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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 10-14-2011, 01:21 PM
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Looks like the "saved or created" metric is being retired in favor of "supported".

Predictable. Now one word conveys even more unmeasurable "data" than before. But hey, if whomever is still left in the Obama supporter crowd is dumb enough to buy it, then it's a success.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...bibJ_blog.html

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Of the nine studies I’ve found, six find that the stimulus had a significant, positive effect on employment and growth, and three find that the effect was either quite small or impossible to detect.
I challenge you to actually read the article and understand it.
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