Is the Obama Administration Politically Manipulating the Poverty Data?
The Census Bureau’s recently created “Supplemental Poverty Measure” (SPM) looks like a ruse to artificially show economic and poverty-reducing improvement in time for the 2012 presidential election. Longer-term, it appears to be a rigged mechanism for demonstrating how ObamaCare, assuming it survives legal challenges and attempts at repeal, is a resounding success.
If I’m right, the press is doing a really good job of setting things up. A recent Associated Press item which gained an usual amount of traction in the center-right blogosphere with an unfortunate shortage of skepticism told us that “1 in 2 Americans are now poor or low income.” SPM, which is indeed what AP cryptically referenced, radically redefines what it means to be “low income,” in the process adding almost 40 million more people to that category in 2010 compared to the number in the bureau’s official income and poverty report.
Though there are many technical and conceptual problems with the bureau’s traditional poverty measurements, the only problem that matters to Barack Obama and his reelection team is the political impact of the official poverty rate. During the supposed era of Hope and Change, the rate has stubbornly and sharply increased. In 2007, the year before the arrival of what I have been calling the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) economy since mid-2008, that official rate was 12.5%, about the same as the previous four years. After increasing to 13.2% in 2008, it zoomed to 14.3% in 2009. When it hit 15.1% in 2010, it meant that the administration’s supposedly brilliant set of Keynesian policies had essentially taken us back to where we were in the early 1990s. The official poverty rate seems virtually assured to increase yet again when the bureau releases its results in September 2012, at which point the rate will likely be higher than at any time since the mid-1960s.
To be clear, the problem from Team Obama’s perspective isn’t that more and more people are living in economic misery. (Please, with hundreds of dead bodies resulting from the Justice Department’s Operation Fast and Furious and the president’s 2009 advice to a daughter that her elderly mother should have been “taking painkillers” instead of having life-extending surgery, to name just two examples, spare me the garbage about Obama’s and his administration’s alleged compassion.) The real problem is that the American people have learned that more and more of their fellow citizens are economically miserable. Even worse, they will have that message reinforced less than two months before Election Day 2012 — unless something is done about how poverty is measured and reported.
Enter SPM. The irony of its creation is more than a little hard to take. After decades during which leftists ridiculed conservatives and others who validly criticized official poverty measurements for excluding obvious items like the value of non-cash government benefits such as food stamps and traditional welfare from available resources, all of a sudden effective in 2009 the administration tasked the Census Bureau with developing SPM, which incorporates those and similar items into its measurement base.
But SPM, based on a study which had been gathering dust since the mid-1990s, additionally and arbitrarily deducts a number of expenses from income to arrive at a new “resource measure” which supposedly represents what is available to pay for “a basic set of goods that includes food, clothing, shelter, and utilities (FCSU), and a small additional amount to allow for other needs (e.g., household supplies, personal care, non- work-related transportation).” SPM then compares that new “resource measure” to a clearly higher poverty threshold than the bureau has officially used for almost 50 years (if you really have to know, SPM’s poverty threshold is “the 33rd percentile of expenditures on FCSU of consumer units with exactly two children multiplied by 1.2″).
So what are the expenses SPM deducts from income? Astute readers will begin to grasp the underhanded cleverness of the new measurement when they see the list: taxes (while adding back tax credits like the Earned Income Credit), work expenses, and medical out-of-pocket expenses.
After Obama appoints the new BLS director, we’ll also be down to 5% unemployment by the end of next summer. I’ll still vote for the GOP’s Obama-lite however.
“Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.” ~ Evan Esar
If it’s to be manipulated, Barack Alinsky will.
There’s no news here. Barack Hussein Obama has lied, er that is “manipulated” the truth to fit his agenda in the past, why should he stop now??!!
Obama lies so much, he has to get someone else to call his own dog!
Unfortunately, we have enough government “educated” voters so that manipulation of these numbers will go completely unnoticed. After all, one would have to be able to understand the relationship these numbers represent in order to know why they are bogus. On the other hand, when the MSM regurgitates these numbers as though they were in stone, anyone watching would assume that they are without error. So what’s an honest person to do? Real numbers dont support the media’s agendas, and they make the ruling dynasty look bad. How does one get to the truth when the government lies and the media spit it out as the gospel? (no offense to the gospel!!)
