Scott Brown: the economic recovery effort that prevented a depression “hasn’t created one new job.” A reporter gave him a chance to clarify, asking, “It didn’t create one new job?” The new senator replied, “That’s correct.” [important that he was forced, on the spot, to repeat this in advance of his inevitable future complaint that he never said it, was misquoted, or had forgotten about it]
CBO: the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, aka “stimulus”, saved or created 600,000 to 1.6 million jobs in the third quarter of 2009. The White House’s Recovery Act website, recovery.gov, says stimulus grant recipients reported creating 9,261 jobs in Massachusetts during the fourth quarter of 2009.
Lie #1 in the books
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