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View Poll Results: Was your job "created or saved" by the $787B stimulus package?
My job was created by the stimulus package. 1 1.59%
My job was "saved" by the stimulus package. 2 3.17%
Neither -- my taxes paid for the stimulus package. 53 84.13%
I'm unemployed, and looking for a job so I can help pay for the stimulus package. 3 4.76%
I don't work (retired, disabled, welfare recipient, etc), so I really don't care. 4 6.35%
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Old 11-18-2009, 07:57 AM
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If anybody's job was "saved" how do you know it was and who "saved" it?
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Old 11-18-2009, 08:04 AM
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If anybody's job was "saved" how do you know it was and who "saved" it?
It is an impossible claim to support. Depending on what side of the table that you are sitting, it is either brilliant or deceitful. I tend to be of the mindset that it is a little of both.

There is no doubt that many jobs have been "saved" by the stimulus. Trying to put a number on that claim is absurd.
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Old 11-18-2009, 08:17 AM
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It is an impossible claim to support. Depending on what side of the table that you are sitting, it is either brilliant or deceitful. I tend to be of the mindset that it is a little of both.

There is no doubt that many jobs have been "saved" by the stimulus. Trying to put a number on that claim is absurd.
Interesting... on this thread you are claiming that there is no doubt "many" jobs have been saved, yet there is no data. Deja vu.
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Old 11-18-2009, 08:41 AM
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Interesting... on this thread you are claiming that there is no doubt "many" jobs have been saved, yet there is no data. Deja vu.
i have made a claim on here but no where else. Many jobs have been "saved" but you cant try to put a number on it. OF course, in bucks county, you wouldnt know anything about that.
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Old 11-18-2009, 11:35 AM
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Jobs saved = intellectual dishonesty
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Old 11-18-2009, 11:46 AM
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Jobs saved = intellectual dishonesty
It is necessary to note, as much as you don't like it, that the Obama administration is not the first to use the "jobs saved" argument.

That said, it's a bullsh*t argument, and I'm touched to see you actually calling a case of intellectual dishonesty what it is.
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Old 11-18-2009, 01:25 PM
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It is necessary to note, as much as you don't like it, that the Obama administration is not the first to use the "jobs saved" argument.
That said, it's a bullsh*t argument, and I'm touched to see you actually calling a case of intellectual dishonesty what it is.
It isnt?
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Old 11-18-2009, 11:56 AM
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Jobs saved = intellectual dishonesty
I agree to an extent. Saying you saved jobs would be honest. Trying to put a number on how many isn't. One could easily make up a number about jobs COSTED. No?
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Old 11-18-2009, 01:27 PM
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I agree to an extent. Saying you saved jobs would be honest. Trying to put a number on how many isn't. One could easily make up a number about jobs COSTED. No?
Jobs saved is not possible to establish nor is a counter to any posted number of jobs saved available therefore it is intellectually dishonest. Or in plainer terms, propaganda.
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