Over the past six months, our Glorious President has been trumpeting the numbers of “jobs created” by his various “stimulus” plans. As always, the exact words a politician uses are important, and you should always pay attention to them, because using specific vocabularies basically allows politicians to bend the truth:
How much are politicians straining to convince people that the government is stimulating the economy? In Oregon, where lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus, Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program’s first three months.
But those jobs lasted on average only 35 hours, or about one work week. After that, those workers were effectively back unemployed, according to an Associated Press analysis of state spending and hiring data. By the state’s accounting, a job is a job, whether it lasts three hours, three days, three months, or a lifetime.
That is 35 hours, period – not 35 hours a week.
In the strictest sense, our Glorious Leader did not lie – he said the stimulus bill would create and has created jobs, and that is certainly true. However, jobs that only last one short week will do nothing for unemployment numbers, nothing for the long-term economy, and nothing to help our situation. They certainly do pad the numbers, though…
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