Since he hasn’t created the jobs he promised if his stimulus plan was passed, why should we believe him now? In fact he promised that unemployment wouldn’t raise above and here it is at 9.4 and we’ve lost 1.6 million jobs since the stimulus was passed. Why? Because as I’ve said repeatedly, Obama and the Democrat-led Congress has done nothing to help the private sector retain jobs. No incentives, no tax cuts, nothing. Obama can’t create enough public sector jobs to offset what’s going on in the private sector.

President Barack Obama promised Monday to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his $787 billion stimulus plan this summer, with federal agencies pumping billions into public works projects, schools and summer youth programs.
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Many of the stimulus plans that Obama announced Monday already were in the works, including hundreds of maintenance projects at military bases, about 1,600 state road and airport improvements, and federal money states budgeted for 135,000 teachers, principals and school support staff.
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Just how much of an impact Obama’s recovery program had on the pace of job losses is up for debate. Obama has claimed as many as 150,000 jobs saved or created by his stimulus plan so far, even as government reports have shown the economy has lost more than 1.6 million jobs since Congress approved funding for the program in February.

And it will only get worse when Obama raises the corporate tax rates (as Microsoft’s CEO notes it will make US jobs more expensive). If his plan is passed by Congress, he will be losing much more jobs than he can create in the public sector.
We will be losing high paying private sector jobs but they won’t be replaced in the public sector. Road and military base maintenance are not long-term or high paying jobs. What Obama is trying to replace is not comparable to what his economic policies will lose (if the Democrat-led Congress is stupid enough to go along with it). As to police, nurses, teachers, principals and school support staffs, money given to the state for these jobs is also temporary. If the economy is still bad next year, there would need to be more federal funding of layoffs.