This interactive map of job losses by county over the last few years is sobering.
Add in a bit of math and it becomes even more interesting. “Rick Mills
from C-Biz pointed out that if one took the most optimistic number of
jobs created – 4 million – and divided the total stimulus money
allocated into that number, one ends up spending $200,000 for each job.”
If the job is a 40 year job
based on sound economic principles, $200,000 is actually not bad.
However, most of these jobs won’t continue once the stimulus money is
removed. They are, simply, communally-supported jobs, not free market
jobs. This is the “business” model that collapsed the Soviet Union.