From the Ohio Dispatch today. They show that the "saved" jobs were NEVER in peril, it was basically the only box they could check on the report. They never intended to use the money to do anything but prop up the state's budget shortfalls. Multiply that 7200 jobs that were fake "save or created" and that is precisely what has happened everywhere.
The truth is that somewhere around 3.5 MILLION jobs have been lost while the Dem controlled government has "fiddled" with health care take overs and cap and tax.
Our tax dollars have propped up State governments that should have tightened their belts and will never do so until they have to. So you and I tighten our belts and our children inherit insane national debt.
This shows how ignorant the Congress/Senate/President were of the real world and how this stimulus would be compromised. In their haste, they just threw money at the states and many of them were delighted to rake it in.
SNIPPET:he Obama administration announced Friday that federal stimulus money had created or saved about 7,200 education jobs in Ohio as of Sept. 30. Although a couple of hundred of those jobs were in Columbus City Schools, the district acknowledged yesterday that many of the "saved" jobs definitely wouldn't have been lost in the first place, and others might not have been lost at all. "I know we explained to (the Ohio Department of Education) what we were doing, and they told us what categories to use," said Jill Dannemiller, director of federal programs for the Columbus schools. Although other areas of the district's budget might have suffered without the stimulus, district officials said, the jobs report nonetheless highlighted the fuzzy math involved in pinpointing a saved-jobs number.
This just in, some marvelous examples of the diligent spending of our Congress/Senate/President...
SNIPPET: After a flurry of stimulus spending, questionable projects pile up By: Susan Ferrechio Chief Congressional Correspondent November 3, 2009 The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster. Here is where some of the money went: - $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state. - $30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies. - $11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway. - $430,000 to repair a bridge in Iowa County, Wis., that carries 10 or fewer cars per day. - $800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pa., serving about 20 passengers per day, to build a backup runway. - $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women. - $2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid. - $3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla. - $1.15 million to install a guardrail for a persistently dry lake bed in Guymon, Okla. - $9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades. - $2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased. - $6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn. - $173,834 to weatherize eight pickup trucks in Madison County, Ill. - $20,000 for a fish sperm freezer at the Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery in South Dakota. - $380,000 to spay and neuter pets in Wichita, Kan. - $300 apiece for thousands of signs at road construction sites across the country announcing that the projects are funded by stimulus money. - $1.5 million for a fence to block would-be jumpers from leaping off the All-American Bridge in Akron, Ohio. - $1 million to study the health effects of environmentally friendly public housing on 300 people in Chicago. - $356,000 for Indiana University to study childhood comprehension of foreign accents compared with native speech. - $983,952 for street beautification in Ann Arbor, Mich., including decorative lighting, trees, benches and bike paths. - $148,438 for Washington State University to analyze the use of marijuana in conjunction with medications like morphine. - $462,000 to purchase 22 concrete toilets for use in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri - $3.1 million to transform a canal barge into a floating museum that will travel the Erie Canal in New York state. - $1.3 million on government arts jobs in Maine, including $30,000 for basket makers, $20,000 for storytelling and $12,500 for a music festival. - $71,000 for a hybrid car to be used by student drivers in Colchester, Vt., as well as a plug-in hybrid for town workers decked out with a sign touting the vehicle's energy efficiency. - $1 million for Portland, Ore., to replace 100 aging bike lockers and build a garage that would house 250 bicycles. Sources: News reports, Office of the Senate Minority Leader, Office of Sen. Tom Coburn sferrechio@washingtonexaminer.com
From The Detroit News today, $230,000 per job "created or saved."
SNIPPET: Editorial: $230,000 per job Stimulus money spent in Michigan doesn't deliver nearly enough bang for the buck The Detroit News The Obama administration is attempting to spin the tepid job creation sparked by the $787 billion federal stimulus program into an economic success. But the numbers don't add up to a good return for taxpayers. In fact, the numbers don't add up at all. The administration will report this week that roughly 650,000 jobs have been created or saved on spending of $160 billion. The White House claims that may be a low-ball estimate and that real job impact may top 1 million. But it may be far lower. The Associated Press checked the administration's initial jobs claims and found numerous exaggerations, duplicate counts and outright misstatements.
Even using the administration's more generous projection, it's still $160,000 spent for every job created or saved. In Michigan, the job-to-spending ratio is more skewed. The White House Web site, recovery.org, reports that Michigan has received $5.2 billion and has created or saved 22,500 jobs. That's $231,000 for every job. Half of the jobs affected have been in education, according to a report issued Monday by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. He says 325,000 teaching jobs have been saved. Duncan should have waited a few weeks before adding Michigan to the tally. Cuts to the state education budget late last month have not yet shown up in pink slips for teachers, but that's coming unless the money is restored. The inefficiency of government stimulus spending ought to inform policymakers on how the remaining funds should be used. President Barack Obama is spending a great deal of taxpayer money to generate or protect 3.5 million jobs -- what the president promised when lobbying for the stimulus package. Now it appears the White House is working overtime to spin a disappointing initial jobs reports in the most positive direction. Policy should be based on real numbers, not propaganda. Obama owes taxpayers an accurate accounting of the effectiveness of stimulus spending before additional dollars are spent. THE DETROIT NEWS ARTICLE
The Denver Post isn't exactly a conservative news outlet and they are projecting that the cost for Colorado jobs "created or saved" at $321,226 per job!!!!
As we look at the ObamaCare/PelosiCare bill projected cost of $1.2 TRILLION dollars, don't you think federal budget numbers need to be a little more accurate than these past figures?!
SNIPPED: At a cost of $321,226 per job, you would hope that last week's announcement that the $2.6 billion in federal stimulus money spent in Colorado had so far "created or saved" 8,094 jobs was take-it-to-the-bank accurate. Unfortunately, we've learned not to trust the government's accounting on the massive stimulus bill just yet. The jobs figures are wildly misleading, according to an analysis by Denver Post reporters Burt Hubbard and Miles Moffeit. The poster-child example of the badly overstated federal figures involved the Colorado Head Start program. The government reported that 269 jobs had been created or saved within the program. The actual number? Three.
"This shows how ignorant the Congress/Senate/President were of the real world and how this stimulus would be compromised. In their haste, they just threw money at the states and many of them were delighted to rake it in."
this was in AJ's first post and I just wanted to say too bad it was my money...I could sure use some of it back to pay for my health care premiums. I'm so sick of the "redistribution of wealth" philosphy. I wish they would give me back some of my tax money to pay for things I need for my family.
You and me both Tammy! My state unilaterally decided yesterday to take 10% more out of our paychecks as an unpaid loan with no interest to make the budget woes a little worse. What do you think the chances are that we ever get that back?!!!
They didn't vote. They didn't ask us. We have a requirement that any tax increases in our state have to be approved by the voters so they made an end-around on us. GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!
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