4,370 jobs made, saved

Education was the largest category to receive federal stimulus funds. Auto accidents is the #1 killer of teens. Still...no driver's ed without paying for it.

If this administration wanted to convince me that they were really interested in our health, and not just in money and control, they might want to start at the top, not at the wallet.

Remarkable! It is simply NOT TRUE that you can "create jobs" by taking money from productive people (who create jobs), and give it to institutions that produce services noboday wants to buy (because else, they wouldn't need the money from tax payers).Government NEVER creates jobs. Jobs are created by someone taking some raw materials and creating surplus value, i.e., something that the free market wants to purchase, and which costs more than the raw materials from which it started (the "job" adds extra value).

I know most people here won't believe this. But anyone who remembers or lived in Eastern Europe will. Their governments "created" all jobs, and the result was a miserable place to live, with horrible working conditions, low life expectancy, and no freedoms or quality of life.

What ProCap said above.

The stimulus has done nothing but grow the government. Real jobs come from small businesses in this country. So far, no incentives from this anti-capitalist, socialist administration. The stimulus money has mainly gone to welfare sources, not job creation.

We don't need short term answers, we need long term goals. That is where Obama is going with this.
His new energy policies are designed to help get us away from ME oil, while building green jobs here.REMEMBER, Obama didn't start the bail out.

Good job Obama,in just 10 months you are turning around what it took republicans 8 years to screw up.

Your staff writers looks like they are in the pockets of Obama and the New York times, sometimes I call the TUlsa world the Tulsa times! Saving jobs on this bill was the big creation of big government, period! Look at everything this government has done in the last 9 years, grow and grow, I want the government control out of the way and let the private sector create jobs, but if the cap and tax bill passes you better hang on to your wallets because we all are going to be raped. Obama wants control over everything and this guy has never done anything, except be a acorn supporter.

Eagle has a terminal case of liberal virus.

Leo --

What you are looking at on Recovery.gov is the information reported by recipients. You'll notice a second tab on the map for "agency reported." That tells a lot more about how the money was spent, but nothing about jobs.

The problem with something like the stimulus program is that nobody will ever really know its true impact because there is no way of knowing what would have happened without it. Sure, a lot of people have opinions, but nobody knows for sure.

Randy, the problem with the "Stimulus program' is that our children, grandchildren, ad infinitum are being saddled with massive debt that will either by repaid by high taxes or hyperinflation. Either way, they don't stand a chance at having the standard of living that we have now.

I hear they are shutting down Thunderbird Academy in Pryor. I may be wrong but I have heard some success stories from this program. Like I said I may be misinformed...but it seems like this stimulus money is going in all the wrong directions...fixing small airport runways and other questionable areas should take second fiddle to programs that may be helping troubled teens?

4,370 - 36,770 = -32,400

This is like a business reporting $43M in sales over the past quarter, then failing to mention they accumulated $367M in debt to get it.

Same money given to small business would probably have created twice as many jobs.

"The problem with something like the stimulus program is that nobody will ever really know its true impact because there is no way of knowing what would have happened without it. Sure, a lot of people have opinions, but nobody knows for sure."

...and we will never know what has or will happen because of it. You and all your cronies just choose to make up stats about misc. to try and gather support for this administrations reckless behavior.
There are hard facts that are undisputable-unemployment has exceeded the 8% cieling even though Obama stated it would not,manufacturing is down,our deficit is at records highs, this president would rather campaign than govern, this administration would rather criticize media then answer questions, this president would rather listen to non-military personel than his generals, this congress would rather meet behind closed doors than have the transperancy has promised, this president would rather meet with dictators than the GOP and this president lies more than any politician in history.
Oh I forgot, this president has the most radical, corrupt administration in history and they are proud of it.

More smoke... Honesty must be someone gets at an Antique Store.

IF the federal government applies a formula to estimate impact, you can bet your whatever, the sum will not equal the parts & vice versa.

mayor_maynot, I don't know if you ever served but the first thing you should be made aware of is that you never question another mans service. The second thing that you should know is that a Marine chooses to kill for his country rather than die. Dying is God's choice. I served my country to protect the COTUS not a man in a suit that happens to occupy the White House.

About the New Deal and government creating jobs. Infrastucture is for one thing and one thing only. It is not to CREATE jobs but to provide for the exchange of capital and services. Who pays for those highways, streets, and bridges? Tax money from the private sector to ensure the continued and increased production of goods. So tell me, where the heck are you going when you drive on those roads?

You are just another liberal that can't get over Bush. You have no credible arguement for your case so you use tired old rhetoric and emotional rants to scrape by. You try to hold yourself up as an intellectual but in reality the only one that you are fooling is yourself. I can just see it now, you are probably one of those people that slip and falls when it is raining outside and blame the business for not telling you the tile is slippery. Go throw your tantrum elsewhere because quite frankly you have nothing to offer here.

Excellent point Thunder!

Couple thoughts before we celebrate:

1)Gov't doesn't create economy or jobs.

2) For $389,000 each ($1.7 bill /4370 jobs) I would just as soon let the jobs get cut. What a huge premium. Did we buy them new Mercedes along with new home on that salary? Your gov't at work once again misusing YOUR money. Go get a mirror, your paying for it.

you all make me laugh. as was stated before about the hydro dams the power distribution the highways the lakes and rivers the levees all built on the works programs of the 30's which helped family's survive and pull us out of the depression. it helped and you have benefited. everyone here benefits daily on taxes you pay. so lets hire more cops to do less work. when you hire a new cop you have to not only pay there wage but also get them a vehicle to drive. where is the money for that? stimulus funds? and obama growing gov? not like every pres has grown gov.

so lets spend the money on a war for 10 years and then blame the liberals for the spending woes. thats intelligent. so do you think we shouldn't help assist those in time of need? doesnt it make sense to pool the funds to create a bigger fund to help those in need? should someone who cleans bathrooms for a living who can barely afford to pay for there rent and fuel for work not be given assistance for food for there children?

those also who complain about taxes and the size of gov do you send your kids to school? is it a public or pvt school? in your argument i shouldnt have to pay any taxes that pays for schools since i do not have children in the school system. yet i do and i dont mind.

There is no doubt without the stimulus money from the financial crisis last year, it would have been much worse.

Wall Street is acting like nothing ever happend.