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Hot Air » Top Picks: Bogus Porkulus numbers epidemic hits Wisconsin, too
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RT @RickSmall: Stimulus saves nine out of every five jobs (DC math...) http://short.to/w24w #tcot #teaparty (via @ccoalition) 23 days ago |
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RT @ccoalition Stimulus saves nine out of every five jobs (DC math...) http://short.to/w24w #tcot #teaparty 23 days ago |
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RT @redhk: White House: stimulus saves nine out of every five jobs http://tr.im/EfYe #tcot #p2 #fail 23 days ago |
Good enough for government statisticians
Betsy's Page —
... may be artificially inflated, then consider the following, which could suggest an undercount: The totals do not reflect any school jobs saved or created in Chicago, the state's biggest district and the recipient of at least $293 million in stimulus funds. Chicago schools budget chief Christina Herzog said the district easily saved at least 1,200 jobs because of the stimulus, but didn't report them as such because of directives from the state board. State officials dispute that. As David Freddoso points out , this whole exercise misses the point. Yes, the federal government ...
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The Anchoress —
... (or other legislation) that “will not increase the debt or limit our freedom.” Aside from the fact that this White House seems not to like freedom all that much, the truth is, all the Democrat leadership keeps saying to the GOP is, basically, “shut up; you don’t have a plan, you don’t want to do to anything.” So, it seems we have a ways to go to that moving forward, part.
Stimulus: Saving 9 out of every 5 jobs! Got the hours right, anyway.
NY Cabbie: Throws ...
Bogus Porkulus numbers epidemic hits Wisconsin, too
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... or creating” jobs in education — jobs that weren’t at risk in the first place. It would take twenty years for the tax revenue from those jobs to repay the federal outlay for them, which we all will have to pay eventually. The poor accounting for this massive spending program should be a national scandal. At least the Journal-Sentinel and the AP are doing their part. Where are the rest of the national media outlets, who make such a pretense of “speaking truth to power”? Update : David Freddos o: “Stimulus saves nine out of every five jobs.”
Oh, So He Wants Job Creation Ideas, Does He?
The Sundries Shack —
... the feeling the President really isn’t being completely forthright with this statement :“We are open to any demonstrably good idea to supplement the steps we’ve already taken to put America back to work,” Obama said. There are a couple reasons I say that. First, he hasn’t really put anyone back to work. The “jobs saved or created” numbers his administration has been touting as a result of the Stimulus bill have been either wildly wrong or outright fraudulent . Meanwhile, the unemployment rate is two percent over his own economic teams’ ...
