Please excuse me if this has been pointed out before - I only read so far in the comments. So if 600,000 jobs were created, it cost $1,375,000 per job. If 1,200,000 were, it was $687,500 each. At 3,300,000, it was $250,000 per job. The multiplier theory holds that if fat cat A spends all his $1.4M per year at various vendors, the money is spread around, thereby keeping 10-50 other people employed. If the multiplier were at work, then maybe only 60,000 people got $14,000,000 apiece. Even if 3,300,000 jobs were created it was horribly inefficient. And how much was recovered in Federal tax? Where do I sign up?

The (we) Republicans are inept at marketing. What we need is a simple, dramatic 15-second commercial, something like the old black-and-white newsreel "Train Wreck" showing a speeding locomotive labeled "Expenses" hauling boxcars labeled "Welfare", "Medicare", "Medicaid", "Social Security", "Defense", "Environmental Protection", "Energy", etc. crashing into a less-impressive locomotive labeled "Revenues" hauling "Corporate Taxes", "Income Taxes", "Fees", "Tariffs", etc. Let the 'rats throw grandma off the cliff - we need to shout that we're protecting her as long as she's 55 or older, & we're guaranteeing the survival of Medicare as a safety net for the indigent by balancing the budget NOW.