An accounting trick from the sophists who have not produced a budget for 1000 days.
You can’t score an overthrow of the free market.
Accounting tricks and union treats…it’s Halloween all the time with the Marxists. The Charge of the Entitlement Brigade marches on. Redistribution by any means necessary…including fake ones. Soon, the “science” of poverty will be declared “settled”…and all “skeptics” will be banned from the discussion.
The information stream is dead. Long live the information stream.
Right out of the playbook
One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue. — P.26
Which means that he who fails to love his neighbor will not aid his neighbor in time of need. Ain’t greed and selfishness wonderful?
If we all obeyed Lk.10.25-28 wouldn’t it be a wonderful world?
The title is a rhetorical question – obviously.
Of course they manipulate the data!!! The bureaucracy has to find more crisis and reasons for them to keep their jobs, pensions and benefits.
This article reminds me of an episode of The West Wing.
All direct and indirect actions by Obama are executed through one of the four key elements of national power: Diplomatic, Informational, Military and Economic; the mutually supporting assaults on each element aimed to culminate in the American people being driven to their psychological knees. It is indeed Informational-psychological warfare, developed by the military in the 1950s, but with the difference that, unlike the military, the US Government is not constrained by law against conducting psychological warfare operations against the American people. The media is key to the achievement of psychological collapse … ” We are becoming a poor nation, except for the 1% ” … It’s ultimate message: “resistance is futile. Give in to the Federal collective ”
When in doubt, Obama will always decide against the best interests of the America, and the Americans, that he so deeply detests, and who he is so deeply committed to subdue.
It takes someone with a smidgeon of education and some critical thinking to get the truth from what is being published by the Obama Regime (which includes the lap dog media).
You can’t believe the first word from this Regime. Especially any statistics. And the first thing you are condemned as when you display your suspicion, is racist. That is supposed to shut you down with shame, impress you with how superior they are, and force you to think their way.
Chalk this up as a “success” by the communist education system in America. Any parrot can get a degree, nowadays, since all you have to do to get a passing grade is learn what to repeat for credit. Even if it’s astonishingly incredible.
What IS astonishing, is that these pathetic individuals think they ARE exclusive intellects while lip syncing what they have been conditioned to speak.
It’s astounding there are so many people in this camp. The rapture or reward associated with these convictions, is too much of a sacrifice of my intelligence to capitulate to this propaganda.
This tide has to be interrupted and subject to individual enlightenment where pride in the individual, and not the collective, is rewarded.
But with the attempted domination of the narrative by our government, and the blind obedience of the media, it will be a long hard battle by the few that have the cognitive ability to enlighten these inoculated subjects.
Ethics? Democrats care not about ethics – the cause is all that matters.
The data from the government is no where near the reality and most public school educated people can see it if not experience it. Take the unemployment rates. We know so many people that are out of work or working at lesser jobs it has to be worse that 9. this or 8. that. My gut tells me it is closer to 17% with probably another 10% in marginal income jobs. This is no different.
I was taking a statistics class in the 1980s and remember well that Reagan revised the unemployment statistic to include only those “looking for work” and, thereby, decreased bad news and omitted the true unemployment statistic of which you speak. It worked quite nicely for the elder Bush, Clinton, GW Bush and Obama.
Almost every president since has added his own “touches” to the statistic.
You don’t have to get into the details to know they are manipulating the data.
The only reason they “measure” the data in the first place is so they use it for political purposes. This is just a new one. Unemployment stats, for example, are designed to make politicians look good. Every thinking person is aware of that one. The unemployment data is garbage. Period.
Others are CPI and GDP / GNP. Everyone is well aware of the manipulation of CPI as well. They tell us cpi has gone up, what, 4% in 4 years. Meanwhile, the food we buy is 50% higher and gasoline is periodically 50% higher as well.
But people aren’t aware as much of GDP / GNP. Did you know that they include government spending? Gee, doesn’t that mean the government can make the data look good just by increasing the debt. Yes it can!! Convenient for those in power, isn’t it? The more criminal they are, the more convenient it is.
