[Verginius Rufus]

Right...if you were to create 1 million new government jobs at $50,000 each, that would cost only half as much as Dean's proposal.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Right...if you were to create 1 million new government jobs at $50,000 each, that would cost only half as much as Dean's proposal.



His program is two years, so he's in at $50,000/job/year. Of course that's the "loaded" cost. To pay someone about $25,000/year, you need to spend $50,000 on social security, fringes and overhead.

He's probably figgering a "multiplier effect", I pay 250,000 people $50,000 to dig holes and another 250,000 $50,000 to fill them in. when they spend their paychecks it will create another 500,000 jobs. Sure. Of course, if the $100,000,000,0000 had been left in the economy all the "multiplier effects" would have resulted and more. Everytime the government "creates" one leaf raking job it kill two productive jobs.

[HenryLeeII]

Right...if you were to create 1 million new government jobs at $50,000 each, that would cost only half as much as Dean's proposal.

You seem to have forgotten the $852,347.27 overhead per government job, plus benefits.