Keep on hanging on to that theory, Boston Globe staff—and the only jobs that will be created for you will involve a fryolator.
It is an absolute impossibility for government to create jobs.
At least jobs that sustain a government or an economy.
All government service, is service, not a true job. They are drains on the economy, and must be sustained by a much larger number of jobs generating tax revenue to support the bureaucracies of government. I hesitate to place our warriors in this light, but they too must be supported by the populace, they are not self sustaining, despite the NEED for them.
Obama is told he saved many Brazilian jobs. In reply, he says “See told ya the stimulus would do it. But exactly how much is a Brazilian?”
The media does not even try to hide their lies these days.
LLS
This is 3rd grade economics. The government NEVER creats a sustainable private sector job. The government takes our taxes and gives it to people for a project. Once the project is done the job is gone.
The only jobs the government has created is more government jobs. The last thing we need right now. It is all B.S.
The Boston Globe is still ignorant when it comes to economics.
They seem to believe the government creates wealth, and not the private sector. They also seem to lack the knowledge in order for the government to operate they have to take money from the private sector. Thus, costing private sector jobs and wealth.
What morons!
IOW, shut up or we will demagogue you in to obeyance.
The vast majority of the job “created” or saved were Government jobs. So the Stimulus helped keep the Government bureaucracy bloated. This proabably DID help stop the bleeding in the short term, but its gotta be be paid for. As such, it will be a significant mid-long term drag on the Economy.
“All of the major economic research firms that have studied the stimulus’ effect have come to this conclusion.”
That sentence alone proves that the writer of this editorial is ....wait for it...INSANE. “ALL of the major economic research firms.....” Ok Name them all. How about naming a few of them. The writer concludes that there is no evidence from any other research firm to say there was any other conclusions to be drawn. Please, this is clearly facts from another planet. We have all heard and read reports from reliable sources that conclude otherwise.
Clearly, the porkulus saved many government union jobs - for now. Cities, towns, and states funded municipal and state jobs (teachers, firemen, police, highway workers etc) with this money. What happens when the porkulus money dries up?
Unions and their pensions are going to kill this country if something isn’t done and done soon.
Anyway, who reads the Boston Globe anyway? I live in Massachusetts and hear that their circulation numbers are dropping....
I'd be more impressed if they would name some of these firms' studies specifically.
Just as Obama and all his partisan supporters so often do, the Globe thinks that just calling something a fact makes it so.
This is how the left argues, and they fool nobody but themselves.
Government jobs that is. And at taxpayers expense and therefore worthless jobs. Just more bueracrats to wreak captalism and bring in the chains of communism on Americans.
It has created about 30 Czars at a couple $100,000 per year.
Hummmmm? What was the stimulus again? The rest went into a bottomless pit I guess.
Average citizen John Q. Pubic didn’t see any!
The True Impact of the Stimulus
The CEA claims that the stimulus bill created jobs in 2009, but this claim is based on its newly constructed "it would have been worse" forecast for 2009. When trillions of dollars are being spent, the American people deserve to have a true economic analysis done and should not waste money on meaningless reports."
Karen A. Campbell, Ph.D., is Policy Analyst in Macroeconomics in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. Aleksey Gladyshev, an intern in the Center for Data Analysis, contributed to the research of this paper. http://www.heritage.org/research/economy/wm2799.cfm
Liberal philosophy laid bare. "We tell you what to think. You shut up."
The only permanent jobs Porkulus Maximus created were government jobs. All the others are disappearing like ice cubes in July.
“Porkulus created or saved 6,324,988,023,091 jobs in Boston alone.”
WOW! If you multiply that out to all 57 States.., We’re going to need more illegals!
How do you all think those Obama Teleprompters travel from place to place?
And they don't just walk up on stage by themselves, do they?
A fact: Stimulus created GOVERNMENT jobs, which create nothing of value.