Nov 19, 2009

Fake job numbers in stimulus propaganda

A report at the link below says the Good News is: Obama creates 30 new jobs in one congressional district. The Bad news is: There is no such district!

By the way, I love the photo in the Los Angeles Times article showing Joe Biden doing a dance as if he were an administration puppet. Obama seems to be snapping his fingers.

The Times article reports:

Chicago politics, where voting is such a revered civic duty that people do it even after they're dead, cold, stiff, stuffed, boxed and buried beneath the permafrost for years, has now come to D.C. with the Obama administration.

This afternoon comes the most encouraging economic news, courtesy of our keen-eyed buddy Rick Klein over at ABC, that the Obama administration's $787-billion economic stimulus has, for example, thankfully created 30 new jobs in a little-known rural corner of Arizona at a cost to American taxpayers of only $761,420 ($25,380.67 per job).

So the people of that 15th Congressional District in staunchly Republican Arizona should be pretty happy about this.

Trouble is, there is no 15th Congressional District in Arizona. None. Nada. Zip. Zero. Doesn't exist. Not in Arizona. Not even on paper at the Democratic National Committee. There are only eight. Period.

The administration's recovery.gov website reported these jobs as being created there.

The report goes on:

But then the trouble is that just months after grandly unveiling the recovery.gov website to showcase its economic prowess and tech-savvy, the Obama administration just spent 18 million additional taxpayer dollars to redesign the still new website.

And that site proudly also reported nonexistent new stimulus spending not just in Arizona but other states across the country.

How many other stimulus jobs have been reported as saved in fictional congressional districts?

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