Posted on 01/31/2010 8:36:26 PM PST by 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.
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ABSOLUTELY! And remember O is hiring 3X the number that did the job in 2000.
A lot are temporary jobs. TXDOT repaved a 15 mile stretch of road, put in new gaurdrails and straightened some curves (which was already planned) using stimulus $$$$$s. Well, that project is done and those people are looking for work again.
In AZ, many of the jobs were paving, construction on Reservations, construction on Bases, grants to departments at ASU and UA. very little jobs were created or “saved”.
The thing about base construction is that it is planned and funded years before the project begins. I work for the military and the new shop we got in 2002, was actually approved by the appropriation committee in 1996.
Census workers and IRS workers. Other than that, can’t see anyone else hiring.
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