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A Colorado company said it created 4,231 jobs with the help of President Barack Obama’s 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 its existing employees.
Elsewhere in the U.S., some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two, three, four or even more times.
The government has overstated by thousands the number of jobs it has created or saved with federal contracts under the president’s $787 billion recovery program, according to an Associated Press review of data released in the program’s first progress report.
The discrepancy raises questions about the reliability of a key benchmark the administration uses to gauge the success of the stimulus. The errors could be magnified Friday when a much larger round of reports is released. It is expected to show hundreds of thousands of jobs repairing public housing, building schools, repaving highways and keeping teachers on local payrolls.
The White House seized on an initial report from a government oversight board weeks ago that claimed federal contracts awarded to businesses under the recovery plan already had helped pay for more than 30,000 jobs. The administration said the number was evidence that the stimulus program had exceeded early expectations toward reaching the president’s promise of creating or saving 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.

But the 30,000 figure is overstated by thousands - at the very least by nearly 5,000, or one in six, based on AP’s limited review of some of the contracts - because some federal agencies and recipients of the money provided incorrect job counts. The review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs were credited to stimulus spending when, in fact, none were produced.


The economy grew at a 3.5 percent pace in the third quarter, the best showing in two years, fueled by government-supported spending on cars and homes.

The Commerce Department’s report Thursday delivered the strongest signal yet that the economy entered a new, though fragile, phase of recovery and that the worst recession since the 1930s has ended.

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Susan Lee said:

Golly!  Trig sure is getting big!!

Susan Lee

(my “baby” brother is a Downs child born in 1963 when the recommendation was to put him in a home- he will die quickly.  Needless to say, he is still alive & thriving coz my parents said no to that advice...)

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Jack said:

I will add one other thing at the time they said the girl would never have children but her mother has sent me pictures of two babies she has had.  The girl cleans teeth for a living and is married to a Methodist minister. My point being that this medical system they keep- claiming is so bad performed that great feat.

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Jack said:

Alan
I shot one that had stuck a knife up a 14 year old girls vagina. I shot him in the great state of Texas which he had absconded to. It took over a hundred stichs but she lived. We learned later on that he had done the same thing to a couple of girls in Mexico. When I went to serve the FFJ he pointed a single shot 410 at me. He was also in a trailer with another guy and several other young girls. The mexican gooberment paid to have his body shipped back to Mexico That was a first we had heard of that.

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Lucius Severus Pertinax -Licensed Agnotologist said:

Pellucidar or Bust!

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apotheosis said:

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Lucius Severus Pertinax -Licensed Agnotologist said:

The Army rank and file love her!;)

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Lucius Severus Pertinax -Licensed Agnotologist said:

I once, years ago, wrote a paper on this very topic..

Of how bureaucracies inevidebly come to exist for their own sake; whether government, corporate or Labor Union.  The result is, in the end, always the same; paralysis at the center and chaos at the extremities.

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Lucius Severus Pertinax -Licensed Agnotologist said:

Impale them on hooks outside the city gates
as a warning to other would-be malefactors

Call me a traditionalist......

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Lucius Severus Pertinax -Licensed Agnotologist said:

And. RIGHT behind it......

History and Politics!  ;-)

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Lucius Severus Pertinax -Licensed Agnotologist said:

Hi, there! I like you!
Will you be my frrreinnnnd?

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dick, not-quite-dead white guy said:

“Hey, a new tree. Let’s climb all over it and mark it as mine.”
Snick, snick, out come the needletoes and up he goes.
“Hi handsome, new in town?”

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The Ugly American said:

Had to laugh at this photo on her facebook page…

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You just gotta know it was done as a purposeful dig at the disciples of Obama.

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dick, not-quite-dead white guy said:

Sarah is on the cover of Newsweak and Andrea is nowhere.
Andrea gets shoved away by cop, Sarah is protected by cop.
Andrea sleeps with Alan Greenspan and Sarah sleeps with Todd.
Andrea Bitchell is a jealous hack.

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The Ugly American said:

Name a personal accomplishment that you are proud of.

Realizing after many years of wasting my life living as a bleeding-heart, politically-correct lemming that liberals were in fact bigger liars and hypocrites than conservatives and that if I was going to err on a political side I’d rather it be the one that doesn’t loathe America’s triumphs and accomplishments at every turn.

Lost many so-called friends along the way as my beliefs began shifting ever rightward.

A close second accomplishment would be when I pulled up stakes (in Oakland) and moved to Los Angeles with no job, sleeping on a friend’s couch for over a year before changing careers altogether and moved into television production.

I remember being completely terrified on the morning I left Oakland...driving my moving van & car trailer...alone...down Interstate 5 trying my best not to pass out from panic attacks. But when I finally drove onto the 101 fwy and saw the Hollywood sign in the distance, something told me that everything was going to be alright.

Yeah okay...L.A. sucks the big wiener now and if I didn’t love my job so much I’d probably have moved on long ago.

Still, I’m glad for the experience and I have met some nice folks here : )

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Old Retired Petty Officer said:

That was a righteous one, my man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

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Paladin said:

But it’s the right wingers who are violent, right?

RIGHT???

And that Sarah?  She’s finished.  She’s irrelevant.  Nobody pays attention to her anymore.

I heard she’s dum.

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Bob1 said:

“I smellz doughnutz on yr breath!  I wants!”

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The Ugly American said:

The funniest part is watching the cat approaching through the weeds with his tail up, all chipper like.

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Bobb Cobb said:

Now that’s why I love cats.
Eat me dog owners!!!

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Melissa, seething in Texas said:

You have a valid point, Bob1.
The way she makes them foam at the mouth…

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