $825 billion stimulus was to put Ohioans back to work, but since this massive spending experiment became law, Ohio has lost over 94,000 jobs and Toledo has now become the poverty capital of the country,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox.  “With 533,000 unemployed Ohioans and a poverty rate that continues to climb in Northwest Ohio, it’s abundantly clear that the Obama-Brown tax-and-spend policies are not working.”

BACKGROUND

Brown Predicted The Stimulus Would Create As Many As 133,000 Jobs In Ohio. Brown: “Ohio will receive more than $8 billion to help create as many as 133,000 Ohio jobs.” (Senator Sherrod Brown Website, www.brown.senate.gov, Accessed 1/26/11)

As Of September 2011, Ohio Has Lost 94,695 Jobs Since The Stimulus Passed In February 2009. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, Accessed 11/03/11)