Thursday, February 18, 2010

Who are you going to listen to, Boehner, Cantor, McConnell or the nation's leading economists?

'Every Major Economic Research Firm Says Stimulus Added At Least 1.6 Million Jobs'

Perhaps the best-known economic research firms are IHS Global Insight, Macroeconomic Advisers and Moody’s Economy.com. They all estimate that the bill has added 1.6 million to 1.8 million jobs so far and that its ultimate impact will be roughly 2.5 million jobs. The Congressional Budget Office, an independent agency, considers these estimates to be conservative.
Of course it really depends on when you ask Boehner, Cantor and McConnell if the stimulus created jobs. If they're home cutting ribbons it did, if they're out sucking up to the teabagger sheep, it didn't. But it doesn't matter - we know what the economists say.