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‘Food stamps and unemployment comp is the most efficient way to create jobs’

They do create some jobs, like welfare caseworkers :)

And passing the Dream Act would create all kinds of interesting jobs, like teachers of Reconquista Studies (to satisfy the "educational requirements").

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RE :”Food stamps and unemployment comp is the most efficient way to create jobs’
........ They do create some jobs, like welfare caseworkers :) “

Below is an interesting chart that Dems are using showing changes in private sector job growth.

Here are a few simple calculations I can make that show how bads things are assuming this chart is even accurate. It shows job growth going positive about Feb 2010 and then bouncing around an average of about 150K jobs a month for 24 months.

150K times 24 months= 3.6 M jobs created
but during the same 2 year period the national debt increased by around $3T.
$ 3T divided by 3.6 million jobs= $833.0 K ($830,000) in increase in NEW national debt per NEW job.

In todays current political debate only the number of new jobs is counted (before the election) as a metric, not how much we all owe per job. It shows how superficial the debate is that the cost in new debt per new job is not consided relevent. This is like paying off your backlog of bills with those checks the credit card company sends you and then claiming you are moving 'forward' making progress.