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Conservative squirrels running around looking for acorns that don't exist. We ate your kind when I was growing, baiting them with nuts that did not exist.
Less than 5% of the stimulus money has been spent. About 20% will be spent by 1 February. More than 80% will be spent five weeks before the November elections.
With the economy solidly recovering, with the job loss being reversed (beginning Feb or Mar -- write it down, cons; unlike you and Bush, I am accountable for what I say), with folks feeling better: guess who is going to get smashed in the fall of 2010?
My stupid party that refuses to learn so far from its mistakes.
Stimulus Watch: Salary raise counted as saved job | www.azstarnet.com ®
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 problem is that particular District employs only 290 Teachers in total. This is according to a recent Chicago Tribune investigation of White House claims of 473 jobs saved in that North Chicago area. These large discrepancies are now becoming common in other Chicago areas as well.
In the White House official report,Wilmette Public Schools District 39 was credited with 166 jobs saved by stimulus aid. Superintendent Raymond Lechner said the number should be zero.
At Dolton Riverdale School District 148,stimulus funds were said to have saved the equivalent of 382 Full-Time teaching jobs. That's 142 more than the district actually has.
A similar discrepancy was found in data for Kankakee School District 111,where the stimulus report logged the equivalent of 665 Full-Time jobs saved. "That's impossible",a top Kankakee school official said,adding that "the entire payroll Full and Part-Time is only 600 Workers."
Oh well,your hard earned Tax Dollars at work i guess. Yikes! Once you see how this is being done on a small scale it becomes easier to understand why their numbers just don't seem very credible. Pretty sad stuff.
But in interviews with recipients, the Globe found that several openly acknowledged creating far fewer jobs than they have been credited for.
One of the largest reported jobs figures comes from Bridgewater State College, which is listed as using $77,181 in stimulus money for 160 full-time work-study jobs for students. But Bridgewater State spokesman Bryan Baldwin said the college made a mistake and the actual number of new jobs was “almost nothing.’
Stimulus fund job benefits exaggerated, review finds - The Boston Globe
I believe only 10 percent of Jerseys money went to infrastructure. Half our bridges are falling down. Now that's something everyone left or right cares about. Sux for us.
One thing is for sure:
The stimulus bill is creating a lot more net jobs than the private sector is.
Why is it freaking wingnuts never hold the private sector responsible for anything?
If you believe in capitalism, let's see the capitalists pull us out of this mess. Otherwise shut up!
Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.
There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.
Obviously, horrific mismanagement. But we have known about that for a long time. It happened even when Lincoln was a wartime president.
In Oklahoma, recovery.gov lists more than $19 million in spending -- and 15 jobs created -- in yet more congressional districts that don't exist.
In Iowa, it shows $10.6 million spent – and 39 jobs created -- in nonexistent districts.
In Connecticut's 42nd district (which also does not exist), the Web site claims 25 jobs created with zero stimulus dollars.
The list of spending and job creation in fictional congressional districts extends to U.S. territories as well.
$68.3 million spent and 72.2 million spent in the 1st congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
$8.4 million spent and 40.3 jobs created in the 99th congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
$1.5 million spent and .3 jobs created in the 69th district and $35 million for 142 jobs in the 99th district of the Northern Mariana Islands.
$47.7 million spent and 291 jobs created in Puerto Rico's 99th congressional district.
The stimulus revived 8 recently retired congressional districts. Pennsylvania’s 21st District has received just under $2 million in funds. Mississippi’s 5th District and Oklahoma’s 6th received $1 million from the legislation, respectively. All three were eliminated by the 2000 census.
Many other recipients carried the banner for congressional districts that have been defunct for decades. South Carolina’s 7th took the cake, garnering more than $27 million in stimulus funds, despite being eliminated in 1930. And Virginia’s 12th District may have been written off at the start of the Civil War, but it must carry some sentimental value in Old Dominion–it received more than $2 million, according to recovery.gov.