Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 18, 2009

So, is lying and fabricating numbers the new Team Obama strategy to promote Obama’s failing economic policies?

Sure looks like it. And few are falling for the ruse.

From Rep. Darryl Issa, Washington Examiner: Fake job numbers vital to stimulus propaganda:

Since President Obama took office, the American people have been subjected to an aggressive propaganda campaign designed to convince them that the $787 billion stimulus bill is working. Month after month, as unemployment continues to rise, the administration has sent its spinmeisters out to trumpet an altogether dubious number of jobs “created or saved.”

Vice President Biden — the man appointed by the president to oversee the recovery effort — has shamelessly continued to claim credit for as many as one million jobs that the administration argues the stimulus has “created or saved.”

Meanwhile, unemployment hit the highest point in a quarter century, and 3.8 million more Americans are out of work since the White House promised to “get the economy moving again.” There’s good reason to doubt the president’s policies are working.

“Here in Washington, we’ve all seen how quickly good intentions can turn into broken promises and wasteful spending,” the president noted in his State of the Union address while responding to skepticism about the stimulus. “And with a plan of this scale comes enormous responsibility to get it right.

“That is why I’ve asked Vice President Biden to lead a tough, unprecedented oversight effort — because nobody messes with Joe.”

Apparently, somebody is messing with Joe. Or even worse, Joe seems to be messing with us.

On top of espousing fictitious jobs claims, the White House has now directed the stimulus auditor to report inaccurate information on the Recovery.gov Web site. This continues to occur even as media reports savage the ridiculously inaccurate data.

From $1.2 million in stimulus funds that saved 935 jobs at a Georgia community council with only 508 employees, to a $1,047 lawnmower in Arkansas purchased with stimulus funds that resulted in 50 jobs, to the $26,174 grant for roof repairs in Texas that created 450 jobs, the signature item in the president’s economic policy has been fraught with Enron-style accounting tricks and fraudulent reporting.

And all from a president who promised an “unprecedented level of openness and transparency.”

The manifest inaccuracies in the data the Obama administration uses to justify its economic policies constitutes the promulgation of inaccurate and misleading information by the federal government. The American people deserve a straightforward accounting of the way the president spends their tax dollars, and they have the right to expect a return on their “investment.”

Hilarious… a Republican activist in New Hampshire has entered the race in one of Obama’s non-existent districts… one that “supposedly” received a huge amount of stimulus money. Read about it at Gateway Pundit: Republican Activist Enters Race in New Hampshire’s 00 District.

From Star Tribune: Pawlenty criticizes Recovery.gov errors:

ABC News reported this morning that Recovery.gov, the Obama administration’s Web site to track stimulus spending, was calculating jobs created in non-existent congressional districts.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty picked up on the news this afternoon, tweeting “Fed spending out of control- it appears to go places that don’t exist. MN has 8 cong districts; Recovery.gov says we have a 57th.”

He’s right. In fact, not only does the site list a 57th district, but there’s also a “42nd,” a “27th” and even a “00,” which received about $400,000.

From Publius, Big Government: Real Obama Miracle: Creates Jobs AND Congressional Districts With Wave of Hand:

Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.

There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.

From Gateway Pundit, Change! Obama’s Monthly Deficit Tops Bush’s Yearly Deficit:

More Hope & Change–
Obama’s October Deficit topped Bush’s Deficit for All of 2007

Team Obama was off on their October budget predictions by nearly $20 billion.

The deficit for the first month of the 2010 fiscal year reached $176 billion.

(It must be Bush’s fault, right?)

[...]

Obama tripled the national deficit his first year in office and he’s off to a record-setting start in fiscal year 2010.

Despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina, the Clinton Recession he inherited, and the 9-11 attacks, President Bush brought down the national budget deficit from 412 billion dollars in 2004 to 162 billion dollars in 2007.

From Associated Press, Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands:

An early progress report on President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports.

The government’s first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 positions paid for with recovery money. But that figure is overstated by least 5,000 jobs, according to an Associated Press review of a sample of stimulus contracts.

The AP review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced.

For example:

_ A company working with the Federal Communications Commission reported that stimulus money paid for 4,231 jobs, when about 1,000 were produced.

_ A Georgia community college reported creating 280 jobs with recovery money, but none was created from stimulus spending.

_ A Florida child care center said its stimulus money saved 129 jobs but used the money on raises for existing employees.

There’s no evidence the White House sought to inflate job numbers in the report. But administration officials seized on the 30,000 figure as evidence that the stimulus program was on its way toward fulfilling the president’s promise of creating or saving 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.

Here’s the kicker today… Obama is acknowledging the bad economy, HIS bad economy, but seems to be in denial that HIS policies created HIS mess… quick, where’s that “Blame Bush” card for him to whip out?

