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600,000 Saved or New Jobs During Summer


The White House has just released more details about those 600,000 jobs that the president wants to create this summer:

--Expanded service for approximately 300,000 patients at 1,129 health centers in 50 states and 8 territories;

--Improvement projects in 107 national parks;

--Rehabilitation or improvements at 98 airports and more than 1,500 highway locations;

--Pay for 135,000 teachers, principals and other school support staff;

--Improvements at 90 Veterans medical centers in 38 states;

--Funding to hire or keep on the job approximately 5,000 law enforcement officers;

--Construction of 200 new waste and water systems in rural communities;

--New or accelerated cleanup projects at 20 Superfund sites;

--Creation of 125,000 summer jobs for young people;

--Construction and rehabilitation projects at 359 military facilities.

Go Here to see map of where stimulus money is going.


I sure hope somebody goes around before the end of the year and evaluates each and every company or organization that got stimulus money and asks them how many people they've hired AND how many people would have lost their jobs if not for the stimulus package.  Those statistics would be very interesting to know about.



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Well, the key is how many jobs are "created" versus "saved".

If he saves a bunch of jobs, that's good for the people who would have lost their jobs. And it won't make the economy get any worse. But we need to economy to start growing again and that will only happen when people who are out of work start getting jobs again.

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