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A fact: Stimulus created jobs
The Boston Globe ^ | February 21, 2010 | Editorial

Posted on 02/21/2010 5:09:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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

Still, though, it’s ridiculous to deny, as many have, that adding 2.5 million jobs was a poor use of government funds.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: creativejournalism; failure; obamanomics; porkulus; socialism
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To: Fresh Wind
That's kind of what I meant. I guess I should have put government in quotes or said stimulus instead.

Yup, they're being counted, and they were created with billions in borrowed dollars that will have to be paid back, and we're still losing jobs.

81 posted on 02/21/2010 6:36:24 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Hey Nancy, how many jobs have been lost since you and the Democrats took Congress?)
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To: 70th Division
"You got that right my friend."

Thans. I have to log off for now. I have about a foot and a half of white global warming outside and need to fire up the snow blower.

82 posted on 02/21/2010 6:39:13 AM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: Maceman

“This isn’t true, and it should be beyond the bounds of political debate to claim it”

Sounds like settled science huh? Where have we heard that before?


83 posted on 02/21/2010 6:40:31 AM PST by y6162 (q1)
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To: Lazamataz
Your point is well-taken. I suggest adding a Timer() Event that fires after one calendar year. Then we can forcefully close the thread. We’d have one year of continuous liberal lies, and then we could devote the rest of our computing power to Fallout 3 and Modern Combat 2.

And maybe we should add such a Timer() to this thread since it seems to taking on a life of its own.

84 posted on 02/21/2010 6:42:42 AM PST by ProudFossil
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To: blackbart.223

Goo luck. We are getting 5 to 10”s here in Michigan tonight. Thanks AL! LOL


85 posted on 02/21/2010 6:49:58 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A fact: Stimulus created GOVERNMENT jobs, which create nothing of value.


86 posted on 02/21/2010 6:57:29 AM PST by Constitutional Patriot (Socialism is the cancer of humanity.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A very well-reasoned answer :http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456089/posts Why the private economy can’t rebound.


87 posted on 02/21/2010 6:57:33 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: gusopol3

Oops, got that backwards.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456048/posts


88 posted on 02/21/2010 6:59:29 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hail to our fearless UNLEADER!


89 posted on 02/21/2010 7:00:55 AM PST by jetson
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

Yeah - in China! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449597/posts


90 posted on 02/21/2010 7:06:52 AM PST by raptor22 (The truth will set us free)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Typical piece by the state run media. The author makes no attempt to say where the jobs were created. Fact is 0 jobs created in the private sector. Money went to bankrupt RAT cities and states to will preserve civil service/union jobs.


91 posted on 02/21/2010 7:25:21 AM PST by kenmcg (uicl)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yep. 2.5 million government jobs created and 2.5 million new SEIU members.


92 posted on 02/21/2010 7:49:30 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: Lazamataz

Well, C++ is the father of object oriented programming, one of the first(if not the first)and C# and Java are it’s offsprings. Can’t pat C# and Java on the back without giving C++ credit for the development of both those languages, AND it runs faster than either of those languages, both of which are bogged down in a virtual machine. Just the opinion of an old, retired programmer.


93 posted on 02/21/2010 8:19:18 AM PST by calex59
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It only saved simple servant jobs of people that should have been fired!!!


94 posted on 02/21/2010 8:36:07 AM PST by dalereed
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The so-called “stimulus” money went to politically correct
government projects and to pay off democrat constituencies.
95 posted on 02/21/2010 8:38:00 AM PST by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
No doubt the Boston Globe believes Elvis is still alive.....like the other 7% who believe such...you know, over the 6% of the people who think the Stimulus worked.
96 posted on 02/21/2010 8:50:59 AM PST by cranked
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
All of the major economic research firms

Are these the same economic firms that have guided the Boston Globe's business plan?

97 posted on 02/21/2010 9:47:05 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

There have been at least 4 jobs created because of the “stimulus”: 1 in New Jersey, 1 in Virginia, 1 in Massachusetts, and 1 in NY’s assembly.

If you don’t get that statement, you’re not paying attention!


98 posted on 02/21/2010 9:54:43 AM PST by CyberAnt (Healthcare is not a RIGHT guaranteed by the Constitution)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Still, though, it’s ridiculous to deny, as many have, that adding 2.5 million jobs was a poor use of government funds.

I estimate* the tight credit caused by all the gov't borrowing behind those 2.5 million jobs cost eleventy million private sector jobs.

*Estimate pulled from thin air, same source as the Boston Globe editorial writer's estimate.
99 posted on 02/21/2010 11:26:17 AM PST by javachip
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To: Lazamataz
Abstracting data away from your objects is the key, then use the objects in collections. That is true joy, right there. :)

That's what is nice about Hibernate (or NHibernate). I basically wrote a RESTful web framework, (before the stuff like Ruby on Rails came along), that gives you CRUD right out of the box once your Hibernate configuration files are created.

100 posted on 02/21/2010 11:44:56 AM PST by dfwgator
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