Jack & Jill Politics

Oh,

So the Democrat are responsible for the failings of the Republican governor.

Okay then.

Baratunde: Thank you for this information. Charts/graphs/factsheets DATA is good for this “VISUAL LEARNER!” :>)

Here are some other DATA:

1. Estimated Job Effect
YOU can SEARCH/DISPLAY FACTS for your STATE.

2. HOME PAGE

-Accountability and Transparency

-Where is Your Money Going?

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act targets investments towards key areas that will save or create good jobs immediately, while also laying the groundwork for long-term economic growth. The charts and numbers below give you an idea of where the money is going.

Over the upcoming months, we will provide more information on the distribution of funding by Federal agencies. In order to give small businesses and Americans across the country a chance to apply for recovery dollars to create and save jobs, some funding may not be distributed until this summer. New information on the allocation of funds will be posted on Recovery.gov as it becomes available.

- Where is Your Money Going – Tabular View

BREAKING NEWS!! MR. PRESIDENT HAS LANDED – in COLORADO!! Woooo! Hooo!

Here's a Baratunde on the conference call

http://blog.showmeprogress.com/showDiary.do?dia…

…Baratunde Thurston – jackandjillpolitics.com: Uh, good afternoon Mr. Bernstein, thanks so much for, uh, doing this call and, uh, everybody else for being here. I haven't, you know transparency was marked, as a, as a big hallmark of how this act might be different from those that have come years, decades or even generations before. What can you say would be the, what are the metrics of success, uh, for, if this is actually working? You sort of mentioned two years down the line.

Jared Bernstein: Uh, huh. [crosstalk]

Baratunde Thurston: Jesse in his opening remarks said you will be judged by this. What are those judgments gonna be based on? What are your, what are the quantitative or qualitative goals you have?

Jared Bernstein: Sure, Um, first of all in terms of tran…well, uh, uh, part of the success, at least on the transparency front, will be the extent to which we track the progress of this legislation on, in, in, uh, on the, uh, the web site, uh, that we've, uh, announced we're gonna form. I believe it's recoveryact dot gov, although, uh, I doubt it's…

Unidentified voice: It's recovery dot gov.

Jared Bernstein: Recovery dot gov. So, so, you know, that's obviously, uh, a level of transparency, uh, we haven't seen, uh, in a really, uh, I don't know, uh, uh, I can't think of any other examples in the past. So, so, you know, I think we should be graded on the extent to which we do what we said we were gonna do in that regard. Um, uh, and I'm confident we will. Uh, this is a, this is something that comes from the very top. This is the President recognizing, uh, the need for, uh, that kind of accountability.

Uh, but the, the kind of quantitative metrics you suggested I also think are important. Um, the unemployment rate, uh, is expected in the absence of, uh, this, uh, uh, package to get up into something close to double digits, uh, um, by, uh, um, the, uh, probably, uh, late, uh, uh, later, uh, sometime a, I, I would guess, uh, around, um, late this year, uh, next year in the absence of, of our package. Um, I think, uh, the package should help to reduce the unemployment rate by about a couple of points. So, instead of being nine, nine and half, ten, ten and a half per cent, uh, the unemployment rate, uh, uh, um, may go, uh, oh a point, a point and a half higher than it is right now. It's about seven and a half, so we could be looking at eight and a half, you know, maybe, maybe that neighborhood instead of, uh, maybe seven and a half by the end of, uh, two thousand and ten kind of back down to where we are now. Uh, if, uh, if the program is, is, successful. Now, uh, you have to be very careful when you give these quantitative metrics because, uh, they're kind of, uh, uh, if things go as planned and obviously, uh, there's lots that could happen between now and then. And no economist can, can, can know the future. That's one of the reasons why our forecasts have large, um, guess, uh, confidence intervals, but large margins of error around them,

And so, uh, I think we should look for unemployment that, that is lower than it would be otherwise. Uh, um, we think we're gon…to, as I said, create or save, uh, three, four million jobs. We'll be tracking that closely. And, uh, I think probably more to the ground, uh, we should be looking for, uh, uh, uh, action that's really identifiable whether we're talking about, um, roads, and, and bridges, and repairs made in, in, you know, your, uh, look where you live. Um, uh, there's gonna be, uh, in, in a state like California, obviously a large state, you've got, uh, uh, twelve, uh, million people. Twelve million workers who ought to be benefiting from the making work pay tax cut.

