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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (60514)	3/4/2009 3:55:02 PM
From: MJ	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224755

On the local Washington, D.C. news-----Obama created about 2 million dollars in jobs or lets say Obama paid for $2 million of street repairs, pot holes, on New Hampshire Avenue in Washington, D.C. Pictures were shown of the people filling the potholes----and yep they were the regular workers-----no new hires there. No new jobs-----------just jobs that routinely have to be done during cold weather and after cold weather in the winter. What new jobs???? How will Obama take a 60 year old man that has been let go because he is near retirement age---will he put this man to work in a different occupation. Will he then count the job that was vacated as being filled by a new employee, as job creation. This is called a RIF in the D.C. area-----it happens on a regular basis within the tech field and the government field of work. Well, at least my friends on New Hampshire are getting something from the Stimulus package-----until next winter when the potholes reappear. This is called paying for 'infra-structure'. mj