Tim Bishop – Unwilling to Change
It was three years ago today that Tim Bishop and President Obama sold taxpayers on an $800 billion dollar big-government bill of goods. New Yorkers are still paying for that wasteful Washington spending spree – and have nothing to show for it except the “longest stretch of high unemployment since the Great Depression” which is expected to last until 2014.
Neil Sekada said it best, breaking up is hard to do. You would think Tim Bishop and his Democrat leaders would finally admit the stimulus has been an abysmal failure and break up with their unsuccessful policies. But they just won’t let this relationship go. While New Yorkers are struggling to find work and prices for gas, food and rent are rising, Bishop and Obama want to double down on disastrous policies of taxing, spending and borrowing. Need evidence? Just look at the President’s new budget packed with stimulus style initiatives and deficit spending.
As you cover this anniversary and how badly the failed stimulus has damaged our economy, please consider the following quote:
NRCC Comment: “Skyrocketing debt and stagnant unemployment have New Yorkers begging for a change but Tim Bishop just won’t let go of his love affair with big-government stimulus spending. Breaking up may be hard to do, but three years later it’s time Bishop ended his relationship with Obama’s tax and spend agenda.” – NRCC Spokesman Nat Sillin
OBAMA SIGNED STIMULUS INTO LAW ON FEBRUARY 17, 2009: (Mimi Hall and David Jackson, “Stimulus Slammed as Dem Agenda,” USA Today, 2/17/2009)
12.8 MILLION UNEMPLOYED AMERICANS: (Table A-1, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2/3/2012)
NEW CBO REPORT: “8%-PLUS UNEMPLOYMENT INTO 2014”: (David Jackson, “CBO Projects 8%-Plus Unemployment into 2014,” USA Today, 2/16/2012)
“LONGEST PERIOD OF HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT SINCE GREAT DEPRESSION”: (Alex Parker, “CBO: Longest Period of High Unemployment Since Great Depression,” U.S. News and World Report, 2/16/2012)
OBAMA INSISTED HE WOULD “DOUBLE DOWN” ON GIVING TAXPAYER MONEY TO COMPANIES LIKE SOLYNDRA: “We’ve got to double down on the clean energy that’s creating jobs.” (“Remarks by the President on the Budget,” The White House, 2/13/2012)
AFTER HE USED STATE OF THE UNION TO EMBRACE HIS RECORD OF FAILURE ON “GREEN” PROGRAMS LIKE SOLYNDRA: “Some technologies don’t pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. … It’s time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable and double down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. Pass clean-energy tax credits.” (“Transcript: Obama Delivers State of the Union Speech,” CNN, 1/24/2012)
REUTERS: “OBAMA UNVEILS BIG SPENDING ELECTION-YEAR BUDGET”: (Alister Bull and Laura MacInnis, “Obama Unveils Big Spending Election-Year Budget,” Reuters, 2/13/2012)
AP: NEW BUDGET “LADEN WITH STIMULUS-STYLE INITIATIVES”: “The president’s plan is laden with stimulus-style initiatives: sharp increases for highway construction and school modernization, and a new tax credit for businesses that add jobs.” (Andrew Taylor, “Obama Budget: New Spending with Recycled Tax Ideas,” Associated Press, 2/11/2012)