VIDEO: Stimulus Opponent Cantor Hosts Job Fair With Jobs Fueled By The Stimulus
VIDEO: Stimulus Opponent Cantor Hosts Job Fair With Jobs Fueled By The Stimulus
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) has been one of the Recovery Act’s most vocal critics. Despite evidence that that the stimulus is helping to turn around the economy, Cantor repeatedly says that it is “failing” to “create jobs.” On Monday, Cantor hosted a job fair in Midlothian, VA, to demonstrate how he — and not the Obama administration — is working on “long-term solutions that will put Virginia businesses and Virginia workers back on the path to financial stability.”
ThinkProgress attended the event, which attracted more than 2,000 people. Watch a video report on Cantor’s stimulus-fueled job fair:
The Recovery Act created and saved jobs by injecting funds into local governments, while also fueling demand in the private sector by spurring improvements to infrastructure and other critical projects. ThinkProgress found in Chesterfield County that many jobs represented by employers at the job fair were a direct result of those funds:
–Commercial building contractor Colonial Webb credits the stimulus package with helping to create 20 new jobs. Colonial Webb, a firm that deals directly with helping to increase energy efficiency and LEED certification, is directly benefiting from Virginia’s $164 million in stimulus grants for weatherization and energy-efficiency programs.
–The Chesterfield County Police Department, which has received $505,822 through the stimulus, created 10 jobs.
–Chesterfield County Public Schools received over $4.4 million in funds from the stimulus. The money help plug budget gaps while aiding in 61 new hires.
–The Henrico County Police Department received over $63,069 from the stimulus and created 1 new job. The department also received $458,132 in stimulus money, helping to save other jobs.
It’s worth noting that among the job fair participants, more than half were from the public sector, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the CIA, FBI, Army and the Department of Motor Vehicles –- even though Cantor previously has criticized the stimulus plan for placing too great an emphasis on “preserving jobs in the public sector.”
Over the next two years, Chesterfield County will receive more than $38 million in stimulus funding. Fliers were also displayed at the job fair advertising stimulus-enabled unemployment aid. Sixty two million dollars in stimulus funding is headed to Virginia that will extend unemployment benefits, providing many at the job fair with a lifeline.
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“What happened to society? I go into business, I don’t make it, I go bankrupt. I’ve been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.”
– Craig T. Nelson
August 20th, 2009 at 7:38 pmStimulus Opponent Cantor Hosts Job Fair With Jobs Fueled By The Stimulus
– - One of the booming businesses is apparently Swastika sign making.
August 20th, 2009 at 7:41 pmOver 2,000 people at a job fair?
But – but – but … I thought all the trolls said people didn’t work because they were “lazy”?
August 20th, 2009 at 7:50 pmOff Topic,
I’m driving home and listening to Ron Reagan (too bad he passes for liberal radio) and he said over and over that Obama and the administratiion just announced they would not pursue a single payer or private option. That it was now totally off the table.
So I’m bugging out, get home and check the computer, I guess this isn’t true (at least not yet)?
August 20th, 2009 at 7:51 pmRepugniscum like Cantor would sooner choke to death before they admit that something Obama has done is succeeding.
August 20th, 2009 at 7:53 pmOK- Cantor — don’t admit it!!
Eric Cant — sorry, Cantor — and the Party of NO! No brains and no plans.
August 20th, 2009 at 7:53 pmElBurce, I just saw that clip replayed somewhere today — un-frickin’believable –
August 20th, 2009 at 7:54 pmHe was on food stamps, he was on welfare — who helped him? he whines? Who the hell gave him food stamps and money???
Rich H
August 20th, 2009 at 7:57 pmRon Reagan is wrong. There won’t be a bill without public health.
***
i always thought of eric
as a man of conscience and honor.
… … .
how wrong i’ve been.
:(
August 20th, 2009 at 8:05 pmWingnuts don’t want to do for themselves. They just take all the help they get for granted. They still take it, they just refuse to pitch in for their fair share. Economic conservatism is nothing more than a philosophy of freeloading deadbeats.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:06 pmMarie,
Thanks, sometimes I just hear this stuff and since I’m on the west coast I’m thinking “is it possible?” and I have to rush home and find out.
Ron’s not a bad guy, but his show is entertainment not news.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:06 pmLet’s see how Eric Cantor’s district reacts to him being an open face complete liar. Now we know these folks will apply for the jobs because they need work. It seems all the GOP are now accepting the Stimulus money but calling it their idea. If the voters agree then our kids will know lying is the right thing to do and telling the truth means nothing.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:13 pmCould the people in Cantor’s district please do us all a favor and take away his job?
