‘Creating or Saving 3 Million Jobs’
While the pundits have wanted the government to shoot first, then ask questions later, they’ve sounded the theme of restoring jobs to rescue the ailing economy.
Obama has repeatedly said he sees the stimulus as a means of “saving or creating 3 million jobs.” Even on Jan. 7, at a press conference naming Nancy Killefer the Treasury Department’s first “chief performance officer,” a position created to track government spending, he told reporters the stimulus, or “economic recovery and reinvestment plan,” would require “dramatic investments to revive our flagging economy – save or create 3 million new jobs, mostly in the private sector.
