This factoid from over at Ace’s makes the “jobs saved or created” line by the White House look even more ridiculous:

(via Ace of Spades)
http://minx.cc/?post=294203

Two big points I want to make:

First of all, that Florida day care center that claimed Spendulus money “saved or created” 129 jobs when in fact the money they got was simply used to give all existing employees raises?

That’s not a “mistake.”

When the WH demanded that those who received Spendulus money “report” back on how many jobs were “saved or created,” they insisted upon a nonsensical rule: If a single dollar of Spendulus was spent on an employee’s salary, whether that employee was a new employee or an old one, that gets counted as a job “saved or created.” If he’s a new employee, that job was created. If he’s an existing employee, that job was saved.

For $1.

Yes, $1. Because the nonsensical rules the White House told these people to count “saved or created” jobs by simply stated: If any employee’s salary is paid, in whole or in part (any part!), count that as a job “saved or created” by the spending.

And then report that number back to us.

Note that the White House’s rules do not seek to discover which jobs really were “saved or created.” To come to that conclusion, one would need a set of more rigorous rules — which excluded some jobs from the “saved or created” category, rather than attempting to include them all under that rubric.

Unbelievable!!!

How can anyone in the MSM keep a straight face while they carry the water for these lying,corrupt officials that make up the Obama administration.

Once again proving that when liberals brag about how smart they are,it’s not based on great ideas and solutions,it’s based on how many lies and amount of corruption they can get away with in furthering their failed ideology and agenda.

Baxter Greene on October 30, 2009 at 12:38 PM

So true:

‘Jobs Created or Saved’ Is White House Fantasy: Caroline Baum
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aUuHhaDx8Hr8#

But the government has no money of its own to spend; only what it borrows or confiscates from us via taxation. Oops.

“Government job creation is an oxymoron,” said Bill Dunkelberg, chief economist at the National Federation of Independent Business. It is only by depriving the private sector of funds that government can hire or subsidize hiring.

That’s why “jobs created or saved” is such pure fiction.

How much of a complete dumba$$ do you have to be to have compared Obama to the likes of FDR,JFK,and Lincoln.

Obama always has been and always will be nothing but a dressed up Hustler.

Baxter Greene on October 30, 2009 at 2:12 PM