Isnt looking so firm. According to the bureau of labor statistics 10 Million People are unemployed, but even worse, an additional 91 million are out of work and not even looking. Sabrina shaver and steve island says it was not worth the money. Sabrina. This is the president took a page from the wpa and fdr years and years ago. We have not done anything new except the president is trying to defend the creation of government created jobs rather than saying we dont know what would have happened in the government stayed out of the business of job creation and allowed the economy to move forward and the private sector to create jobs in a more efficient manner. Charles you can are you coming from the private side we do know when government gets as large as this government is it does crowd out the private sector mitigating what they can do for the economy. If you look at the situation five years ago there was bipartisan panic over the state of the jobs. There want to rush as much money into t