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Obama’s Big Stat League

Yesterday AP ran a report about the last stimulus status report. It found that the jobs created by the massive spending were overstated by sometimes ten times the amount.

Today, a new stimulus report will be released promising more jobs created in just the last month.

I’m not sure how we can get this message to the administration, but this isn’t fantasy football. In real life, not political fantasy land, we don’t get to ascribe a fantastical set of numbers not based in reality.

Creating a job actually means putting someone to work long-term, and only counting that person once.  We can’t count the same person over and over again, or change the stats in your fantasy league so that one job equals 10 jobs, for kicks and giggles.

Even in its limited review, the AP found job counts that were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of paid positions; jobs credited to the stimulus program that were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs that were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced.

This is your money, or even worse, your future grandchild’s  money, being taken from them and then being lied about, blatantly.  It’s not that hard to count–at leastlast time I checked my one year old’s ability with her Dr. Seuss Math Flash cards it wasn’t.

The lies need to stop.  More outrageous debt will lead to greater and more burdensome taxes in the near future.

Press Secretary Gibbs said that if the number is off, which it is, then it is only around 5,000 people. If this was true, which it is not–the number is much greater according to the report, how do you lose 5,000 people? Is there some 5,000 people shaped hole that this group was graded across?

The number is higher. The cost is higher. Transparency indeed. Hey President Obama, I got Vince Young starting this Sunday, what about you?

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   Vince Young actually saved my butt the week I posted this. Hope that guy continues to contribute.

   Also, Iope the “real” newspeople step up and start asking questions.
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