Oregon has received so far $1,853,057,283 of stimulus money , 9,365 jobs created or saved in the process. Just over 2,000 awards were given over 1,800 were grants given to the state and only 4 loans . With only 9,365 jobs saved/created and over one billion spent were is the money. Education received 175,000,000, Health and Human Services received 441,000,000, Public Safety has received over 4 million . Most of the almost 2 billion stimulus received has went to Government Programs,welfare and unemployment, and to save jobs for public workers. Governor Kulongoski has spent very little stimulus on the public sector with fewer than 2,000 jobs created/saved.
Is the stimulus package growing the government to large by creating jobs that are unsustainable when the federal money is no longer flowing.Yes, Oregon has not addressed the long term issue of creating local work in local communities.When the stimulus funds run out, Oregon will have to create new taxes to pay for the new Government workers- there is no other way ,other than to fire them .Oregon needs to find a way to create jobs in the private sector with small business tax cuts or grants.Small business is the American backbone, with anywhere from 51 to 83% of businesses being defined as small business. All of Oregon's eight largest industry sectors recorded job declines this year . Without small businesses Oregon's future looks meek .Oregon's unemployment numbers are at the highest since the mid-nineteen eighties ,and creating unsustainable jobs will not make this better it is just a band-aid and when it gets pulled off devastating pain .
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