no one's terrified obama will pull us out, everyone's anxiously waiting for things to get better, in which case he'll rightly get the credit
but now things are getting worse, much, much worse
and most economists are not real optimistic looking into the near term future
the long term, on the other hand, is terrifying, with the tens of T's of unfunded liabilities in the form of all those super popular entitlements our progressives invented in previous decades, the bills for which must soon come due
around the time of the baby boomers?
and beyond?
remember?
as for the stimulus, no one knows how many jobs were "created," how many "saved"
i don't think the white house has straight in their own addled heads exactly what "created" and "saved" mean to themselves, what if any distinction
we know obama abandoned use of the fuzzy terms in january
Farewell ?Saved or Created?: Obama Administration Changes the Counting of Stimulus Jobs* - Political Punch
valerie jarrett, whom rahm the ram ripped in dana milbank's piece, said "thousands" of jobs were prestidigitized by the RECOVERY ACT
"stimulus" is another word the white house no longer uses
the president's own web site has 640,000
cbo has no idea how many jobs, no one does
the white house, among all its other failures, has done an absolutely horrendous job of accounting all this spending and sposed hiring
even worse they're performed when it comes to communicating these crucial details to the american people, whom the white house clearly has little respect for
they are good at telling us what the government has already spent, but not much more. stem has been good for state governments to some extent of helping them with there own deficits.
