Return to Article: States report saving 640,000 jobs through Recovery Act
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91142
And birds fly backwards. There is no such thing as saving a job, it is an inanimate object. Deception and lies are in bloom.
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91130
why was there no mention of Bush "saving" 50,000,000 jobs during his 8 years, the numbers are as well documented as the ones for barak
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91087
Some economists believe the Great Depression was prolonged by big government programs competing with private businesses for financial resources. With resources flowing into government programs, businesses could not expand & employ workers. Is that theory correct? Feels to me like big government spending is once again slowing economic recovery.
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91014
What's a saved job? I'll tell you what it is, there is no such thing.
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90974
To "ph" - thank you! Consider this - at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid - of the 2,810 employees - 1,268 made more than $100K in 2008 - and of course this does not include their lavish benefits. If you have never been to the building - it is plush - think Five Diamond resort plush.
What exactly do these employees do? Do they pay claims or perform research - no claims are paid by the insurance companies that have been outsourced this responsibility - and the research is done by scientists who receive grants - not any of these employees. Again I ask - what are these employees doing that deserves that much of the taxpayers' hard earned money? I challenge anyone to defend this.
All of this on the backs of taxpayers - and all of it money that should be spent on the elderly and the sick.
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90972
I sure would like to know what states have jobs as three of my brothers have lost their job at General Motors and have kids in high school and no one wants to move where they are, and they can't move because they can't sell their homes. So if there are in reality jobs, where are they, I am sure many would like to know.
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90961
When you bost about the greatness of the unions don't forget all those jobs that have left the country for cheaper labor. Unions were good in their time, however, their time is over. They have nothing more to gain for working people but money in their own pockets. How the government can say they saved a job is beyond me. How the unions can say they work for the worker is beyond me. Actually consider what a raise in minimum wage did to the economy. The government is destroying the working class. History wise, the WPA was another form of welfare. Those drawing had to actually work for the money they received. My reference is my grandfathers.
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90954
I myself am getting tired of both of these parties. One thinks they have done well by spending money we dont have and the other pounding anything that anyone does. How about jobs Rebulicans and Democrats how about some jobs. People dont want your welfare people dont want your health care people want to work and feed their families what dont you folks get about that in Washington. Stop paying more attention to the folks lining your pockets and start paying attention to your BOSSES, US the American Taxpayers. We have stood by while both parties allowed our Blue collar jobs to leave this country in droves what exactly did you think the outcome would be prosperity. You people in Washington are either to dirty to make the change or to stupid to realize what jobs will do for us. Money does not fix money problems. You can not throw a bandaid on something that has been severed we have lost our ability to manufacture anything no steel mills no labor force white collar jobs are leaving now too. This has all happened on Republicans and Democrats watch so quit blaming each other you are both responsible. We need a new party to vote for because these two are broken beyond repair. How about the American ticket and run a small farmer who will do whats best for us for four years then go back and run his farm. Golly a politician who would do what is best for the people wouldnt that be special.
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90949
Only someone who loves federal bureaucracy can think it is ok to waste billions of dollars paying federal employees to figure out ways to dole out money to political supporters and fellow idealogues under the guise of stimulus money. Let's see $250K spent for every $50K job "saved or created", $24K spent for every car credit in the cash for clunkers, and who knows how many hundreds of thousands have been spent for every $8K tax credit on the first time home buyers incentive program. This is exactly why NO government health program, Medicare, Medicaid, VA, SCHIPS, etc has ever been a good expenditure of taxpayer money....the layers of bureaucracy in federal and state government versus the effectiveness of private enterprise. Is it still true that for every $1 of tax money that goes into a federal entitlement program such as Medicare, Medicaid, or welfare, that only 25 cents is sent out to the beneficiary? It may actually be worse than that. Just think if instead of the billions of dollars in TARP, STIMULUS, etc that were spent out, that each tax paying citizen was given 6 months of taxfree income, how that might have better stimulated the economy.
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90933
The exponential impact of these jobs saved and created may actually be immeasurable. There is no doubt that stimulus is working. Actually, the only true issue with it is that it wasn't large enough. Please study a little history and see how effective things like the WPA and other programs were. Yes Virginia, gov't can help!!
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90932
640,000 jobs with $150,000,000,000 in federal spending... or $234,375 spent for every new federal job created! Certainly nothing to brag about. (By comparison, how many jobs would the private business sector have created given an equal amount of spending? 5,10...?)
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90929
Still waiting on the tutorial on how to calculate or quantify a "saved" job.
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90905
It's so easy to state that any program, such as the Recovery Act, has saved jobs and helped the economy. However, if it is working then why is the unemployment rate still rising. Oh that doesn't count, we still saved jobs. When will this administration get real and start looking at how to improve the economy without tossing money at it?
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90895
Wow, 640,000 jobs saved overall. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of jobs are lost each month. Gotta love government boasting of progress.
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90890
There is no such think as saving a job. There is such a thing as giving/creating a false impression of increasing/stabilizing a job for a year, who pays for the job the next year. We/the government have already proved that a stimulus package is not the way to go. Extendeding/providing unemployment woul have been much cheaper and effective. QUIT DIGGING!
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90873
And I have a bridge to sell you, Mr. Biden.
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