Great - this continues to bolster my confidence in the Obama Administration
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works -- whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified."
-President Barack Obama, 1/20/09
Porkulus - that now famous (and utterly unprovable) phrase "jobs created or saved". Yeah, with an official unemployment rate of 10.2% and an effective one of about 17.5%, Obama is getting more and more desperate.
The latest in this sad saga is how hard the Obamaites are trying to salve Obama's wounds in this area - there was that instance where a shopkeeper sold 9 pairs of shoes for $889.60 and Gummit said that those shoes saved 9 jobs.
Here another howler! You KNOW it is getting bad when the New York Times (ugh!) is reporting the absolute silliness of this madness of trying to make Mr. "Dithering" look good:
In June, the federal government spent $1,047 in stimulus money to buy a rider mower from the Toro Company to cut the grass at the Fayetteville National Cemetery in Arkansas. Now, a report on the government’s stimulus Web site improbably claims that that single lawn mower sale helped save or create 50 jobs.
...Those two extremes illustrate the difficulties in trying to figure out just how many jobs can be attributed to the $787 billion stimulus program. Last week the Obama administration released reports from more than 130,000 recipients of stimulus money in which they claimed to have saved or created more than 640,000 jobs, but a review of those reports shows that some are simply wrong, while others contain apparently subjective estimates.
$1,047 for 50 jobs - hmm, how many of us would consider a job that paid $20.94 a full time, year round job?
At least the shoe job paid better at $98.84 / full time job
Yup, we're in the best of hands!
(H/T: Hot Air)
