This is the man we elected?????

In the nationally syndicated article by AP writers Matt Apuzzo and Justin Juozapavicius, the "White House" (I didn't know it could speak! - much less care about the unemployment crisis the country is experiencing!!) is quoted as saying that it's "UNFAIR" to judge the effects of the stimulus by the unemployment rate because no amount of stimulus money was going to keep the country's businesses "up and running"! Wasn't that the WHOLE POINT of the stimulus package? Or am I missing some pertinent information here? I was told by the senior senator from Virginia - in a rather lengthy email - at least for him - that the stimulus was supposed to provide and create jobs by funding work on infrastructure - it has but the jobs are only temporary and were already filled when the stimulus money was handed out. When I pointed out those self-same facts to Senator Jim Webb (D-VA), he failed to respond. Funny, huh? And here in good ol' Martinsville, most of the stimulus money we received was given over to keeping our police force functioning and our teachers employed. Again , all that money would have had greater effect if it'd been given to the unemployed and let them find some of the jobs that still exist. The nation of Sweden - one-fourth the size of the United States and with roughly one-eighth the population - supports its unemployed workers by paying them 80% of their last salary or wage until they find work or finish their education toward a new career. Wonder what the reason is that the "RICHEST NATION in the world" can't do the same?