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Nov
12
Obama Stimulus Jobs Claims ‘Wildly Exaggerated’
gryffn

So the Boston Globe wrote today:

The $4 billion in federal stimulus money sent to Massachusetts so far and found that the 12,374 jobs reportedly saved or created in the state to be  "wildly exaggerated."

Our money IN: to state agencies, universities, hospitals, businesses and nonprofit organizations.
The lies come OUT:  In some cases, organizations and businesses "miscounted jobs, filed erroneous figures, or claimed jobs for work that has not yet started." In other instances, no jobs at all were created.

The paper writes that in interviews with recipients, "several openly acknowledged creating far fewer jobs than they have been credited for."

Like these:

One of the largest reported jobs figures comes from Bridgewater State College, namely 160 full-time work-study jobs for students (in exchange for $77+k).  Backpedaling now, it admits the actual number of new jobs was "almost nothing.'' Bridgewater has submitted a correction, but it is not yet reflected in the report. — That is the M.O. of the Obama admin.

"There were no jobs created. It was just shuffling around of the funds,'' said Susan Kelly, director of property management for Boston Land Co., which reported retaining 26 jobs with $2.7 million in rental subsidies for its affordable housing developments in Waltham. "It's hard to figure out if you did the paperwork right. We never asked for this.''

No jobs created or saved – just a bunch of bull.

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Nov
04
Jobs & Obfuscation
gryffn

no jobsOn September 10th, the White White House proclaimed 1 million jobs saved, created by stimulus bill.

On October 30th, the White House touted 650,000 Jobs created or saved by Obama's stimulus plan. It went on to say  the economic stimulus plan had directly created or saved about 650,000 jobs … and it is on track to reach the president's goal of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.

Um, News Flash – we have LOST 3 MILLION JOBS.

Hello? Anybody home over there?

Case In Point:

$26,000 stimulus cash was given to a small town in Texas to put a new roof on a public housing project.

This is the part you have to pay attention to (take notes if you need to) — this $26,000 employed — temporarily employed — 5 roofers and one contractor. Six jobs temporarily created.  These figures were reported to the Obama administration and they said, oh, no, you saved 450 jobs!  They calculated HOURS and used that number for jobs.  And that false number still stands despite several attemps by that Texas town to correct it.  Six jobs. It was only SIX jobs! Hey, the WH wants that wrong number and one must wonder about the 650,000 figure. It it hours?

SIX TEMP JOBS becomes 450. Lies and obfuscation.
And that is only one story in the midst of thousands.
If we had a true and honest media, we would know about a lot more.

Talk about Fuzzy Math! I call it Outright Lies.

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Oct
29
Misdirections
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misdirection

The Obama administration would rather have you see this… Obama saluting fallen troops (which BTW, he is responsible for, because he will not send support, backup, reinforcements, to help protect the ones that are there.) Have you ever heard the saying: there is strength in numbers?

The Obama admin does not want you to notice that the Associated Press showed that the government had overstated by thousands the number of jobs it has created or saved with federal contracts under President Obama’s $787 billion recovery program.

They don’t mind FOX reporting things like this because they figure their smear campaign against them will work. But mainstream AP is quite another matter. So here’s the skinny:

The White House claimed federal contracts awarded to businesses under their recovery plan (stimulus, bailouts, giveaways)  already had helped pay for more than 30,000 jobs. They were trumpeting that the stimulus program had exceeded early expectations — a roaring success (though only 14% of the money has been spent).

Uh, can I have rest of it BACK?

However… (there is always one of those), the 30,000 figure is overstated — inflated — lied about.  AP reviewed some contracts and found the figures are wrong — by at least 5,000, or one in six. The review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs were credited to stimulus spending when, in fact, none were produced.

Within minutes of the publication of AP’s story, the White House released a statement at 12:15 a.m. Thursday that it said was the "real facts" about how jobs were counted in the stimulus data distributed two weeks ago.

Take note:

  • A Colorado company said it created 4,231 jobs with the help of Obama’s economic recovery plan. The real number: fewer than 1,000.
  • A child care center in Florida said it saved 129 jobs with the help of stimulus money. Instead, it gave pay raises to its existing employees.
  • Elsewhere in the U.S., some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two, three, four or even more times.

The discrepancy raises questions about the reliability of a key benchmark the administration uses to gauge the success of the stimulus….and their HONESTY — which is nowhere to be found.

Now, notice the WH retaliated to the report at 12:15 am this morning — just after midnight. Now that photo op with the salute is splashed around today. Misdirection…

They are so playing us.

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