August 20th, 2009 at 8:15 pmThe repiggies are all lunatics, liars and crooks.
Screw the repiggies, and screw the teabagger trash.
We need single-payer or the public option in health care reform legislation.
The Dems need to listen to the majority of the citizens, not to the entrenched health insurance oligarchs who pine for a return to repiggie command and control.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:15 pmElbruce @1 – ROTFL! Some people are just dangerously stupid!
Eric Cantor is such a hypocrite! He’s also a sellout for not standing up against Rush and other nutjobs for their attempt to trivialize the Holocaust – comparing the President to Hitler! He wouldn’t even speak out against teabaggers holding signs with swatikas on them! Shame!
What? 2000 people showed up to the job fair? Wasn’t it Michelle Mallkin who claimed people would just keep taking government cheese instead of looking for work?!
August 20th, 2009 at 8:19 pmRich H
Sometimes I think this is some sort of Kabuki dance being played on the repugs by the White house and unfortunately, we hear the same things and – I don’t know about you – but I think I can understand schizophrenia !!
Obama will not discard his base even though we are frustrated with his high-minded efforts at bipartisanship. He knows the repugs are never going to go along, but he’s letting them hang themselves in the eyes of the public. He will go to the last moment stating, he wants bipartisanship — until he shuts them down.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:20 pmOh, Ron Reagan has a pleasant show, but he is not one I pay a lot of attention to.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:20 pmSee! no jobs!
August 20th, 2009 at 8:22 pmMarie @16 -I think that’s exactly what the WH is doing because they know that the Rethuglicans will vote NO – no matter what they take in or out of the final bill!
August 20th, 2009 at 8:24 pmMarie,
Being out west all we get is old news. It’s already happened back east and by the time I get home I wonder what’s taken place.
As for Ron, there’s just not much on the radio out here. I’ll listen a few minutes at a time but it’s all kind of trite.
I better let the thread go back to it’s topic before someone else votes me down. But thanks for the info. It really was a question I was hoping someone would answer.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:25 pmThat’s really funny. Someone doesn’t like me
August 20th, 2009 at 8:26 pmCantor is a cancer. We need to zap him with radiation!
August 20th, 2009 at 8:27 pmOff topic:
Bumper sticker seen in Maine recently: “GAY MARRIAGE DOESN’T SCARE ME…NO HEALTH CARE DOES” Love it!
August 20th, 2009 at 8:29 pmTBA,
Don’t brag, it’s a fact, southern white men are the dumbest in the nation.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:34 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
Meanwhile obama’s approval rating is dropping like a brick.
It’s a shame that a mere majority of the country approves of how he’s handling things lately. That’s pretty high for a “brick.”
But to be fair, I’m not very pleased with him lately. He should have been pushing harder on stronger forms of reform. Also the gay stuff.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:34 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
Maine, figures. I saw about 5 anti-obama stickers ( I look at every political bumper sticker ) today here in South Florida.
I saw 10 pro-Obama stickers today here in Portland OR. What do I win?
August 20th, 2009 at 8:35 pmI live in southern california and haven’t seen even one anti-Obama bumper sticker since he was elected.
And as a bonus, all the stupid red necks that live here and used to drive around with their Bush/Cheney bumper stickers have finally taken them off.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:38 pmTBA,
That’s right, we send the dumb ones all down south to take jobs away from the locals.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:39 pmElBruce,
I so much want to be a deadbeat hippy savage, where can I sign up, or do I just have to move to Portland?
August 20th, 2009 at 8:40 pmI see Obama stickers all this time in my town, and NO McCain/Palin stickers at all.
I live in Idaho. Suck it, troll.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:42 pmHi Zooey
August 20th, 2009 at 8:43 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
You win nothing, because portland OR is one of the most liberal cities in America. You’re all a bunch of deadbeat hippy savages on the west coast
Oooh, thank you! Savages!
I figure we win everything because we live in one of the most liberal cities in America. Much better than living in a Red State, sucking off the teat of the actual producers in this country (hint: Blue States).
But hippy savages. . . has a nice ring to it.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:43 pmTBA
When you get tired of Florida you can always move to Texas. I hear the education system isn’t too good there either. You should fit right in.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:45 pmRich H says:
ElBruce,
I so much want to be a deadbeat hippy savage, where can I sign up, or do I just have to move to Portland?
