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SUBJECT: STIMULUS WATCH: Salary raise counted as saved job
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Harumph #11038 from OHIO on
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the
Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the
stimulus plan. Trouble is, 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.
About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the
Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren't
saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead,
that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who
received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren't saved.
That type of accounting was found in an earlier AP review of stimulus jobs, which the
Obama administration said was misleading because most of the government's job-counting
errors were being fixed in the new data.
The administration now acknowledges overcounting in the new numbers for the HHS program.
Elizabeth Oxhorn, a spokeswoman for the White House recovery office, said the Obama
administration was reviewing the Head Start data "to determine how and if it will be
counted."
But officials defended the practice of counting raises as saved jobs.
"If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job," HHS spokesman
Luis Rosero said.
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This gets about a 9.5 on the bullshiZt meter. You moron leftwing moonbats just keep
drinking the koolaid. 2010 can't come soon enough.
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Tex (12.25.230.210) from TEXAS says now there's a surprise
I see the left still looks at current events through rose colored glasses.Some things never change...
Tex
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Publius #10953 from MARYLAND says The only...
"saved jobs" are those that we CAN'T get rid of at the moment because they aren't up for re-election yet.
The "saved jobs" bullchit is the same game the left plays with funding increases for liberal causes. If the increase is less than what they asked for, then it isn't an increase at all...it's a "cut". Works well with the mentally challenged (aka typical democrat).
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