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[quote=Anonymous][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Your numbers are a bit out of date.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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I think you are confusing incidental job creation with focusing on job creation.  The links above show that Obama began "focusing" on job creation in August 2011.  Before that he focused on the stimulus, Obamacare, debt and his golf game.  You may want to call the stimulus a jobs bill, but the fact remains that the White House announced in was focusing on jobs in August 2011.[/quote]

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