  200000 per job  harvard economist martin feldstein s has calculated that president obama s american jobs act would cost taxpayers about 200000 per job created treasury secretary timothy geithner stated the price per job is the wrong way to measure the bill s worth he also pointed out that there is no other option currently under consideration for getting the economy moving and putting more people back to work geithner believes there is a very good chance the jobs act will pass because the proposals have seen bipartisan support in the past and the cost of inaction is far too high you have to be kidding we can rsquo t continue to spend more money we don rsquo t have government doesn rsquo t create jobs for an article from abcnewsgocom on geithner rsquo s comments click on the following story link  http abcnewsgocom business economy geithnergoodchancejobsactpas 