[R. Scott]

What jobs were saved? Government jobs at various levels - until the money runs out. A few construction jobs repairing infrastructure - but what happens when the jobs are complete?
I haven’t heard of jobs being saved/created that actually produce a product or contribute to GNP.

[wiggen]

Yes. They can hire or not fire stuffing people into jobs at the federal level which is a bloated anchor around the economy as it is but creating productive jobs that add to GDP,that spin off more jobs,that stir demand seem far beyond the Kenyans abilities.

[RU88]

And that’s just it. Most of the jobs “saved” are public sector jobs. I’d love to see the breakdown public to private. Even private sector jobs created tend to be temporary like sub contracted transportation and construction projects. My take is that if they are “giving stimulus” monies to either state or local governments they are counting all of the workers these two entities employ and then saying that as a result of their actions they were “saved.” They are betting that eventually the economy will improve enough before the “stimulus” runs out to provide the additional tax revenues needed to sustain this employment. If they’re wrong, watch out.

[Arrowhead1952]

A few construction jobs repairing infrastructure - but what happens when the jobs are complete?

You are correct with that statement. The problem about these jobs is the second half of it. All those jobs will be gone when the work is finished and the same people will be unemployed again.

[FerociousRabbit]

There is no such thing as a “saved job.” Odumbo’s outlandish claims of 600,000 saved jobs this quarter and 1.5 million or 2 million jobs saved since the stimulus began are doing exactly what he intended them to do.

Everyone is trying to determine which set of numbers are correct and whether or not most of these “saved jobs” are government jobs/temporary jobs or not.

It is all smoke and mirrors. You have a job or you don’t.

Unemployment rates can up or down - except in Odumbo’s world where unemployment can go up and, magically, so do the number of “saved jobs.”