Posted on 01/08/2010 3:03:27 PM PST by moose2004
Talk about one last gasp from the horrible year that was 2009. On the political front, the December jobs numbers were terrible news for the White House and congressional Democrats in a midterm election year. Heres how it plays out:
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.reuters.com ...
But Obama will have taken-over health care and its power to decide who lives and who dies.
"The stimulus bill President Barack Obama signed in February and additional funding by Congress provided enough money to hire 1.4 million Americans in total for the census, almost three times as many as in 2000. About 160,000 were already employed last year to do preliminary work."
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010-census-hiring-employment-scam.html
gotta pay for circus stunts...
**Census Bureau tour gets attention of San Jose high school students**
http://www.mercurynews.com/search/ci_14144775?nclick_check=1
so they'll be 1/3 as efficient as last time? Or did Obama make it a part time job to boost the number employed without changing the budget much? Or is it just a slush fund to hire ACORN people without expecting them to do much work except making up numbers at the end of the day?
When fudged numbers still come up at 10% (not counting those unemployed for a year who dropped out), it is BAD.
In case those fine ideas will not fly, let's simply reduce the number of hours each census employee works. We can easily triple the number of census jobs from 1.2 million to 3.6 million if the number of hours each employee works is reduced by two-thirds.
President Obama can brag about creating a whopping 3.6 million jobs that way.
On second thought, and pardon me for asking, "Did Obama already reduce the hours each census worker will get so as to purposely distort the unemployment rate and the number of jobs created?"
If not, pardon me for asking still one more question "What exactly are tax payers getting for those extra 933,000 census workers in 2010 vs. 2000?"
Regardless to the answers to those questions, at the completion of the survey, 1.4 million census workers will rejoin the ranks of the unemployed unless they already have another part-time job. Thus talk of "jump-starting" hiring by temporary part-time census workers is complete nonsense even if it does temporarily make the employment situation appear as if it is improving."
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010-census-hiring-employment-scam.html
Yup, money well spent.
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