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Where are the Jobs? Ma’am? Ma’am?

February 16, 2010 by B. Daniel Blatt

Just over a year ago, California’s junior Senator praised herself and her Democratic colleagues in the Senate for passing the “stimulus,” “In the face of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the Congress has acted today to save or create jobs in California and across the nation.” Her office noted that, “The White House predicts that the legislation will save or create approximately 400,000 jobs in California.”

Well, today, no one really believes her or the White House.  According to Jim Hoft:

Just 6% of Americans believe the $787 “stimulus” boondoggle created any jobs according to a recent New York Times/CBS poll.

Over at the Washington Examiner, they expose the Administration’s doctoring the data on job creation:

Thousands of jobs were claimed to have been saved or created in phantom congressional districts and ZIP codes. Thousands of raises given to public employees were counted as jobs saved or created. The Examiner‘s David Freddoso and Mark Hemingway examined media investigations and found nearly 100,000 phony positions. In other words, the claim that 2 million jobs were saved or created by the Obama economic stimulus program was exposed as being about as trustworthy as the used car salesman’s assurance that the clunker on his lot was owned by a little old lady who only drove it to church on Sunday.

No wonder Americans are so dubious about the success of the Administration’s signature “stimulus.”

Filed Under: Big Government Follies, Congress (110th), Congress (general), Economy

Comments

  1. Gene in Pennsylvania says

    February 16, 2010 at 5:43 pm - February 16, 2010

    Departing Democrat Senator E Bayh now says the liberal Democrats have created ZERO JOBS, none last year.
    Now Mr Bayh has no reason to lie anymore.
    Thank you sir. Once we have the truth we can once again start to rebuild.

  2. Annie says

    February 16, 2010 at 11:46 pm - February 16, 2010

    How many of those signs have you passed while driving? You know, the big green ones showing a guy shoveling and stating something about “this project created/funded by the jobs recovery act” (or something similar), yet there are no humans or construction anywhere in sight?! I’ve passed at least a half dozen in my part of the Bay Area, but haven’t seen a single person or piece of heavy equipment nearby! Maybe the guy who made the signs, then erected them on the roadside was the job(s) created?

  3. B. Daniel Blatt says

    February 17, 2010 at 12:35 am - February 17, 2010

    Annie, I think we all have an idea what he’s shoveling . . .

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