More than two-thirds of stimulus jobs at Department of Education

BigGovernment.com's Veronique de Rugy has a great story up about where the stimulus money was really being spent. According to her analysis of Recovery.gov, which monitors stimulus spending, more than two-thirds of the jobs alledgedly "saved" or "created" were with funds from the Department of Education.

The stimulus, then, was creating lots and lots of new teachers. As de Rugy points out, a third of all union jobs are in the education sector, and 33% of the education sector is unionized. The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, the two biggest teachers unions in the country, both heartily supported the stimulus bill.

Obama originally advertised that stimulus funds would be creating blue-collar "shovel ready" jobs. So far, most of those jobs have gone to the schoolhouse bureaucracies.