- Oct 12, 2009
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A "saved" job is one that would have otherwise been lost due to downsizing or a company going under.
Considering that in late 2008, a majority of economists thought that the country was almost certainly headed for a depression-level "recession", the stock market had fallen by 6000 points, and most of the major banks seemed on the verge of collapse... only a complete madman would consider the economy we have now to be "worse" than it would have been had no-one done anything about it.
Or a radical partisan.
Vast, the definition was changed by the adminstration earlier this week. It is now defined as saved if the government supplied any money to fund the job. That means even if the job never materializes, it is still a job.
Voodoo Economics!!!!!
Actually, I think I can make this work for us. I am going to define taxes as monies I planned to give to the government regardless of whether I actually SEND the money.