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Instead, it appears to reflect a decision to distort government data collection to support explicitly political agendas.
With U.S. unemployment now topping 10 percent, the Obama administration is struggling more than ever to fashion credible counterarguments to the assertion made by this editorial page and many pundits and economists that the massive stimulus measure was a poorly thought-out pork fest that wouldn’t work. What’s the easiest way to defend the stimulus? Make up claims about its glorious results.
Yep - and now they are getting caught, but most of the MSM doesn't seem to want to take up the scandal.
Obviously, the funny method of calculation by obama is the real problem.
Desperate times demand desperate measures.
But he SAVED 450 jobs. I just saved 1,000 jobs by typing here. Ask our resident marxist, Saggy, how one actually measures "saved jobs". That explanation should be a riot!
A very in-depth analysis of the utter failure of the stimulus.
Billions for state, but where are jobs? | freep.com | Detroit Free Press (http://www.freep.com/article/20091115/NEWS15/311150005/1318/Where-are-the-jobs-from-federal-stimulus-money? - broken link)
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WASHINGTON -- Seven months into the massive federal stimulus program, the vast majority of government grants, contracts and loans in Michigan so far have created or retained virtually no jobs, a Free Press analysis shows.
A Free Press analysis of reports on more than 1,800 awards to agencies, departments, municipalities and firms in Michigan under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act found huge inaccuracies in job estimates of several recipients and millions of dollars in errors in their reports.
Morici's biggest complaint is that, despite Obama's claim last January that 90% of the jobs the stimulus created or retained would be in the private sector, it is set up to produce mostly public-sector jobs.
I think people are realizing you just cannot trust what obama says. He has shot all semblance of credibility with the failure of the stimulus and then the bogus claims about how well it is succeeding.
That is one reason why people no longer believe what he says about HC. He shot his wad on the stimulus - and it failed.
Exclusive: Jobs 'Saved or Created' in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist
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Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 9th Congressional District, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending.
There's one problem, though: There is no 9th Congressional District in Arizona; the state has only eight Congressional Districts.
There's no 86th Congressional District in Arizona either, but the government's recovery.gov Web site says $34 million in stimulus money has been spent there.
More lies and deceit.
Is this the "redesigned" website that cost $18 Million?
Gotta read this article - whole list of jobs created or saved in districts that don't exist. This list includes US Territories. And spending too. List of spending in districts that don't exist.
Congressman Blasts White House for Faulty Job Data on Government Web Site That would be a democratic congressman.
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The government Web site -- Recovery.gov -- is under fire for posting a number of jobs created in congressional districts that don't exist and for accepting unrealistic data from several reporting outlets.
In a statement late Monday, Rep. David Obey of Wisconsin, chairman of the House committee, called the inaccuracies "outrageous" and said the administration owes the American public "a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes."
Is this what $18 million will buy you? Slapped together, obviously untested with a severe data integrity problem. How can data be entered for districts that don't exist - this is just basic, fundamental design principles we're talking about here. This kind of crap should not be allowed to happen. Another $18 Mil, down the crapper.
Congressman Blasts White House for Faulty Job Data on Government Web Site
Is this what $18 million will buy you? Slapped together, obviously untested with a severe data integrity problem. How can data be entered for districts that don't exist - this is just basic, fundamental design principles we're talking about here. This kind of crap should not be allowed to happen. Another $18 Mil, down the crapper.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- At first it was just an unverifiable assertion. Now it turns out to have been a case of bureaucratic ineptitude and possible fraud. Transparency and accountability aren’t working out the way President Barack Obama had hoped.
The Obama administration claims that its $787 billion economic stimulus program has "created or saved" 640,329 jobs across the country, with more to come.
Really? Those employment claims are looking like a snow job.
But their credibility on the impact of stimulus spending at this point has been badly wounded.
Actually, you can precisely measure it: 0.
That's what I've been saying all along.
Credibility in the crapper.
That's is why people don't believe him on the other issues.
Interesting back and forth between Brad DeLong and Noam Scheiber over the question of whether Democrats, possibly including the White House, really believed last summer that “[t]he stimulus was working more or less on schedule, and the job market was gradually recovering.”
I guess it must have been true. But all I can say is, what were they thinking?
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So you really have to wonder who was giving the Dems very, very bad advice.
I have a candidate - saggy?
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