The red star, fittingly enough, is Obama's "stimulus".
The cahrt shows civilians employed in millions.
Posted on 07/15/2010 7:11:35 PM PDT by Nachum
The White House can repeat these “jobs saved or created” numbers as often as it wants; it won’t make them true. Consider this Business Week report on a study released today by the Council Of Economic Advisers:
The report says the stimulus has “saved or created” about 3 million jobs, and is moving toward a goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of the year, according to an administration official speaking on condition of anonymity before the report’s release today.
As it turns out, when you unpack the numbers, you find that Romer and her team didn’t actually count how many people got a job thanks to the stimulus. Instead, the number is a projection that relies on the myth that a dollar of government spending creates up to 2.5 dollars of economic growth.
(Excerpt) Read more at corner.nationalreview.com ...
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I still do not see any tangible increase in government services despite the trillion dollar outlay of cash. The money seemingly evaporated into the ether.
“We’ve got so many new jobs, we’ve got to import illegal aliens from Mexico.”
I wuz disappointed to find that the unemployment numbers are made up from surveys. There is nothing I can do to get counted as unemployed.
President Obama said today he finds it hard to sleep knowing so many are unemployed in the nation. Though it doesn’t seem to have affected his golf game
We got lots of “This is one of Obamaglory’s Wonderful Stim-U-Projects” signs.
The magic 2.5 factor. Just remember. If you spend money you can't afford using your credit card you create $2.5 of economic growth which should pay the CC bill when it comes due. Wait, isnt that how we got into this credit bubble-contraction mess to begin with?
So with all this economic growth we shouldnt need the debt commission Obama hired to raise our taxes, Right?
Those who’ve lost their jobs since The Joker took office will find this number a little hard to believe...
There is more science in ****ing chicken entrails.
LLS
It’s one of those feel-good numbers that is impossible to prove and impossible to disprove.
Stupid and irresponsible... Just another act by the Democrats to try to salvage the situation. Geez, the bad part is that most of America will be oblivious to the problem with our politics and their corrupt others.. Just when will politics become a major part - ie. actually believe what they say (good luck with that)...
Neither party shows us that! The trouble is that we have become a two party system and both parities are corrupt! Can we say “we give up”... or can we say, let’s elect a different person... Not really sure that either will work!
Yes... both parties are Corrupt to the core... We have little chance of changing thing at this rate. The only thing that we can do is elect the opposite of the party in charge - great choice!
If this does not change for the better, we will have to resort to more active means...
The red star, fittingly enough, is Obama's "stimulus".
The cahrt shows civilians employed in millions.
IF???
IF that dollar has previously been taxed out (of) the economy?
WTF else does he think a dollar of "government" money comes from???
Is it true that when a temporary agency signs on a worker (and he or she fills out a tax form) that the “employment” is listed as a real job? I know a guy who is out of work and he signed onto three different temp agencies. He never once, in two months, has been able to obtain even a day of work with any of the agencies. He said that when he went in to sign up there were lots of people also signing up.
If temp agency sign ups are counted then there are thousands of “jobs” being counted out there that do not exist.
I retired from a top 20 company. They have scads of money on-hand that they could invest in new-business building in the U.S. but choose to just hold onto.
OTOH, they have assets on the ground in about 80 other countries. Net, money that could be sunk into capital projects in the U.S. (and the associated jobs) probably will be spent elsewhere and the jobs created elsewhere.
And no, the products are not sent to the U.S. to stiff U.S. labor; they will be purchased by consumers in those other countries.
” The money seemingly evaporated into the ether.”
My bet is that this money which evaporated will mysteriously re-appear in the run-up to the 2012 election. Call it CREEP - the Con to Re-Elect the Creep, uh, President I mean.
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