Where are the jobs the president promised?

• Position: Labor market - YOUR LIFE - Brief article

Now that it has been a little more than a year since the enactment of the Obama Administration's $787,000,000,000 "stimulus" bill, House Natural Resources Committee ranking member Doc Hastings (R.-Wash.) has released the following statement noting its failure to create jobs and the lethargic release of funds paid out by the Department of the Interior:

'The American people were promised job creation by the stimulus bill and that national unemployment would remain below eight percent after its enactment. A year later, unemployment hovers near 10 percent and the Interior Department has paid just 10 percent of the allocated $3,000,000,000 in stimulus funds that was intended to create jobs--not exactly reflective of the abundant 'shovel-ready' projects that were promised. With the economy losing another 20,000 jobs in January, for a total of 3,300,000 lost jobs since ... February [2009], Americans can't wait another year for this Administration to get serious about job creation.

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"From day one, Republicans were against this bloated stimulus bill because of the overwhelming cost to...