The Obama administration says the American people enthusiastically support the president’s latest stimulus, which he labels a “jobs package.”
But public backing for the “jobs package” seems shaky at best.
The president recently gave a speech at a fire station in Virginia in support of the new stimulus. The response was less than enthusiastic when he mentioned his so-called American Jobs Act. Only one or two of the roughly 100 people present clapped. As the Los Angeles Times reported, “[A] subdued crowd needed a bit of prompting to applaud his proposal … .”
Literally.
Confronted with the crowd’s weak response to his plan to spend an additional $447 billion and to raise taxes, the president was reduced to encouraging people to clap.