STATEMENT FROM GOVERNOR MARTIN O’MALLEY
ON ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT
Governor Praises President Obama’s Leadership in Creating and Saving Jobs in Maryland and Across Nation
ANNAPOLIS, MD (February 17, 2010) – Governor Martin O’Malley today released the following statement regarding the one year anniversary of the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and praised the leadership of the Obama Administration to get America’s families back to work and out of this national economic downturn:
“Because of the swift action of President Obama, we are proud to report that 19,958 jobs have been created or saved in Maryland thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.”
“We’ve invested in important infrastructure projects, including public school construction, water and wastewater projects, and highway improvements throughout Maryland. We’ve expanded our weatherization programs, creating green jobs in every corner of our state. And we’ve used these funds to provide our own vulnerable citizens the healthcare they need through the Medicaid program. Teachers, police officers, contractors, highway workers – literally thousands of our fellow Marylanders are employed today thanks to the Recovery Act.”
President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act helped crate or save an estimated 2 million jobs nationwide, and helped our national economy to grow by 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter. The Recovery Act also provided over $100 billion in tax relief for American businesses and families.
The latest round of reporting required by the federal government to account for Maryland’s share of the funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was recently completed. These reports detail the use of these funds that been used and invested through our state so far. A summary of report is now available, and can be found at www.recovery.maryland.gov.
9 comments:
Total Bull sh!t, Those jobs around here are being done my mexican concrete workers forming sidwalks. Where is that money going when they are tax exempt and lie about having 37 dependants.
Every time you see a contractor working on the higways who is doing the real legwork. Thats right 1 white male supervisor and 15 mexicans. Sad but true!!!!
They must be talking about the 2 million gov jobs they saved.....
"created or saved"
No specifics as to where the money went. My guess is most of it was spent on worthless projects. I don't feel stimulated yet.
Dont forget Glenn Beck @ 5pm!! They've been teaching history!
A lot of the money went to China to build us useless wind turbins and money to pay the people to use them because they can't pay for themselves.
The rest of the 1/3 of the stiulis that's actually been spent has gone to Unions and heavy Democrat cities to cover their budget shortfalls.
Obama is a liar and a fool when he says the stimulis worked.
Some money went to put sidewalks on RT50 in Salisbury (which you can't walk on because there's no money budgeted to clear the walk). Some money went to installing guardrails on RT50 in Linkton (where they were apparently never needed before). Some money went to repaving RT13 south of Fruitland which had just been repaved a year ago.
That's the beauty of printed money. It's easier to burn.
Here's a great objective report of the stimulus package:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_stimulus_fact_check
I think the best conclusion is that it has been a mixed bag, although the rise of GDP from approx. -6 to +5 is quite a bright glimmer of hope for positive things to come.
O'malley is claiming that police and teachers jobs were saved. How many Police and teachers would have been fired if it were not for the rerobery act? The answer is none! Why because with our already high state taxes the voters would not have put up with it! Our taxes paid for thier jobs last year? So how many jobs were Saved? The answer is none! If it is not zero PROVE IT O'malley- you can't. Who's job exactly was saved? Its our money we want names.
I think we need to get Bill Clinton to define what the word "saved Job" is.
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