Sounds like a lot of qualifying and laying the groundwork for being able to claim success, even if nothing really improves.

In honor of Obama…I was gonna take the uh's and um's out but it would've took to long…

Still its better to um and uh than to say something stupid..one of the reasons Obama is 100 times greater than Bush

So are you hoping it succeeds or what?

Guess that's a no.

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take
everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson

Something to always keep in mind.

Baratunde: Signed, Sealed, Delivered, – – AR&RA!! 2-17-09

Signed, sealed, delivered: ARRA

The economic recovery package is essential for our nation's economy, for its infrastructure, and for our energy, health, and education needs — and now it's the law.

After months of planning and weeks of negotiation, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act today in Denver, CO.

“What I am signing is a balanced plan with a mix of tax cuts and investments. It is a plan that’s been put together without earmarks or the usual pork barrel spending. And it is a plan that will be implemented with an unprecedented level of transparency and accountability,” President Obama said before signing the bill into law. “And we expect you, the American people, to hold us accountable for the results. That is why we have created Recovery.gov – so every American can go online and see how their money is being spent.”

That site, Recovery.gov, is now live. You can go there to see projections — based on language in the legislation — of where your money will go, broken down state-by-state. And over the coming weeks and months, as the funds start to go out, you'll be able to see far more detailed information.

It's just the beginning of a long process, of course — on Air Force One today, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called it “a strong start towards economic viability.”

“Our American story is not — and has never been — about things coming easy,” the President said in his remarks at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. “It’s about rising to the moment when the moment is hard, converting crisis into opportunity, and seeing to it that we emerge from whatever trials we face stronger than we were before.”

THANK YOU Mr. PRESIDENT! :>)

Oh give me a freakin' break!

A government by the people, and for the people doesn't take anything away.

Quit your fear-based antics; they don't fly here.

The GOP- TAX cuts= TAKETH, AND TAKETH, AND TAKETH…. and gives nothing in return but Palin & Steele.

Yep. The ums, and uhs sound come off as natural to me. The dialouge doesn't sound contrived, you know… rehearsed.

Jindal, should be lined up against a wall so that every sane citizen of Louisiana, particularly the victims of Katrina, can take a 2X4 and whack him on the head.

He won't need to run for POTUS, after that ass whooping.

The federal stimulus bill is not supposed to turn the economy around. It's supposed to put the brakes on the terrifying free-fall the economy has been in since September 15, 2008. I think that the stimulus will succeed in applying those brakes, and will do some good now, and some good in future months and years. It's not a cure-all, but it's a start. “Doing nothing” has been tried since September 15, 2008, and we've seen how that's worked. The government needs to be involved now, then later have the wisdom to back away, once the economy is better.

Yeah, like we did so well over the last 8 years tracking 'how well our money was being spent'

$9 billion dollars was lost in Iraq Just lost, poof, gone, and NOW you want accountability?

Yeah, okay.

Guess that's a no.

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson

Something to always keep in mind.

Baratunde: Signed, Sealed, Delivered, – – AR&RA!! 2-17-09

Signed, sealed, delivered: ARRA

The economic recovery package is essential for our nation's economy, for its infrastructure, and for our energy, health, and education needs — and now it's the law.

After months of planning and weeks of negotiation, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act today in Denver, CO.

“What I am signing is a balanced plan with a mix of tax cuts and investments. It is a plan that’s been put together without earmarks or the usual pork barrel spending. And it is a plan that will be implemented with an unprecedented level of transparency and accountability,” President Obama said before signing the bill into law. “And we expect you, the American people, to hold us accountable for the results. That is why we have created Recovery.gov – so every American can go online and see how their money is being spent.”

That site, Recovery.gov, is now live. You can go there to see projections — based on language in the legislation — of where your money will go, broken down state-by-state. And over the coming weeks and months, as the funds start to go out, you'll be able to see far more detailed information.

It's just the beginning of a long process, of course — on Air Force One today, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called it “a strong start towards economic viability.”

“Our American story is not — and has never been — about things coming easy,” the President said in his remarks at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. “It’s about rising to the moment when the moment is hard, converting crisis into opportunity, and seeing to it that we emerge from whatever trials we face stronger than we were before.”

THANK YOU Mr. PRESIDENT! :>)

IT'S DONE!”

Oh give me a freakin' break!

A government by the people, and for the people doesn't take anything away.

Quit your fear-based antics; they don't fly here.

