Updated: Senator Barbara Boxer in San Diego Gets the Effectiveness of the Boxer-Supported Economic Stimulus Wrong

Barbara Boxer campaigning for re-election to the United States Senate (I mean touring) still cannot get her facts straight.

Watch the video above.

Doesn’t Senator Boxer seem confused?

The facts she does NOT mention are:

As San Diego TV station KUSI reports, Senator Boxer was at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) yesterday to try to promote the stimulus’ effect on job growth. One big problem though – earlier this year, Boxer said the stimulus was needed to keep unemployment under 8% but “instead the opposite has happened” – California’s unemployment is now over 10% and the state “is still losing jobs.”

What’s more — digging past Boxer’s rhetoric yesterday, KUSI also reports that of the $45 million in stimulus money UCSD is scheduled to receive, only 15% is actually targeted to job growth and to date, only ONE job has been created and credited to the stimulus in San Diego. Probably not the type of local press coverage Boxer was expecting before scheduling this made-for-TV tour at UCSD.

Senator, don’t you know where the money is coming from?

Answer: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) NOT your beloved pork-laden Democrat PORKULUS.

The Obama Administration, including Senators like California’s Barbara Boxer have been defending the $757 billion economic stimulus bill (using borrowed money) even though it has NOT delivered new jobs like they promised. The fact is the economic stimulus has been as much a failure as Senator Boxer in passing legislation. Watch Carly Fiorina bag on her in the video above.

Time for Senator Boxer to go in 2010.

Now, the Carly Fiorina campaign is weighing into the FLAP.

From the press release:

Barbara Boxer misrepresented the facts about the number of San Diego jobs created by the federal stimulus.

• Boxer Touts Stimulus Jobs Actually Created Through NIH Grants. “The $787 billion stimulus package was rolled out as a jobs program to keep unemployment below 8%.  But the opposite has happened.  Unemployment is over 10% and we’re still losing jobs.  While touring the John Moores Cancer Center at UCSD, Sen. Boxer said federal dollars have launched fifty San Diego companies, creating more than 16,000 jobs. Launched with National Institute of Health grants, not stimulus dollars.” (KUSI News San Diego, 11/12/09)

• Highly Specialized Medical Doctor Reported To Be San Diego’s One Recipient Of A Job Provided By Federal Stimulus Funds. “The lion’s share of the $45 million coming to UCSD will go to research, a handful of technicians will be hired, so will a scientist, and [voice of Dr. Dennis Carson] ‘a Neurooncologist has been hired to help lead a program aimed at developing new therapies for brain tumors.’ That’s the first San Diego job created that we know of.” (KUSI News San Diego, 11/12/09)

• “The Failure Of The Stimulus Package, Boxer’s Record And Her Self-Importance Will Likely Be Issues In Her Re-Election Campaign.” (KUSI News San Diego, 11/12/09)

Nearly one year after Boxer claimed the stimulus would put “Californians to work now,” San Diego only has one job to show for
it.

• Lack Of San Diego Jobs Created By Stimulus Called “Amazing.” “ANCHOR: Just for clarity here, I want to make sure we
  all this right, that was the first job created in San Diego with the stimulus money, you said? REPORTER: That we know of. ANCHOR: That’s pretty amazing.” (KUSI News San Diego, 11/12/09)
  

• In February 2009, Boxer Said The Stimulus Would “Put Californians To Work Now.” “Senator Boxer said, ‘In the face of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the Congress has acted today to save or  create jobs in California and across the nation.  With so many Californians  anxious about the economy, this legislation offers help and hope.  This bill  will put Californians to work now building the highways, bridges, transit and  rail systems, and renewable energy sources of the 21st century.’” (Senator Barbara Boxer, “Boxer Praises Passage Of Economic Recovery Legislation,” Press Release, 2/13/09)
  
  
• Stimulus Plan Not Producing As Promised. “The  $787 billion stimulus plan is turning out to be far less stimulating than its
  architects expected. Back in early January, when Barack Obama was still  President-elect, two of his chief economic advisers — leading proponents of a  stimulus bill — predicted that the passage of a large economic-aid package would  boost the economy and keep the unemployment rate below 8%. It hasn’t quite  worked out that way.” (Time, 7/14/09)
  

• California’s Unemployment Rate Was An Abysmal 12.2% In  September. “In California, where  unemployment was 12.2% in September, the rate for October will be reported Nov.  20.” (Los  Angeles Times, 11/7/09)
  

• Nationwide Almost 16 Million Workers Now Have No Jobs. “Some 15.7 million workers now have no jobs, the  government said in releasing its monthly unemployment report, and an estimated 5  million more are working fewer hours and drawing smaller paychecks than they  were before the country fell into the worst recession in a generation.” (Los Angeles Times, 11/7/09)
  

• Worsening Jobs Numbers Are Actually Worse Than They Appear. “The jobless rate when Obama took office was 7.6%, and
  it was a mere 4.9% in December 2007, when the latest recession officially began.  Since then, the number of unemployed workers has increased by 8.2 million,  according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And the government doesn’t count as
  officially unemployed the so-called discouraged workers who have given up  looking for jobs — and who numbered 808,000 last month, up from 484,000 a year  earlier. There also were 9.3 million people who reported that they were working  part time because their hours had been cut or they could not find full-time  jobs. If this group and discouraged workers are included, along with others on  the fringe of the labor market, the nation’s rate of unemployment plus  underemployment in October was 17.5%.”

Boxer continues to use the economic stimulus to keep her job while Californians continue to lose theirs.

• Boxer Was The Lead Defender Of Millions In Funding For Road Signs – Paid For By Stimulus Dollars – To Announce Where Stimulus Funds Are Being Spent. “They’re spending hundreds of  spend millions putting  up signs to highlight where the money is being spent. The road signs, which let  motorists know the paving and construction projects they see are being paid for by the $787 billion economic stimulus program, have popped up across the country. In a 52-45 vote, the Senate decided the signs should stay. Why on earth would you want to hide from the American people the fact that the recovery package we passed is putting people to work? asked Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, who took the lead in defending the expenditure.” (The Washington Times, 9/17/09)
  

• A Bipartisan Group Of Boxer’s Colleagues Voted To Strip Funding For The Signs. “Five Democrats — Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Charles E. Schumer of New York — voted with all 40 Republicans to try to strip the money, but their support was not enough.  Mrs. Boxer called the effort ‘anti-jobs’ and said the signs are an example of government transparency.” (The Washington Times, 9/17/09)
  

• Boxer: People Who Didn’t Support Stimulus Are Frustrated That It’s Working. “It’s my sense that there’s a
  frustration by the people who voted ‘no’ on the economic recovery act, the stimulus bill, there’s a frustration that it’s working. They predicted gloom and doom, Mrs. Boxer said.” (The Washington Times, 9/17/09)

As I said before Barbara Boxer really has to go.

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