Here's that jolt to the economy, more federal workers hired. Now there's a good long term growth policy.
Think these jobs will ever go away?
Since last December, 4 million jobs lost, but, 25,000 federal jobs gained.
Stimulus funds boost number of federal jobs - USATODAY.com
How's that TARP thing going anyway?
TARP inspector to say transparency 'attitude' on bailout frustrating - TheHill.com
Check out this quote from the article:
Barofsky also will warn that it is unclear that the government rescue package has done much to increase the amount of bank lending or yet to remove toxic assets from bank balance sheets.
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Uh....those were the two things that TARP was supposed to take care of as I remember it. So what was it used for?