Sunday, November 08, 2009

Stimulus Stupidity

Eugene Kane has penned perhaps the most idiotic statement of the day.  He says:

A more simple evaluation is this: If you still have the same job you had at the beginning of the year, Obama’s stimulus package did work for you. Lots of other people can’t say the same thing.

What?!?!  So without the stimulus we would have 100% unemployment right now?  Not even Obama predicted that in his now famous chart.

(7) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1100 hrs
Economy + Politics + Politics - General + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. That is a colossally stupid statement. More appropriately, if you’re still employed in the private sector, it probably means that b) You are employed in an industry that provides a useful product or service to your fellow man and; b) You actually are a good employee, show up every day and do a good job and; c) You have buckled down and improved productivity to assist your employer in being profitable.

    If the stimulus package “worked for you”, you are probably a government employee…and your wages and benefits are based on an escalating scale that is unaffected by economic realities, and your position has no relevance to whether your services are actually useful to your fellow citizens. Congratulations SEIU, AFSCME and WEAC members out there!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 08, 2009 at 1216 hrs


  2. Let’s hope the JS continues to exist so people like Kane can have some kind a job.  They’re obviously too dumb to be able to do anything else.

    Oh wait he could be a university professor I suppose.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 08, 2009 at 1344 hrs


  3. There is no way he actually meant to say what was written.  That HAS to be a mistake in editing…

    How can Kane be so stupid?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 08, 2009 at 1434 hrs


  4. If the JS keeps cutting staff - Kane will probably have a different thought about the stimulus package.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 08, 2009 at 1510 hrs


  5. In what year do you think it will dawn on people like Kane and Pelosi that we don’t have anymore money?

    i.e. No more money to fund stimulus, free health care, bread and circuses and happy retirement at age 52 for all government employees. 

    I’m figuring it will be sometime around late 2011.  At that point all the federal IOU’s will come due.  Game over.  Then we become Argentina.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 08, 2009 at 1749 hrs


  6. EK is the classic example of an affirmative action hire. He runs out the same old tired nonsense column after column.If JS didn’t have their PC heads so far up their rear ends, they’d realize just how absurd his ramblings are. Funny part is, even if they have an awakening, they fear being called racists if they “go in a different direction”, so it looks like more wasted ink/paper until the end.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 08, 2009 at 1822 hrs


  7. While agreeing that the line Owen quoted seems a little odd, I still wonder at your collective ire at Mr. Kane for this column, which largely supports conservative claims that employment numbers recently reported seem suspect. The column also asserts that the stimulus has not lived up to its projections. Perhaps another interpretation of the last line that Owen quoted is: “If you don’t have the same job you had at the end of the year, then the stimulus didn’t work for you.”

    It didn’t seem that Kane’s column was either stupid or idiotic.

    A lot of off-the-cuff generalizations and accusations in this string.

    Posted by Mike on November 09, 2009 at 1009 hrs


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