For a modest fee, I can hook you up with a gift certificate, er, birth certificate that will make you an honorary deadbeat hippy savage, right in your hometown. For a little more, I can make you a Dirty Deadbeat Hippy Savage, First Class, which will allow you to bestow honorary deadbeat hippy savage certificates to your friends.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:46 pmHi, Rich!
August 20th, 2009 at 8:46 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
Idaho? Nobody cares about that crap state.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Nobody but Republicans, teabaggers, and anti-choice morons.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:46 pmTBA
What about all the Cubans? Can’t you erect some kind of off-shore fence to keep them out?
August 20th, 2009 at 8:47 pmNobody cares about Idaho? Who are you to speak for everyone? You are a wingnut, you don’t speak for anyone at all.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:47 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
…illegal mexican kids who can’t speak english much less count to 5.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
So you’re Mexican…?
August 20th, 2009 at 8:48 pm42 takebackamerica said something that deserves to be flagged as racist hate speech.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:51 pmTBA,
I finally see your point of view. I think we should return the U.S. to it’s native people.
How’s that sound?
August 20th, 2009 at 8:53 pmGot it, Levi. #46, as well.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:54 pmTBA,
I was wondering, are any of the Mexicans and Cubans you seem to hate born in the U.S.? If so, they are native americans too (according to your “logic”)?
August 20th, 2009 at 8:57 pmTBA = Racist
August 20th, 2009 at 8:57 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
No we can’t do that rich, the liberals would cry if we did.
Wow. I’m always amazed how much hateful small-minded racists take pride in their hate and ignorance. One would think they’d be ashamed, but nope. Just too stupid to realize how vile they really are, I guess.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:58 pmi wonder what eric cantor’s position is on obama=hitler…him being jewish and all and such a comparison negates the suffering of his people during the holocaust?
August 20th, 2009 at 8:58 pmTBA,
Is President Obama a native american?
August 20th, 2009 at 8:59 pm***
tba,
have you seen that sticker on your back?
it says “kick me!”
:|
August 20th, 2009 at 8:59 pmI bet most of those Mexican kids TBA is afraid of were born in this country.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:59 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
“I was born on this land rich, I am a native American.”
Pocadumbass, is that you?
August 20th, 2009 at 9:00 pmI’m so happy that rascist turds like TBA @46 are the last of a dying breed. I only wish they’d die off quietly.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:03 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
You win nothing, because portland OR is one of the most liberal cities in America. You’re all a bunch of deadbeat hippy savages on the west coast.
Deadbeat? We aren’t the ones crying about taxes. We pay ‘em because we’re patriotic citizens. As for “savage,” we tend more towards arugula-eating intellectual elitists. The savages all live in trailer parks East of the Cascades, and vote Republican.
And “hippy?” (looks out window) Yeah, I think you got us on that one. But it’s actually more hipsters around here these days.
Besides, I thought we were having a bumper sticker count to prove something or other. Or were you talking out of the wrong orifice again?
.
TAKE BACK AMERICA says:
Idaho? Nobody cares about that crap state.
Y’all keep writing off various regions of the country and you won’t have any left… oh wait, you alread lost ‘em all.
.
TAKE BACK AMERICA says:
The florida education is only bad because of the liberal morons who migrate here. That, and the fact that our public schools take in illegal mexican kids who can’t speak english much less count to 5.
It’s not the Jews and Hispanics that make your state look bad to the rest of the country. It’s nobody else’s fault if you can’t educate your own kids so they grow up to be racists like you.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:03 pmTake Back is trying to be funny, almost all of us were born in America which makes us native Americans. Take Back Nothing
August 20th, 2009 at 9:03 pm55 takebackamerica spams more racism that needs to be flagged.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:04 pmTBA, after reading your posts, I can’t say 100% that your human.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:04 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
No we can’t do that rich, the liberals would cry if we did. I do have some friends in the coast guard that enjoy shooting the shit out of their makeshift rafts and watching them sick into the ocean.
I’m going to pass this along to my good friend, Charlie, who is a Coast Guard lifer and officer. I’m sure he’ll be very interested in hearing you malign our servicemen like this. Would you care to provide a little contact information so he can send you a nice thank you letter? Since he’s currently stationed just outside Washington DC, I’m sure he can quickly make sure that everyone who should know about this gets the word.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:04 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
While I’m not a birther, I still can’t 100% say for sure he is native born.
I can. You I’m not so sure of though. I suspect you were actually born in East Dumbfcukistan.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:05 pm“While I’m not a birther, I still can’t 100% say for sure he is native born.”
hey stupid! you want to know why no one takes you seriously? because you say stupid sheeyat like this which contradicts what you say.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:05 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
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I don’t hate the latino race, but I do find them annoying and dirty. They aren’t very smart either
HAHA – this coming from the representative of the GREAT UNWASHED TRAILER PARK TRASH such as yourself!