From Gateway Pundit: Unreal. Biggest Spender in History Says Too Much Debt Could Fuel Second Recession:

Unreal. This is infuriating.

After spending nearly a trillion of US taxpayer dollars on his record stimulus bill that produced bogus results Obama says that too much debt could result in a second recession.

Barack Obama’s budget deficit in October was greater than George Bush’s budget deficit for all of 2007.

By the way, as your read this remember- Team Obama told us a few months ago that, “Elevated deficits are beneficial.”

From Reuters, Obama: Too much debt could fuel double-dip recession:

BEIJING, Nov 18 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession.

Pres. Obama doesn’t seem to realize that HE is the government, and the “government debt that is piling up” that he’s warning about is of HIS doing.

Delusional, deceitful, or just plain clueless?

Please Send in Clowns to Replace Obama Morons: Pay Increases Were Counted as Recovery Program’s “Jobs Saved”

Related reading:
Hot Air: Examiner analysis: More than 10% of stimulus jobs are phony and Porkulus job numbers “wildly exaggerated”: Boston Globe? and China hits the mute button on Obama
Mike Flynn, Big Government: Obama Stimulus Numbers: The Return of Enron-Style Accounting
Sacramento Bee: Many California jobs ’saved’ by stimulus funds weren’t in jeopardy
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), Big Government: Mr. President, Where Are the Jobs?
Outside the Beltway: Congress to Investigate Fake Districts
Teh Resistance Blog: I Created or Saved 11 Jobs This Morning
The New Ledger, Big Government: Economy in the Lurch: Negative Interest Rates, the Fed Audit, and Geithner in the Dock and Do the Democrats Have Any Solutions on Jobs? Anything at All?
Free Republic: Socialism Coming Back To Haunt U.S. and Beware of Obamanomics
Michelle Malkin: The Stimulus Jobs Inflation Map and The Stimulus Jobs Inflation Index
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Eye-Rolling Time… Obama Now Claims He “Created or Saved One Million Jobs” (video) and Obama’s Disintegrating Economy: Worst Unemployment, at 10.2%, Since 1983… Obama Takes a Mini-Vacation, Still Hasn’t Gone to Fort Hood (video) UPDATE: He Has Gone to Ft. Hood, Finally and Illegal Immigration from Mexico Slowing, Has Dramatically Dropped Because of America’s Plunging Economy and Coming Soon to a Socialist Theater Near You: ‘Bye-Bye Free Market, Say Hello to Wage & Salary Czar’
Publius, Big Government: Reps Bono Mack, Ehlers Co-sponsor House Resolution to Investigate ACORN and Your Move Mr. Holder: ACORN Received $200,000 From Justice Department
Ace of Spades HQ: Reid: I’m So Totally Stoked My Health Care Reform Bill Will “Save” $127 Billion Over Ten Years, Which Is Less than October’s One Month Deficit
Tai-Chi Policy: Just How Bad Is The Democrat’s Spending?
Doug O’Brien, Big Government: More Stimulus Math: Cooking the Books on Stimulus Jobs
Lurita Doan, Big Government: China Schools Obama on Free Market Capitalism
Goodtimepolitics: How far will Obama fall before becoming a lame duck president?
The Powers That Be: Unemployment Stimulated Again
Unfavorable Odds: Stimulus Math: $26,160,955 Per Job Saved/Created

Slate: One Lost Job, Two Lost Jobs, Three Lost Jobs …
Innocent Bystanders: October Unemployment Rate Jumps Upward ==> 10.2%!
Flopping Aces: Stimulating Dishonesty
Autographed Letter Signed: Sunday Soliloquy: By their fruits ye shall know them
Blogcritics Politics: The Hoodwink Czar
Betsy’s Page: Edging towards bankruptcy
The Hollywood Republican: People’s Republic of California Steals Money From Taxpayers’ Paychecks – Your State Is Next
Gazzer’s Gabfest: “Created or saved” explained, at last.
Pundit & Pundette: On the complexities of creating (and saving) jobs
Riehl World View: The Boy King: Where Do O Bow Now?
All American Blogger: Gibbs Thinks the Left Was Always Respectful to Bush
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Ohio’s 7,200 “saved” education jobs from porkulus were NEVER in danger of being lost
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
Gateway Pundit: House Republicans Ask Team Obama to Quit Repeating ‘Saved or Created’ Nonsense and British Sensation Daniel Hannan: “It’s Common Sense When You Are in Debt You Spend Less – Anyone But a Politician Can See That”
Jim Gilmore, Human Events: Obama’s ‘New Socialism’
GayPatriot: The Obama Democrats’ Real Dilemma: When the Rubber, er, Rhetoric Meets the Road
Stephan Tawney, The American Pundit: The Hypocritical Incompetence of Congress

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