Obama's stimulus plan promises new jobs (1/16/2009. Hey Obama, how's that stimulus working out?)

MSNBC ^ | 1/16/2009 | Tara Weiss

[tobyhill]

In his weekly radio address on Jan. 10, 2009, Barack Obama said the No. 1 goal of his economic stimulus plan is to create 3 million new jobs in the next two years. Less than 20 percent of them will be government jobs.

What exactly, then, will these jobs be?

Career Web site Jobfox has analyzed Obama's plan and come up with five areas of likely job growth over the next two years, with 22 specific job titles among them. Engineering, accounting, nursing and information technology will all fare particularly well, Jobfox predicts.

[nhwingut]

2 million in jobs in 2 years?

Since he’s now down net -4 million in year one, it would take 6 million created this year to meet hs mark.

Ain’t gonna happen.

[ClearCase_guy]

It’s a reflection of the type of people I hang around with, but most of the people I know who are out of work right now are in the engineering and information technology fields. I have seen no evidence that Obama is spending money in these areas.

[raybbr]

I have seen no evidence that Obama is spending money in these areas.

That's because they don't belong to a union.

[C210N]

Lets see now... 3 million new jobs, 20% (according to folks that want to publicize this minimally) government... that's an EXPANSION of the Federal Govt by 600,000 new jobs. That's 600,000 new federal union workers. Now, will this all be added to the civilian federal workers? That is currently at 2.1 million... so if that is true, then this plan would increase the federal civilian workers by a staggering 29%!!!