The Obamanation

Oooops.

The Bush dog was Barney, not Buddy.



The little rascal still should have been impeached for that escapade..despite that innocent "who me?" look!

[TheMercenary]

The White House job lie string continues to be pulled...

While Massachusetts recipients of federal stimulus money collectively report 12,374 jobs saved or created, a Globe review shows that number is wildly exaggerated. Organizations that received stimulus money miscounted jobs, filed erroneous figures, or claimed jobs for work that has not yet started.

The Globe’s finding is based on the federal government’s just-released accounts of stimulus spending at the end of October. It lists the nearly $4 billion in stimulus awards made to an array of Massachusetts government agencies, universities, hospitals, private businesses, and nonprofit organizations, and notes how many jobs each created or saved.

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.’’ Bridgewater has submitted a correction, but it is not yet reflected in the report.

In other cases, federal money that recipients already receive annually - subsidies for affordable housing, for example - was reclassified this year as stimulus spending, and the existing jobs already supported by those programs were credited to stimulus spending. Some of these recipients said they did not even know the money they were getting was classified as stimulus funds until September, when federal officials told them they had to file reports.

“There were no jobs created. It was just shuffling around of the funds,’’ said Susan Kelly, director of property management for Boston Land Co., which reported retaining 26 jobs with $2.7 million in rental subsidies for its affordable housing developments in Waltham. “It’s hard to figure out if you did the paperwork right. We never asked for this.’’

The federal stimulus report for Massachusetts has so many errors, missing data, or estimates instead of actual job counts that it may be impossible to accurately tally how many people have been employed by the massive infusion of federal money. Massachusetts is expected to receive an estimated $1 billion more in stimulus contracts, grants, and loans.

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http://www.boston.com/business/artic..._review_finds/

[classicman]

The article also says they "saved" many more jobs though.
I dunno about this saved vs. created business.

[TheMercenary]

I doubt anyone could dispute the "saved" angle, although it would be hard pressed to measure it compared to the oft measured monthly job "loss" reports which are measured. And if you are one of the millions who have lost jobs this year I am not sure it would carry much weight if you were still unemployed. I am more surprised they would try to get away with such a ruse after all the BS from the last Admin. As if no one would be looking.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Just one more indication that the Democratic Party thinks we're only as smart as they are. Or perhaps are less so.

No thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the majority party.

[TheMercenary]

Unemployment remains above 10%, what a legacy.

Legacy's are not judged after nine months....or Bush's legacy would have been as a post-9//11 "healer and uniter" who brought the country together at a time of national crisis.

The legacy didnt quite turn out that way.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Redux

Legacy's are not judged after nine months....or Bush's legacy would have been as a post-9//11 "healer and uniter" who brought the country together at a time of national crisis.

The legacy didnt quite turn out that way.

Damm right about that!

[TheMercenary]

More big brother government.

Federal oversight of subways proposed

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...402459_pf.html

At what cost to the public? Is there any evidence to suggest that oversight will significantly reduce accidents?

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Is there any evidence to suggest that oversight will significantly reduce accidents?

How would one expect to collect that evidence, without first doing some oversight?

[TheMercenary]

I am guessing, but in most transportation accidents the Fed Transportation and Safety Administration usually investigate. I would think they would have a pretty good trail. Why not strenghten the existing systems rather than have the Federal Government get involved at much greater cost. To what end?

[classicman]

Well for one thing we can create more boards and committees. Oh and we can appoint more Czars. Job creation baby.

[TheMercenary]

Yea, make government bigger! and then when it gets really big we can lay them off. What a plan.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Dear God, vote these people out of office. Not only are they betraying the public trust, they can't even lie well enough to escape detection for more than about twenty minutes. Malicious and incompetent.

While there are flashes of occasional shrewdness or potential shrewdness on the foreign-policy front, that's a mighty few bright spots in a record of just-ain't-got-it that will exceed the Clintons. Whom I also did not vote for. I am consistently wise, and Redux continues to have nothing real to believe in, or base his values upon.

[ZenGum]

I agree with all of that, UG, only you're 14 months late in posting it. :p