So this new bogus poverty data is 100% guaranteed to be crap as well. All of the sad poor likely democrat voters are just scrambling month to month to pay for their iphones, ipads, $200 sneakers, drugs and cable TV. So sad. How can the country let such a thing continue.
If you ask me, 90% of the genuinely poor people in this country are in two caterories; people over 50 who have lost their jobs under the marxist regime, and didn’t spend their lives learning how to game the system to squeeze gubamint money out of uncle sugar; and their kids, who grew up assuming that the world would be handed to them on a popsicle stick, and who have now realized that they are the new underclass. When I see those groups appear in the malls with a thousand dollars of clothes, shoes and technology in their pockets, then I’ll know the “war on poverty” has finally been won.
(btw, most people don’t save a dime toward retirement until they are in their 50′s; they are raising families instead. The most devastating time to lose a job is then, because the next 15 years are when most people will save a little money to help when they are old. Losing a job at 50 pretty much guarantees poverty for the rest of that person’s life. By marxist design, I should add.)
Your retirement info is not accurate, pro. Many employers require their employees to participate in a retirement program.
Any federal, state, or union position has mandatory retirement plans to participate in. It’s beneficial to the employer if the employee does not maintain employment up to retirement. At employment termination, they both get their donations refunded. The employee can transfer the contributions to their own managed plan, if they want.
The last “60 Minutes” episode had a few interviews with people looking for employment that had been out of work for extended periods of time and were living off their retirement.They also detailed how their retirement plans had deteriorated over the last few years.
Local employers in my area advertise full benefits/retirement in their job offers.
Come on CG. You know that the vast majority of retirement savings occur late in life. People simply don’t have the funds when they are raising families and paying higher mortgage rates (no matter what the interest rate is, inflation will make the payments decline vs income over time. That huge $600 mortgage in 1990 doesn’t seem so big in 2011.). In addition, people have start-up costs for their lives when they are young: student loans, cars, clothes, furniture. Much of that goes away by the time the 50′s are reached.
It’s obvious that most retirement savings happens later in life. If you were able to save much before the age of 50, good for you. You were the exception.
As I said, pro, many jobs have mandatory plans. There are minimal levels of contribution, but they are still mandatory.
Your scenario may be occurring at the present time, but that is a function of the deteriorating economy and job prospects.
There is more data to support this; Just Google “retirement savings statistics”.
The self employed and part time employed do not have to contribute, of course. And the part time employment is trending up at this time.
I know how tough it is, and it’s not getting any easier. But you’d be surprised how little a lot of retirees are living on.
I’ve seen bus loads of seniors going to Wendy’s for their big daily meal; Lunch. Sad, but, it’s been going on for a long time.
Thank you. The most important thing to notice is that they did not go back and calculate the SPM for the previous 5-10 years. With such a comparison of historical data the SPM is meaningless. The fact that it produces a better-looking number does not mean things got better.
Hopefully, the blogosphere will do the same thing to the SPM as it did to the new 8.6 unemployment rate number: debunk it completely.
“Longer-term, it appears to be a rigged mechanism for demonstrating how ObamaCare, assuming it survives legal challenges and attempts at repeal, is a resounding success.”
ObamaWorld reminds me of the Soviet Union, which “worked” in spite of itself and seemed almost omnipotent….right up to the day it suddenly collapsed.
The answer is yes. But the source is and has always been the bureaucracies of the federal government who know which side of the bread their butter is on. This has been going on for at least 50 years and a compliant leftist media always gives them a boost by regurgitating their misrepresentations. Under all Republican presidents, deficit spending, inflation statistics, and unemployment rates get exaggerated. As long as a Democrat president is willing to increase the size and salaries of the bureaucracies, the size of deficits, inflation, and unemployment get virtually ignored while we focus on job numbers instead of percentages. Since the lame conservative media never challenges these falsified figures, the people get fed a steady diet of this government propaganda. Did you really think Obama would have anything but a wonderful economy going into his re-election campaign. Nothing they report is true anymore. The world is on the verge of a complete economic breakdown and our media is focused on making sure the democrats don’t get blamed for it, even turning a blind eye from the hundreds of billions of dollars that our government is printing for Europe to prevent its collapse until after Obama’s re-election. I am sick of this crap and I am really sick of the fact that Americans are so unable to do simple math that they just blindly accept whatever their lying government tells them.
