I've listened and participated in a lot of debates in my time and I've heard a lot of people make stupid arguments or say some stupid things but the Idea of taking the dollar value of the stimulus bill in congress and dividing it by the estimated Jobs created for a dollar per job number is something else. This is an absolutely ridiculous and useless number.
O.K. we'll spend $300,000 per job. Sounds like a real raw deal for the American Taxpayer. Only in the narrow world of conservative thinking.
What about the new bridges or new highways we get? Doesn't that number include parts and labor?
Special Message to Senator John Thune (R, SD)
Here are the Jobs Lost in the Bush Recession in terms that you might better understand. If all the unemployed people in American today where standing shoulder to shoulder it would stretch over 5400 miles
