[W]e have seen the stimulus dollars that have been spent have not produced jobs. The stimulus was designed to lower the unemployment rate, to keep it from going over 8 percent. We know nationally now, it still hovers around 10 percent; here in our area, it’s 7 1/2 percent. So, obviously, government spending money doesn’t create jobs.Cantor is too smart to know that what he just said isn't true. First off, CBO already said the stimulus created and/or saved millions of jobs. Second, the fact that unemployment remains at 10% does not mean the stimulus did not create jobs. Unemployment might have been at 12% without the stimulus, for example. Did the stimulus create enough jobs? No. Simply because it wasn't big enough. But to suggest it hasn't created any is a lie.
The fact that the GOP House Whip is still saying that the stimulus hasn't created any jobs, well, it's bad. The White House should come down on Cantor like a ton of bricks. Tell him to come to the White House tomorrow, and you'll have the cameras there, and he can explain to the American people exactly how the stimulus hasn't created any jobs, when CBO says it's created millions, when other GOP members of Congress have held press conferences with companies whose jobs have been saved/created by the stimulus.
Do what the GOP would do. Burn Cantor so bad that neither he, nor any other Republican, dare use this talking point ever again.
