Liberal Stimulus Costs $862,498 per Job Created

Those who seem to think that the government provides all the answers will be really impressed with the interesting figures to come from Iowa’s Fifth District.

Congressman Steve King came out with reports, today, on the number of jobs created in his Fifth Congressional District of a whopping 157.3 jobs. If you think that is impressive, I know you are going to love the cost of $135,670,954 to create all those jobs. This figures out to be an impressive $862,498 per job created by the liberal stimulus. Now that’s government efficiency for you. I don’t know about you but I am sure glad that our children’s children will be stuck paying for so few jobs created at such great an expense.

King made the following statement on the issue:

“Perhaps the Obama Administration should award stimulus-funded prize money to any Iowan who can find the 7th, 8th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 24th and 31st Iowa Congressional Districts.

“I said it at the time this bill passed, and I will say it again: the Obama Administration’s economic philosophy is straight out of the failed Great Depression-era playbook. Increasing government spending, debt, deficits and taxes as a means to stimulate the economy has always delayed the recovery.

“This information confirms that the ‘stimulus’ bill is really a non-stimulating boondoggle of liberal pet projects and wasteful spending. Taxpayers should be outraged at what the President and liberals in this Congress have done with their money.”

You might want to focus your attention to a button located towards the top right corner of the page that states, “Report Fraud, Waste & Abuse”. I find that an interesting button to be located on a site for a program that is all about corruption, wasteful spending, and liberal government abuse.

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