Talks Frayed Over Democrats’ Insistence That Both Be Part Of The Final Deal With America’s debt now skyrocketing past $14.3 trillion, negotiations on Capitol Hill to increase the debt limit by another $2 trillion are currently stalled over Democrats’ insistence that tax increases and new “stimulus” spending be part of any final package, instead of the important reform measures that non-partisan experts say are needed to prevent Medicare from going bankrupt. But it seems liberal U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) is more focused on raising money for her own political ambitions than on addressing the crisis facing Wisconsin families. “America is on the brink of an economic crisis of historic proportions and yet Tammy Baldwin and her fellow liberal Democrats in Washington are insisting on job-killing tax hikes and even more ‘stimulus spending,’” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond said today. “Americans know that the problem with Washington…
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1.9 Million Fewer Americans Have A Job Since Liberal Baldwin Helped Obama Pass Stimulus
$787 Billion Debacle Failed To Create Jobs, Drove Nat’l Debt Past $14.3 Trillion When liberal U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) stood with President Barack Obama and rammed through the $787 billion stimulus, they promised it would “save or create 3.5 million jobs before 2011” and she claimed it would “create and save the jobs we need now – more than 70,000 in Wisconsin over the next two years.” But the fact is, 28 months since liberal Baldwin and the Democrats passed their stimulus, nearly 1.9 million fewer Americans are employed. As CNS News reports: Twenty-eight months after Congress passed President Obama’s signature economic stimulus law, and nearly one year after he declared the summer of 2010 to be “Recovery Summer,” 1.9 million fewer people are employed. In February 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 141.7 million people were employed. By the end of May 2011 – the…
