I realize that not ALL Republicans feel this way, but I answered a question about why the White House is lying about the amount of jobs that the stimulus provided, and received thumbs down b/c of my response. It was:
Not sure what numbers the White House has provided, but I can tell you about the company that I work for… as an IT Recruiter for a Federal Government Contractor, we support a division of the government that received $7 million in stimulus funds, which allowed for us to recruit for an additional 143 personnel to support that particular contract. We also just found out that we were awarded another contract that was re-opened for bidding in part b/c of funds received from stimulus money… that contract is a 210 FTE (full-time employee) contract. In all, in case you aren’t doing the math, b/c of stimulus funds, our company was able to provide jobs to 353 people across the mid-west.
What’s wrong with our company providing jobs that were made possible by stimulus money?
The contracts are 5 year contracts. I think that in 5 years, our economy will have made a recovery. If not, we’re still at least providing short term solutions (of at least 5 years).
YB Logical – our company didn’t acquire the $7 billion. The government sector that our company supports did.
Thanks to those answerers that chose to answer the question without interjecting some form of negativity.