From the abcNews political punch column’s comments:
‘Created jobs’ has always been the standard that a growing economy is judged by, not somebody’s guess about ‘saved jobs’.
Obama’s guesses about who ‘mighta’ got laid off is just a smokescreen.
Obama got the stimulus bill he asked for and it was supposed to create jobs.
But over 2/3 of it has never been allocated, let alone spent.
Why?
Well because 2009 wasn’t an election year.
It’ll get spent this year in order to make people feel good about Democrats and re-elect them.
The stimulus bill was never about jobs, it was about politics.
The way this administration has played politics with the economy , crowing about ‘saved jobs’ and holding back money to create jobs is nothing short of scandalous.
no reason to say it myself when someone else has done a better job.
And from Recover.gov:
of the $787 Billion ARRA that was granted by the congress, only $268 Billion (34%) has actually been “spent”. I say “spent” because $92 billion of that is actually tax benefits.
Only from the federal government can you get the rationale that allowing someone to keep money they earned counts as a gift from you. Following this logic, when robberies go down, it’s actually due to “robbery credits” being issued by criminals. We should be thanking the criminals, not the police.
Also, Texas has received $12,422,624,473 that went to a reported 28,456.57 jobs at a cost $436,546.78 per job.
San Angelo (specifically, zip code 76903) received a total of $15,880,785 that went to create/save a total of 7.25 jobs ($2,190,453.10 per job).
I really gotta get me one of these jobs. In the meantime, Obama should get another Nobel cereal-box prize. This time in inefficiency.