More stimulus money to buy artwork than small business assistance shows misplaced priorities
WASHINGTON D.C. U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX) the top House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee today highlighted the utter failure of the Obama Pelosi and Reid stimulus on its one year anniversary:
We were told the stimulus would jump start the economy lower unemployment and restore consumer confidence. Well here we are a year later and we have lost 4 million jobs and our unemployment has skyrocketed" said Brady who noted that only 6 of Americans feel that the stimulus created any jobs at all.
The only new jobs we have to show for the hundreds of borrowed billions spent are more government bureaucrat positions not private sector jobs. There was more money in the stimulus devoted to buying public artwork than in helping small businesses and thats the opposite direction we should be heading" Brady continued while noting not one single Republican Member voted for the stimulus.
With nearly half of the stimulus funds still remaining Brady is calling for the unspent funds to be returned to the treasury.
