Fudging the Numbers on the "Stimulus" (A Stimulus For Deception.)

Center for Fiscal Accountability ^ | 4/19/10 | CFA

[Andrea19]

...Of course, they're favorite line is that the "stimulus" package supposedly "saved and/or created" millions of jobs. But, as the post points out, in order to be able to do that, they had to retroactively change the baseline...

[Andrea19]

Sometimes it's embarrassing when a government cannot obviously keep the hidden; not to worry though, hiding the facts about the Stimulus package should give Federal officials some practice.

[Pollster1]

The stimulus might be the best $700B we ever spent, since it trashed the credibility of Pelosi/Obama before they could do even more long term harm. Stimulus was pure waste, which makes it one of the least destructive efforts championed by our Dear Socialists.

[Bobby_Taxpayer]

AKA "Cookin' the books"