Obama was bragging that his American Jobs act will create 1.9 million new jobs. It costs 447 Billion bucks.
1.9m / 447b = $235,263 cost for each job.
Sadly, nobody is checking or planning anything, they just throw out numbers. The only planning they are doing is the next villa to buy on the money they can skim.
Well they got plenty of practice making up the numbers during the health care fiasco.