The GOP- TAX cuts= TAKETH, AND TAKETH, AND TAKETH…. and gives nothing in return but Palin & Steele.

Yep. The ums, and uhs sound come off as natural to me. The dialouge doesn't sound contrived, you know… rehearsed.

Jindal, should be lined up against a wall so that every sane citizen of Louisiana, particularly the victims of Katrina, can take a 2X4 and whack him on the head.

He won't need to run for POTUS, after that ass whooping.

The federal stimulus bill is not supposed to turn the economy around. It's supposed to put the brakes on the terrifying free-fall the economy has been in since September 15, 2008. I think that the stimulus will succeed in applying those brakes, and will do some good now, and some good in future months and years. It's not a cure-all, but it's a start. “Doing nothing” has been tried since September 15, 2008, and we've seen how that's worked. The government needs to be involved now, then later have the wisdom to back away, once the economy is better.

Yeah, like we did so well over the last 8 years tracking 'how well our money was being spent'

$9 billion dollars was lost in Iraq Just lost, poof, gone, and NOW you want accountability?

Yeah, okay.

Here's a Baratunde on the conference call

http://blog.showmeprogress.com/showDiary.do?dia…

…Baratunde Thurston – jackandjillpolitics.com: Uh, good afternoon Mr. Bernstein, thanks so much for, uh, doing this call and, uh, everybody else for being here. I haven't, you know transparency was marked, as a, as a big hallmark of how this act might be different from those that have come years, decades or even generations before. What can you say would be the, what are the metrics of success, uh, for, if this is actually working? You sort of mentioned two years down the line.

Jared Bernstein: Uh, huh. [crosstalk]

Baratunde Thurston: Jesse in his opening remarks said you will be judged by this. What are those judgments gonna be based on? What are your, what are the quantitative or qualitative goals you have?

Jared Bernstein: Sure, Um, first of all in terms of tran…well, uh, uh, part of the success, at least on the transparency front, will be the extent to which we track the progress of this legislation on, in, in, uh, on the, uh, the web site, uh, that we've, uh, announced we're gonna form. I believe it's recoveryact dot gov, although, uh, I doubt it's…

Unidentified voice: It's recovery dot gov.

Jared Bernstein: Recovery dot gov. So, so, you know, that's obviously, uh, a level of transparency, uh, we haven't seen, uh, in a really, uh, I don't know, uh, uh, I can't think of any other examples in the past. So, so, you know, I think we should be graded on the extent to which we do what we said we were gonna do in that regard. Um, uh, and I'm confident we will. Uh, this is a, this is something that comes from the very top. This is the President recognizing, uh, the need for, uh, that kind of accountability.

Uh, but the, the kind of quantitative metrics you suggested I also think are important. Um, the unemployment rate, uh, is expected in the absence of, uh, this, uh, uh, package to get up into something close to double digits, uh, um, by, uh, um, the, uh, probably, uh, late, uh, uh, later, uh, sometime a, I, I would guess, uh, around, um, late this year, uh, next year in the absence of, of our package. Um, I think, uh, the package should help to reduce the unemployment rate by about a couple of points. So, instead of being nine, nine and half, ten, ten and a half per cent, uh, the unemployment rate, uh, uh, um, may go, uh, oh a point, a point and a half higher than it is right now. It's about seven and a half, so we could be looking at eight and a half, you know, maybe, maybe that neighborhood instead of, uh, maybe seven and a half by the end of, uh, two thousand and ten kind of back down to where we are now. Uh, if, uh, if the program is, is, successful. Now, uh, you have to be very careful when you give these quantitative metrics because, uh, they're kind of, uh, uh, if things go as planned and obviously, uh, there's lots that could happen between now and then. And no economist can, can, can know the future. That's one of the reasons why our forecasts have large, um, guess, uh, confidence intervals, but large margins of error around them,

And so, uh, I think we should look for unemployment that, that is lower than it would be otherwise. Uh, um, we think we're gon…to, as I said, create or save, uh, three, four million jobs. We'll be tracking that closely. And, uh, I think probably more to the ground, uh, we should be looking for, uh, uh, uh, action that's really identifiable whether we're talking about, um, roads, and, and bridges, and repairs made in, in, you know, your, uh, look where you live. Um, uh, there's gonna be, uh, in, in a state like California, obviously a large state, you've got, uh, uh, twelve, uh, million people. Twelve million workers who ought to be benefiting from the making work pay tax cut.