 the truth about the stimulus an excerpt from wwwdetnewscom   ldquo according to the report the program saved or created 24 million jobs at a cost of 666 billion even if we ignore the fact that there is no way to prove a job was created or saved the price tag adds up to a whopping 278000 per job beyond that the vast majority of jobs being counted belong to government workers in short the federal government confiscated billions of dollars in private wealth used it to fund itself and then decided to claim that it had saved the livelihoods of hard working americans rdquo just another example of why progressive solutions only make our economic problems worse for the complete story click on the following story link   http detnewscom article 20110708 miview 107080385 lauriethethreestimulusstooges ixzz1ryckouif 19  the truth about the stimulus  