$646,214 Per GOVERNMENT Job

Wall Street Journal ^ | 28 January | Alan Reynolds

[Lorianne]

House Democrats propose to spend $550 billion of their two-year, $825 billion "stimulus bill" (the rest of it being tax cuts). Most of the spending is unlikely to be timely or temporary. Strangely, most of it is targeted toward sectors of the economy where unemployment is the lowest.

The December unemployment rate was only 2.3% for government workers and 3.8% in education and health. Unemployment rates in manufacturing and construction, by contrast, were 8.3% and 15.2% respectively. Yet 39% of the $550 billion in the bill would go to state and local governments. Another 17.3% would go to health and education -- sectors where relatively secure government jobs are also prevalent.

[Lorianne]

Well, at least we know that the money is not going to non-white non-male construction workers either.

At least that's fair.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Give me halfa dat and I won’t show not even at da Muzeem of Science and Trucking.

[combat_boots]

Contact your congresscritter. Shower them with calls and letters/faxes. Stop this looting of the American taxpayer and treasury. No MORE!

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

[jwparkerjr]

FWIW, here's a link to an archived article going back 16 years to the Clinton $15 billion 'stimulus' package. Not much has changed except it costs a whole lot more to produce a single job now.

Article

[sickoflibs]

The Peter Schiff/Redistribution Watch Ping. (Washington Bankrupting our Nation by Spending your past, present and future money!)

Great website organized for us: Read the Stimulus package (before you support it) Website

[earlJam]

In fairness, if the money does go to local governments the construction industry may get a boost.

I met with a construction owner today in Michigan. He gets some of his business from municipal work (schools, city buildings, etc)

He believes that some of the stimulous money will go to state and local governments for more construction.