Hopenchange: Stimulus Jobs last One Week

Kelly Plandel works on the renovation of a Portland State University classroom in Portland, Ore., seen in this photo taken, Friday, July 17, 2009. Renovations to the University is part of Oregon's $176-million stimulus package and is one of Oregon's biggest use of stimulus dollars.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Jobs that last a week. A week. ONE week. I'm not speechless. I won't go that far. Just having a hard time keeping my eyes from rolling back into my head. It's as if all the proficient, qualified, successful citizens in this country left the government to a bunch of preschoolers. All this money, and one week jobs are suppose to give us hope? Are we suppose to take them seriously?
Naive. We have an entire White House administration of incompetence. And they're expensive little kids.

SPIN METER: 'Help Wanted' counting stimulus jobs

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - How much are politicians straining to convince people that the government is stimulating the economy?

A blood vessel might break in their head. Just saying.

In Oregon, where lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus, Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program's first three months.

And since they lost 7,200 nonfarm jobs in June alone...

But those jobs lasted on average only 35 hours, or about one work week.

That sounds more like a prank, not a job.

After that, those workers were effectively back unemployed, according to an Associated Press analysis of state spending and hiring data.

Unemployment generally happens when employment ends.

By the state's accounting, a job is a job, whether it lasts three hours, three days, three months, or a lifetime.

They should ask the people who had the job one week and didn't the next.

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With the economy in tatters and unemployment rising, Oregon's inventive math underscores the urgency for politicians across the country to show that spending programs designed to stimulate the economy are working—even if that means stretching the facts.

They don't need to create jobs, only soundbites.

At the federal level, President Barack Obama has said the federal stimulus has created 150,000 jobs, a number based on a misused formula and which is so murky it can't be verified.

Pretty much like Obama's entire persona.