Obama Threw Out 60,000 "Saved" Jobs That Were Even Too Ridiculous By WH Standards

ABC News/The Lid ^ | 11/16/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

When President Obama started backpedaling on the number of Jobs his economic stimulus would create he started using the bogus term "Saved or created." This is how William McGurn described the term for the Wall Street Journal:

"To begin with, the number is pure fiction -- the administration has no way to measure how many jobs are actually being 'saved.' And if we had tried to use something this flimsy, the press would never have let us get away with it." “How do you know what a saved job is? How do you know what jobs would have been lost without this?” Davis said. “That was a clever political gimmick to make it even harder to determine whether this policy has any effect.”

As the job saved numbers began to come in people began to see how ridiculous the term was, for example, there was the AP released report that moved Job Saved from the ridiculous to the really comical. For example the Georgia Community Action Council which claims that 935 jobs were saved, impressive if true, but it can't be true because only 508 people work there.

The Georgia nonprofit's inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government's latest effort to measure the effect of the $787 billion stimulus plan despite White House promises last week that the new data would undergo an "extensive review" to root out errors discovered in an earlier report.

Now the word is out that there were even worse examples, but the President's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) threw out 60,000 Jobs that were even more ridiculus than the examples included in the report. Nice to know that the POTUS has minimum standards.

[Wee-Weed Up]

“And if we had tried to use something this flimsy, the press would never have let us get away with it.”

The Obama media has allowed it so far. So I’m not sure what this is talking about.

[Ken in Eastman]

I need some help here. Is it the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council or the Heart of Georgia Community Action Council or the Middle Georgia Community Action Agency? The latter two are related. The former is headquartered in Moultrie, but the second is headquartered in my home town, Eastman. The third is in Warner Robins. Is there a quick way to find out which one the report is discussing?
Thanks.

[21twelve]

Those three names! Are you IRS or FBI looking into money laundering schemes? They sound like front groups for one organization. Sort of like those organizations for Hezbellah and the Palestinians.