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Like working overtime literally to hold onto thier jobs in the private sector as Obama grows Government...and panders to Unions.1) The Stimulus: created around 2 million jobs. According to Moody Analytics, it "significantly softened the recession."
What is Obama's actual record on creating jobs? | syracuse.com
2) According to this site that cites empirican research, it is likely the Recovery Act's benefits significantly outweighed the costs:
Did the stimulus work? A review of the nine best studies on the subject - The Washington Post
3) The results of Obama extending unemployment benefits under his stimulus plan reduced the fall of GDP by 18.3% and saved 1.6 million jobs
ETA News Release: US Labor Department study underscores positive impact of unemployment insurance [11/16/2010]
4) 114,407 teaching jobs have been created or saved
Education Jobs Fund - Official Website
5) The GM, Crysler bailout added about 45,000 and saved about 1 million:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/one_year_later_autos_report.pdf
(^^^The White House is citing the Bureau of Labor Statistics in this article)
I found other independent research showing "possible economic progress" under Obama's stimulus, but I know you cons would be quick to jump all over any information like that. For now, though, this should settle the argument that Obama "has done nothing." If you would all just stop watching Fox News (or MSNBC), you may just have an informed opinion about Obama.
It makes me laugh when I see people cite these stats and articles.
NO ONE SIAD TAKING A TRILLION DOLLARS AND GIVING IT TO PEOPLE SO THEY CAN HIRE PEOPLE WOULD NOT RESULT IN PEOPLE GETTING HIRED.
The question that was presented was....will it prove to be more cost effective AND time efficient if we do nothing and let the private sector do what it has done for decades...and what it has done so that 91% of the people ARE working (people seem to forget about the 91% opf Americans that have jobs).....
But the irony?
Despite a trillion dollars borrowed and spent and 3 years have passed....poeople are still doing their best to show SOME sort of positive news out of it.