Nov 05 2009
More “Saved or created” fiction
A stimulus job report that says more than 10,000 jobs were saved or created in Wisconsin is rife with errors, double counting and inflated numbers based more on satisfying federal formulas than creating real jobs, a Journal Sentinel review has found.
In one case, five jobs were mistakenly listed as 50 - and then counted twice. In another, pay raises to workers were listed as saving more than 100 jobs. And in another, jobs were listed as saved even though the money had not been received and no work on the project had begun.
The problems mirror those surfacing around the country, as the federal numbers claiming 640,000 jobs created or saved by stimulus money are being scrutinized.
It will be fun to watch the Obama administration squirm, but you can be assured that the media will be the villain in all of this…
The Obama administration, I am sure will call everyone a liar, even the people that are charged with investigating all of this. If you thought that the numbers seemed a little fuzzy, now you know why.
The pattern will continue. More fraudulent numbers. Fact-check. White House releases new numbers that are off. On and on. The stimulus was an absolute failure and this administration cannot do math. Just lost 500,000 jobs in October but I’m sure they created or saved another million somewhere.