Abraham Lincoln famously said: "A house divided can not stand."The 2009 Obama version is: "A house of cards will stand forever."God or the Devil is in the details.The long term problem with Obama's recent political victory the passage of the $787 Billion Dollar "stimulus bill" is that simple math proves otherwise. Even if the bill produces the advertised 3.5 million jobs divide that number into the advertised cost of $787 Billion, this equals $224,857.14 per job. The average value of an American job is about $45,000.00 per year. ($42,500.00 - 2005)The simple math indicates that 20% of the spending might actually stimulate the economy long term. That is, if anything tangible is produced by these jobs.  Past performance would indicate that this is a very big if.A savvier way to view this is: The $45,000 dollar job might produce $15,000 in tax revenue. This means that the best return on investment from the Government's point of view is 14.9 years....(Read Full Post)