Stimulus created 600,000 jobs at the end of 2009, White House says

Washington Post ^ | 2/1/10 | Ed O'Keefe

[Nachum]

The Obama administration's economic stimulus program created nearly 600,000 jobs in the final three months of 2009, a figure in line with the administration's goals for job creation through the end of 2010, the White House reported Saturday night.

The new total was down from the totals reported for the previous quarter, partly because the administration decided in December to count only the jobs paid for with stimulus funding instead of estimating the number of jobs "created or saved" with the money.

Critics had panned the "created or saved" measurement as a subjective and confusing way of determining the program's success.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[FlingWingFlyer]

Stimulus created 600,000 jobs at the end of 2009, White House says

LOL! That "White House" is one crazy dude!

[SkyDancer]

Jobs or careers???? A job can last for just so long ....

[quantim]

Just can’t wait for the *saved* part.

[omega4179]

That’s a tiny fraction of the job losses. Total failure of the usefulness of government stimulus.

[max americana]

I’d create 600,000 jobs too if I smoked crack..

[Paladin2]

Created?

Any jobs to be counted were gov't union jobs funded from Zer0's stash.

[TruthHound]

S T U P I D E S T
P R E S I D E N T
E V A H ! ! ! ! !

[elpadre]

600,000 government jobs with an average salary of $70,000 or more???

[FrankR]

600,000 jobs?

In China, maybe.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Who added the three extra zeroes at the end?

[Zman516]

600,000 government jobs?

While how many millions of jobs in the private sector, where wealth is created, were lost?

Wake up, Zero!

[Nachum]

Instead of Friday night release, we now have the Saturday Night release. I do declare, the administration now has "Saturday night fever"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmJZ1kyYoU&feature=related

[stayathomemom]

Those are the 600,000 people who have come to my door wanting to check the insulation in my attic.

[Nachum]

Cash for calkers?

[dr_who]

If you blinked at the end of 2009, you missed it.

[stayathomemom]

One of those new “green jobs”.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Stuart Varney said on Hannity a couple of days ago to beware of employment stats that include census workers. They of course are temporary and will drop off incrementally as the census winds down.

[stylin19a]

partly because the administration decided in December to count only the jobs paid for with stimulus funding

jobs paid for and jobs reated are 2 different things.

still spin.

check out Freeper JOAT from July 2009

How Stimulus Funds 'Create' Jobs