Do you believe the Stimulus has created or saved any jobs?

Republicans are claiming that the stimulus has created no jobs whatsoever—not even a single one. So far, the stimulus has included $92.8 billion in tax cuts, $74.4 billion in contracts, grants and loans, and $105 billion in benefits (mainly extended unemployment benefits). How do you manage to spend $272.2 billion without creating a single job.

It would seem reasonable that even buying $272.2 billion worth of hamburgers, or commissioning a vast fleet of trucks to move water from the Atlantic to the Pacific in order to equalize the ocean levels would create a large number of jobs—either for hamburger chain workers, bun and condiment makers, meat packers and farmers in the first case; or for truckers, filling station attendants, oil company workers and truck builders in the other.

Why can’t we focus on real issues, such as whether this form of stimulus is the best approach to an economic downturn, instead of insisting on debating things that aren’t even remotely connected to the truth?