Originally Posted By: Wonder Boy
That would be like counting the temporary U.S. Census jobs that Obama "created"?


OK first of all those Census jobs would have been "created" no matter who was president. Secondly those jobs are now counted and have been since the 40's I believe. I'm watching FOX Sunday right now and those temporary Census jobs that have ended this summer are being mixed into the private sector job growth now and the talk about them being temporary jobs that we heard this Spring is gone.

 Originally Posted By: Wonder Boy
Temporary jobs, that disappear as soon as the stimulus money runs out, and are not self-sustaining.

If you "save" a teacher job or some other civil service job with temporary stimulus money, and then have to fire them in a year anyway when the stimulus funds that artificially sustain that job run out, what are you really saving or "creating". Nothing. You're just postponing the inevitable, and preventing market forces from eliminating inefficiency, and from creating real jobs in the aftermath with real growth. And creating more debt for an even harder fall in a few years when the stimulus ends. It's a temporary bandaid oon a gushing wound.

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You still have to keep people fed WB. If the government hadn't held up the economy back in the 30's and now what would have happened to all those people?

Fair play!