att-plays-jobs-card-obama-marketwatch: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

att-plays-jobs-card-obama-marketwatch: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance: Did AT&T Corp. really think that its 11th-hour offer to bring 5,000 wireless call-center jobs back to the U.S. if its $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA was approved would work?

Probably not, but it was worth a shot. A government so hobbled by the lack of jobs created since the financial crisis might consider anything if it could boost payrolls, even allowing a massive mobile telecom deal envisioned by AT&T Inc. (T - News) and T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE.DE - News)."