Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Stimulus about rewarding O's interest groups

From National Review blog:

Skewed Stimulus [Stephen Spruiell]
Veronique, add Christina Hoff Sommers's latest, "No Country for Burly Men," to the growing pile of evidence that the stimulus package had nothing to do with creating jobs and everything to do with stimulating the interest groups that helped Obama get elected. The salient facts Sommers highlights:
* Of the 5.7 million jobs Americans lost between December 2007 and May 2009, nearly 80 percent had been held by men.

* Last November, President Obama proposed a stimulus plan that emphasized "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects with lots of money going to sectors like construction and manufacturing.

* A consortium of feminist groups complained that the stimulus was skewed toward creating jobs for men and launched a lobbying effort to add more spending on sectors like health care and education where women predominate.

* Obama complied, so much so that the now-infamous Jan. 10th report on the stimulus (the one with the way-off projections of how the stimulus package would affect the unemployment rate) concluded that the stimulus bill "skews job creation somewhat towards women."

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