Very funny! :o) However, even with all the problems in reporting (further down the article it gets interesting):
http://www.propublica.org/article/white-house-changes-stimulus-jobs-count-111
jobs have been created and roads and bridges and golf courses are being built :o) North Carolina has a lot of that construction going on...

>It is a slow day in the small Saskatchewan town of Pumphandle, and
>streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and
>everybody is living on credit.
>
>A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel,
>and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms
>upstairs to pick one for the night.
>
>As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs
>next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
>
>The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt
>to the pig farmer.
>
>The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his
>supplier, the Co-op.
>
>The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the
>local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to
>offer her "services" on credit.
>
>The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel
>owner.
>
>The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the
>traveler will not suspect anything.
>
>At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the
>rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.
>
>No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole
>town is now out of debt and looks to the future with a lot more
>optimism.
>
>And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how a Stimulus package works.