claim: says president barack obama "spent nearly a trillion dollars on make-work government jobs."
author: rand paul
evidence_1: sep 8, 2010 ... the massive spending on infrastructure or the putting people back to work. now  obama says putting the taxpayer on the hook for borrowing billions more and  then spending those billions on infrastructure is the ticket to pulling the economy  out of its obamanomics nosedive. “this will not only create jobs ...
evidence_2: jan 28, 2014 ... with his largely ignored 2013 agenda in the rearview, president barack obama  pledged in his fifth state of the union address tuesday to work with, and if need  be around, congress to ... you spent nearly a trillion dollars on make-work  government jobs and still joblessness confronts the next generation.".
evidence_3: nov 20, 2016 ... central to trump's populist appeal is a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan, which the  president-elect claims will create jobs and jump-start economic growth, but the ...  and congressional republicans, who spent the last eight years relentlessly  attacking president barack obama over government spending, are ...
evidence_4: proponents of president barack obama's $787 billion stimulus bill continue to  insist that the massive government bailout played a decisive role in moving the  economy ... yet assuming no destructive government actions, the economy's self- correction mechanism was widely expected to move the economy out of  recession in ...
evidence_5: jan 12, 2016 ... since president barack obama first took office: homicides have dropped 13  percent, but gun sales have surged. the economy has added more than 9 million  jobs, and the jobless rate has dropped to below the historical median. the  number of long-term unemployed americans has dropped by 614,000 ...