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Stimulus Cash Used to Grow More Government Jobs

On a day when 250 Kohl’s employees found out that they no longer have jobs in Wisconsin, Governor Doyle touted the creation of more government jobs. The Governor highlighted 8,284 full-time jobs that were created or saved by spending $680 million in federal funding so far this year, the majority of which were government jobs. It equates to $82,086 of taxpayer money to create one job for three months or $328,344 for the year.

“This stimulus funding isn’t proving to be the jump-start to our economy that the Democrats at the state and national level claimed that it would be,” said Senate Republican Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau). “Spending $328,344 of taxpayer money to generate one job per year isn’t the most efficient use of resources. Nearly 75% of the jobs created were government positions that will lack a funding source once this one-time money is gone. This stimulus cash is nothing more than a state government bailout.”

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