AntiParty
Tea is the new Kool-Aid
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What wide range are you referring to? 2.9 million jobs is the official number the CBO gave.
I think it is unfair you are being so black and white about this. Why can't you just admit that it is a good thing the stimulus created millions of jobs. Facts are what they are.
"In other words, between 1.0 million and 2.9 million people employed in June owed their jobs to the Recovery Act." That is from your link.
2.9 was the upper limit on the estimate. The lower limit was 1 million.
Three months later, the range was 0.4 million to 2.4 million jobs.
It's a fine thing that people had jobs. I maintain that jobs would have been had one way or another. The recession ended shortly after Obama took office, and not because of anything Obama did. Growth would have occurred one way or another. McCain would have had a stimulus package of some sort. Whatever plan of attack McCain took, he would have executed it better because that would have been his priority. He wouldn't have been distracted by a healthcare boondoggle. Economic recovery would have been job 1 for McCain. He wouldn't have spent a year telling America that he knows they care about jobs and he'll definitely get around to focusing on that when he gets done mucking up their insurance.
No the stimulus makes it quite clear millions of jobs were created directly from the stimulus. Economists say its biggest problem is that it wasn't big enough. Had it been bigger, we would have more jobs.
You are obsessing over the exact number while intitially denying Obama didn't create any jobs. Obama critics like you come across so disingenuous. Concede for once.
Stimulus and Bailouts came when VERY large corporations noticed they had so much power in Congress they could use fear tactics to get finances from tax payers and not just their business. Anyone see the CEO's that just got the bailout went on a Luxury vacation to celebrate?
In short; Say you are a big American business and this is what you say to Congress....
"I'm about to fail. I'm going to take X many jobs with me. Either help, or the economy will go with me"
One of the banks that demanded a bail out only had a 2 PAGE REPORT ON WHY THEY NEEDED IT! 2 pages on why you need a Federal Bailout?! It was blatantly obvious at that point that Corporations were taking advantage of Congress. Both parties were part of it and guilty.