"As the nation continues to endure troubled labor markets and high unemployment, critics of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) have become more vociferous. Economists and the administration have estimated that perhaps 1.5 million jobs have been created or saved by the stimulus program so far. Critics have divided $787 billion by 1.5 million jobs to derive a disturbingly high estimate of about $525,000 per job. But this approach fails to recognize that so far, only about one-third of the stimulus funds have been expended. According to the Recovery.Gov website, $269 billion in funds had been paid as of January 22, 2010. Dividing $269 billion by 1.5 million gives a very rough estimate of the cost per job of $179,000.
http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/article/1857

"it doesn't matter what it costs, we need to get people working"

"these are shovel ready jobs"

"shovel ready"

"shovel ready jobs"

"We've saved over 2,000,000 jobs"

all quotes from our illustious leader...

White House Press Secretary.
Presidential Speech Writer.

Those are "shovel-ready" jobs because it's getting pretty deep.

????

maybe he can ask the "corps-man" that he referred to at the national prayer breakfast today his thoughts...

I can't wait for all the media articles making fun of his ability to say nuclear.

Oh sorry, wrong President.

I see federal government payrolls have swelled to well over 2.1 million jobs.

what a mess....

but the deficits were inherited and we have no way to get back into balance through 2020.

Yeah Pale, I saw that too. This morning in Tulsa they had a bit on the morning news that said Oklahoma unemployment had increased to over 50% but governmental jobs had doubled. I thought that was a little backwards.

WWZMD?

Ziggy Marley?

silly!

Zero Mostel