Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Saved Any Jobs Lately Obama?

The stimulus is saving jobs and creating jobs.  That is the message Obama and the White House have been playing on a recorded continous loop.  Granted, the various players can’t seem to get the number of jobs saved or created by the stimulus to play the same way each time, but they keep trying.  But has the stimulus really saved any private sector jobs?  Jobs that actually matter in other words.  Decided for yourself, but I’ll give you a hint.

...during the last two year the number of public employees has increased from 22.3 million in January 2008 to 22.4 million in January 2010, after peaking at 22.6 million in July 2009.  Not that impressive you will say. Well, excuse me but it certainly beats being a private employee during that same period of time. The number of private jobs decreased from 115.5 million in January 2008 to 107 million. That’s a lose (sic) of 8.7 million jobs in the private sector while the public sector gained almost 100,000 jobs.

From a Veronique de Rugy post, complete with chart, at Breitbart’s Big Government site titled More On My Public Sector Fat Cat Obsession.

Posted by John Venlet on 02/24 at 07:14 AM
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