Stimulus provides 388,000 Jobs

[rightwinger]

Early reports: Job gains signal stimulus impact - USATODAY.com

WASHINGTON — States have reported using stimulus money to create or save more than 388,000 jobs so far this year, buttressing the Obama administration's claim that the $787 billion plan has had a significant impact on the economy.
That total, based on a USA TODAY review of reports from 33 states and Puerto Rico, includes teachers, construction workers, and others whose jobs were funded by stimulus money awarded to states. The administration plans Friday to release reports from all 50 states, providing the broadest accounting yet of the stimulus plan's impact.

 

[rightwinger]

This is only the first phase of the stimulus impact. The second, larger phase kicks in prior to the 2010 elections. I'm sure it is just a coincidence

It sucks being a republican

 

[California Girl]

388,000? That's all? Well, gee, that's money well spent.

Also, call me Ms Sceptical if you will but I don't trust one word from this Administration... any more than I did from the previous Administration. I don't know why this is, maybe it's me but I find it hard to trust liars.

 

[KittenKoder]

Where the hell are they getting these numbers ... people are still out of work, shit, Bush's stimulus creates enough jobs for one city and suddenly Obama is god?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

That's less than one months increase in unemployment.

Yeah ride that pony in the 2010 elections.

Unemployment at 10% but claiming Stimulus saved or created 500,000 jobs is a winner for sure

 

[tigerbob]

Early reports: Job gains signal stimulus impact - USATODAY.com

WASHINGTON — States have reported using stimulus money to create or save more than 388,000 jobs so far this year, buttressing the Obama administration's claim that the $787 billion plan has had a significant impact on the economy.
That total, based on a USA TODAY review of reports from 33 states and Puerto Rico, includes teachers, construction workers, and others whose jobs were funded by stimulus money awarded to states. The administration plans Friday to release reports from all 50 states, providing the broadest accounting yet of the stimulus plan's impact.

I'm delighted to hear it.

In Michigan, a lot of stimulus money has gone into long overdue road improvement projects. There's more construction here than at any time anyone can remember, and it has started much later in the year than usual as the funds didn't become available until midsummer.

In the short term it's a pain in the ass since driving can be hell, particularly with winter around the corner which always slows the traffic flow down anyway, but we'll all be grateful in the long term for fewer potholes.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Early reports: Job gains signal stimulus impact - USATODAY.com

WASHINGTON — States have reported using stimulus money to create or save more than 388,000 jobs so far this year, buttressing the Obama administration's claim that the $787 billion plan has had a significant impact on the economy.
That total, based on a USA TODAY review of reports from 33 states and Puerto Rico, includes teachers, construction workers, and others whose jobs were funded by stimulus money awarded to states. The administration plans Friday to release reports from all 50 states, providing the broadest accounting yet of the stimulus plan's impact.

I'm delighted to hear it.

In Michigan, a lot of stimulus money has gone into long overdue road improvement projects. There's more construction here than at any time anyone can remember, and it has started much later in the year than usual as the funds didn't become available until midsummer.

In the short term it's a pain in the ass since driving can be hell, particularly with winter around the corner which always slows the traffic flow down anyway, but we'll all be grateful in the long term for fewer potholes.

Yeah, with 15%+ unemployment, Michigan's biggest problem by far is too many potholes

 

[The Rabbi]

That's like $2M per job. What in the world could be worth $2M?
And "saved or created" is just bogus.
It must suck being a Democrat having to answer these questions.

 

[driveby]

Early reports: Job gains signal stimulus impact - USATODAY.com

WASHINGTON — States have reported using stimulus money to create or save more than 388,000 jobs so far this year, buttressing the Obama administration's claim that the $787 billion plan has had a significant impact on the economy.
That total, based on a USA TODAY review of reports from 33 states and Puerto Rico, includes teachers, construction workers, and others whose jobs were funded by stimulus money awarded to states. The administration plans Friday to release reports from all 50 states, providing the broadest accounting yet of the stimulus plan's impact.

And amazingly unemployment has risen dramatically.

A more effective tactic would be to bury this shit and "hope" people forget about it instead of trying to spin and champion it as a success .....

 

[CrusaderFrank]

That's like $2M per job. What in the world could be worth $2M?
And "saved or created" is just bogus.
It must suck being a Democrat having to answer these questions.

FoxNews is the only one asking those questions

 

[tigerbob]

Early reports: Job gains signal stimulus impact - USATODAY.com

WASHINGTON — States have reported using stimulus money to create or save more than 388,000 jobs so far this year, buttressing the Obama administration's claim that the $787 billion plan has had a significant impact on the economy.
That total, based on a USA TODAY review of reports from 33 states and Puerto Rico, includes teachers, construction workers, and others whose jobs were funded by stimulus money awarded to states. The administration plans Friday to release reports from all 50 states, providing the broadest accounting yet of the stimulus plan's impact.

I'm delighted to hear it.

In Michigan, a lot of stimulus money has gone into long overdue road improvement projects. There's more construction here than at any time anyone can remember, and it has started much later in the year than usual as the funds didn't become available until midsummer.

