All the numbers being thrown around by Obama, and his administration, had people laughing and shaking their heads in disbelief. It started out with a claim that 650,000 jobs “saved or created. Pure fuzzy math.
Last weekend, Obama sent out Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod and Valerie Jarret. All three gave out different “saved or created” job claims. It’s simple if you are not an Obama follower.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
WASHINGTON — Recipients of economic-stimulus money said they had used the funds to pay 599,108 workers in the last quarter of 2009, fewer than the number of jobs they had reported to have created or saved in the first seven months after the plan was enacted.
The recipients’ reports, published on the official government Web site recovery.gov late Saturday night, are likely to fuel further controversy over the impact of the $787 billion package, as Democrats seek to craft new jobs-creation proposals to address the country’s continued, high jobless rate.
Many opinion polls suggest that most voters do not believe the current stimulus program, which was passed last February, is working.
Stimulus recipients previously reported that they had directly “created or saved” 640,329 jobs by September 30, 2009, but their filings were widely criticized after it emerged that some people had reported saving jobs when they had actually spent the money on pay raises or paying employees who were not in danger of being laid off.
In December, the White House Office of Management and Budget changed its guidance, telling recipients they should start counting every worker whose salary was funded with stimulus money, rather than guessing whether the jobs would have existed in the absence of the federal plan. Opponents of the program accused the administration of ”moving the goal posts” to make the plan appear more successful.
This is how the Obama administration works. Put out bogus numbers then change the results as people catch on. It’s all a scam.
Let me explain it to those who still believe Obama’s numbers. When he took office in January 2009, the U.S. lost over 700,000 jobs and unemployment was 7.4 percent. We continued to lose jobs every single month and unemployment continued to rise. Unemployment hit 1o.2 percent and the Obama administration tried to claim that the stimulus was “saving or creating” jobs.
If this was true, why did unemployment continue to rise? If they created 1.5 to 2 million jobs, why have we lost over 4 million jobs? If jobs was Obama’s number one priority, why do we have over $500 billion in stimulus cash sitting in the Treasury?
Despite all their fuzzy math, this report shows the fraud committed by this administration. 599,108 jobs “saved or created” with $787 billion taxpayer dollars. I’m sure the left will spin this but the facts are on their $15 million dollar web site. Hard to debate the numbers your party puts out.
The stimulus is proven once again to be an utter failure. Obama promised the taxpayers that if his stimulus was passed, unemployment would go above 8 percent. Well, we are sitting at 10 % and it is higher in major cities. Obama promised his stimulus would create 3.5 t0 4 million jobs. Let’s do the math.
We have lost 4 million +. Obama promised 4 million jobs with his stimulus. This puts Obama in the hole by 8 million jobs. So no matter how many jobs he “creates or saves,” Obama has a long way to get back in the red. That’s a simple reality.
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