Big Hairy News Editorial - Financial experts have calculated that President Obama's jobs plan will cost taxpayers $250,000 for every job saved or created. Including interest to the ChiComs, the actual total is a whopping $312,500.00 for every job!
Of course the problem with this new stimulus jobs plan is that it creates a bunch of temporary union construction jobs that end when the bridges are repaired, highways completed, etc. Considering the average infrastructure project lasts approximately 10 - 12 months, that's a lot of cash spent for such short term results.
Here's a better idea: Instead of giving Fat Tony and his AFL-CIO buddies a small fortune for next-to-nothing (again), we need to just give every unemployed individual $62,500 a year for five years. While I realize this is slave wages for Fat Tony and his boys, the average person would be happy as a clam.
And like any person given money they didn't work for, recipients will blow it on an endless variety of crap they don't need, giving our economy a healthy shot in the arm that will last for a full five years, versus maybe one for Obama's plan. Five years from now these people will be able to find real jobs, as conservatives will have had time to undo the damage this administration has inflicted on the private sector.
The logic of this argument is undeniable, and to do otherwise would be retarded. Make it so.
Note to government: Make sure you have my new zip code!