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How did you celebrate the first birthday of Obama’s “Recovery Summer?”

Washington, June 19, 2011 | Patrick
This past Friday marked the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the Obama Administration’s “Recovery Summer,” the three month “victory lap” designed to celebrate the “success” of their stimulus plan. Senior Advisor David Axelrod touted their summer campaign, stating, “Just over a year later, the Recovery Act is putting millions of Americans to work and helping the economy grow again.”

This past Friday marked the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the Obama Administration’s “Recovery Summer,” the three month “victory lap” designed to celebrate the “success” of their stimulus plan.  Senior Advisor David Axelrod touted their summer campaign, stating, “Just over a year later, the Recovery Act is putting millions of Americans to work and helping the economy grow again.”

How did that work out again?


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FACT:  Since the passage of the stimulus, the U.S. economy has lost 1.9 million jobs.

FACT:  During the “Recovery Summer,” our economy shed jobs for three straight months, and unemployment continued to rise up to 9.6%.  The unemployment rate when the stimulus passed in January 2009 was 7.6%.

FACT:   After the failed “Recovery Summer,” the White House even floated the idea of a second stimulus package in September 2010.

Now is not the time for celebration.  Now is the time to continue pushing past the failures of the Obama Administration’s failed “stimulus” with a jobs plan that focuses on empowering small businesses by cutting the bureaucratic red tape holding them back.  Through AmericanJobCreators.com, we’re hearing from our job creators on the front lines – they tell us what regulations hurt their ability to create jobs – and we listen.  We’re working to create an efficient, effective government that works for you, and allows our country’s proven job creation experts to do what they do best – innovate and build a first class workforce that will lead us out of this “Recovery Summer” and towards prosperity.