Green shoots popping up all over: it’s springtime in Amerika!
Remember the other day, when I casually tossed off a line about the “stimulus” scam creating or saving upwards of fourteen and a half jobs, all of them temporary? Y’all thought I was just kidding around, I’ll bet:
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.
Oh, but wait; the masterful efficiency of those big-government wheels is only beginning to make its positive, unemployment-crushing influence felt:
Students Kiyomi Cox and Donald Biagas work in a culinary program that’s part of the Green Civic Campaign. They enjoy learning to work as chefs, but say after six weeks of working they still haven’t received their paychecks.
“They said we’re supposed to get paid every two weeks. The first two weeks happened and we was like: where’s our paycheck? They was like: ‘It’s next week, then next week, then next week,’” said Cox.
“It’s chaos,” said Chef Steve Roland, who runs that culinary program and is teaching students throughout the summer. Roland, too, said he has not yet been paid.
“It’s dysfunctional. And it’s obviously a program that’s not been fully implemented,” Roland told CBS 5 Investigates.
The money for that program and 12 others in Oakland comes from the federal stimulus package championed by President Barack Obama and passed by Congress in February.
Another HUGE SUCCESS! In fact, we might go so far as to call it an Obama Economic MIRACLE.
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Obama is taking a multitude of fish and loaves and turning it into one basket.