{"id":2225,"date":"2010-07-13T03:22:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T10:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2010-07-13T03:22:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T10:22:07","slug":"republican-stimulus-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/republican-stimulus-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Stimulus Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans in Congress opposed Obama\u2019s stimulus package at every turn, voted against it almost unanimously, and have continually claim it\u2019s a failure.  Why then are they so quick to take credit for the jobs it is creating?<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"republican-lies\"<\/a> House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) has been one of the Recovery Act\u2019s most vocal critics. After whipping his caucus into uniformly opposing the stimulus, Cantor has been the lead spokesman decrying the program as a failure. Ignoring evidence that that the stimulus is helping to turn around the economy, Cantor repeatedly says that it is \u201cfailing<\/a>\u201d to \u201ccreate jobs.\u201d <\/p>\n

As ThinkProgress reported last year, despite his withering attacks on the stimulus, Cantor hosted two<\/a> job fairs filled with employers hiring directly because of stimulus grants and programs. Tomorrow, Cantor intends to again host a job fair<\/a> stimulated by jobs made possible through the Recovery Act:<\/p>\n

\u2013 Cantor job fair employer AT&T has received two<\/a> contracts<\/a> totaling $837,550<\/span> from the Recovery Act.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Cantor job fair employer Bryant & Stratton College received contracts totaling $209,571<\/span> from the Recovery Act.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Cantor job fair employer Chesterfield County received grants totaling $406,773<\/span> from the Recovery Act. <\/p>\n

\u2013 Cantor job fair employer CSX Transportation received grants totaling over $5.7 million<\/span> from the Recovery Act. <\/p>\n

\u2013 Cantor job fair employer Goodwill Industries International has received grants of over $6.4 million<\/span> from the Recovery Act.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Cantor job fair employer Northrop Grumman Corporation has received grants of over $2.6 million<\/span> from the Recovery Act.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Cantor job fair employer University of Richmond has received grants totaling $750,964<\/span> from the Recovery Act. <\/p>\n

\u2013 Cantor job fair employer Nationwide Insurance has received grants totaling $25,617<\/span> from the Recovery Act. <\/p>\n

\u2013 Cantor job fair employer United Way of Greater Richmond has received a $61,125<\/span> grant from the Recovery Act. <\/p>\n

According to a ThinkProgress review of contracts from the Recovery.gov website, employers at the Cantor job fair tomorrow have received approximately $52,716,129 from the stimulus. <\/p>\n

While Cantor has tried to score political points slamming the stimulus as an utter failure, he has relied on it as a crutch to bring both private and public sector jobs to his district\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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We still have a long way to go with an average of over twenty applicants for every job opening.  The only reason that the stimulus isn\u2019t doing better is that Republicans watered it down.  Nevertheless, we are far better off than we were when Obama took office and even farther better off than we would be without the stimulus.  And what are Republicans offering as an alternative?  Tax cuts for the rich, of course..<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans in Congress opposed Obama\u2019s stimulus package at every turn, voted against it almost unanimously, and have continually claim it\u2019s a failure.  Why then are they so quick to take credit for the jobs it is creating? House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) has been one of the Recovery Act\u2019s most vocal critics. After […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}