August 20th, 2009 at 9:06 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
I was born on this land rich, I am a native American.
You are nowhere near a Native American stop your lying.
I’m a mixed Native American of Iroquois/European ancestry.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:07 pmI usually find trolls quite annoying, but this one is so stupid it’s almost funny.
By the way, I’d never consider myself a native american.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:07 pmI need to correct myself, the trolls not funny, the rest of you are making me laugh.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:09 pmTBA Says:
While I’m not a birther, I still can’t 100% say for sure he is native born.
You are a “birther” you are such a liar TBA.
Shouldn’t you be sniffing around limpy’s uranus?
August 20th, 2009 at 9:14 pmMy guess is TBA cruises around Tampa looking for cars with rental stickers on them trying to make some easy cash.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:16 pm“That’s funny because I live in a gated community.”
just a fancy white trash way of saying he’s in prison for beating on his meemaw
August 20th, 2009 at 9:16 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
Why in the world are you SO proud to be SO stupid you CANCERvative ignoramus. You are a stupid piece of filth. You arent worth a single hair on my hairynutsack
August 20th, 2009 at 9:17 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
Who cares about the stupidest people on the planet like YOU clearly are?
August 20th, 2009 at 9:18 pmYet another “reasonable conservative” exposed as a filthy racist bigot with just a little questioning. Good job, gang. Report-abuse time now.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:18 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
You wont be able to make your sad and pathetic life any better by snivelling here and exposing your utter ignoerance. You are stupid. You are pathetic. No one likes you, no one respects you and no one ever will. Coming here to tell lies, show how cripplingly stupid you are an blowing chunks on this board will do nothing to alleviate the misery that is your lot in life. NOTHING will ever stop you from being ever the stupidest most pathetic punk in the room. Just go kill yourself. Everyone who has ever met you wants you gone. You are so stupid you will never be anything but a burden to decent people. Do the only unselfish thing in your entire life. Stop wasting oxygen that a higher life form capable of actual brain function could be using. Avail yourself f your second amendment. Take it in the next room and do the right thing. The world expects you to do the right thing.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:24 pmTBA,
If you really are wealthy enough to live in a gated community, you need to know that you and your fellow wealthy white folks are going to be paying a lot more in taxes, and there isn’t thing one you can do about it.
You owe America for two wars, a trillion in stolen Social Security benefits, and a few trillion in damages. I think a 90% tax on all profits for corporations and individuals earning more than 250,000 in profits per year for a decade ought to refill our coffers nicely.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:24 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
You mean you tell it the way Rush and the voices in your head TELL you it is. That is your delusional fantasies. As entertaining as they are, I just love to laugh at morons as stupid as you, it has no real relation to reality.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:25 pmTBA.
First off to have a thought, one must have a brain. That kind of leaves you out of the thought thing.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:29 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
I tell it like it is. I don’t hold back my thoughts.
Please do. They are vile.
Honesty is not a virtue when what you believe is abhorrent to all human decency. Nor is it virtuous bravery to spout a contrary opinion when your opinion is contrary to the concept of humanity itself. You are a walking cancer on the face of the human race. If you are ever interested in doing one good thing in the waste called your life, then I invite you to excise yourself from it for once and for all. It wouldn’t be enough to redeem you, but it would be something at least.
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Levi the Dungbeetle says:
If you really are wealthy enough to live in a gated community…
Standard wingnut lie. Just like how he’s probably a veteran and a small business owner. Like the rest of them, he’s uneducated and broke.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:32 pmTBA
Why didn’t you get a job at blackwater?
August 20th, 2009 at 9:37 pmI grew up in Chesterfield County and can remember seeing a klan bonfire in a hayfield. While more urban today, it’s still a hotbed of ignorance, corruption, and racism. I now live in a rural area 100 miles from Chesterfield that through the magic of Republican gerrymandering is linked to Chesterfield as part of Eric’s district. In spite of the fact that we have our share of conservatives here as well, Eric never shows his face unless there’s a ribbon to be cut before a chamber of commerce hand-picked audience. This is his 2nd job fair in Chesterfield, heck, the rest of his district needs jobs too. I don’t know if a challenge can be mounted against Eric in this artificial district, the Dem in 2008, Anita Hartke, didn’t have a lot of money or national party support, but even the cons in my neck of the woods don’t feel Eric has our best interests at heart. By the way, unless Chesterfield has changed a great deal since I lived there, few will pass the FBI/CIA clearance process.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:37 pmAnd TBA, F’you. My beautiful latino child’s sh_t smells better than you.
