Cantor To Host Job Fair With Employers Stimulated By Over $50 Million In Recovery Act Funds

[TomCADem]

Source: Think Progress

House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) has been one of the Recovery Act’s most vocal critics. After whipping his caucus into uniformly opposing the stimulus, Cantor has been the lead spokesman decrying the program as a failure. Ignoring evidence that that the stimulus is helping to turn around the economy, Cantor repeatedly says that it is “failing” to “create jobs.”

As ThinkProgress reported last year, despite his withering attacks on the stimulus, Cantor hosted two job fairs filled with employers hiring directly because of stimulus grants and programs. Tomorrow, Cantor intends to again host a job fair stimulated by jobs made possible through the Recovery Act.

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According to a ThinkProgress review of contracts from the Recovery.gov website, employers at the Cantor job fair tomorrow have received approximately $52,716,129 from the stimulus.

While Cantor has tried to score political points slamming the stimulus as an utter failure, he has relied on it as a crutch to bring both private and public sector jobs to his district. Cantor’s GOP colleagues — who helped him try to kill the stimulus — have similarly gone back to their district to claim credit for stimulus programs. A ThinkProgress report released on the one year anniversary of the stimulus highlights over half the GOP caucus, 114 lawmakers, who voted to kill the stimulus then took credit for its success.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/12/jobfair-cantor/

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Well, at least he is not Bobby Jindal handing out oversized cardboard checks, and claiming credit for programs that he criticized.

[OHdem10]

1. Think of the Optics. The people of VA see him with these folks

from the Job fair. Better than a TV Commericial. He hopes
people will see how he cares and is bringing jobs to Va.

[quiet.american]

2. Are you kidding me? Holy hypocrisy! Cantor needs to be named and shamed for this. nt

[cstanleytech]

3. Let them I say.

Then we can all point and laugh at them at the landside loss during the next election they will face in all likelyhood because rather than learn from their past mistakes they seem bound and determined to stay the course in the same manner as they did under Bush.

[No Elephants]

4. Deceit, thy name is GOP.

The GOP is neither Grand nor a Party. Discuss.

[midnight]

5. K&R for showing how well the stimulus bailout is helping create

private and public sector jobs for Cantor's district. I hope he sends President Obama some warm regards.