Posts Tagged ‘jobs’
Where are the jobs?
Given to those who raise money for Obama. “More than two years after Obama took office vowing to banish ‘special interests’ from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events,” Politico reports. “These ‘bundlers’ raised at least $50,000 — and sometimes more than $500,000 — in campaign donations for Obama’s campaign.”
For comparison’s sake, Public Citizen in 2008 found that George W. Bush had appointed about 200 bundlers to administration posts during his eight years in office. That’s roughly the same number Obama has appointed in little more than two years.
The White House insists that all these jobs were on the up-and-up, but it’s hard to deny the correlation. Somehow, this makes all those promises about “Hope and Change” seem even hollower.
Hat tip: http://patriotpost.us/
