" Jobs Created" in a District that doesn't exsist

**Six** · 17th November 2009 06:45 PM

Hillarious. The White House is going to extremes to justify it's disasterous 787 billion Stimulus debacle. They're even creating new districts out of thin air.

The truth is the stimulus basically perpetuated a deepening recession by creating very little private jobs and increasing the debt.

P-Bo's compleltly overestimated his blind and dumb supporters and underestimated his critics. I guess we were supposed to take their word for it.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-...ory?id=9097853

**metheron** · 17th November 2009 08:42 PM

[quote name='Six' date='17 November 2009 - 08:45 PM' timestamp='1258508733' post='61930']

Hillarious. The White House is going to extremes to justify it's disasterous 787 billion Stimulus debacle. They're even creating new districts out of thin air.

The truth is the stimulus basically perpetuated a deepening recession by creating very little private jobs and increasing the debt.

P-Bo's compleltly overestimated his blind and dumb supporters and underestimated his critics. I guess we were supposed to take their word for it.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-...ory?id=9097853

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What's the point of creating these web sites that track this stuff if no one is even going to be responsible for the accuracy of it?

**a777pilot** · 17th November 2009 08:52 PM

I particularly like the one reported from Nebraska that gave the number of jobs created in one district and it turns out that the only jobs created were the jobs of those hired to count the number of jobs created.

Our government at work.

I would laugh if I wasn't crying over all the wasted tax money.

**Forplay** · 17th November 2009 09:01 PM

Can our government do anything right and the liberals want Obamacare, Obama can't run a lemonade stand let alone this country.

**freethinkr** · 17th November 2009 10:00 PM

[quote name='a777pilot' date='17 November 2009 - 10:52 PM' timestamp='1258516336' post='62072']

I particularly like the one reported from Nebraska that gave the number of jobs created in one district and it turns out that the only jobs created were the jobs of those hired to count the number of jobs created.

Our government at work.

I would laugh if I wasn't crying over all the wasted tax money.

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The thing is, those economists who our leaders listen to would say that hiring people who do nothing but count people is still a good use of money and a way to shake us out of the "paradox of thrift".

The main problem I see is that we're too focused on how the money is spent, as if there is some magic formula for spending that will bring about utopia. When we see the government spend money to build a road, we see the 50 people employed by that project. What we do not observe directly is the opportunity loss on the other end. The money must come from somewhere. Whether it is from taxing, borrowing, or printing, the money used to create those 50 highway construction jobs would have been used to employ other people elsewhere. And while it is not measurable (something the Keynesian mad scientists ignore), it is there. And a look at sound economic theory will show that more jobs were destroyed than were created by this stimulus.

**a777pilot** · 17th November 2009 10:26 PM

[quote name='freethinkr' date='17 November 2009 - 11:00 PM' timestamp='1258520420' post='62133']

The thing is, those economists who our leaders listen to would say that hiring people who do nothing but count people is still a good use of money and a way to shake us out of the "paradox of thrift".

The main problem I see is that we're too focused on how the money is spent, as if there is some magic formula for spending that will bring about utopia. When we see the government spend money to build a road, we see the 50 people employed by that project. What we do not observe directly is the opportunity loss on the other end. The money must come from somewhere. Whether it is from taxing, borrowing, or printing, the money used to create those 50 highway construction jobs would have been used to employ other people elsewhere. And while it is not measurable (something the Keynesian mad scientists ignore), it is there. And a look at sound economic theory will show that more jobs were destroyed than were created by this stimulus.

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There is no free lunch.

I agree with your post. Now try to find a Liberal that will even listen to that, let alone agree to it.

**a777pilot** · 17th November 2009 10:29 PM

Oh, yes, another thing I would like to point out....

Having a group of government economists all sitting around trying to figure out how many jobs were saved by Bobo's stimulus bill is akin to a room full of monks trying to debate how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

**Gypsy** · 17th November 2009 10:59 PM

This story has been posted five times. Four of those by Stinger. sheesh man

**Forplay** · 17th November 2009 11:11 PM

[quote name='Gypsy' date='17 November 2009 - 09:59 PM' timestamp='1258523960' post='62151']

This story has been posted five times. Four of those by Stinger. sheesh man

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Does that mean you don't want to hear anymore about Obama fraudulently posting bogus employment numbers. This is just a preview of Obamacare.

**kmiller1610** · 18th November 2009 02:15 AM

[quote name='Gypsy' date='18 November 2009 - 12:59 AM' timestamp='1258523960' post='62151']

This story has been posted five times. Four of those by Stinger. sheesh man [/quote]

True, but the Palin thread has 175 posts. I guess Stinger's 5 threads on the incompetence of the Obama gang of idiots isn't relevant......