AP: “How much are politicians straining to convince people that the government is stimulating the economy? In Oregon, where lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus, Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program’s first three months. But those jobs lasted on average only 35 hours, or about one work week. After that, those workers were effectively back unemployed, according to an Associated Press analysis of state spending and hiring data. By the state’s accounting, a job is a job, whether it lasts three hours, three days, three months, or a lifetime.”

In other tough news on the economic front, Joe Biden is in Pennsylvania touting the stimulus today, which, if the pattern holds, mean the state’s unemployment numbers for the month will be terrible when they’re released.

Once again, if Joe Biden is sighted in your state, seek economic shelter immediately.