[Oldeconomybuyer]

Porkulus created or saved 6,324,988,023,091 jobs in Boston alone.

[mapmaker77]

UH HUH!

[secret garden]

Isn’t that the cost of the Big Dig, so far?

[Brilliant]

Apparently, they are saying not just that the stimulus “saved” jobs, but also that the stimulus “created” jobs. Where are they? Certainly not in my neck of the woods. Possibly in Washington, DC.

[fortheDeclaration]

These guys probably still believe in global warming!

No wonder newspapers are dying.

[Bon mots]

Communist countries behind the iron curtain were famous for big lies like this, but nobody believed it.

Just this article saved 10,000,000 jobs.

[The_Victor]

All of the major economic research firms that have studied the stimulus’ effect have come to this conclusion.

Just like "all the major climate scientists" agree that globull warming is real.

[ClearCase_guy]

The Onion?

[Daisyjane69]

Let’s pretend, just for shits and giggles, that this 2.5 million number is true.

Uh, my calculator broke. How much is that PER JOB?

[Erik Latranyi]

You don’t question the numbers provided by “The Chosen One”!!!

[Kaslin]

It’s only the editor at the Boston Globe opinion, to which he is entitled. We know better though, don’t we?

[blackbart.223]

"THE NUMBERS are in, and there can no longer be any doubt that President Obama’s stimulus bill, passed just over a year ago, helped pull America from the brink of economic catastrophe, in part by creating millions of jobs that would not otherwise have existed."

What is this person smoking?

[Lazamataz]

Porkulus created or saved 6,324,988,023,091 jobs in Boston alone.Porkulus created or saved 12,301,240,506,743,283,493,828,495,394,283,596,384 jobs in the last 27 seconds!

[Lazamataz]

Porkulus created or saved 6,324,988,023,091 jobs in Boston alone.

Porkulus created or saved 12,301,240,506,743,283,493,828,495,394,283,596,384 jobs in the last 27 seconds!

[wiggen]

Note from the article;”money to forestall layoffs of teachers, firefighters, and police officers, “,aka,people paid by the government.
Also,”Stimulus opponents, often motivated by strictly ideological or political concerns, have repeatedly claimed that the bill didn’t create a single job that the economy wouldn’t have created anyway. This isn’t true, and it should be beyond the bounds of political debate to claim it.”
The stimulus actually created jobs that the economy would not have. The jobs that the economy would have created would be in the private,not the public sector. The jobs that the stimulus created mr Boston Globe Buffoon are exactly the jobs the economy needs least. Jobs with unsustainable pensions and benefits,the sort of jobs that are time bombs waiting to destroy cities and states. So mr. editor the real issue is not whether there were jobs created but rather the sort of jobs created. Perhaps if you understood the argument to begin with more people would pay to read your rag.

[Kozak]

Lets say it created everyone of the 2.5 million jobs they say it did.

8 trillion dollars divided by 2.5 million jobs is:

$320,000 PER JOB.

What a GREAT government program!!!!!!

[lowtaxsmallgov]

Divide $819,000,000,000 by 2,500,000 jobs. Do the math.

That works out to $327,600 per job. Government sure is efficient, isn’t it?

[timetostand]

it should be beyond the bounds of political debate to claim it.<<<<< Ahh yes the science is settled !!!

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Yes, it’s “beyond the bounds of political debate” (just like man-made global warming) and we’re citing “numerous respected economic think-tanks” for this conclusion (but don’t ask us for the details or our own proof of jobs created).

Boston Globe Editorial Board — need we say more?

[UltraKonservativen]

It is a well known fact that 87.6% of statistics are made up and when it comes to government they are capable of making up as much as 87.6257%...so there!

[UltraKonservativen]

It is a well known fact that 87.6% of statistics are made up and when it comes to government they are capable of making up as much as 87.6257%...so there!