Comments on: 25% of California “saved or created jobs” bogus

By: Hard Starboard

Hard Starboard — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:12:46 +0000

10.2%…

Double-freaking-digit unemployment, gentlebeings. The last four-tenths of which erupted in the month of October alone. 558,000 more jobs down the pink slip midden hole. And it’s all Barack Obama’s fault: The unemployment rate rose from 9….

By: Stimulus Job Numbers, Supersized? « Sea to Shining Sea

Stimulus Job Numbers, Supersized? « Sea to Shining Sea — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:50:18 +0000

[...] Morrissey has a thread on HotAir which not only discusses the inflated California job counts, but also the phony stimulus job [...]

By: Obama’s stimulus plan: Unemployment hits 10.2% | You Decide Politics

Obama’s stimulus plan: Unemployment hits 10.2% | You Decide Politics — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:07:28 +0000

[...] being “saved or created,” which is total nonsense. Hot Air has a story showing that 25% of the “saved or created” jobs on California are bogus according to the Sacramento Bee. Leave a comment » Visit the You [...]

By: Over50

Over50 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:45:26 +0000

In the private sector this type of reporting, even involving much smaller sums, results in jail terms, why is no one being charged?

By: herself

herself — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:30:41 +0000

$10,000 per head? Gee, working for CSU must be pretty damn as paying jobs go. Even at half the number of jobs $20,000 per head is still severely underpaid.

{^_^}

By: Confutus

Confutus — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:24:22 +0000

Two possibilities:

1. Gross Incompetence

2. Profoundly Dishonest

I’m going with 2.

marklmail on November 6, 2009 at 3:48 PM

I’m going with both 1 and 2

By: SilverStar830

SilverStar830 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:02:32 +0000

If I have said it once, I have said it a thousand times…

If you are incapable of Dazzling ‘em with Brilliance; Baffle ‘em with Bull$hit! -Barackus Hubris Maximus *hail caesar* et. al.

By: alwaysfiredup

alwaysfiredup — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:26:11 +0000

I really wish the term “saved or created” had been around for W.’s administration. I can think of no end of mischief pols can cause with such non-numbers. Fuzzy math, indeed.

By: kurtzz3

kurtzz3 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:17:50 +0000

Sooooo….

If I push you aside to “save” you from a charging hippo,even though there isn’t a hippo within 100 miles of here and you have 0% danger of being trampled by a hippo I should be congratulated for saving this life.

You were saved from a danger that does not exist.

By: Jeff from WI

Jeff from WI — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:10:36 +0000

hey I just bought a can of soda. does that mean I save 36 million jobs in the soda industry?

BruceB on November 6, 2009 at 1:44 PM

No, you only save 36 million jobs if you spring for the 20 oz bottle. A can of soda saves about 20 million jobs. In other words you cost 16 million jobs by your beverage size choice!

highhopes on November 6, 2009 at 2:37 PM

WOW! I just bought 3 twelve packs of Coke. They had a deal 3 for $10.50 I must of saved a gajillion jobs!

By: ya2daup

ya2daup — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:57:38 +0000

There are no miscalculations, intentional evasion or errors in any states' reports of the Porkulus Package's influence on employment. Remember, they projected an economic multiplier for government spending of 1.5x and recipients are showing that it is so, by gum!

By: ya2daup

ya2daup — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:49:02 +0000

“This is not really a ~~real number of people~~ pink slip,” CSU spokeswoman Clara Potes-Fellow said. “It’s like ~~a budget number~~ an irrevocable order to find employment somewhere else.”

By: marklmail

marklmail — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:48:33 +0000

Two possibilities:

1. Gross Incompetence

2. Profoundly Dishonest

I’m going with 2.

By: TN Mom

TN Mom — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:48:29 +0000

Can’t wait until they try to count the 2010 census…

By: mr.blacksheep

mr.blacksheep — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:45:46 +0000

Come on, you expected REALITY from California? Sacramento is talking about floating bonds worth BILLIONS to pay for a new network to deliver water supplies. Exit question: WHO is going to buy those bonds?

GarandFan on November 6, 2009 at 3:43 PM

Surely liberals will?

By: GarandFan

GarandFan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:43:37 +0000

Come on, you expected REALITY from California? Sacramento is talking about floating bonds worth BILLIONS to pay for a new network to deliver water supplies. Exit question: WHO is going to buy those bonds?

By: TheAlamos

TheAlamos — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:39:44 +0000

Bozo and his commie friends are idiots when it comes to “job creation”.

… or maybe their goals are really job destruction.

Congratulations, SEIU and all the Thuggish Unions in the former land of milk and honey! You are succeeding in turning America into 3rd world country. Soon enough, we will be totally just the same (equal) with Cuba and the rest of the Dictatorial Socialist Latin America!

By: mr.blacksheep

mr.blacksheep — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:34:32 +0000

The national media needs to start holding them accountable for their fantasy bookkeeping — and Congress needs to pull back the funding for Porkulus right now.

Snort!

By: Big Nicholas

Big Nicholas — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:28:45 +0000

I have it from unimpeachable sources that MA included Senator Mark Kirk (replaced the late, but not lamented Ted Kennedy) as a job created or saved.

By: GaltBlvnAtty

GaltBlvnAtty — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:57:04 +0000

I have to believe, or at least hope, that each of the repetitive disclosures of Obama, Pelosi and Reid lies, pushes a few addition hundreds of people over the edge into understanding how deeply evil the radical liberals are, and how much damage they intend to inflict on our great country.

By: dominigan

dominigan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:53:43 +0000

10.2%.

‘nuf said.

BardMan on November 6, 2009 at 1:49 PM

Actually the real unemployment number is 17.5%. The unreported +7.3% are those that have become disenfranchised and are no longer looking for a job.

By: dominigan

dominigan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:51:46 +0000

I’m not sure which concerns me more: the very real possibility of uprisings by those who have had their lives damaged by the Traitor-in-Chief or the very real possibility of uprisings by those who have had enough of Unconstitutional power grabs by Obama and Congress. MrScribbler on November 6, 2009 at 2:31 PM

Why do you think they were so appalled by what happened in Honduras? Think they saw that and the TEA Parties and... got scared?

By: Just like in Ohio, many California jobs ’saved’ by stimulus funds weren’t in jeopardy | Fire Andrea Mitchell!

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:44:06 +0000

[...] Sacramento Bee is a liberal biased fish wrap. Yet, they report that up to one-fourth of the 110,000 jobs reported as “saved” by federal stimulus money in California probably never were in danger. In this case its probably [...]

By: progressoverpeace

progressoverpeace — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:43:18 +0000

MrScribbler on November 6, 2009 at 2:31 PM

Bro, it is. I find this all quite amazing, as fraudulent reporting like this would be enough to land anyone in the private sector in jail. To attach this fraud to hundreds of billions of PUBLIC funds should make it that much worse. … Of course, none of the criminals over at Fannie Mae really paid a legal price, but that doesn’t mean that the straw that breaks the camel’s back, finally, is not about to be placed. One would imagine that outright and intentional fraud with almost $800 billion should be about it …

By: starboardhelm

starboardhelm — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:40:14 +0000

It’s fraud. Time to invoke the False Claims Act. Against the White House itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act