Do sheep bleat and horse’s tails get crapped on?
50% of all Americans have below average income!
Wrong. 50% are below the MEDIAN income.
50% of all Americans have below average intelligence.
Wrong, 50% are below the Median intelligence.
Right on, Jim! Stanford-Binet IQ tests show 50% as average, 90-110 IQs; 25% defective, less than 90; and 25% superior; over 110; median 100. That means that 25% of the voters aren’t smart enough to do so properly. What if those whose IQs were less than 90, those with criminal records, those insane, those not self supporting, eg, were not allowed to vote? Aha!
Uhbama’s Poverty Data is as ‘accurate’ as the storyline behind the ’46 (though the # was also 40, 36, 42, 38..) million people without health insurance.
Uhbama and like-minded useful idiots spouted ad nauseum for UhbamaCare to come to fruition under nefarious ways.
Though those knuckleheads ‘forgot’ to mention the overwhelming # of those without insurance was by choice.
Whether being young & healthy, poor lifestyle choices (‘working poor’ but always have smokes, alcohol at the ready and have a suhweet, unaffordable ride!) or *shocker* wish to spend their money on other needs. Free will.. until ’14 that is.
“Oh Danny, this isn’t Russia. Is this Russia”? – The Caddyshack line will be far more poignant when UhbamaCare is in place. ‘Government knows what’s best for us’. Look at their track record. G-men have 15 + trillion reasons (soon to be 16T +) why.
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So the article links to another that cites a woman with a child who makes less than 11 grand a year: why isn’t she living with family? You leave home or stay away from home if you can afford it; it’s not a situation where you do it no matter what, no matter if you can or not like it’s a right and so the gov’t has to pay for it. Screw these people.
I wish I could personally visit these poor and miserable in Mississippi and other places and count up the cars, X-Boxes, DVDs and computers in the homes. Even though it has been said many times and seems to lack compassion, poor people aren’t fat nor do they produce 7ft tall athletes. The word “poor,” to no one’s surprise, has been gerrymandered by the Left yet again in a way that it could mean anything and make Orwell proud. Unfortunately these “poor” people are gobbling up Federal and state treasure at an alarming rate and relatively speaking, producing criminals and more poor in return; you cannot sustain that “every failure is racism” nonsense forever. At some point people who are fully equal simply show it and without all the speeches as to why not.
That is the first I have heard of words being gerrymandered. Sheesh.
How can Pres. Obama “manipulate” poverty data? How is that even possible? All you have to do is walk outside your home and see all the unbelievable economic activity. This past Solstice Holiday Event was a boom! Everyone I know is driving a new high-end vehicle, planning vacations, getting their nails painted twice a week, getting Chinese take-out every night. All I see is wealth. I don’t see poor people. So if you’re going to say, “oh there’s so much poverty”, I respond, “look around! Open your eyes!” We all have eyes….they don’t lie! What lies is this stupid article. President Obama’s economic policies have succeeded, and that’s got you all worried to death, doesn’t it? There’s a reason that he has a 49% national approval rate and a 92% approval rate in my neck of the developed, intelligent, manicured woods. Maroons, all of you……
I was at a dollar store a week before Christmas and a lady bought 7 casserole meals for $1 each. When I got up to the line I asked the checkout lady, she said that was her dinners for the next 7 days. She eats milk and cereal for breakfast and that is it. I cried for her and for myself because I could not find where she went in the parking lot. It would have been great to give and maybe find her a job. I hope this was your attempt at humor.
Relax. LovelyEarth is a Loki troll.
And stuck in fourth gear.
JOHN IRGUN!! You maven of the message board! I will say this sir, I have only two gears: fast and furious! Like Obama and Holder.
Yeah, I’m a maroon too. Bugs Bunny you ain’t.
I am an ex-pat. living in a third world country, and this is no attempt at humor, Speedypete. True poverty in the United States is relatively non-existent. You need to spend time in Mexico, Central America, South America, India, China, many of the former Soviet Republic states, Africa and so on to see true widespread poverty. You won’t need to take the word of a cashier and use your imagination. Leave the cocoon of the United States for a few weeks and witness true widespread poverty.
