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Analysis finds stimulus confusion (fuzzy math on saving jobs claim)
WZZM TV 13- USA Today ^ | 11/3/09

Posted on 11/03/2009 9:05:05 AM PST by earlJam

Cannot post article due to rules.

Here is MY summary:

Texas man gets $26,174 to fix roof and fence at his apartment building. Government claims 450 jobs saved.

Police department in Plymouth Conn receives $15,355 for new computers. Government claims 108 jobs saved at this department of 22 cops.

Southwest Georgia Community Action Council- recieves $1.3 million. Government claims 935 jobs saved (out of only 500 employees!) In reality, they used the money for a pay raise.

Teach For America- received $2 million to help fund salaries for their 125 employees. Government claims 1425 jobs created or saved.

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1 posted on 11/03/2009 9:05:06 AM PST by earlJam
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To: earlJam

So not only are they taxpater funded jobs which are a net economic loss, they aren’t even real jobs done by real people.


2 posted on 11/03/2009 9:16:14 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: earlJam

Obama Math made easy.


3 posted on 11/03/2009 9:16:56 AM PST by chippewaman
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To: mnehring

Porkulus Ping.


4 posted on 11/03/2009 9:18:00 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: earlJam

I read of one person who applied for the magic money and were refused until they made up a number of jobs saved or created.

The thing about these children in the White House, they aren’t even clever.


5 posted on 11/03/2009 9:18:54 AM PST by IamConservative (I'll keep my money. You keep the change.)
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To: chippewaman

I still think he should take a lesson in Clintonspeak and call them a “projected jobs surplus”.


6 posted on 11/03/2009 9:18:58 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: cripplecreek

For every job created by this money you have 10 jobs created as official job creation counters.


7 posted on 11/03/2009 9:21:09 AM PST by earlJam
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To: IamConservative

The only thing the children in the white house has is a media too loyal to tell the truth and a congress to greedy to speak up.

If the GOP ever regains control, there damned well better be trials, convictions and prison sentences over this ponzi scheme that makes the Madoff scandal look like child’s play.


8 posted on 11/03/2009 9:23:15 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: earlJam
Liz Oxhorn, a spokeswoman for the White House stimulus effort, said the reports give "the American people one of the best looks ever at real-time information about a major initiative" and the reporting "allows people to find any mistakes, as it should - which will help us correct them promptly."


9 posted on 11/03/2009 9:27:11 AM PST by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: earlJam

Teach For America- received $2 million to help fund salaries for their 125 employees. Government claims 1425 jobs created or saved.””

What’s wrong with that math??? Just jam a “4” in the middle of 125 employees,

and ya got your number of jobs saved ............ 1425.!!!

What’s could be simpler?

What newspaper picked up on this?

See, it’s not fuzzy at all ———— it’s just Obama and his beautiful cronies at work, savin’ jobs !!!!!!!!!!!

Man, some people, all they ever do is complain.

Just submit.


10 posted on 11/03/2009 9:30:38 AM PST by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: IamConservative

I read one that said you cannot answer zero for how many jobs were saved or created.


11 posted on 11/03/2009 9:42:17 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: earlJam

The stimulus also prevented two major earthquakes, one hurricane and an invasion by aliens.


12 posted on 11/03/2009 9:47:04 AM PST by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: earlJam

LOL. What a joke. Good to see someone did some actual fact-checking.


13 posted on 11/03/2009 10:02:15 AM PST by Girlene
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To: earlJam

lulz, “fuzzy math.”

All these caricatures are emblematic/exemplify strands of pilitical correctness and are inherently dubious. Truth is that whether it is purposeful manipulation of numbers, misleading numbers, “fuzzy math”, etc., the point is the White House is lying and decieving the general public on job creation being we all that there arguably is no such thing as a “saved” job.


14 posted on 11/03/2009 10:33:53 AM PST by cranked
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To: earlJam

Your great grand kids great grand kids tax dollars at work.


15 posted on 11/03/2009 10:35:16 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: cranked

The White House employed ACORN people to count.


16 posted on 11/03/2009 10:48:10 AM PST by earlJam
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To: earlJam

Including SEIU to boot. ;-)


17 posted on 11/03/2009 10:50:47 AM PST by cranked
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To: earlJam
I think that the saddest indictment of this massive fraud is that BO is even touting the make-believe creation of 640,000 jobs at a cost of about $1.2 Million each!!!

Wouldn't you think that any president with any pride would hide from those kind of statistics??

18 posted on 11/03/2009 10:51:23 AM PST by Nevermore (...just a typical cracker, clinging to my Constitutional rights...)
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To: earlJam

Such BS we have to deal with....


19 posted on 11/03/2009 10:54:45 AM PST by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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To: earlJam

.....................Texas man gets $26,174 to fix roof and fence at his apartment building. Government claims 450 jobs saved........................

So here’s this guy who reported accurately that he used 6 workers, but then resubmitted his report that he used 450 hours.

Everyone is wrong!

He didn’t use 450 men!

He didn’t use 6 workers!

He employed 450 hours out of an annual 2000 hours per worker, so he used about 1/5th of one worker!


20 posted on 11/03/2009 10:57:09 AM PST by aShepard
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