Please Send in Clowns to Replace Obama Morons: Pay Increases Were Counted as Recovery Program’s “Jobs Saved”
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 5, 2009
Potential clown recruits for overseeing 'Obamanomics'... pay raises were counted by Obama as 'jobs saved'
For cryin’ out loud… this is over-the-top ridiculous.
Send in some clowns to replace these money-grabbing morons and put a stop to the idiocy of Obamanomics.
From Associated Press:
STIMULUS WATCH: Salary raise counted as saved job
By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and MATT APUZZO
November 4, 2009WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there.
The Georgia nonprofit’s inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government’s latest effort to measure the effect of the $787 billion stimulus plan despite White House promises last week that the new data would undergo an “extensive review” to root out errors discovered in an earlier report.
About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren’t saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren’t saved.
That type of accounting was found in an earlier AP review of stimulus jobs, which the Obama administration said was misleading because most of the government’s job-counting errors were being fixed in the new data.
The administration now acknowledges overcounting in the new numbers for the HHS program. Elizabeth Oxhorn, a spokeswoman for the White House recovery office, said the Obama administration was reviewing the Head Start data “to determine how and if it will be counted.”
But officials defended the practice of counting raises as saved jobs.
“If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job,” HHS spokesman Luis Rosero said.
More Obamanomics stupidity…
From Hot Air: Ohio jobs “saved or created” weren’t in danger at all:
The Obama administration included in its estimate of 640,328 jobs “saved or created” by Porkulus around 7200 positions in Ohio’s school systems. However, the Columbus Dispatch reports that the jobs listed were never at risk of being cut this year, and many of them wouldn’t have been cut at all, with or without the stimulus block grants…
Related reading:
Teh Resistance Blog: I Created or Saved 11 Jobs This Morning
Doug O’Brien, Big Government: More Stimulus Math: Cooking the Books on Stimulus Jobs
Gazzer’s Gabfest: “Created or saved” explained, at last.
The New Ledger, Big Government: Do the Democrats Have Any Solutions on Jobs? Anything at All?
Gateway Pundit: Rush Limbaugh on “Man-Child President” Obama: He’s Immature, Inexperienced & In Over His Head (Video)”
Pundit & Pundette: On the complexities of creating (and saving) jobs
Sacramento Bee: Many California jobs ‘saved’ by stimulus funds weren’t in jeopardy
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Ohio’s 7,200 “saved” education jobs from porkulus were NEVER in danger of being lost
Unfavorable Odds: Stimulus Math: $26,160,955 Per Job Saved/Created
Michelle Malkin: What is Barney Frank up to now? and The Fannie and Freddie debacle: An autopsy and Cap and trade regulations: Do you trust this man? and Hey, let’s throw another $19 billion down the rat hole! and Speaking of outrageous bonuses for incompetent performance… and Barney Frank’s America
Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Politicians Are What’s Wrong With Politics
Confederate Yankee: “The Obama Administration is the Most Fiscally Irresponsible in the History of the U.S.”
Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian: $2.7 billion in TARP money went to British Rum maker
Hot Air: It ain’t what you know in DC
La Shawn Barber’s Corner: Why Barack Obama is Overrated (from 2006)
Free Republic: Socialism Coming Back To Haunt U.S. and Beware of Obamanomics
The American Spectator: Obama’s False Choice
Jim Gilmore, Human Events: Obama’s ‘New Socialism’
Normal USA, Idiots for Obama: Harvard Student Takes On Democrat Barney Frank Over Economy And Destroys Him
Doug MacEachern, Arizona Republic: Frankly, Barney Doesn’t Get It
Sean Hannity, Hannity’s America, Fox News: Geithner Reaches New Incompetence Level (scroll down for portion on Frank)
GayPatriot: The Obama Democrats’ Real Dilemma: When the Rubber, er, Rhetoric Meets the Road and Why the Left Loves Barney Frank and The Best Thing Barney Frank Could Do For Gay People…
The New Ledger: If You Thought the Bobs Were Bad, Here Come Tim and Barney
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Barney Frank: Why He Thinks You Should Give Him Money and Coming Soon to a Socialist Theater Near You: ‘Bye-Bye Free Market, Say Hello to Wage & Salary Czar’ and White House Sneer from ‘Thug’ Barney Frank: Who Cares AIG Families’ Lives Are Threatened?
Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog: Institutions Buying ‘Toxic Assets’ will be ‘EXEMPT’ from Bonus/Compensation Oversight: Proposal from Barney Frank’s Committee
Stephan Tawney, The American Pundit: The Hypocritical Incompetence of Congress
Hot Air: Barney Frank: Republicans have a “psychological disorder” or something and Video: Barney Frank calls Justice Scalia a homophobe and Video: Barney Frank won’t promise confidentiality to AIG despite death threats and Barney Frank: Hey, let’s cap executive compensation for everyone
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