Stimulus created 600,000 jobs at the end of 2009, White House says

Washington Post ^ | 2/1/10 | Ed O'Keefe

[Nachum]

The Obama administration's economic stimulus program created nearly 600,000 jobs in the final three months of 2009, a figure in line with the administration's goals for job creation through the end of 2010, the White House reported Saturday night.

The new total was down from the totals reported for the previous quarter, partly because the administration decided in December to count only the jobs paid for with stimulus funding instead of estimating the number of jobs "created or saved" with the money.

Critics had panned the "created or saved" measurement as a subjective and confusing way of determining the program's success.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[FlingWingFlyer]

Stimulus created 600,000 jobs at the end of 2009, White House says

LOL! That "White House" is one crazy dude!

[SkyDancer]

Jobs or careers???? A job can last for just so long ....

[quantim]

Just can’t wait for the *saved* part.

[omega4179]

That’s a tiny fraction of the job losses. Total failure of the usefulness of government stimulus.

[max americana]

I’d create 600,000 jobs too if I smoked crack..

[Paladin2]

Created?

Any jobs to be counted were gov't union jobs funded from Zer0's stash.

[TruthHound]

S T U P I D E S T
P R E S I D E N T
E V A H ! ! ! ! !

[elpadre]

600,000 government jobs with an average salary of $70,000 or more???

[FrankR]

600,000 jobs?

In China, maybe.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Who added the three extra zeroes at the end?

[Zman516]

600,000 government jobs?

While how many millions of jobs in the private sector, where wealth is created, were lost?

Wake up, Zero!

[Nachum]

Instead of Friday night release, we now have the Saturday Night release. I do declare, the administration now has "Saturday night fever"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmJZ1kyYoU&feature=related

[stayathomemom]

Those are the 600,000 people who have come to my door wanting to check the insulation in my attic.

[Nachum]

Cash for calkers?

[dr_who]

If you blinked at the end of 2009, you missed it.

[stayathomemom]

One of those new “green jobs”.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Stuart Varney said on Hannity a couple of days ago to beware of employment stats that include census workers. They of course are temporary and will drop off incrementally as the census winds down.

[stylin19a]

partly because the administration decided in December to count only the jobs paid for with stimulus funding

jobs paid for and jobs reated are 2 different things.

still spin.

check out Freeper JOAT from July 2009

How Stimulus Funds 'Create' Jobs

[Salvation]

Lying like a rug again?

LOL!

[Oceander]

The Moon is made of green cheese says Oceander. Same degree of reliability and credence, no?

[Canedawg]

[ltc8k6]

Tailors for Mobama?

[OneLoyalAmerican]

This is too funny. I hereby claim credit for the creation of 137,178 jobs for every pepperoni pizza purchased!

Goat: 1 job saved.
Feed goat: 15,000 jobs saved.
Medications for goat: 10,000 jobs saved.
USDA inspection of goat: 5,000 jobs saved.
Producer buys truck for transporting goat: 100,000 jobs saved.
Producer buys livestock transport cage for truck: 100 jobs saved.
Producer buys license plate and registers truck: 5,000 jobs saved.
Producer buys gas for truck: 1,000 jobs saved.
Producer brings goat to livestock auction: 25 jobs saved.
Butcher slaughters goat: 50 jobs saved.
Goat processed into pepperoni: 1,000 jobs saved.
Order pepperoni pizza for delivery: 7 jobs saved.

[italianquaker]

He is not lying!!. He created the NJ governor ,Va governor and the Mass senator

[LostInBayport]

I am going to use that line to really hack off some liberals I know! “Yeah, I know of three jobs that Obama created...”

[Newtoidaho]

There were exactly zero jobs created; all that happened was the transfer of the funding of existing jobs from local/state level to Uncle Sugar.

[OrioleFan]

600,000 was probably the number of job applications they got on whitehouse.gov that claimed they hadn’t paid their taxes for several years, and said their qualification for a government job was that they couldn’t figure out Turbo Tax. /s

[Canedawg]

You know, I heard about you italian quaker guys.

Like the Amish, very terrorism-oriented.

;-

[machogirl]

where the heck are these supposed jobs?

[dalereed]

Saved 600k civil servant jobs that shouold have been fired!

[tcrlaf]

Pretty bad when President Failure has to crow about temporary CENSUS JOBS, isn’t it?

[FormerACLUmember]

Is 600,000 the current bullsh*t number they hallucinated today?

The problem for the democrats is that even the gullible CNN watching Independents are not buying these preposterous lies.

Reminds me of a basic economic fact of life:

A recession is when your neighbor is out of work.

A depression is when you are out of work.

An economic recovery is when Obama is out of work.

[piytar]

It might have. Seriously, it really might have.

After all, with that big of a slush fund, anyone could create quite a lot of paper “jobs” for a little while. Fully paid ones, too, no (or little) work needed!

Of course, paying for the slush fund certainly cost many times that many real productive jobs. But that’s good, too, at least if you want to destroy America’s economy and use that crisis to completely change America into a marxist state...

[sten]

even IF this were true... i wouldn’t brag.

i realize math is not a skill normally associated with the left... but maybe they can keep up.

stimulus money: $780 billion
jobs ‘created’: 600,000

COST PER JOB: $1,300,000

can i get one of these jobs please? (who says working for the gov’t doesn’t pay off?)

[indianrightwinger]

The headline is bogus. The administration decided to count:
administration decided in December to count only the jobs paid for with stimulus funding

That means, stimulus money is being wasted even worse than we thought.

[Semperfiwife]

Paid for with stimulus funds = government/state employees. UNION hacks. When the stimulus funds run out, WE THE PEOPLE will be called upon to pony up MORE money to PAY for these jobs, cause we all know NO ONE has ever been FIRED or DOWNSIZED from a government job.

[jeffc]

The WaPo article keeps referring to "stimulus recipients", but never goes into detail who or what the recipients are. Are they people or businesses or both? Was the money handed directly over to them? Or did they actually get a "job" (for however many days. . .) so they could be counted as a "job created"?
Remember when Clinton touted his "one million police officers on the street"? The fed paid for exactly one year's worth of salary. After that, it was up to the state, county, city, or town to continue paying the salary or - poof - there goes the job! But Clinton got to make political hay out of it.
Something tells me the U.S. media would not have let Bush get away with something like this. Are they letting Zero get away with it now? Methinks so . . .

[rdl6989]

The Stimu-lie created jobs? Nobody believes that one.

[Neidermeyer]

................census workers.
***********************************************
ABSOLUTELY! And remember O is hiring 3X the number that did the job in 2000.

[Arrowhead1952]

where the heck are these supposed jobs?

A lot are temporary jobs. TXDOT repaved a 15 mile stretch of road, put in new gaurdrails and straightened some curves (which was already planned) using stimulus $$$$$s. Well, that project is done and those people are looking for work again.

[machogirl]

In AZ, many of the jobs were paving, construction on Reservations, construction on Bases, grants to departments at ASU and UA. very little jobs were created or “saved”.

[Arrowhead1952]

In AZ, many of the jobs were paving, construction on Reservations, construction on Bases

The thing about base construction is that it is planned and funded years before the project begins. I work for the military and the new shop we got in 2002, was actually approved by the appropriation committee in 1996.

[Texas resident]

Census workers and IRS workers. Other than that, can’t see anyone else hiring.