“We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5  percent (if the stimulus passed).” Eric Cantor on Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 in a  PBS interview.
Jul 13, 2010 ... In fact, we first dealt with a similar claim a little more than a year ago when House  Republican Whip Eric Cantor said, "We were promised. The president said we  would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed)." Since  then, it has become frequent conservative talking point -- cited ...
Jul 14, 2009 ... President Obama's economic advisers said back in January that the stimulus  package would quickly arrest rising unemployment. ... leading proponents of a  stimulus bill — predicted that the passage of a large economic-aid package  would boost the economy and keep the unemployment rate below 8%.
Oct 11, 2012 ... Ryan sought to brand President Barack Obama's recession remedies as a failure  and said the president had broken his promise to keep unemployment below 8  percent. "They passed the stimulus. The idea that we could borrow $831 billion,  spend it on all of these special interest groups, and that it would ...
Jan 12, 2012 ... THE STIMULUS. Obama's Stimulus Failed To Keep Unemployment Below 8  Percent As Obama Promised. Obama's $825 Billion Stimulus Failed To Keep ...  President Obama: “Not only saving this country from a great depression, not only  saving the auto industry, but putting in place a system in which we're ...
We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed).