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Of course, at some point, it will be pointed out that not much of the stimulus money has been spent yet, so that is why more jobs haven’t been created or “saved”.

My question, “Why the hell not?!”

If the objective was to spend money to create jobs, why, after ten months, haven’t you spent the money? What are you waiting for?

On the other hand, if it was just a big pork bill, then jobs weren’t the focus and no amount of money spent will produce measurable job growth. Keeping government jobs safe doesn’t generate the economic growth needed to jobs in the private sector.

I just loved the part where he reassured everyone that he had created or built 1 million new jobs. Somewhere it seems real math drops off and obamanomics picks up. Its like playing cards with a little kid: every hand wins.

@SouthernRoots: Obama’s National Economic Director Larry Summers said: “You’ll see the effects begin almost immediately.” All those shovel ready jobs remember?

And if you go back and look at Christina Romer’s testimony before Congress she admits that the remaining stimulus spending probably won’t do much to spur job growth.

Obama dismissed all the tried and true Republican solutions for job growth through tax cuts for small business and now we are stuck with this mess.

Time to run this ad again:

Q Mike’s America,

These unemployment numbers are misleading.

The reality is that unemployment numbers published by the Bureau Of Labor Statistics, show 17.5%. This includes the so called marginally attached workers.

Here’s how the bureau defines and includes numbers that the White House and Congress wish to ignore:

…….”NOTE: Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the recent past. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not looking currently for a job. Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule.”

So, … 17.5% it is. That is the number that any decisions going forward should be based on.

Blame Bush! Obama and his criminal cohorts have been singing that song so long I almost can hear it in my sleep. When is Obama and his criminal cabinet going to start doing their jobs? Thank God I am retired and not caught up in the unemployment ranks. When do we start impeachment proceedings is my next question? It can’t be soon enough.
Madalyn

We must keep things in focus, we elected a Dithering President who lacks the intelligence and courage to take the bar, whose major accomplishment was a Marxist style job called Community Organizing. Oh, he was an accomplished campaigner and excellent reader of teleprompters. He is a war time president, who has no concept of how to lead a nation at war. He has stated that victory is not our goal. Of course a military victory is neutralized if a leader has no idea of how to negotiate or dictate a peace.

If we achieved total victory next week, do you have faith in a Dithering President to conduct peace negotiations with more leadership than he has shown during the war?

Our economy is barely working while the Ditherer, Pelosi, and Reid are scheming to tax us into prosperity. So driven to tax they ignore the fact that every dollar of new tax is dollar taken from a struggling economy that becomes an anchor to slow the economy even more. But people who are enraptured in Marxist Delusion or Collusion see the state as the economic engine rather than free enterprise; yet they fail to see that a compromised economy that is taxed into oblivion will eventually have no free market money to tax. That is when the great engine that drove this Free Market economy slows to a halt and our taxing imbeciles in Washington will be left scratching their heads and butts wondering why the Marxist Economic Principles failed.

Other than not damaging our country beyond Hope, the best that we can Hope for from this dithering moron is that America will learn from this and never, ever elect a dithering incompetent moron again.

American Patriots, it is time to increase the amperage on this dithering nitwit in the White House, we need to increase our efforts to be be more creative and not so worried about fighting the good fight. We must work to discredit this president and his legacy with every keystroke as if our lives depend on it. We have been given a great gift with these keyboards and the internet, Paine, Jefferson, and Adams accomplished unbelievable things with laborious and slow printing presses. We can never duplicate their brilliance, but with effort, we can make a difference. We the voices of many from many different backgrounds must merge our voice and creative abilities with the same resolute determination as our troops in the field. We owe our parents, we owe the founding fathers, we owe the children, and Americans not yet born; to strive to find the truth and present it in a way that will enlighten and inform those who are cerebrally challenged.

Obama Dithers, America Withers bthr (sic)

Godspeed- Skook

Don Surber has a roundup of newspapers that are beginning to question the “jobs saved/created” stats the Obama camp is attempting to pass off. Some of these would be comical if not for the fact that it’s our hard earned dollars being spent and it’s bankrupting our country. Laugh or cry, whatever:

AP

“The White House seized on an initial report from a government oversight board weeks ago that claimed federal contracts awarded to businesses under the recovery plan already had helped pay for more than 30,000 jobs. The administration said the number was evidence that the stimulus program had exceeded early expectations toward reaching the president’s promise of creating or saving 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.

“But the 30,000 figure is overstated by thousands — at the very least by nearly 5,000, or one in six, based on AP’s limited review of some of the contracts — because some federal agencies and recipients of the money provided incorrect job counts. The review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs were credited to stimulus spending when, in fact, none was produced.”

Sacremento Bee

“Up to one-fourth of the 110,000 jobs reported as saved by federal stimulus money in California probably never were in danger, a Bee review has found… In a required state report to the federal government, the university system said the $268.5 million it received in stimulus funding through October allowed it to retain 26,156 employees.

“That total represents more than half of CSU’s statewide work force. However, university officials confirmed Thursday that half their workers were not going to be laid off without the stimulus dollars.”

The Denver Post

“The federal government reported Friday that Colorado created or saved 8,094 jobs through grants, loans and contracts funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Problem is, the figure is wrong, according to an analysis of recovery.gov data by The Denver Post. Although a Colorado Springs Head Start program reported it had created or preserved 269 jobs, the real number was three, according to an interview with a program manager.”

New York Times

“In June, the federal government spent $1,047 in stimulus money to buy a rider mower from the Toro Company to cut the grass at the Fayetteville National Cemetery in Arkansas. Now, a report on the government’s stimulus Web site improbably claims that that single lawn mower sale helped save or create 50 jobs.”

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“The Associated Press exposed Wednesday how the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council in Moultrie reported that stimulus spending has saved 935 of its jobs, though only 508 people work there. Public records show the council reported receiving $187,440 in federal stimulus funds partly to fund pay raises and college scholarships for staff. The council issued a statement on its Web site Thursday, blaming the error on a misplaced decimal point. The number of jobs reported should have been 9.35, not 935, the statement says.”

Dallas Morning News

“Reports that Texas has created or saved 19,752 jobs so far with stimulus funding appear to overstate the impact of the program, according to interviews and an analysis of government data. More than one-quarter of those jobs, or about 5,100, were summer positions for people 24 and younger… One tiny Navarro County town’s housing authority reported creating 450 jobs with a $26,174 grant, a claim that was obviously wrong but not fixed in time for last week’s reports. The city of Corpus Christi said the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development also questioned its claim that 195 jobs would be created by the construction of a child care center.”

Greenville News

“In fact, the numbers that have come out of Washington relating to the efficacy of the stimulus bill have been either questionable or are flat-out wrong. About 8,100 jobs were created in South Carolina by the stimulus according to recovery.gov. The state Commerce Department puts the number at 3,497 jobs — less than half of what’s being touted. And more than half of those were in a summer youth employment program, according to the newspaper [USA Today] report.”

WBDO Florida

At the White House’s website on the stimulus package, it claims 129 jobs were saved in Cocoa Beach. Was that what really happened, or did employees just get raises? Those 129 jobs are at the Brevard Child Care Association, so I asked the Executive Director there, and got some hemming and hawing.

“No, uh, not, well saved/maintained. Maybe it’s a matter of semantics.”

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/3334

@Missy: Thanks for that roundup Missy. If ~$1,000 for a lawnmower saved 50 jobs then maybe they should spend the entire stimulus package on lawnmowers. We’d have full employment and be begging guys from Mexico to come and work here.