Stimulus Creates 150,000 Jobs In California

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Obama's Stimulus and Recovery Act created 150,000 jobs for unemployed Californians in addition to thousands of jobs saved that would have otherwise resulted in layoff and eliminated positions. Today on ABC’s This Week, host Terry Moran noted the Republican Party’s staunch opposition to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that Congress passed last year and added that “it was summed up by Mitt Romney at the CPAC convention this week.” “[President Obama] scared employers,” Romney said. “So jobs were scarce.

His nearly trillion dollar stimulus created not one net new job in the private sector.” In response to Romney's disconnect with reality, Republican California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called out the GOP for thier wanton hypocrisy:

SCHWARZENEGGER: I find it interesting that you have a lot of Republicans running around pushing back on the stimulus money and saying this doesn’t create any new jobs. Then they go out and they do the photo ops and they’re posing with the big checks and they say, “Isn’t this great?”

Schwarzenegger then railed against his GOP colleagues for playing politics with the stimulus bill and attacked them for claiming it didn’t create jobs:

SCHWARZENEGGER: Anyone that says it hasn’t created a job, they should talk to the 150,000 people that have been getting jobs in California.
MORAN: In the private sector?

SCHWARZENEGGER: In the private sector and from the public sector. … So I’m happy that we got this money. I’m happy that we have put 150,000 people to work and there will be more people that are put to work because of it.
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Throughout the past year, many GOP members of Congress who voted against the stimulus have been touting the money that it has delivered to their states or districts. From one side of thier mouth, they paint the stimulus as a failure and from the other side of their mouth they offer a few ambigous words while delivering large cardboard checks to municipalities at home as if they somehow took part in the process that made the much needed funds a reality.

A new research report released last week found that over half of the Republican caucus — 110 lawmakers from the House and Senate — are guilty of this stimulus hypocrisy.