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ABC NEWS, Nov 18, 2009----Stimulus grants: Why Was The White House Website Riddled With Errors? Officials tell ABC News so far, they found 700 mistaken Congressional districts out of more than 130,000 stimulus grants. On Monday night, ABC reported on errors found on the website set up by the White House to track the number of jobs created or saved by the economic stimulus program. The website was riddled with reports of jobs in places that didn't even exist. That report prompted anger on Capitol Hill, and defensiveness at the White House. On Tuesday night's broadcast, ABC's Chief Congressional Correspondent Jon Karl took another look at the stimulus confusion (link) SOURCE http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/11/why-was-white-house-website-riddled-with-errors.html
LINK---Jon Karl: White House Vows to Correct Stimulus Reports; Officials Tell ABC News So Far, They Found 700 Mistaken Congressional Districts Out of More Than 130,000 Stimulus Grants
ABC NEWS' JONATHAN KARL, Chief Congressional Correspondent, REPORTS, Nov. 17, 2009
When it comes to stimulus spending, could the wheels of government bureaucracy be grinding too quickly for once? Responding to more inaccuracies discovered in the reporting of spending and job creation from the administration's economic stimulus plan, the top White House official charged with overseeing the program vowed today to go through the reports with a fine-toothed comb and to correct the mistakes. The promise came after ABC News found that Recovery.gov, the government Web site created to track the expenditures, had many job creation and stimulus spending figures that were attributed to congressional districts that do not exist, or that were incorrectly identified. "The first time out, we knew there were going to be problems," said Edward DeSeve, special advisor to the president on the stimulus bill. "We don't think there are a lot of them. There are less than 1 percent in terms of the recent concern about congressional districts of the overall reports. And we've got a good commitment from the recovery board to work with us to fix them."
Officials tell ABC News, so far, they have found 700 mistakenly credited congressional districts out of more than 130,000 stimulus grants. The White House's Web site claims that more than 640,000 jobs have already been saved and created by the " $787 billion stimulus program. The reports used to come up with that number are riddled with errors. In addition to the jobs in non-existent congressional districts reported Monday by ABC News, in real congressional districts, there are also problems, lots of them.
Moore's Shoes in Campbellsville, Ky., claims nine jobs were created from an $890 grant for nine pairs of work boots for the Army Corps of Engineers. Head Start of Augusta, Ga., claimed 317 jobs with a $790,000 grant, but it was really just a one-time raise to its 317 employees. Chris Whitley is a fiscal officer for Central Savannah River Area Economic Opportunity Authority, which administers the Head Start program in Augusta. He says it was the administration's stimulus help line that advised them to claim 317 jobs. "It wasn't illegal, immoral or unethical. And they told me to do it, so I did it," said Whitley.
The mistakes have prompted anger on Capitol Hill. Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., the powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, was outraged that one sewer project in his district was listed as creating 100 jobs. The real number is five. When asked what he thought when he saw the mistakes in his district, Obey said, "I wanted to strangle somebody." Obey is demanding the administration fix the mistakes. "Fix the problem, the blessed problem, so that we're getting accurate information. I don't care what people's bureaucratic niceties are, or how hard it is to do it. I mean, they've got to fix the problem, so the American people can understand what the realities are.
SOURCE http://abcnews.go.com/WN/white-house-stimulus-website-riddled-errors/story?id=9110298
Oh, thank heavens it worked! All that sinking economic news, those businesses failing left and right of us and the high unemployment numbers, and oh, the increasing stories about people losing their houses, well, that was confusing me!
Its a crock of BS!!! When I see or hear the sound of construction trucks going back and forth, then I’ll know the economy is improving. At the moment its extremely quiet. No banging of roofing hammers either. The building trades and all the associated trades, i.e. suppliers of furniture, rugs, landscaping, appliances, etc. are either closed or closing. I believe Biden was picked as VP because he is a yes man. No body in his right mind would buy this line of BS that the economy is improving due to this BS stimulus. If all this is true about the hoarding and slush funds, where are the torches, scythes and pitchforks People??
850 billion to “create or save” 3.6 millions jobs?
Wow! what a deal! ONLY $240,000 PER JOB
(real and imaginary jobs)
Does anyone there even HAVE (or know how to use) a calculator?
“They’re Biden and The Brain
Yes, Biden and The Brain
One is a “genius”
The other’s insane.
They’re laboratory mice
Their genes have been spliced
They’re Lyin
They’re Biden and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Braaaaaaaaaaaain.”
which stimulus....monetary or fiscal stimulus? Was it the rebate checks in 2008 or the Fed rate cuts to 2% in 2008? Or was it the fiscal stimulus in 2009? Or the Fed rate cuts to zero% in 2009? Or was it TARP?
Republicans better hone their arguments, because Dems are comparing Obama’s first two years to Reagan and are saying “Stay the course”.
But Reagan inherited stagflation of double-digit inlflation and didn’t have the FED lowering to zero. but raising the Fed Funds rate to 19%—and the Prime lending rate was over 20% .......in the early 1980s....
Close. SHBE "bullshit" remarks.
The Administration really loses credibility when they act like the economy is recovering and the stimulus worked. Layoffs are still running at ~450K/month. No one (sane) is viewing that as a recovering economy. Lying about it to our faces is insulting.
Hey Joe, that three-letter word, J-O-B-S, is a big f*cking deal.
Is this what people thought they meant?
Why the hell can’t they just come out and call him a liar?
Has Obama ever paid a bill, rather than shoving one down people's throats?
Is it just me or is anyone else tired of the BS and outright Lies that come out of this Administration.
They spent 2 years blaming Bush for everything. That’s not working anymore now they are running a “feel good” propaganda message campaign.
Repubs are skeptical? They should be in full Joe Wilson mode!!!! Good frakin grief....=.=
the author misspelled "bullsh*t".
BTTT