(bailing ou the autos - not the unions, which did not happen)
Who was given 51% control of GM and Chrysler after the bond holders were stiffed with ten cents on the dollar?
...the trillion in stimulus was not a public sector union gift, that's absurd).
From that bastion of right-wing hatred,
The New York Times.
The reports, for all their shortcomings, do provide the first check of how the stimulus bill is working so far. They suggest that more than half the jobs claimed so far are in the public sector — despite the fact that President Obama has said that he expects only 10 percent of stimulus jobs to be in the public sector.
Although President Obama initially said that 90 percent of the jobs created by the stimulus program would be in the private sector, the data suggests that well over half of the jobs claimed so far have been in the public sector. They include the 325,000 jobs in education, including teachers, administrators and support staff, as well as many of the 73,000 other jobs paid for with education grants, many of which were in public safety.
And that's from 2009. We've learned since then that much more of the money went to local and state governments than was originally thought.