I cannot adequately describe poverty for you – - you need to see for yourself. I appreciate and sympathize with your concern about the lady you described and I wish you could have found her to provide help if she needed help. But if we are not more awake to the power-play ruses of this current presidential administration, you will eventually see people who actually must beg and rummage through trash cans in order to live from one day to the next in the United States of America.
Amen, Bro.
My family had a low key christmas. I was told to not buy them anything because times were hard and they couldn’t afford to reciprocate. I lost my job in march… I got a new one in June, but I am not making as much as I did. Does anyone here know anyone who is wealthier now than they were before Obama? Excluding Democrat cronies of course.
Uhbama’s policies have ‘succeeded’ so well that the # of those on food stamps on his watch have skyrocketed.
In your shotgun-styled view that must be ‘progress’.
I’m sure you believe the ’8.6 unemployment’ numbers as well. The p/t holiday hires will again be collecting unemployment soon enough.
The guy’s about to ask for another $1 + trillion (to add to the already disgustingly high deficit) to keep the gubmint afloat in the same breath taking a $4 + million vaca on YOURS & mine nickel.
As for U.S. citizens vacationing, many have opted to drive rather than fly. Though this mode of travel is cumbersome as well with continuing high prices at the pump (take a gander at the OPEC barrel prices, Lovely. It’s discouraging to say the least).
American Airlines is the most recent airline looking into Ch. 11. Many airlines are merging or working with skeleton-like crews, ground help.
Qantas and a myriad of Asian airlines are on strike.
BTW, ‘Chinese take-out’ is popular all-the-time, boom or bust years because it is dirt cheap!
I’m a bit leery of your, ‘..manicured..’ zip code.
Many who do live in such communities are NOT Mother Gaia worshipers but live in 21st Century reality. Have hired hands to have said manicured yards, a faux pas amongst you communal compost seekers. Drive SUV’s/high performance vehicles with horrific gas mileage. Flush their toilets even when performing a #1.. In other words – Obviously not in your confines.
Then again you may be hypocritical to the core.
What on earth kind of wealth bubble are you living in?
You exhibit the reality disconnect that’s so painfully obvious in the current administration.
Your reality may be late-model cars and nails done twice a week, but that’s foreign to me (a resident of California) and to all my neighbors.
Of course poverty in this country as defined by the government is a farce, but there’s a lot of struggling going on. Apparently that does not include you and your well-heeled, well-employed colleagues. Let the rest of us eat cake.
You apparently live in a well-off neighborhood! If I look around, I see what everyone else is talking about, poverty everywhere.
None of this administrations numbers are credible. They are all being doctored to make Obama’s policies look successful, in his bid to get re-elected.
Taint gonna happen!
Of course they are manipulating the data…just as the falsely report unemployment and economic growth statistics, which just so happen to get revised a few months down the road to express a more accurate, but worse-case scenario than originally reported – of course, the MSM always tends to “forget” to issue the corrections.
Yes, employment data, which is already suspect, is consistently revised. Most often it seems to head down rather than up.
Unexpectedly, local media reports on revised national employment stats, but it seems to be ONLY when the numbers are revised upward. Odd, that.
Disreali said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Obama and the Obots are constructing a statistical strawman, which they will use to prove what ever lie they choose to tell in 2012.
I predicted a year ago that they would revise the definition of unemployment.
Looks like I was wrong.
They decided instead to invent a whole new statistic for poverty.
I was more right than I thought about the strategy, but wrong about the tactic.
They aren’t impacted in any way by the real world. If reality isn’t working to support the coup, they just invent a new reality. Nothing is too blatant for the crooks.
So … Obama and the New Real: It is what we say it is, because we said so.
This is very reminiscent of the “food insecurity” problem that I’ve seen mentioned recently. Since virtually no one in the US actually hungry (unless they simply are unaware of the help that’s available) the social services industry had to come up with a new statistic entirely in order to justify continued attention- and taxpayer money- directed at the “problem”.
So not only are these concerns over-emphasized relative to their actual importance in order to score political points, I’m sure it’s also done for job security. When problems are diminished, the logical thing to do is define a new problem, or many of these social workers will be out of a job. It certainly has been the case with public health- they’ve gone from saving countless lives from sanitation and immunization to lecturing us about trans-fats.
