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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
So where did most of the money REALLY go to?  Put it this way -- the unions aren't complaining.  Public employee unions had their pensions bailed out by Obama so they can retire at age 50.
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So, you agree that the stimulus bill created jobs, albeit at a very high cost.

Your numbers are a bit out of date. If you go to recovery.gov right now, you will see the following figures:

$733.2B paid out

Tax Benefits: $300.1B
Contracts, Grants, and Loans: $217.7B
Entitlements: $215.4B

While tax cuts are a very poor stimulus method, not all of the tax benefits were cuts. There was $35.4 billion in tax incentives to hire employees and $9.6 billion to assist manufacturing.

But, the bottom line for you -- and for me as well -- is that while the stimulus bill was not as effective as it might have been, it still created jobs. You are hung up on the fact that it was not called a jobs bill, yet the government has consistently measured it in terms of "jobs saved and created." Obviously, such a measure would not be used for something that was not expected to positively impact jobs.

At any rate, I believe the data you present puts to rest any claim that Obama did not focus on jobs until August 2011.

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