Saturday, October 31, 2009
160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That 'Calculator Abuse' "
"Calculator abuse".
I think it's more like "Taxpayer abuse"...
I think it's more like "Taxpayer abuse"...
This is from a post by Jake Tapper on the ABCnews blog:
"So let's see. Assuming their number is right -- 160 billion divided by 1 million. Does that mean the stimulus costs taxpayers $160,000 per job?
Jared Bernstein, chief economist and senior economic advisor to the vice president, called that 'calculator abuse.'"