Direct Government Interference with Consumption Mises Daily: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 by Ludwig von Mises
http://mises.org/daily/5822/Direct-Government-Interference-with-Consumption
Well, watching all those Air Jordan riots at the malls among the well dressed and the well fed, the knifing, the kicking, all the stomping and mutual combat over retro sneakers predominantly among young “Afro-Americans” certainly provides a whole new dimension of meaning to relative deprivation and being impoverished in America. Come to think of it, there was more rapes, riots, and arson at Woodstock 99 than Woodstock 69, maybe the modern reporting is better and inflates the statistics?
It is a little known fact that most of the causes of the genocide in Rwanda and starvation in Ethiopia is over sneakers.
The Obama administration is doing so many illegal and underhanded acts, it is impossible to keep up with their shenanigans. At the same time, the leftist media and a majority of the Democrats in congress cover for them. As a result, the country has rapidly fallen to the status of corrupt, third world governance; quite possibly by design.
If the economy was doing so good, why would the “Debt Ceiling” have to be raised? Let’s lower it to show the world how good we’re doing.
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
Of course they are. They are communists. Next subject.
Poverty is actually not having enough food to eat, clothes to wear and enough warmth within their winter shelter to survive.
Since the USA definition of poverty includes people who own their own home, have some TV programming service as well as special HD TVs and a cell phone, their statistics are not surprising. Lots of people do not own those.
I have seen people checking out of the grocery store with food stamps, while talking on their cell phones. They may have very nice homes with satellite dish for their multiple color HD TVs. Do not tell me they are poor. If their need lasts longer than them looking daily for jobs, then they are parasites on others hard-worked wealth.
People reading this article will be interested in this article. It’s Obama by the numbers:
http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/boskin-wsj-20110908-with-charts.pdf
Easy to see why they want to manipulate these numbers.
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how about showing the charts of our government millionares as compared to the folks
250 millionares in congress , which now includes the prez.
i dont see them sacrificing anything.
Why should people who have been withered out of middle class by government of, by and for insiders re-elect officials committed to government of, by and for insiders.
What is the glaring symbol of gov’t of, by and for insiders: those $35,800 Obama for President fundraising soirees?
btw — I am on food stamps, and waiting for a political candidate — and political party — committed to the principles on governance set forth in the first half of Federalist No. 57. Therein lies the path to revive our founding spirit. Until then, it will be more government led by those seeking the “ambitious sacrifice of the many, to the aggrandizemenbt of the few” (quoting from the opening line of Federalist 57).
Why wouldn’t Obama lie about the number of very poor people. He has lied about
everything else including his past, birth place, religion, education. 60,000,000
Americans are on food stamps. The True jobless rate is 23%. There is nothing but
lies coming out of his mouth the great majority of the time!!!!!
We know more about Jesus Christ.
Doc Boyer, and you know this how? Your GOP masters run the their lies past you every time they want to sell what they say is the truth? I think not, you unimportant Republican hack.
The real question is whether or not there is a sufficient voting majority in the US of people who are as uninformed and as easily fooled as Obama thinks there is. And, considering the number of people who get their news from Jon Stewart and David Letterman, we could be in for a re-birth of “Hope and Change” in 2012.
Between Obama’s campaign advertising and the Liberal media’s hyping, by November of 2012 reality and truth will become so remote that even normal people with common sense will become confused.
I think that by about September, Obama will change course and declare the economy to be in “Depression” and begin having fire-side chats with promises of a “chicken in every pot”, “40 acres and a mule”, “prosperity is just around the corner”, and that “we can’t change horses in mid-stream”; and that if we elect him again, that “happy days are here again”. And, unfortunately, I think the 48% who now give him a favorable job approval rating (Rasmussen) will believe him.
…. Is the Obama Administration Politically Manipulating the Poverty Data …?
Are bears still pooping in the woods?
Is 0=Zero’s model of modified-Marxism and mentor, Mussolini, still Italian?
Is Missus Billy-Bubbah Blythe Cli’ton still the dumbest woman in all of recorded history to have ever taken a dump between two shoes?
Yeah and Boehner, Rush, Eric, Mitch McConnel, etc., keep throwing monkey wrenches into attempts by Obma to stimulate the economy so they can produce jobs? So where are the GOP jobs?