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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Stimulus cost for each job
	Date:	1/19/2009 5:37:02 PM

Cong. Boehner rightly points out that the $825 billion stimulus package to allegedly create 3 million jobs comes out to $275,000 per job created! Is this a good use of our money?!?! This is exactly what is wrong with the government. I can create 10 new jobs (at least) with $275,000.

The more I learn about the stimulus package the more I think it is an Obamination (despite no earmarks and Obama/Biden's promises). It is filled with spending of dubious value for job creating and and will be every costly to administer (to the tune of at least $60,000,000. Some examples that don't even begin to scratch the surface of local pork projects like bike trails, etc.:

1. Philadelphia's request for $125,000,000 to prepare Market Street East for a casino
2. $188,000 for the Lobster Institute in Maine,
3. $212,000 for fruit fly research in France
4. $125,000 for a Mother’s Day shrine in West Virginia
5. $14,000,000 to fund a board of five members to look for fraud or waste
6. $1,000,000,000, to carry out the community development block grant program under title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (13 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.)
7. $800,000,000 to Amtrak, a failing entity
8. $50,000,000 for YouthBuild activities,
9. $750,000,000 for a program of competitive grants for worker training and placement in high growth and emerging industry sectors. Sound good? $500,000,000 of the total for research, labor exchange and job training projects that prepare workers for careers in the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries. Not where we need jobs,

The list could go on and that is before local and state governments get their hands on the tens of billions of dollars for their projects. Hey Obama, how about this idea. How about an immediate reduction of taxes to the tune of $850 billion and let those that pay the taxes decide how best to invest their own money in job creation. This is sick. See the site below and read for yourselves.

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