And I trust every statistic the feds put out - would they lie to us? Bet your a@@ they would and are.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: You'ss love this one - good numbers from the feds Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:54:11 -0500 From: dick thompson <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Thomas Blumer <[email protected]>, Pam Miller Howard <[email protected]>, jane hoffman <[email protected]>, [email protected] *More Funny Stimulus* job numbers <http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jMNoef6xDenBbHWO0Im6rIjDmAgAD9BOJH300>. President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there. . . . About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren't saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren't saved. And funny arguments. But officials defended the practice of counting raises as saved jobs. "If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job," HHS spokesman Luis Rosero said. But I have the feeling that Rosero doesn't know that argument is funny. - 7:52 AM, 5 November 2009 [link] <http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/November2009_1.html#jrm8069> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
