{"id":33827,"date":"2011-05-19T01:45:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:45:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:45:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:45:23","slug":"obama_lies_about_stimulus_jobs_created_or_saved_media_yawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/obama_lies_about_stimulus_jobs_created_or_saved_media_yawns\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Lies About Stimulus Jobs “Created or Saved,” Media Yawns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: I have a couple of interesting stories here from state-controlled Associated Press: ‘An early progress report on President Barack Obama\u2019s 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.\u2019 A mistake? Biden said, ‘If we get this wrong, I\u2019m dead.\u2019 Remember him saying that? Joe, you haven\u2019t gotten anything right since you went the plug route. ‘The government\u2019s 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, or one in six, according to an Associated Press review of a sample of stimulus contracts. … A company working with the Federal Communications Commission reported that stimulus money paid for 4,231 jobs, when about 1,000 were produced.<\/p>\n

‘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.\u2019 Now, you do that on Wall Street and you get a pay czar firing bullets at you and taking away 90% of your income. ‘There\u2019s no evidence the White House sought to inflate job –‘ oh, really? Well, let me tell you something, AP. We don\u2019t need no stinking evidence. We know they\u2019re a pack of thieves and liars in the first place. It\u2019s going to happen with health care, too. This is just a microcosm of what\u2019s coming. By the way, what was the big deal about 30,000 jobs saved or created in the first place when we have 10% unemployment, and we\u2019re going to tout that we saved or created 30,000 jobs? What was the big hurray in the first place for? ‘If there\u2019s an error that was made, let\u2019s get it fixed,\u2019 said Ed DeSeve, an Obama advisor helping to oversee the stimulus program. ‘If there\u2019s an error that was made, let\u2019s get it fixed.\u2019 It is fraud; it is lying; it is not an error. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another AP story on the same thing: ‘Stimulus Jobs Overstated by Thousands,\u2019 by Brett Blackledge and Matt Apuzzo. ‘A Colorado company said it created 4,231 jobs with the help of President Barack Obama\u2019s economic recovery plan. The real number: fewer than 1,000. A child care center in Florida said it saved 129 jobs with the help of stimulus money. Instead it gave pay raises to existing employees. Elsewhere in the US some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two, three, four, even more times.\u2019 That\u2019s an error? That\u2019s an error? And these are the people — it\u2019s a nightmare! This is a freaking nightmare. I can\u2019t wait \u2019til I wake up and find out it\u2019s all been a nightmare. ‘The government\u2019s overstated by thousands the number of jobs it\u2019s created or saved with federal contracts under this –‘ blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. ‘It\u2019s not clear just how far off the 30,000 claim was.\u2019 The AP\u2019s State-Controlled review, ‘which was not an exhausting accounting of 9,000 contracts –‘ blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, ‘– honed in on the most obvious cases of jobs wrongly tied to the stimulus because of duplications or misinterpretations of how the jobs should be counted.\u2019 <\/p>\n

You know, you can\u2019t even count a job saved anyway. There\u2019s no earthly intelligent way to count a job saved. How many jobs am I saving simply by working every day? I haven\u2019t fired anybody, that\u2019s true, and hardly anybody ever leaves. All right. Now, here\u2019s a question: If the Obama administration will lie with such impunity about all this, what else will they lie about? Mind you, let me read this again. ‘It\u2019s not clear just how far off the 30,000 claim was. The AP\u2019s review, which was not an exhaustive accounting of all 9,000 contracts reported by the government so far, honed in on the most obvious cases of jobs wrongly tied to the stimulus because of duplications or misinterpretations of how the jobs should be counted.\u2019 If you don\u2019t understand that and you\u2019re in Rio Linda, don\u2019t worry about it, I\u2019m not even going to try. By the way, look at the kind of jobs the stimulus money went to. One thousand jobs in call centers fielding questions about television converter boxes; twenty-five jobs helping people to make the conversion to digital TV; money for raises for 129 people at a child care center. <\/p>\n

Indeed, there was only one job mentioned that sounded anything at all like the promised infrastructure improvements, and that\u2019s the 125 jobs created to lay railroad tracks that is mentioned in this story. But it does seem appropriate that the Obama official overseeing all this is named DeSeve. It\u2019s spelled D-e, capital S-e-v-e, which to me sounds a lot like ‘deceive,\u2019 as in fool you. (interruption) If I had a trillion bucks, how many jobs do you think I could create? The real number is 787 billion. It really was a trillion \u2019cause they needed $250 billion in pork and earmarks. If I had a trillion dollars, how many jobs could I create? Two. I\u2019d pay myself all but a hundred thousand of it, and hire an assistant. (laughing) The staff is shocked. It\u2019s a good question. How many jobs could I create or could you, if you had a trillion dollars, and they\u2019re out there touting 30,000. And now we learn that that\u2019s fraudulent. It was overstated. Folks, I rarely am rendered speechless, and at those moments when I am rendered speechless it is only because I am on the verge of profanity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I have a couple of interesting stories here from state-controlled Associated Press: ‘An early progress report on President Barack Obama\u2019s 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.\u2019 A mistake? 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