Thank you, Chair.
We keep going round and round to witnesses, and I'm not sure we're still getting what we're looking for. I've been sitting here trying to decide whether we're just not asking the right questions--partly because we're lay people, we're not economists--or whether we're asking questions to which there are no answers.
That's what I've been trying to come up with--a line of questioning that might be useful. But I honestly don't know if I can.
If we're not asking the right questions, we need guidance. We need help to ask them. It's like Rumpelstiltskin or something: you have to say exactly the right word to make the magic begin. But maybe--it could be--there just are no answers to the questions we're asking, or not yet.
Is it simply too early to tell us how many jobs this stimulus money will actually create? Should we ask you to come back in six months or a year and look at it in retrospect, and then you could tell us the job creation?