Good news: Obama's own economists admit that each job "saved or created" by the Stimulus cost only $278,000

It turns out that the Obama administration could have written a $100,000 check to each person whose employment was allegedly saved by the "Stimulus" and saved $427 billion.

When the Obama administration releases a report on the Friday before a long weekend, it’s clearly not trying to draw attention to the report’s contents. Sure enough, the “Seventh Quarterly Report” on the economic impact of the “stimulus,” released on Friday, July 1, provides further evidence that President Obama’s economic “stimulus” did very little, if anything, to stimulate the economy, and a whole lot to stimulate the debt.

The report was written by the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors, a group of three economists who were all handpicked by Obama, and it chronicles the alleged success of the “stimulus” in adding or saving jobs. The council reports that, using “mainstream estimates of economic multipliers for the effects of fiscal stimulus” (which it describes as a “natural way to estimate the effects of” the legislation), the “stimulus” has added or saved just under 2.4 million jobs — whether private or public — at a cost (to date) of $666 billion. That’s a cost to taxpayers of $278,000 per job.

In other words, the government could simply have cut a $100,000 check to everyone whose employment was allegedly made possible by the “stimulus,” and taxpayers would have come out $427 billion ahead.

Furthermore, the council reports that, as of two quarters ago, the “stimulus” had added or saved just under 2.7 million jobs — or 288,000 more than it has now. In other words, over the past six months, the economy would have added or saved more jobs without the “stimulus” than it has with it. In comparison to how things would otherwise have been, the “stimulus” has been working in reverse over the past six months, causing the economy to shed jobs.

In other words, Obama's own economic advisers have confessed that the Stimulus was a failure.

Obama and the 111th Congress burned trillions and trillions of our dollars -- more money than the annual budgets of the Defense Department or Medicare -- in the furnace of government cronyism.

Our children and grandchildren are on the hook for these so-called "Stimulus" funds, with interest payments, that utterly and completely failed. Unless you count rewarding Obama's public sector union supporters.


Hat tip: TrendingRight.com.