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>> bret: and now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine. a government audit says the census bureau has already wasted millions of dollars in preparation for the 2010 head count and that could multiply unless the agency imposes tighter spending controls. the associated press states that the commerce department report found $3 million was spent on more than 10,000 census workers who were paid $300 apiece for training but quit or were let go before they could perform any work. another 5,0...

Plus people on the streets to be census workers, so for a short time at least until july or august, they are going to be showing up in the jobs numbers. but these arent real jobs created, right? >> thats right. remember there is an extra one billion dollar that is being siphonned from the stimulus phone to beef up these -- money to beef up temporary staffers for the census and pr campaign. >> sean: go to the political aspect of the dangers politically for the republicans. what things they have t...

Plus people on the streets to be census workers, so for a short time at least until july or august, they are going to be showing up in the jobs numbers. but these arent real jobs created, right? >> thats right. remember there is an extra one billion dollar that is being siphonned from the stimulus phone to beef up these -- money to beef up temporary staffers for the census and pr campaign. >> sean: go to the political aspect of the dangers politically for the republicans. what things they have t...

You want more jobs and fewer government jobs. march, february, april and may, you see the jump in government jobs and a drop in private sector jobs. june, loss in the public sector, gain in the private sector. same pattern here. give our viewers a sense of what this is important. >> first of all, it is not a complicate td he kwags equation here. the bump up were the census workers, the people knocking on doors and asking people to fill out their forms. we all new and said this back in june that ...

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Details on this as they come in. the u.s. economy and looking for work is getting a little tougher lately. the labor department reports job openings fell to 3.2 million in may. a drop of 100,000 from april. analysts say one reason is the feds stopped hiring census workers. president obamas approval rating on the economy also taking a huge hit. it fell seven points in the last month to 43%. thats a new low in this "the washington post" abc news poll. in that same survey, 51% of registered voters ...

Considered small, we did whitehouse.gov. were a small 28-person company. the magnitude of what we do and the people that we touch with what we do shows that we have such a high level of skills and training. >> i get that. but at the end of the day, listen, we can hire census workers. we can incentivize people all day. until were creating work that solves the problem of our society, updating infrastructure or incentivizing solutions to our incredibly inefficient power grid, our incredibly ineffic...

Treasury department and white house say this $.3 million jobs, hard to feel our quantified a saved jobs. it matters if youre a teacher or firefighter or a police officer that didnt get laid off but its hard to feel when you want to start seeing people who are unemployed get off the payroll of the federal government and filing for unemployment claims and start working again. jon: a lot of those census workers are not working anymore, that was a big hire by the federal bottom. >> indeed, youre abs...

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231,000 private sector jobs that were created in that month? hell point to that as a sign of success and say were on the right track. jon: yeah. and 60 some thousand of those jobs created were government jobs, right? basically one-fifth of the number government jobs, i suppose some of that might have to do with the census. >> reporter: it did. altogether there were 66,000 census workers hired, some other government workers were fired, so you had a net creation of 59,000 government jobs. by the w...