TAKE BACK AMERICA says:
Trailer house? That’s funny because I live in a gated community. The only minorities that come here are the ones that do my landscaping.
Hysterical. Standard troll fantasy: “I live in a gated community and have a six-figure income.” Too stupid even to come up with a new fantasy to pawn off on us.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:39 pmAt least he didn’t say he was an architect.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:40 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
MY GOD you are stupid. YOU are the one with the envy. Inevitable in an ignorant worthless punk like you. I do very well. When I was in high school the QB of our football team was a jerk. He treated everyone like dirt including his pretty and sweet girlfriend. I had two friends who used to argue about the guy. One would say he is a jerk. The other always made excuses for him. His friends make him act that way, there is a lot of pressure on him. Whic of those two were jealous? You are like the second guy. The envy you project is your own and it is monumental. You are just certain if you keep kissing enough rich butt you will eventually get a few crumbs off of their table. You are worse than envious. You are a sychophantic butt kissing, no self respect piece of filth. Everyone should have as good a life as I do. Ignorant punkass trolls like YOU dont really deserve it but I am a liberal. I have mercy even on the most dispicable pieces of garbage like YOU.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:40 pmgummble-bee-itch syas:
Hysterical. Standard troll fantasy: “I live in a gated community
Always makes me wonder if the gate keeps others out, or them in. Even a convict can claim to live in a gated community.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:43 pmgummble-bee-itch says:
By gated community he means the plastic fencing his mother puts around his computer area in her basement
August 20th, 2009 at 9:44 pmhey TBA, bullies sooner or later all discover there is always a bigger bully. I suspect you will find yours in your cell mate.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:54 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
Hey eugene, I was that jerk in high school. And it didn’t stop when I graduated, I’m still a bully.
And a scared bully at that what a punk.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:55 pmHe’s still in high school, if not junior high. It’s a malicious troll, folks. Not an adult.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:58 pmBully – no
As*hole – yes
August 20th, 2009 at 10:02 pmTAKE BACK AMERICA says:
Hey eugene, I was that jerk in high school. And it didn’t stop when I graduated, I’m still a bully.
Riiiight. I bet your Barbie dolls took a real beating.
August 20th, 2009 at 10:06 pmI’m sure the $2billion Obama gave to Petrobas in Brazil will surely help the stimulus numbers. Or is Petrobas, Obama’s Haliburton?
August 20th, 2009 at 10:33 pmStampede88 says:
I’m sure the $2billion Obama gave to Petrobas in Brazil will surely help the stimulus numbers. Or is Petrobas, Obama’s Haliburton?
While it’s true that the U.S. Import Export bank is loaning $2B to Petrobras, that’s what they do. The USIEB is tasked with making solid loans that develop foreign industries to increase trade back with the U.S. This is just them doing their job. Brazil is going to need a lot of U.S. expertise in developing those oil fields, which means jobs for us. Then they’re going to sell a lot of that oil back to us, which means cheaper gas. Then they’re going to get the loan paid back at fair interest rates, which means we get money.
I’m sorry, what were you crying about again?
P.S: 88 in your name = neo-Nazi.
August 20th, 2009 at 10:49 pmElBruce & EugeneDebs:
You beat me to it :D
August 20th, 2009 at 10:51 pmMmmmm,Brazil paid off its IMF debts a while ago and a year early.
Brazil Paid Off IMF Loan Early:
August 20th, 2009 at 10:58 pmIn a highly unusual move for a Latin American country, Brazil paid off its debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a year ahead of time. Brazil’s final payment of $15.46 billion was aid by the end of December 2005. The funds came from Brazil’s monetary reserves of $66.7 billion.
http://useconomy.about.com/od/worldeconomy/p/Brazil_Economy.htm
So, I dont know, or really care, what Palin is saying about EXIMs loan to Brazil she is obvioulsy trying to create controverys to keep her far less than stellar stint as a governor qwitter.
August 20th, 2009 at 11:02 pmI want my money back you ingrateful crakkker!
August 20th, 2009 at 11:58 pm– - One of the booming businesses is apparently Swastika sign making.
August 21st, 2009 at 5:35 amWhat a great Republican ticket in 2012…..Bobby Jindal and Eric Can’tor. The Take Credit Party.
August 21st, 2009 at 8:53 am