I’m constantly baffled at the notion of a “saved job”. If the person is still employed, or has their job, and never lost it — how in the world do they possibly figure out that they would have lost their job if stimulus money or other Obama action wasn’t there. Maybe other factors kept them employed. Please, we’re not that stupid.
You, sir, have grasped the nut of the problem most precisely. The whole issue of “what is the criteria that defines a ‘saved’ job?” is never defined, so the Obama administration gets to simply make up numbers.
Financial skeptics were onto this issue way back in February, when the stimulus projections were being thrown about...
“how in the world do they possibly figure out that they would have lost their job if stimulus money or other Obama action wasn’t there”
That was exactly my concern when the stimulus was being passed...there is no way to account for it, so “technically” you can’t be wrong.