The Angry White Guy

Obama’s bogus jobs and imaginary congressional districts

Posted November 17th 2009 at 11:12 am by AWG

Obama’s bogus jobs and imaginary congressional districts are everywhere as reported on the Obama $18 million website recovery.gov…. have you seen this map?

Bogus jobs create or saved claimed by the Obama administration.
75,343 Bogus jobs ‘created or saved’ by the Stimulus

More than ten percent of the jobs the Obama administration has claimed were “created or saved” by the $787 billion stimulus package are doubtful or imaginary, according to reports compiled from eleven major newspapers and the Associated Press.

Remember the post I wrote on the importance of understanding basic math? Well it seems someone at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council received a lesson or two in basic math…

I said….

Either someone in the White House is mathematically challenged or they are… see this is why we need to focus more on subjects like math and science in school and not sex ed and gay rights (in addition to singing songs to Obama)… if they gave there employees a 1.84% raise then you’d multiply the 508 by 0.0184 for a so-called (laughable) jobs saved as 9 POINT 35 jobs (9.35 job)

Now they come out and say…

The Southwest Georgia Community Action Council claimed to have saved 935 jobs with the $1.3 million it received, even though only 508 people work there. In fact, the group used most of its grant to give raises and now says it created 9.35 jobs.

Wow and I don’t even have a degree in mathematics.

But what other bogus claims were made, lets look at a few…
The full list is in the bogus job link above.

Officials at East Central Technical College “said they now know they shouldn’t have claimed 280 stimulus jobs linked to more than $200,000 to buy trucks and trailers for commercial driving instruction…The 280 were not jobs, but the number of students who would benefit…”

A shoe-store owner claimed he created nine jobs on an $889.60 contract. In fact, he supplied nine pairs of shoes to the Army Corps of Engineers.

A month-long roofing project that received less than $30,000 in stimulus funds and involved six workers was erroneously reported as creating 450 jobs

The town police department reported saving 108 jobs with a $15,355 grant. The department only has 23 officers.

A $1,000 grant to purchase a single lawn mower was credited with saving 50 jobs.

The city claimed to have created 64 jobs with a $485,000 stimulus grant, with which it put new solar panels on a school roof.

At least 4,000 of the supposedly created jobs in Nevada government — and possibly hundreds more — have been called into question in the light of reports that local governments were “told to take the amount of stimulus money they received and divide it by $92,000, the theoretical average wage and benefits of a job.” The Nevada Department of Education divided by $66,681 and the state’s higher education system used a figure of $45,000 when each estimated 2,000 jobs “saved.”

And the list goes on and on and on…

You have to wonder is there a complete loss of common sense and understanding of basic math in this country or is it a deliberate effort to deceive in the hopes of not getting caught? Or is a effort by the Obama administration to inflate numbers by giving vague or deceptive instruction? It should not come as a surprise to anyone that the government lies and spins the facts and the story, every government, every administration spins and lies but this one under Obama has put the spin and lies into overdrive and they are being caught in many of them, case in point… jobs so-called created or saved in congressional districts that do not exist.

Jobs ‘Saved or Created’ in Congressional Districts That Don’t Exist

I pointed this out too, jobs created or saved to upgrade diesel motors for a company in the 13th Congressional district… problem is the company was in CANADA! and I asked my congressmen exactly when did Canada become a congressional district, I’m still waiting on a answer.

Here are a few of those…

In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says. There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.

recovery.gov says $34 million in stimulus money has been spent in Arizona’s 86th congressional district in a project for the Navajo Housing authority, which is actually located in the 1st congressional district.

But wait there’s more….

In Oklahoma, recovery.gov lists more than $19 million in spending — and 15 jobs created — in yet more congressional districts that don’t exist.

In Iowa, it shows $10.6 million spent – and 39 jobs created — in nonexistent districts.

In Connecticut’s 42nd district (which also does not exist), the Web site claims 25 jobs created with zero stimulus dollars.

The list of spending and job creation in fictional congressional districts extends to U.S. territories as well.

$68.3 million spent and 72.2 million spent in the 1st congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

$8.4 million spent and 40.3 jobs created in the 99th congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

$1.5 million spent and .3 jobs created in the 69th district and $35 million for 142 jobs in the 99th district of the Northern Mariana Islands.

$47.7 million spent and 291 jobs created in Puerto Rico’s 99th congressional district.

And still there are people that think they can effectively and efficiently run health care… insane. They spent about $150 billion of the stimulus and it’s riddled with errors, fraud, lies, miscounting and healthcare is 18% of the US economy and people want to turn that over to these mathematically challenged mental midgets?

The Stimulus Jobs Inflation Map

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