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Originally Posted by tony286
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I guess you forgot to read even the first paragraph of your own source. The article you picked starts by saying:
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Originally Posted by WSJ Staff
President George W. Bush entered office in 2001 just as a recession was starting ... The Bush administration created about three million jobs (net)
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According to YOUR source, Bush created three million jobs. Obama claims his stimulus plan "saved or created 1.4 million jobs". What's that about "saved"? Well, overall unemployment is up (see the official numbers from BLS), so Obama is trying to claim it would be even worse with his stimulus package. Let's give Obama even more credit than he claims. Let's pretend his policies created 1.4 million jobs. That's less then half of Bush, and that's in pretend land - even Obama doesn't claim that.
So pretending his stimulus spending of $2 trillion really did "save" 1.4 million jobs, that's a cost of A MILLION DOLLARS per job. Give me $10,000 and I can save a job. Obama claims to have saved jobs and only spent a million bucks a job to do it.
Lay off the Kool-Aid, man. I can admit Bush sucked. I WANTED him to be good, but he wasn't. I was a fan before he took office, but I knew when it was time to trade him to Detroit and recruit a new quarterback. Can you see that your team is 0-14 with Obama as quarterback?