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Only if you count government jobs. Census workers were hired but that comes to an end soon. Maybe those that make signs are being put to work. The government is paying millions of our tax dollars for signs that say how great the stimulus money is being spent. The sign makers are doing ok, I guess.
And every time a census working laid and re-hired it was counted as new.
More broadly, job cuts began shrinking just as the stimulus was going into effect last year, and the stock market began rising shortly after it passed. The stimulus was by no means the only reason, but it appears to have been a significant one.
Based on its economic models, the Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that between 1.4 million and 3.4 million workers who have jobs would be unemployed if the stimulus hadn’t been enacted. Three of the best-known private economic research firms — IHS Global Insight, Macroeconomic Advisers and Moody’s Economy.com — have come up with similar estimates. The average estimated effect on employment is about 2.5 million jobs.
Nariman Behravesh, IHS Global Insight’s chief economist, has a nice way of summarizing what the bill did (and, to some extent, didn’t) do: “It prevented things from getting much worse than they otherwise would have been. I think everyone would have to acknowledge that’s a good thing.”
Ask them why GOP politicians are playing politics with their unemployment benefits, hoping things get even worse so they can get power
WHO, is playing politics...its the liberals that are lying as usual
republicans::...you said paygo, now please go by YOUR OWN RULES
liberal: rules are for the slaves, not us
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WASHINGTON, ,Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today after President Obama signed into law Pay-as-you-go legislation. The legislation requires any new spending or revenue reduction to be paid for by an equal amount of spending reduction or revenue increase:
"PAYGO is a critical step on the path toward deficit reduction and fiscal discipline.
"The PAYGO principle is founded on the simple premise of accountability and honest accounting in the budget process, and it has a proven track record of success. When instituted in the 1990s, it produced record surpluses; when abandoned by the Bush Administration and the Republican-led Congress in the last decade, we were left with record deficits. Today, these irresponsible practices will end.
"When Democrats assumed the majority of Congress in 2007, we made 'pay-as-you-go' the rule of the House. Now, with the President's signature, we have made it the law of the land."
so why do the whiney liberals want to go back on their words
Ask the 16-17% of the population that are unemployed or under employed if the stimulus worked.
I'd ask them to look at recovery.gov and see in what cities/towns and to what businesses their states apportioned stimulus money, and whether that apportionment generated new jobs.
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