Monday, January 05, 2009

Obama to create 600,000 new Democratic votes

Or as we like to call them, government jobs.
According to the Political Punch, who did the math:

The president-elect says he wants to "create three million new jobs" -- this is a change from a few weeks ago, when he said he wanted the plan to create OR SAVE two million jobs.

He says the "No. 1 goal of my plan ... is to create three million new jobs, more than 80 percent of them in the private sector.”

If you do the math: 20 percent of three million means 600,000 new government employees.


Oh man. Goodbye to all of the talk about controlling the deficit.I did some more math, and I figured out the following:

Approximately 125 million people voted in the last election. Let's presume that Obama hires 600,000 of them into government jobs. He just shifted about 0.5% of the vote into the Democratic party.


You can also read the text of Obama's statement here, on the Politburo website.

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