<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#e5e5e5;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/77cb5d41-a0d9-4b6b-b07d-a2108d29e3c6/43EB52FE-4CD9-4A16-84CA-01D30294785E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.suitablyflip.com/suitably_flip/2009/10/government-efficiency.html" href="http://www.suitablyflip.com/suitably_flip/2009/10/government-efficiency.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.suitablyflip.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.suitablyflip.com/suitably_flip/2009/10/government-efficiency.html"><P>Stimulus spending, said to create or save several hundred billion jobs and cause the oceans to recede, has indeed apparently had some success with job creation (or retention) in New York.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.suitablyflip.com/suitably_flip/2009/10/government-efficiency.html"><BLOCKQUOTE><DIV>The stimulus isn't doing a thing to help the unemployment rate in the New York metro area, according to <STRONG>shocking</STRONG> new White House data released yesterday. </DIV><BR /><DIV>The feds have spent a <STRONG>half-billion dollars</STRONG> on 10 of the largest government stimulus contracts in New York City and Long Island -- but created or retained <STRONG>only 54 jobs</STRONG>. </DIV><BR /><STRONG>That's an astounding $9 million per job.</STRONG> </BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.suitablyflip.com/suitably_flip/2009/10/government-efficiency.html"><P>At that rate, you could employ all of New York State for a measly $180 trillion.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.suitablyflip.com/suitably_flip/2009/10/government-efficiency.html"><P>(HT: <A href="http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2009/10/stimulus-success-in-new-york-9-million.html">JWF</A>)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.suitablyflip.com/suitably_flip/2009/10/government-efficiency.html">Handcrafted by Flip on October 16, 2009</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/43EB52FE-4CD9-4A16-84CA-01D30294785E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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