That is how much it cost to make that many jobs instead larger claimed number:
Michigan received $3.7 billion is stimulus money, of which $620 million was to be used to “create and save” jobs, while the remainder will be used by Granholm to backfill the budget deficit that she has created with her overspending so that she doesn’t have to make any substantial cuts before she leaves office. When she walks away, she will have lost more than 1,000,000 jobs in a state with a population of only 10 million. A few days ago, Granholm claimed that stimulus money “created or saved” 19,500 jobs (Enron accounting: Stimulus saved or created 19,500 jobs in Michigan). Turns out, the number is an utter fabrication, as I suspected when I wrote that prior post. Fact is, that $620 million “created or saved” 397 jobs.
That works out to about $1.5 million per job – oh, and Granholm isn’t the only governor using Spendulus money to fill in the State budget…lots of States are doing it just as we here at Blogs for Victory predicted.
You poor, sad, little liberals – you thought that Obama was going to usher in a grand, new era. Well, he’s not – because he’s the product of a corrupt, Democrat machine as are all the other leading Democrats. People who rise by corruption don’t tend to be straight arrows. You’d be better off with the likes of Jerry Brown and Dennis Kucinich – you’d hardly ever win, but at least you’d have some reasonably honest (and highly entertaining) leaders. Right now, you’ve got political barnacles who are mostly interested in feathering their nests and dodging the hard choices until they are out of office, or at least in their second term.
The money is going to favored groups and individuals, for the most part, and that which isn’t being spread around as payola is being used to hide fiscal malfeasance. I hope that you eventually wake up from your stupor, but I don’t have much hope of it.
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