SocraticGadfly: Questioning Obama's stimulus spending

April 14, 2011

Questioning Obama's stimulus spending

Yes, this is a first for me. My only questioning before has been to say the amount was way too small.

But, on vacation, seeing several U.S. Forest Service jobs aided with stimulus money? I doubt that really saved any jobs. No government jobs were likely to be lost. And, unlike city street departments and county or state transportation departments contracting out highway work, the Forest Service projects surely involved very few private sector jobs.

That said, the stimulus dollars spent on stuff like this were surely small. But, then, why tout them?

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