In the short term it's a pain in the ass since driving can be hell, particularly with winter around the corner which always slows the traffic flow down anyway, but we'll all be grateful in the long term for fewer potholes.

Yeah, with 15%+ unemployment, Michigan's biggest problem by far is too many potholes

Take your partizan hat off for a second. Potholes are a big problem in Michigan. And of course they're not the biggest problem, but they are a problem nonetheless.

And it's 20%+, BTW.

 

[xsited1]

Early reports: Job gains signal stimulus impact - USATODAY.com

WASHINGTON — States have reported using stimulus money to create or save more than 388,000 jobs so far this year, buttressing the Obama administration's claim that the $787 billion plan has had a significant impact on the economy.
That total, based on a USA TODAY review of reports from 33 states and Puerto Rico, includes teachers, construction workers, and others whose jobs were funded by stimulus money awarded to states. The administration plans Friday to release reports from all 50 states, providing the broadest accounting yet of the stimulus plan's impact.

Did you just post this to get the crap beat out of you? Are you some kind of martyr for Obama? I would laugh, but I sense a deeper psychological problem that you are probably in need of correcting.

 

[Maple]

Early reports: Job gains signal stimulus impact - USATODAY.com

WASHINGTON — States have reported using stimulus money to create or save more than 388,000 jobs so far this year, buttressing the Obama administration's claim that the $787 billion plan has had a significant impact on the economy.
That total, based on a USA TODAY review of reports from 33 states and Puerto Rico, includes teachers, construction workers, and others whose jobs were funded by stimulus money awarded to states. The administration plans Friday to release reports from all 50 states, providing the broadest accounting yet of the stimulus plan's impact.

ROTFLMAF- I think it's more like 30,000 jobs have been saved or created, and that saved crap is for the birds because no one can determine if the stimulus actually helped save a job or not, if anything was saved it was a government job, not a private sector one.

It is estimated that it has cost the no stimulus stimulus plan $75,000 to create one job and that's a $50,000 job that's most likely a temporary job. BTW there are 15 MILLION people unemployed and even using your unrealistic and totally exagerated figures demonstrates that the no stimulus stimulus plan is a total FAILURE.
Good try though, and quite alot of wishful thinking going on. Unemployment is still rising.

 

[Maple]

Early reports: Job gains signal stimulus impact - USATODAY.com

WASHINGTON — States have reported using stimulus money to create or save more than 388,000 jobs so far this year, buttressing the Obama administration's claim that the $787 billion plan has had a significant impact on the economy.
That total, based on a USA TODAY review of reports from 33 states and Puerto Rico, includes teachers, construction workers, and others whose jobs were funded by stimulus money awarded to states. The administration plans Friday to release reports from all 50 states, providing the broadest accounting yet of the stimulus plan's impact.

I'm delighted to hear it.

In Michigan, a lot of stimulus money has gone into long overdue road improvement projects. There's more construction here than at any time anyone can remember, and it has started much later in the year than usual as the funds didn't become available until midsummer.

In the short term it's a pain in the ass since driving can be hell, particularly with winter around the corner which always slows the traffic flow down anyway, but we'll all be grateful in the long term for fewer potholes.

Yeah, with 15%+ unemployment, Michigan's biggest problem by far is too many potholes

Yes, and then after you fix those potholes you get to get laid off again.

 

[Zoom-boing]

How do they determine the 'jobs saved' part? I've never seen anything to back this just the same tired talking point.

 

[Maple]

How do they determine the 'jobs saved' part? I've never seen anything to back this just the same tired talking point.

I have lived through many recessions and never have heard the" jobs saved" crap, it's always been " jobs created," it's just another way to spin themselves out of accountability for a dismal and failed peice of legislation. Don't buy it, as they are hoping that all of us are STUPID enough to fall for it. Hopefully most of us are not.

 

[Zona]

Where the hell are they getting these numbers ... people are still out of work, shit, Bush's stimulus creates enough jobs for one city and suddenly Obama is god?

Yes.

 

[Maple]

That's less than one months increase in unemployment.

Yeah ride that pony in the 2010 elections.

Unemployment at 10% but claiming Stimulus saved or created 500,000 jobs is a winner for sure

You got that right, less than one month's increase in unemployment, even with their bogus claims. You think that they could have all gotten together and figured out that their so- called gain and saved crap is less than one month's new unemployment claims and pulled another rabbit out of the hat, to come up with better numbers.

Oh no, they just think we can't add out here, we are too stupid to know anything more than what they spoon feed us. Thankfully, most Americans are smarter than that.

" Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King Jr.

" The power of ACCURATE observation is frequently called cynicism by those who DON'T have it." George Bernard Shaw.

" The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of OTHER PEOPLE'S money." Margaret Thatcher.

"A government big enough to GIVE you EVERYTHING you NEED, is BIG enough to TAKE EVERYTHING you HAVE. " Thomas Jefferson

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

I read this article... this is just taxpayer money going to make sure a few government jobs aren't lost and the notion of "saved" jobs is totally unquantifiable.

Go smoke some more pot.

Next...

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

I farted this morning and subsequently 100,000 jobs were saved.

Makes just as much sense.