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Boehner: GAO Report “Yet Another Indictment” of Democrats’ Trillion-Dollar ‘Stimulus’
GOP Leader: “The American people are asking ‘where are the jobs’ and all they are getting from out-of-touch Washington Democrats is crooked statistics, unsustainable spending and more debt piled on our kids and grandkids.”
Washington
(Nov 19, 2009)
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement after the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress’s non-partisan watchdog, released a report exposing a “range of significant reporting and processing problems” in how taxpayer dollars have been spent as part of the trillion-dollar ‘stimulus:’
“This report by Congress’s non-partisan watchdog represents yet another indictment of Washington Democrats’ trillion-dollar ‘stimulus,’ which has produced countless examples of waste, fraud, and abuse while more than three million Americans have lost their jobs. Washington Democrats continue to hemorrhage credibility with the American people for promising that this trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ would keep unemployment below eight percent and create jobs immediately. What’s worse, by greeting these significant discrepancies with denial and indifference, Obama Administration officials make a mockery of transparency and fiscal responsibility. The American people are asking ‘where are the jobs’ and all they are getting from out-of-touch Washington Democrats is crooked statistics, unsustainable spending and more debt piled on our kids and grandkids.”
NOTE: The newly released GAO report revealed that “more than 50,000 jobs, or one out of every 10 jobs the White House says were ‘saved or created’ by their economic stimulus plan, came from projects that reported spending no money yet” shortly after it was discovered that taxpayer dollars were being directed to phantom congressional districts. Asked to account for these errors, one Administration official told the New Orleans Times-Picayune, “Who knows, man, who really knows.”
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