Morning Bell: The Fake Jobs of Obama’s Failed Stimulus » The Foundry — Fake jobs, fake districts. The work of fake experts.
Forget everything bad you’ve ever heard about President Barack Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus. Combing through the data on the $18 million Recovery.gov website, you’ll find tons of Obama stimulus success stories from across the country. In Minnesota’s 57th Congressional District, 35 jobs have been saved or created using $404,340 in stimulus funds. In New Mexico’s 22nd Congressional District, 25 jobs have been saved or created using $61,000 in stimulus cash. And in Arizona’s fighting 15th Congressional District, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending.
The it-would-be-funny-if-it-weren’t-our-tax-dollars-at-stake punch line here is that none of the above Congressional Districts actually exist. Yet those jobs “created or saved” claims still sit on the Obama administration’s official “transparency and accountability” website Recovery.gov. As the Washington Examiner’s David Freddoso points out, it would have been nearly costless for the Recovery.gov site designers to limit the input fields so that non-existent Congressional Districts never made it into the public domain, but for whatever reason the Obama administration chose otherwise. Defending the fake data on his website, Recovery.gov Communications Director Ed Pound told ABC News: “We report what the recipients submit to us.
How about the stimulus package helping to create jobs in China?: http://tinyurl.com/yh4cfdm
I just got a letter from my credit card company the one that already got 300 billion from the taxpayers) telling me they were upping their rate from an already onerous 19.99% to a ridiculous 23.99% at a MINIMUM! I’ve been dumping my credit cards anyway, so this one is next. So we bailed out the banks and they turn around and screw us. What’s this thing about trickle down again?
The real crime is that an $18 million piece of software can’t error check out-of-bounds district numbers.
@Ralph what is stuck up yours? The quote made about Max Keiser by Romulus just goes to show the absurdity of the bailouts – the fact that they could have paid all the mortgages and have 50% left over. It has nothing to do with Max Keiser as a person or his political opinions two years ago… it is an important point he made, which stands by itself.
I also agree with Romulus, I don’t see any improvement with Obama other than really well tele-prompt speeches. You certainly need to learn what exaggeration is when someone says 10 times worse. Certainly bashing on Romulus with a hoard of insults make you look far less credible.
We still have the patriot act, still have the wars.. universal health care went down the drain, turned into a health care insurance scheme instead. Neither of the two have been any good, but at least Obama has a few more years to prove himself. It will be an interesting three more years.
What is the Republican complaint of today? The recovery.gov website is not up to speed? Is Obama’s haircut too short?
Isn’t there anything on Fox Snooze today to be angry about?
This never would have happened under Bush… ’cause he never would have authorized such a website in the first place. It’s not a mistake if nobody sees it, right.
Phoney money buys fake jobs. It almost makes sense.
Other unbiased articles from the Heritage Foundation: ” With Pelosicare DOA, Can Reid Rescue Obamacare in Senate?”
Always inspect the source. That’s all I needed to see to file this under “more shit from the right”
Of course this whole stimulus stuff would have worked out were it not for Bush and the evil Cheney. Let’s just say it was THEIR idea and then everything will go back to normal and “THE ONE” can continue on with his work on making the ocean levels cede. After all he really is bigger than the office he holds anyway, we all know that.
For the poor tax payer that doesn’t quite see the magic and the power of “THE ONE” I guess they get this:
youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A
The most amazing thing is, it took only one comment to turn this massive fail into a diatribe against the previous administration.
Hey, #8 – I love my Lenovo. I loved my IBMs before it. The one sitting on my desk right now has been running 18 hours a day (or more) for over three years. I suppose your Dell is superior?
People just entered state districts by mistake. Minnesota has 8 congressional and 67 state districts. I checked recovery.org, and the money allocated to districts 1-8 is over 99.5% of the total; the higher number districts are obviously just random errors.
#17 You think?
#24 Don’t waste your time. He’s just a bus driver who thinks he understands what’s going on in the US. He also has a photo on the messiah on his bus’ dashboard.
#25 There’s no repugblican complaint. Is the people who are able to, unlike you, see what’s going on and throwing their arms up on an amazing “change” that’s happened in your out of luck country. But pay no attention to reality, it’s too hard for ya to handle.
#26 So for you transparency is having the possibility to be screwed by your government while it laughs at you in your face. Good of you; you certainly got what you deserve.
The real question is do you still want health care run by the government after reading this story?
Good question #33. I see O-pologists trying to write off this story as simple ‘clerical errors’ (on an $18M website mind you).
So when the the health care bureaucrats makes a ‘clerical error’ and you wake up with no legs and appendix intact, you’ll just have to man up, and know that you gave your legs for the betterment of society.
I see there are plenty of openings for armchair politicians and bankers, and just like the jobs of real politicians and bankers, they’re all SHOVEL-READY. (the only difference is what you shovel)
If the jobs and the districts are fake what happened to the real money or need I even ask?
The next question is are they incompetent, dishonest or maybe incompetent at being dishonest?
Oh well I’m sure a few people will soon be posting that Bush was worse even though that is water down the sewer even if true.
Bush is history and no longer a threat.
The people now ruining us are the people in power. I’m looking forward to voting against them.
Why do people make this into a left/right battle, the point is to keep EVERY president responsible for their actions and campaign promises. I don’t care if it is Bush, Obama or Mao Zedong, they have to be held responsible for what they do, regardless of whether he/she/it started it before they did. Carrying on something just because someone else did it is not a valid excuse. Bashing Bush because he sucked is a straw man argument; it is irrelevant to what Obama is doing today and is not a justification for continuing the same old crap.
This story needs a BS meter… especially the headline.
#31, Nathanial,
You brought up a good point. Recovery.org is NOT the government site. The proper site is Recovery.gov. Recovery.org is a shadow site.
A search at the Recovery.gov site for Minnisota’s 57th Congressional District returned this
…Address 601 57th Street …
There was no reference to a Congressional district.
#34, Stooopid,
So when the the health care bureaucrats makes a ‘clerical error’ and you wake up with no legs and appendix intact, you’ll just have to man up, and know that you gave your legs for the betterment of society.
Which is the current situation, except this is for the benefit of the insurance company CEOs.