What a surprise. According to USA Today, the stimulus money has been used to increase the number of bureaucrats in Washington.

Fourteen of the top federal agencies responsible for spending under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act say they’ve hired about 3,000 workers with stimulus money. That’s helped fuel the continued growth of the federal government, which increased by more than 25,000 employees, or 1.3%, since December 2008, according to the latest quarterly report. During that time, the ranks of the nation’s unemployed increased by nearly 4 million, Labor Department statistics show.

That sounds like a great use of our tax dollars. Just kidding. Seriously, who is suprised that the federal government would use our money to increase its size? Not me. Here is a piece I wrote with George Mason University’s Garret Jones on whether stimulus money can create jobs (by that we mean: Can the government create private jobs that do not destroy other private jobs?). We say no.