President-elect Barack Obama is giving the people what they want to hear but will be hard presssed to deliver on his promises.

From ABC News’ Jake Tapper

In his radio address today, President-elect Obama uses some new language when discussing what he wants the stimulus package to achieve in terms of jobs. First off, he has a name for the package—the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan.”

The president-elect says he wants to “create three million new jobs”—this is a change from a few weeks ago, when he said he wanted the plan to create OR SAVE two million jobs.

He says the “No. 1 goal of my plan … is to create three million new jobs, more than 80 percent of them in the private sector.”

If you do the math: 20 percent of three million means 600,000 new government employees.

Watch the address above or read the text HERE.

What’s a few hundred thousand more government jobs when you face a $2 trillion dollar deficit?

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