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February 4, 2010
Newly sworn-in Senator Scott Brown: 'Stimulus didn't create one new job'
Topics: Political News and commentariesMassachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown came out swinging immediately after being sworn in as a senator, claiming that the stimulus hasn't created one new job.
The Obama apologists at the AP say at the link that Brown's claim is disputed by "most economists," but the real fact is that it's not only that not "every" economist has said such a thing, but in fact, as Peter Wehner notes, it might be closer to say that no serious economist has said any such thing:
The "saved or created" meme has rightly evoked belly laughs from all sorts of quarters. Even the president's own Office of Management and Budget has given up on using it. And for good reason: It is an utterly meaningless and indefensible claim. The numbers were grabbed out of thin air, made up, pure fiction. The Obama administration has proven unable to document anything like what it claims.To cut to the quick, Scott Brown is right and the AP is dead ass wrong.
Posted by Abdul at February 4, 2010 8:08 PM
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