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Obama's stimulus is in trouble

President Obama's economic stimulus plan is in trouble. Conservative talking points are dominating the media's coverage and there's lots of misinformation around. It won't pass unless we can get the real facts out to a wide audience.

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Lakeshore Chronicle 35,000 0
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National PapersCirculation  # Sent
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Los Angeles Times 1,014,044 718
Washington Post 796,367 800
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Talking Points

  1. This is a very, very good bill. As The Nation writes, "If enacted, the economic recovery plan will be one of the biggest and boldest pieces of progressive legislation in the past forty years."

    Here are some facts about what the bill really does:

    • Creates or saves 3 million to 4 million jobs in the next two years.
    • Averts "literally hundreds of thousands of teacher layoffs"—and doubles funding for the Department of Education.
    • Creates hundreds of thousands of green jobs and doubles our clean energy production.
    • Immediately gives unemployed folks access to affordable health care coverage.

  2. The stuff that's being singled out for criticism amounts to a tiny fraction of the bill—like anti-smoking programs that make up less than one-ten-thousandth of the spending. This kind of nit-picking is pure politics.

  3. If it doesn't pass, we're in deep trouble. Even John McCain's economic adviser estimates that without the stimulus, unemployment would top 11% by 2010, the highest level since the Great Depression.

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